Visa Card – Visa cards are the world’s most widely used form of “plastic” payment. As of December 2000, more than $1.8 trillion in products and services were purchased using Visa cards, and Visa’s worldwide market share, at sixty percent, was greater than that of all other major payment cards combined. There are more than one billion Visa, Visa Electron, Interlink, and PLUS cards in the market today. Visa-branded cards are accepted at more than twenty million locations in more than 150 countries, making Visa the closest thing there is to a universal currency.

Master Card – MasterCard International is a leading global payments solutions company that provides a broad variety of innovative services in support of our global members’ credit, deposit access, electronic cash, business-to-business and related payment programs.

MasterCard International manages a family of well-known, widely accepted payment cards brands including MasterCard®, Maestro® and Cirrus® and serves financial institutions, consumers and businesses in over 210 countries and territories.

American Express – Since its founding in 1850, American Express has conducted business according to several guiding principles that over the years have become inextricably linked with the company’s brand, products, services and – perhaps most notably – its people. Generations before the phrase “company values” entered the corporate lexicon, American Express employees across the organization were demonstrating the same core principles upheld by the company today: Customer Commitment, Quality, Integrity, Teamwork, Respect for People, Good Citizenship, A Will to Win, and Personal Accountability.

Discover Card – Discover Financial Services, a business unit of Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), operates the Discover® Card brands. Discover offers a variety of Cards to meet the needs of individual Cardmembers, including the Discover Classic Card, the Discover Gold Card, the Discover Platinum Card, The Miles Card from Discover Card and an array of affinity cards. Additional services include Discover CDs and Money Market Accounts, auto insurance and home loans.

JCB – JCB is an international card issuer with over 57 million card holders. JCB’s largest presence is in Asian countries but it is growing in popularity in America as well. JCB started in 1961 in Japan, and in 1981 began offering services internationally.

**Brands and trademarks of credit card companies are property of their respective owners. The Merchant Equipment Store does not have any affiliation with the above mentioned companies, other than providing the service of credit card processing.**