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 FIRST AMERICAN PROFILE

The First American Corporation is the nation’s leading, diversified provider of business information and related products and services. It supplies a variety of businesses and consumers with the information resources that affect the major economic events of people’s lives. It serves mortgage lenders and other real estate-related businesses, as well as an expanding client base through its growing consumer information and services segment. Over its 113-year history, First American has evolved from a one-county abstract company to a diversified, international business information services provider.

An enduring philosophy of providing the services its customers need—and providing them where and how they need them—has led First American to expand in both reach and scope. The Corporation’s Title Information and Services segment now provides residential, commercial, and homebuilder title services throughout the United States and abroad. Its Real Estate Information and Services segment serves mortgage-loan originators and administrators with an extensive list of services, and provides a variety of database-information products to a wide audience as well. First American’s growing Consumer Information and Services segment brings consumer information to many business markets and offers numerous services directly to the public. Companies throughout the First American family are helping to lead their industries in technological advancements, bringing efficiencies to their customers and their own operations.

First American is based in Santa Ana, California, where it has had its roots since 1889. Today, the Corporation has 22,597 employees in approximately 1,300 offices in the United States and abroad.

First American is dedicated to leading its industry—in customer satisfaction by providing consistently high-quality service; in innovation by developing and marketing new systems, products, and services; in profitability by demanding efficiency; and in growth by searching out domestic and international opportunities.