Beautifully engraved certificate from the Volt Volt Information Sciences, Inc.issued in the 1970's. This historic document was printed by the Security-Columbian Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of the company's intials in block letters. This item has the printed signatures of the company's president, William Shaw and is over 30 years old. Volt has come a long way since founders William and Jerome Shaw opened the first office in the kitchen of their parents' apartment with an initial capital investment of $13.00. The Shaws are still at the helm of VIS and under their leadership Volt has grown from a three-employee operation to a major corporation with over 40,000 employees. Volt's family of divisions, subsidiaries, and joint ventures spans the globe, with offices across the United States, Canada, Europe and South America. Today, Volt's annual revenues exceed one billion dollars. Volt is listed as a Fortune 1000 company and is traded publicly on the New York Stock Exchange. Volt is listed as a Fortune 1000 company, traded publicly on the New York Stock Exchange, and listed in Standard and Poor's SmallCap 600 Index. The company's annual revenues exceed one billion dollars. Volt has experienced, on average, a 27% increase in revenues for each of the past five years. For 50 years, Volt Information Sciences, Inc. has been a leading national provider of Staffing Services, Telecommunications and Information Solutions, and Electronic Publication and Typesetting Systems for its Fortune 100 customer base. Operating through a network of over 300 branch offices, the Staffing Services segment fulfills IT, and other technical, commercial, and industrial placement requirements of its customers, on both a temporary and permanent basis. Telecommunications and Information Solutions provides a full spectrum of telecommunications construction, installation and engineering services; information and operator services systems for telephone companies, and complete telephone directory production, printing and publishing. Electronic Publication and Typesetting Systems provides digital prepress publishing solutions for its high circulation customers, primarily newspapers.