S-405 08 Göteborg Sweden Company Perspectives: Volvo Group Mission Statement: By creating value for our customers, we create value for our shareholders. We use our expertise to create transport-related products and services of superior quality, safety and environmental care for demanding customers in selected segments. We work with energy, passion, and respect for the individual. The largest com…
Adam Opel Haus D-65423 Rüsselsheim Germany Company Perspectives: Since its inception in 1862, Opel has set out to make technology affordable and widely available to a large segment of society. This vision has remained constant from its roots as a sewing machine manufacturer, its subsequent expansion to bicycles and today remains at the heart of all automotive product development. Opel has a stro…
Fiat S.p.A. Corso Marconi 10 Turin Italy Company Perspectives: Alfa Romeo's ninety years of existence encompass some of the most important chapters in motoring history. It is a story of cars, designers, races and engines that stand as technological and sporting milestones of the Twentieth century. A brand such as Alfa Romeo is the sum of all these parts, and also of the work and professional prid…
via Modena 12 40019 Sant'Agata Bolognese Bologna Italy Automobili Lamborghini Holding S.p.A. is one of the world's most renowned manufacturers of high-performance sports cars. The company sells fewer than 300 cars in a given year (more than 100 of them in the United States, its largest market), but the hefty price tags--upwards of US$300,000, for example, for the limited edition Diablo GT--make u…
36 Yuzhnoe Shosse 445633 Togliatti Samara Region Russia Company Perspectives: Our mission is to consolidate AVTOVAZ's position as market leader in the Russian automotive industry for the long term, providing quality vehicles to Russian people at prices they can afford. AVTOVAZ Joint Stock Company, or OAO AVTOVAZ (Avtovaz), manufactures nearly three-quarters of the light automobiles sold in Russia…
Edifício BRISA Quinta da Torre da Aguilha 2785-599 Sao Domingos de Rana Portugal Company Perspectives: Brisa is a Portuguese company ranking by own merit among the largest private motorway operators in Europe. Brisa established high technical and managing standards regarding the construction, maintenance, and operation of the 11 motorways under its operation. Project management, the innovating V…
Epplestrasse 225 70546 Stuttgart Germany Company Perspectives: We aim to convince our customers with our exciting automobiles, attractive and economical commercial vehicles, and tailored financial services. With our innovative technology, we intend to make the traffic of tomorrow even safer, as well as more economical and environmentally friendly. And by implanting this strategy, we intend to cre…
8850 Ladue Road St. Louis, Missouri 63124 U.S.A. Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company is the parent company of the highly successful Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Avoiding the higher margin, highly competitive travel segment dominated by Hertz and Avis, Enterprise dominates the 'home city' segment of the automobile rental market, catering largely to those consumers who need to rent cars temporarily to replace …
600 Corporate Park Drive St. Louis, Missouri 63105-4204 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Enterprise's mission is to fulfill the automobile and commercial truck rental, leasing, and car sales needs of our customers while exceeding their expectations for service, quality and value. We strive to earn our customers' long-term loyalty by delivering more than promised, being honest and fair, and "going the…
Via Emilia Est, 1163 41100 Modena Italy Ferrari S.p.A. designs and manufactures sports cars that are synonymous with speed and performance. Ferrari sports cars are among the most prestigious automobiles in the world, along with Porsche, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Jaguar, and Lamborghini. The name Ferrari is still venerated on the international racing circuit, and many automotive experts regard the Fer…
250 Via Nizza 10135 Turin Italy Company Perspectives: Fiat is an Italian industrial group with a strong international presence. Operating primarily in the automotive industry and related services, it is also a major player in other manufacturing activities. Fiat grows and creates value by supplying innovative products and services for maximum customer satisfaction and globalizing its activities. …
One American Road Dearborn, Michigan 48126-2798 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our vision is to become the world's leading consumer company for automotive products and services. We are a global family with a proud heritage passionately committed to providing personal mobility for people around the world. As the second-largest automobile company in the world, Ford Motor Company represents a $164 bil…
300 Renaissance Center Detroit, Michigan 48265-3000 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: General Motors' enjoys a long tradition of accountability, integrity, and transparency that has helped establish our reputation as a leader in corporate responsibility. We place a high value on communicating clear, consistent, and truthful information about our performance to our employees, suppliers, dealers, invest…
241 Salmon Street Port Melbourne Victoria 3207 Australia Company Perspectives: Holden's vision is to be Australia's most successful auto company with a passion for excellence and absolute commitment to the customer. Holden's mission is to enthuse customers by providing quality products of outstanding value and ensuring a totally satisfactory experience over the ownership cycle. Holden Ltd. is one…
1-1, 2-chome Minami-Aoyama, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 107-8556 Japan U.S. Headquarters American Honda Motor Co. 1919 Torrance Boulevard Torrance, California 90501-2746 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Maintaining a global viewpoint, we are dedicated to supplying products of the highest quality yet at a reasonable price for worldwide customer satisfaction. Honda Motor Company Limited is perhaps best known as a…
2016 N. Pitcher St. Kalamazoo, Michigan 49007 U.S.A. International Controls Corporation (ICC), is the holding company of Checker Motors Corp. and Great Dane Trailers Inc. Reporting sales of $909 million in 1993, from which it earned a ranking among Fortune magazine's top 500 American companies, ICC had net losses of $43 million, due primarily to circumstances surrounding its large debt load. ICC …
15-21 Yoido-dong Youngdeungpo-ku Seoul 150-706 South Korea Company Perspectives: Quality is our life. More than a slogan it has become a way of life at Kia, a company which has been quick to embrace the need for quality improvement as a matter of corporate survival. Under the old school of thinking, providing good after-sales service was understood as the best remedy for compromised quality. Toda…
Ungererstrasse 69 D-8000 Munich 40 Federal Republic of Germany MAN has taken a complicated path to become one of Europe's largest engineering and heavy-vehicle manufacturers. Operating as a subsidiary for much of its history, the corporation is today comprised of several midsize companies. Decentralized management has always typified the organization, but during the 1980s management decided to di…
3-1 Shinchi, Fucho-cho Aki-gun Hiroshima 730-8670 Japan Company Perspectives: Mazda's raison-d'être is to make cars that are fun to drive--cars that enthuse but are also affordable. The brand message "Zoom-Zoom" aims to capture this feeling, expressing the passionate spirit of motoring enjoyment that drives Mazda forward. Mazda Motor Corporation is the number five Japanese automaker, behind Toyo…
1300 Arlington Heights Road Itasca, Illinois 60143 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: For more than 40 years Midas has built customer relationships based on reliability. We know that quality parts and services are important to our customers. That's why we stand behind them with guarantees. We may be a company on the move--but we will never leave behind the values that have made us a success: trust, ser…
33-8 Shiba 5-chome Minato-ku Tokyo 108 Japan Company Perspectives: Mitsubishi Motors Corporation intends to grow as a global player and as a strong partner within the DaimlerChrysler-Mitsubishi Motors Corporation alliance. Cross-functional alliance teams are now working together at a global level. Mitsubishi Motors Corporation boasts a proud history of technological innovation. Although automobil…
91320 Industrial Way Coburg, Oregon 97408 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At Monaco, we strive to match or exceed our owners' expectations. Before any recreational vehicle is shipped, it must pass rigorous quality assurance checks at each step of the process. Our owners expect this, and their satisfaction is the ultimate measure of success. Our goal of designing and manufacturing a world-class motor…
3411 North Perris Boulevard Perris, California 92571 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Over the decades, National R.V. has established a solid reputation in the marketplace for high quality, innovative products that deliver superior value. By building upon and leveraging this strong track record, the company is able to enhance its position among the nation's leading RV manufacturers. This focused stra…
P.O. Box 2566 Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54903 U.S.A. Oshkosh Truck Corporation is a major manufacturer of specialized truck and transport equipment. Based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, the company produces a broad range of products designed to meet the needs of specific market niches. The three major markets to which Oshkosh sells its products, both domestically and internationally, are defense, municipal, and…
2100 Highway 55 Medina Minnesota 55340-9770 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Over our 50-year history, Polaris has built a very good company simply by growing internally. One segment at a time, we've transformed from a snowmobile company into a flexible manufacturer of motorized products for people who enjoy the outdoors. We have ample opportunities to grow by continuing to innovate and build high-qua…
70432 Stuttgart Germany Company Perspectives: The first sports car bearing the Porsche name rolled out of a small test workshop in Gmund, Austria in June 1948. Back then, none of its founding fathers could have imagined the success story that more than one million descendants of this 'Porsche Number One' have written in the five decades since then. It is from this tradition that we draw the energ…
75, avenue de la Grande-Armée 75116 Paris France PSA Peugeot Citroen S.A. is one of the big six European automotive manufacturers, producing passenger cars and light commercial and utility vehicles under the famous Peugeot and Citroen brand names, as well as motorbikes and scooters, and vehicles for military use. PSA, through subsidiaries Peugeot Citroen Motors, also produces car parts, and as s…
Jalan Gaya Motor Raya No. 8 Sunter II Jakarta 14330 Indonesia Company Perspectives: PHILOSOPHY: 1. To be an asset to the nation. 2. To provide only the best service to our customers. 3. To respect individuals and promote teamwork. 4. To continually strive for excellence. VISION: 1. To be one of the best managed corporations in the Asia-Pacific region with an emphasis on building competence throug…
Fray Justo Santa Maria de Oro 17 Buenos Aires, C.F. C1414CWT Argentina Of Argentina's ten automakers, almost all are closely held subsidiaries or affiliates of their American, European, or Japanese parent organizations. The exception is Renault Argentina S.A., which is traded on the Buenos Aires stock exchange. Once the nation's largest automobile manufacturer, this company now ranks in the middl…
Kennedydamm 15-17 Postfach 10 42 61 D-40033 Düsseldorf Germany Rheinmetall Berlin AG, the parent company of a group of more than 60 industrial manufacturing firms, is a leading German producer in each one of its four primary fields: defense technology, paper and packaging machinery, high-tech automotive components, and, since 1993, office furniture. For most of its 100-year history, Rheinmetall …
Pym's Lane Crewe Cheshire CW1 3PL England The Rolls-Royce name is not as old as that of Panhard, Daimler, or Napier, all three of whom established automotive companies in the 19th century, but as C.S. Rolls & Company advertised in November of 1905, "No greater mistake can be made than to suppose that the older the manufactury the better the car." Certainly, the Rolls-Royce name implies not only t…
SE-461 80 Trollhätten Sweden Company Perspectives: Saab Automobile is an international automobile company with its traditions firmly established in Sweden. Our background as an aircraft manufacturer has given us the broad-based foundation of technical expertise and innovative concepts which characterise the company just as much now as they did when it was originally established more than 50 year…
300, Takatsuka-cho Hamamatsu-shi Shizuoka 432-8611 Japan Company Perspectives: Creativity--a human gift to develop products that promote better living conditions and satisfy people's needs. Since the founding of Suzuki Motor Corporation, we have always pursued providing "value-packed products" as one of our manufacturing philosophies. Realizing that the value differs according to the times, count…
419 West Pike Street Jackson Center, Ohio 45334-0629 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Thor offers employees incentives based on productivity and profits while encouraging them to be actively involved in community programs. Thor executives serve on the boards of numerous civic organizations. Thor has been driving for excellence for nearly twenty years. It's a commitment reaching far into the future, a…
1, Toyota-cho Toyota City, Aichi 471-8571 Japan Company Perspectives: We believe the potential for growth in our industry is extremely promising. Today, only about one-third of the world's population enjoys the benefits of motor transport, while the remaining two-thirds do not have access to the convenience of automotive transport. Huge growth is in store for our industry in the emerging economie…
Griffin House Osborne Road Luton Bedfordshire LU1 3YT United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Our cars and vans embody our strategy for being the best automotive manufacturer in the UK by 2005--bar none. This involves a mixture of design, style, driving excitement and ultimately, bringing the best of GM to the UK. Vauxhall Motors Limited, a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation (GM), is the numbe…
Berliner Ring 1 D-38436 Wolfsburg Germany Company Perspectives: The Volkswagen Group offers an unparalleled range of vehicles. Over 50 different automobile models from a range of nine international marques provide a diversity, the likes of which can be found nowhere else in the world and one which serves to accommodate the increasing individuality of customer demand in ever more fragmented market…
1000 Sagamore Parkway South Lafayette, Indiana 47905 U.S.A. Wabash National Corporation--one of the largest manufacturers of semi-trailers in the world--designs, manufactures, and markets standard and customized truck trailers, including dry freight vans, refrigerated trailers, and bimodal (road and rail) trailers, as well as parts and related equipment. The company also manufactures fiberglass-r…
605 W. Crystal Lake Road Forest City, Iowa 50436 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: More people are choosing the RV lifestyle than ever before. These are exciting times. Enormous opportunities lie ahead for us. To meet the challenges of the next 40 years and beyond, we will continue to work not only harder, but smarter, to be able to continue to further increase our production capacity, market share, f…