P.O. Box 782248 Sandton 2146 South Africa The original South African Barlow company was founded by Major Ernest Barlow, an Englishman who fought with the British against Dutch and Huguenot Boers in South Africa at the turn of the century. Major Barlow returned to South Africa in 1902 and established an engineering supplies company in Durban. The family-owned "import-indent agency" was incorporate…
Bd E Jacqmain 166 1210 Brussels Belgium Belgacom, as Belgium's Régie des Télégraphes et Téléphones (RTT) has been officially known since 1991, exists primarily to run telecommunications services for Belgium, but is also determinedly equipping itself to compete in the increasingly dynamic international telecommunications marketplace. In its new incarnation as Belgacom, the company belongs to …
P.O. Box 85 Wichita, Kansas 67201-0085 U.S.A. Best known for its line of Beechcraft propeller and jet airplanes, Beech Aircraft Corporation is one of several American manufacturers of small aircraft. Beech competes with Cessna, Piper, and Lear for shares of such markets as private pilots, small air taxi services, corporate customers, and military forces. In addition, Beech manufactures a variety …
50 North Laura Street Jacksonville, Florida 32202 U.S.A. In 1993 Business Week magazine called Barnett Banks, Inc., "Florida's most dynamic bank." Jacksonville-based Barnett was Florida's largest financial institution at the time, holding the majority of single-family-home mortgages, 27 percent of the state's deposits, and a large percentage of consumer loans. It ranked 20th among banking organiz…
One Baxter Parkway Deerfield, Illinois 60015-4633 U.S.A. Baxter International Inc. is the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of hospital supplies and a leading provider of medical specialty products. Serving over 5,000 hospitals, Baxter operates in two primary industry segments: medical specialties and medical/laboratory products and distribution. The company's major products and servic…
245 Park Avenue New York, New York 10167 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Undoubtedly our greatest strengths are our people and our unique entrepreneurial corporate culture. What sets Bear Stearns apart from the competition is access and teamwork. Clients can access the wealth of experience and depth of knowledge of our senior people while working closely with them to create custom solutions. Our exe…
123 Main Street P.O. Box 489 Bristol, Connecticut 06011-0489 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Management has embraced a corporate culture within Barnes Group that has as its common goals the generation of sustainable, profitable growth and building lasting value for its stockholders. The Company's strategies for generating growth include organic growth from new products and services, markets and cust…
Werk Leverkusen 51368 Leverkusen Germany Company Perspectives: Our aim is to be the world's leading integrated chemical and pharmaceutical company, with core competencies in health care, agriculture, plastics, and specialty chemicals. Our aim is that our products should benefit humankind. We are committed to the principals of the international Responsible Care initiative in our research and devel…
650 Liberty Avenue Union, New Jersey 07083 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Bed Bath & Beyond strives to provide a large selection of items and superior service at everyday low prices within a constantly evolving shopping environment that is both fun and exciting for customers. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. operates the largest houseware goods specialty stores in the United States. The company has a chain o…
2500 Harbor Boulevard P.O. Box 3100 Fullerton, California 92634-3100 U.S.A. A leading designer, manufacturer, and marketer of laboratory instruments, Beckman Instruments, Inc., sells a broad range of diagnostic products and laboratory systems to customers who conduct basic scientific research, new product research, and diagnostic analysis of patient samples. With operations in more than 20 countr…
4724 S.W. Macadam Avenue Portland, Oregon 97201 U.S.A. Barrett Business Services, Inc., ranked number 29 in Forbes magazine's 200 Best Small Companies in America in 1995, provides professional employer services and temporary staffing to both small and large companies. Barrett, the largest company of its kind in Oregon, provided temporary employees to more than 5,000 businesses during the mid-1990…
Carl-Bosch-Strasse 38 67056 Ludwigshafen Germany Company Perspectives: BASF is the world's leading chemical company. We aim to increase and sustain our corporate value through growth and innovation. We offer our customers a range of high-performance products, including chemicals, plastics, coating systems, dispersions, agricultural products, fine chemicals as well as crude oil and natural gas. Ou…
P.O. Box 626 Bassett, Virginia 24055 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Today Bassett is one of the world's largest furniture manufacturers, reflecting some 90 years of innovation and growth. This growth is rooted in two closely adhered to principals. The first is that Bassett knows there can be no success unless our dealers are successful. We constantly keep our dealers in mind when making changes and…
150 Cambridge Park Drive Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140U.S.A. BBN Corp. is a leading provider of Internet services and networking services and solutions to businesses and other organizations and a provider of a range of contract research, development, and consulting services to governmental and other organizations. Known as Bolt Beranek & Newman, Inc. until November 1995, the company first gaine…
2801 West Tyvola Road Charlotte, North Carolina 28217 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: "The mission of Belk corporations and their stores is to be the leader in their markets in selling merchandise that meets customers' needs for fashion, quality, value and selection; to offer superior customer service; and to make a reasonable profit. Reflecting the beliefs of the founders of the various Belk corpor…
54 Lombard Street London EC3P 3AH United Kingdom Barclays PLC, a one-bank (Barclays Bank) holding company and the United Kingdom's largest bank, has it origins in the 18th century. Although located in the heart of London's commercial district, the bank became identified with the agricultural and fishing industries through mergers, an identification it retained through much of the 20th century. St…
2121 Midway Road Carrollton, Texas 75006 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Beauty is an attitude--a state of being that reaches beneath the surface of life. Our belief in this simple truth underlies why we've come to be known as the World's Premier Skin Care and Image Company. Our product reflects the health, beauty, and diversity of those who use it. Our opportunity enables the pursuit of beauty as i…
100 South Fourth Street Suite 1010 St. Louis, Missouri 63102 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Beech-Nut has been feeding babies like yours since 1931. We consider it a special privilege, a trust. So from the beginning, we've been an industry innovator. Our company's goal has always been to develop and market superior products. We pride ourselves on using the highest quality, all natural ingredients t…
2500 Harbor Boulevard P.O. Box 3100 Fullerton, California 92634-3100 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Beckman Coulter is ... Science Serving Humanity. We exist to advance medical science. We apply the infinite promise of biotechnology to serve the world's healthcare needs. Our mission is to be recognized as the world leader in blood cell analysis systems. Our strategy for achieving this is: We will l…
138 Highway 3217 LaPlace, Louisiana 70069 U.S.A. Bayou Steel Corporation operates a steel 'minimill' at its 287-acre site located next to the Mississippi River 35 miles north of New Orleans at LaPlace, Louisiana, where it also has its corporate headquarters. The minimill is a low-cost, steel production plant that recycles scrap steel, using electric arc furnaces to melt the raw steel, casters to …
22402 South Basha Road Chandler Arizona 85248 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Thousands of Bashas' members have poured labor and love into the company since its founding. Like any family, the personality of Bashas' is a reflection of the quality of the people who work for and grow with the company. Bashas' has survived the ups and downs of the supermarket industry, increased competition and national …
Royal Bank Plaza, South Tower 200 Bay Street, Suite #2700 Toronto Canada M5J 2J3 Company Perspectives: Barrick is a compelling investment choice, for reasons that stand out in any diversified basket of stocks: for aggressive growth and financial strength that would make it a leader in any industry; and beyond that, for excellent leverage to rising gold prices. Barrick Gold Corporation is an anoma…
333 Clay Street Houston, Texas 7702 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Battle Mountain Gold Company is an international gold mining company. Using our skills and technologies, we will seek to enhance shareholder value through growth and industry leadership. We will succeed by exploring for and acquiring reserves, constructing and operating profitable mines, and providing challenging opportunities for o…
Two Gateway Boulevard East Granby, Connecticut 06026 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Sound principles of honesty and industriousness, and consideration for others, will always remain the true and only formula for success in the long term. These principles are our legacy from those who have gone before us, and we must try to insure that those to come will inherit them. The Beckett Paper Company today…
50 Beale Street San Francisco, California 94105-1895 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We will be the engineer-constructor of choice for customers, employees, and key suppliers in every industry we serve by: delivering exceptional value to our customers, earning a fair return on our delivered value, and working closely with our customers, key suppliers, and communities to help improve the standard of …
1095 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10036 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Bell Atlantic has the size, the capability, and the strength for market leadership. Now, as one of the nation's largest communications companies, one of the largest wireless providers in the world, and the world's largest directory publisher, we are committed to grow top-line revenues faster ... enter new markets qu…
2 Quaker Road Pomona, New York 10970 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The people of Barr Laboratories are focused on being first-to-market with quality, off-patent pharmaceuticals in specific therapeutic categories that generate sustainable profitability. Our confidence in our ability to achieve success is based on the skill and dedication of our employees and their commitment to excellence in scienc…
3333 Lenox Avenue Jacksonville, Florida 32254 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Barnett has maintained its high level of success by adhering to its unique and proven marketing formula, and creating an entrepreneurial atmosphere in which its management and employees continue to thrive. We intend to pursue our strategy aggressively and we are confident that it will lead Barnett to continued success and …
Westpark, Pfingstweidstrasse 60 8005 Zurich Switzerland Company Perspectives: Barry Callebaut is the heart and engine of the chocolate and confectionery industry. Our goal is to be Number One in all attractive customer segments and in all major world markets. Our heritage, our knowledge of the chocolate business--from the cocoa bean to the finest product on the shelf--and our innovative power in …
Unnastrasse 48 D-20245 Hamburg Germany Company Perspectives: Beiersdorf Company Principles: We direct all our efforts in all parts of the world to the needs of our customers and the demands of the market. We develop, manufacture, and distribute brand products of reliable quality and of high benefit to the consumer. Our company is uniform throughout the world, while at the same time it takes into …
5215 Old Orchard Road Skokie, Illinois 60077 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We are a leading information services and solutions provider to a select range of industries around the world. In each of our businesses, we transform information through software and services, helping our customers operate more effectively and efficiently. We concentrate on market niches where our leadership, experience, a…
122 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10011-5605 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission is to operate the best specialty retail business in Ameri ca, regardless of the product we sell. Because the product we sell is books, our aspirations must be consistent with the promise and the i deals of the volumes which line our shelves. To say that our mission exists independent of the product we sell is …
700 Washington Street Bath, Maine 04530 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: BIW employees are premier designers and builders of complex, technologically advanced naval ships. Since the 1950s, BIW has served as lead shipyard for 10 non-nuclear surface ship classes produced by the U.S. Navy, more than any other U.S. shipyard. In 1995, BIW was purchased by General Dynamics, further enhancing the company's …
2315 North 1st Street San Jose, California 95131 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The vision of BEA's founders has always been bigger than middleware. Their goal from the beginning was to provide a comprehensive infrastructure for development and deployment of reliable, salable business applications for e-commerce. As the Internet Economy has profoundly transformed the business landscape, BEA too has…
20 North Audley Street London W1Y 1WE United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Our strategy is to be the leading player in each of our businesses, in our chosen geographical areas. Across our businesses, we continue to build the quality, scale and range of our brands for our customers and in so doing, we create value for our shareholders. Conceived as a single brewery in the late 18th century, Bass P…
2518 South Pacific Highway Medford, Oregon 97501 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: To be as successful as we have--for as long as we have--a company has to be based on some pretty sound, basic rules: Start with the world's finest, freshest ingredients. From fruit to nuts and everything in between, don't cut corners and don't make compromises, because just when you think no one will notice the differen…
BP 117 33250 Pauillac France Company Perspectives: Since 1933, Baron Philippe de Rothschild SA, located at Pauillac in the Médoc, has been motivated by a constant ambition: to make the world's finest wines, each in its own category, whether the châteaux wines for which it is responsible--the renowned Château Mouton Rothschild, a First Growth, and its distinguished lieutenants, Château Clerc M…
Burchardstrasse 11 2000 Hamburg 1 Germany Bauer Publishing Group is the largest magazine publisher in Germany and one of the largest in Europe, offering a wide variety of light-information periodicals for a mainstream readership. Five of Germany's best-selling magazines are Bauer creations: TV Hören und Sehen, Fernsehwoche and Auf Einen Blick, all of which combine television guides with elements…
2500 E. Kearney Springfield, Missouri 65898 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Mission Statement: To be the leading Merchant of Outdoor Recreational Products, Inspiring People to Love, Enjoy and Conserve the Great Outdoors. Bass Pro Shops, Inc. is a multifaceted sporting equipment retailer, with a special emphasis on fishing, hunting, and camping. Operating out of Springfield, Missouri, the company is …
President Kennedypark 35 B-8500 Kortrijk Belgium Company Perspectives: Barco operates worldwide and seeks permanent market and quality leadership in various technological areas. With constant enthusiasm, high-quality research and development and flexibility, the group targets niche markets and produces a constant stream of product innovations. Creativity and motivation are the key to the group's …
3, rue Bayard 75008 Paris France Company Perspectives: Bayard is a market leader in children's educational press, religious publications, and seniors press. One of France's oldest publishing groups, Bayard SA is also one of the country's largest, particularly in its three target markets of the youth, senior citizen, and Christian sectors. Bayard is active in the newspaper market, with the daily L…
26500 American Drive Southfield, Michigan 48034 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Mission Statement: We build excellent solutions. Corporate Values: Leadership; Expertise, leading to effectiveness; Innovation, leading to quality solutions; Teamwork, leading to synergy; Decisiveness, leading to action; Commitment to our customers and employees; Integrity--the bedrock of long term success. Barton Malow …
3033 Riviera Drive, Suite 200 Naples, Florida 34103 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We live by the credo that we are a local broadcaster, serving the needs of people and advertisers in large and small communities. However, by our sheer size, we acknowledge that BBGI is also a national broadcaster involved with important issues, trends and developments across the country. Based in Naples, Florida, Be…
11 Piedmont Center Suite 410 Atlanta, Georgia 30305 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission: To Win the Customer for Life! We strive to execute this mission every single day by focusing on three operating strategies: Ensure 100% customer satisfaction. We fully understand the expectations of our customers and pledge to meet or exceed these expectations. Deliver world class service. We select dyna…
59 Wynford Drive North York, Ontario M3C 1K3 Canada Company Perspectives: Shoemaking is one of the world's oldest crafts--shoes have been works of art and the stuff of legends. Around the world, the Bata brand is reserved for well-made and well-priced dress and casual footwear. We're devoted to designing, producing, and providing our customers with the best in commercial fashion footwear for the …
54 Lombard Street London EC3P 3AH United Kingdom Company Perspectives: We aspire to be one of the most admired financial services organisations in the world, recognised as an innovative, customer-focused company that delivers superb products and services, ensures excellent careers for our people and contributes positively to the communities in which we live and work. With a rich history dating ba…
2 Quaker Road Pomona, New York 10970 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The people of Barr Laboratories are focused on being first-to-market with quality, off-patent pharmaceuticals in specific therapeutic categories that generate sustainable profitability. Our confidence in our ability to achieve success is based on the skill and dedication of our employees and their commitment to excellence in scienc…
1 Lakeland Park Drive Peabody, Massachusetts 01960 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The mission of Beacon Roofing Supply Inc. is to be a leading North Am erican supplier to commercial and residential roofing and exterior bu ilding contractors through a family of long-established regional supp liers and to add value to our contractor customers' businesses, to ou r employees' careers, to our investors'…
200 West Second Street Winston-Salem North Carolina 27101 U.S.A. Company Perspectives At BB&T we have two powerful passions. Our fundamental passion is our Vision: To Create The Best Financial Institution Possible--The "World Standard"--The "Best of the Best." We believe that the best can be objectively evaluated by rational performance standards in relation to the accomplishment of our mission. …
Tungoetu 6 Reykjavik 101 Iceland Company Perspectives Baugur Group's main policy is to focus on investments in the retail, service and real estate sectors, in Iceland and northern Europe. The company seeks out shares in companies that have a strong market position yet also have the potential for further growth. Baugur Group looks primarily to companies whose operations have thus far been a succes…