1 Acclaim Plaza Glen Cove, New York 11542 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Acclaim Entertainment Inc. is a developer, publisher and mass marketer of interactive entertainment software for use with dedicated interactive entertainment hardware platforms and multimedia personal computer (PC) systems. The company operates its own software design studios and a motion capture studio, and markets and distri…
177 Broad Street Stamford, Connecticut 06901 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: ACNielsen Corporation is the world's leading provider of market research, information and analysis to the consumer products and services industries. More than 9,000 clients in more than 100 countries rely on ACNielsen's dedicated professionals to measure competitive marketplace dynamics, to understand consumer attitudes and…
1 Information Way P.O. Box 8180 Little Rock, Arkansas 72203-8180 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Acxiom Corporation recognizes that to enjoy the freedoms of our society, one also must embrace its responsibilities. For instance, the free flow of information is a cornerstone of our society and has contributed to tremendous consumer benefits and economic prosperity. Yet, this freedom must be accompanie…
345 Park Avenue San Jose, California 95110-2704 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Adobe's mission is to be the premier provider of products and services in the information age for professional publishing solutions, business publishing solutions, document solutions, and digital imaging solutions in the company's addressed market segments while: achieving and maintaining an above-average return on inves…
950 Fingerboard Road Staten Island, New York 10305 U.S.A. Family owned and operated, Advance Publications Inc. is a multibillion dollar international communications empire that publishes newspapers, magazines, books, and electronic media. It is the second-largest publishing concern in the United States. The founder, Samuel I. Newhouse, built his success on hard work, innovative business methods, …
2575 Vista Del Mar Ventura, California 93001 U.S.A. Affinity Group Holding Company is the parent company of several businesses, including Affinity Group, Inc. (AGI), that provide goods and services to the outdoor recreation market, primarily recreational vehicle (RV) enthusiasts. Through its subsidiaries, the company owns and operates the Camping World chain of retail stores for RV parts and camp…
Czerska 8/10 00-732 Warsaw Poland Company Perspectives We endeavor to live by the values which guided us when we founded the company and which continue to be our key tenets--truth, tolerance, respect for human rights and solidarity with the less fortunate. We promote these principles in our media--the newspaper, radio stations and on-line--and we strive to act on them as a company. Polish media c…
41 First Avenue South Seattle, Washington 98104-2871 U.S.A. Aldus Corporation revolutionized the use of personal computers when it introduced its PageMaker program in 1985, virtually creating the desktop publishing industry. Although the company has not been able to match the inventiveness of its original program, it is a major American producer of desktop publishing and graphics software, sellin…
1333 3rd Avenue South Naples, Florida 34102 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: To partner with clients. To improve productivity. To significantly enhance performance through the intelligent use of technology. Allen Systems Group, Inc. (ASG) is a Naples, Florida-based company offering products to enhance the performance of clients' information technology systems. ASG's myriad of product suites deliver m…
1390 Timberlake Manor Pkwy Chesterfield, Missouri 63017 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: For two decades, we have been helping leading communications providers across the world turn their visions into reality. We lead the communications systems market with outstanding products, carrier-grade scalability and an unparalleled track record of delivery and reliability. We support all lines of business, in…
One American Road Cleveland, Ohio 44144-2398 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: American Greetings helps people everywhere express their innermost thoughts and feelings, enhance meaningful relationships and celebrate life's milestones and special occasions. Founded in 1906 as a small Cleveland jobber's shop, American Greetings Corporation, which advertises itself as "the world's largest publicly owned …
4520 Main Street Kansas City, Missouri 64111 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The caretakers of a nation's culture are its storytellers. What is a culture, after all, but the collection of stories people tell about themselves through their music, art, dance and literature? Through the stories they tell, people remember their history and envision their future. They entertain and enlighten themselves. …
4 Station Square, Suite 200 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219-1119 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our Mission: To lead the high-performance segment of the EDA market by leveraging electromagnetics across component, circuit and system design. Ansoft Corporation is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based developer of electronic design automation (EDA) software, used by electrical engineers in the design of suc…
325 Fayette Avenue Mamaroneck, New York 10543-2306 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Archie Comics is the only family-owned and independent publisher in the industry. Goldwater's and Silberkleit's fathers formed the comic book publishing company, MLJ Magazines, in November 1939. MLJ Magazines was named after its three founders, Maurice Coyne, Louis Silberkleit and John Goldwater. Archie was first intr…
2440 W. El Camino Real Mountain View, California 94039-7640 U.S.A. The ASK Group, Inc. is a producer of software for use in business settings, primarily manufacturing. With 91 offices in 15 countries around the world, ASK maintains a significant share of the market it pioneered and once dominated. Built on the strength of one program, the company expanded dramatically in the 1990s through two maj…
5858 Horton Street, Suite 350 Emeryville, California 94608 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Your search should be easy. That's why we created a search experience where the emphasis is on finding, not searching. Our technologies mean a more refined search so you'll get to the relevant results you need a whole lot quicker. Ask Jeeves, Inc. owns a number of information retrieval web properties, or searc…
417 5th Ave. New York, NY 10016 U.S.A. Before its merger with disk drive maker JTS Corporation in 1996, the Atari Corporation was a prominent manufacturer of video games and home computers that pioneered the industry of video entertainment. Its history was beset by a series of successes and ultimately defeats: it made money from arcade games, then nearly went bankrupt; it took on new life and ast…
3617 131st Avenue Southeast Bellevue, Washington 98006 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Attachmate helps you expand the reach of your enterprise information, improving the way you do business, enhancing productivity, and positively impacting your bottom line. Attachmate Corporation is one of the largest privately held software companies in the world, operating as a developer of software for e-busines…
One ADP Boulevard Roseland, New Jersey 07068-1728 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: ADP's objectives are sustained growth in shareholder value through ever-improving financial results, World Class Service, and being an employer of choice. We will achieve these objectives by having a total commitment to the highest ethical standards, by treating everyone with honesty, fairness and respect, and by condu…
750 Lexington Avenue New York, New York 10022 U.S.A. Autotote Corporation provides computerized wagering equipment, computer software, facilities management, and satellite broadcast services for parimutuel wagering at horse and dog racetracks, jai-alai frontons, government-sponsored lotteries, and legalized sports-betting facilities on four continents. It was, in 1996, the leading provider and op…
Avid Technology Park 1 Park West Tewkesbury, Massachusetts 01876 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Today, Avid offers a broad range of products and solutions to multiple markets that vary dramatically in terms of user requirements, applications, and budgets. All of Avid's products stem from the company's core philosophy: provide customers with innovative, computer-based content creation tools that wil…
Axel-Springer-Platz 1 D-20350 Hamburg Germany Over the course of its more than 50 years in business, Axel Springer Verlag AG has evolved from a publisher of local radio transcripts into Europe's largest publisher of newspapers and magazines. By the late 1990s, the company's media and communications holdings also included interests in radio; broadcast, cable and digital television; book publishing…
Galvanistraat 9 P.O. Box 250 6710 BG Ede The Netherlands The Baan Company is one of the world's top producers of enterprise business management and client/server software systems, with more than 3,000 customers at 5,000 sites around the world. From its dual headquarters in The Netherlands and in Reston, Virginia, Baan oversees a global organization of subsidiary and partnership companies, both fo…
39/41 Parkgate Street Dublin 8 Ireland Company Perspectives: Our aim is to be the leader in e-security. We will continue to broaden our product and service portfolio by a combination of organic and acquisitive growth, and will continue to deliver leading edge e-security solutions to our customers to enable the adoption of e-business on a global basis. We enter 2001 with confidence, and the Board …
120 Flanders Road P.O. Box 5013 Westborough, Massachusetts 01581-5013 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Banyan Systems is a pioneer and leader in providing proven standards-based directory and messaging products for enterprise networks. Coupled with professional and support services, these unique offerings provide solutions to help people communicate simply and easily across enterprise networks, intra…
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…
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…
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…
1440 Kiewit Plaza Omaha, Nebraska 68131 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Although our form is corporate, our attitude is partnership. Charlie Munger and I think of our shareholders as owner-partners, and of ourselves as managing partners. (Because of the size of our shareholdings we are also, for better or worse, controlling partners.) We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our bu…
Carl-Bertelsmann-Strasse 270 D-33311 Gütersloh Germany Company Perspectives: Bertelsmann is an international media corporation. We provide information, education, and entertainment around the globe. The ultimate purpose of our community is to contribute to the advancement of society. We strive to be leaders in the markets in which we operate. Our joint efforts focus on creative content, customer…
Carl-Bertelsmann-Strasse 270 Postfach 111 D-33311 Gütersloh Germany Bertelsmann AG is the largest media group in Germany and Europe, and the second-largest in the world to the U.S.-based Time Warner Inc. With operations in 40 countries, primarily in Europe and North America, Bertelsmann is active in four main areas: magazine and newspaper publishing; book publishing and book clubs; entertainment…
9600 Garsington Road Oxford United Kingdom Company Perspectives Blackwell Publishing Mission Statement: Partnerships in learning, research and professional practice. Our mission is to provide an expert publishing service to other experts--authors, editors, librarians, researchers, teachers and their students, societies and professionals--enabling them to do their jobs better. Blackwell Publishing…
P.O. Box 18979 Irvine California 92623 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Blizzard Entertainment is a premier publisher of entertainment software. Since establishing the Blizzard label in 1994, the company has quickly become one of the most popular and well-respected makers of computer games. Blizzard Entertainment makes the world's most popular online computer game, World of Warcraft. The company was a…
541 N. Superior Street Toledo Ohio 43660 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Block Communications, Inc. (BCI) is a 105-year-old privately held diversified media holding company headquartered in Toledo, Ohio. Block Communications, Inc. is a regional media conglomerate. Its principal properties include two venerable newspapers, the Toledo Blade and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. It also owns several broadcas…
2600 Campus Drive San Mateo, California 94403 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Blue Martini Software is the leading provider of intelligent selling systems. Innovative companies use our software to slash sales costs and improve customer and channel loyalty. Blue Martini intelligent selling systems deliver the expertise of a company's best sales and marketing people through advisory applications for c…
1800 Green Hills Road P.O. Box 66001 Scotts Valley, California 95067-0001 U.S.A. Borland International, Inc., is the world's third-largest personal computer software company. Founded by a French math teacher who emigrated to America, Borland initially made its mark as a retailer of inexpensive tools for computer programmers, then moved into the market for corporate software. Through its streamlin…
2300 Brown Avenue P.O. Box 1549 Waseca, Minnesota 56093-0517 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Customer service, high-quality printing and state-of-the-art technology are taken very seriously at Brown Printing Company. Each day, highly skilled and dedicated employees strive to make our customers' experience with Brown satisfactory in every way. This strong commitment to quality, service and technology…
Tour Chantecoq 5, rue Chantecoq 92800 Puteaux France France's Business Objects S.A. is a leading provider of software-based enterprise decision support tools to mid-sized and large-scale corporations. Business Objects' client/server software focuses on providing an intuitive "semantic layer" between the end user and the often arcane protocols needed to access corporate databases, data warehouses,…
2655 Seely Avenue San Jose, California 95134 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At Cadence, we've pledged ourselves to total customer satisfaction. In fact, commitment to customer success is one of our core company values. In support of this promise, Cadence president and CEO Ray Bingham created the Worldwide Customer Advocacy (WCA) organization. To ensure that every customer is satisfied with the Cade…
6620 W. Broad St., Ste. 240 Richmond, Virginia 23230 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The Cadmus mission is to provide customers with integrated 21st century information and communications solutions. To achieve this mission, Cadmus is organized around two broad market sectors: Professional Communications which serves those who create and convey information, and Marketing Communications which serves t…
100 Cooper Ct. Los Gatos, California 95030 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Caere continues to play a leading role in bringing OCR applications into mainstream markets. Our strategies for success reflect changing market conditions and a commitment to help customers increase their productivity. Moving OCR into the mainstream, Caere focuses on maintaining leadership in all OCR markets. We are leveragin…
Vigerslev Alle 18 Valby DK-2500 Denmark Company Perspectives: From the beginning in 1873, the Aller Group has grown to be the largest publisher of weeklies in the Nordic countries. In Denmark the market share is more than 70%, and Aller publishes the largest family weekly, the largest weekly for women, and the two largest celebrity/TV-Guide weeklies. In Sweden the market share is above 78%, and t…
3 Expressway Plaza Roslyn Heights, New York 11577 U.S.A. Cheyennes Software, Inc. is engaged in the development, marketing, and support of software products for use in microcomputers. It is a leading U.S. provider of software for Local Area Network (LAN) systems, which link microcomputers and peripherals and allow them to share information. Following a rocky start, Cheyenne realized rampant growt…
1000 Alderman Drive Alpharetta, Georgia 30005 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The world is a risky place to live, work, and do business. People have critical needs for reliable and timely information to help make the decision that will lead to a safer, more secure world. ChoicePoint delivers this promise to thousands of people every day in business and government, nonprofit organizations, and to con…
2300 Montana Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45211 United States Cincom Systems, Inc. ranks among the world's largest privately held commercial software companies. Although it wasn't the world's first independent producer of software, it has outlasted all its predecessors to become the oldest company of its kind. A long history of industry firsts fueled two decades of dynamic growth. From its foundation …
Navarro & Villita Streets P.0. Box 1771 San Antonio, Texas 78296-1771 U.S.A. City Public Service is San Antonio's municipally owned natural gas and electric utility, one of approximately 2,000 public non-profit power systems owned by a municipality or other government body in the United States. Ten percent of gas and electric power in the United States comes from such utility companies, which ser…
600 Community Drive Manhasset, New York 11030 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: CMP Media Inc. is a high-technology media company When CMP Media Inc. became a public company in 1997, it had enjoyed 26 years of uninterrupted sales growth, 22 years of profitability, and six consecutive years of rising operating income. After such steady growth, the company controlled the largest market share in U.S. hig…
150 Chestnut Street San Francisco, California 94111 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The Internet is the number-one source of technology information for IS/IT [information systems/information technology] professionals and business decision makers as they research and compare products, and make brand and purchase decisions. With its award-winning, world-class staff of technology editors, journalists a…
1015 31st Street Northwest Washington, D.C. 20007 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The Cogent solution offers the unique combination of higher quality at a lower price. Data-only network technology combined with end-to-end network ownership allows Cogent to offer ultra-high speed Internet access at prices never before offered in the industry. For companies involved in transmitting high-speed Internet…
3755 Riverside Drive P.O. Box 9707, Station T Ottawa, Ontario K1G 4K9 Canada Company Perspectives: Cognos Incorporated is a global provider of business intelligence software solutions. The Corporation develops, markets, and supports an integrated business intelligence platform that allows customers, as well as their partners, customers, and suppliers, to analyze and report data from multiple pers…
One Computer Associates Plaza Islandia, New York 11788-7000 U.S.A. Computer Associates International is the second-largest computer software vendor after Microsoft Inc. The company concentrates on operating systems software for computers, particularly mainframes, as well as business applications software for both mainframes and personal computers. Computer Associates was founded in 1976 by Charle…
One Computer Associates Plaza Islandia, New York 11788-7000 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Computer Associates International, Inc. is a leading eBusiness software company. CA's world-class solutions address all aspects of eBusiness Process Management, Information Management, and Infrastructure Management in six focus areas: Enterprise Management, Security, Storage, eBusiness Transformation and Inte…
100 Crosby Drive Bedford, Massachusetts 01730 U.S.A. Computervision Corporation is a leading supplier of software for use in computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM), systems used by companies around the world to develop automotive, aerospace, and other engineered products. Computervision got its start as a computer hardware manufacturer in the early 1970s, and it continue…
One Campus Martius Detroit, Michigan 48226 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Compuware will be the best worldwide provider of quality software products and services designed to increase productivity. We will continue to create practical solutions that meet our customers' needs and surpass their expectations. We will provide an environment for our employees where excellence is encouraged and rewarded a…
4 Times Square New York, New York 10036 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Home to many of the world's most celebrated magazines, Condé Nast Publications is committed to journalistic integrity, influential reporting and superior design. Each magazine features world-renowned editors, writers and photographers--an incredible stable of talent unmatched by any other publishing company. Condé Nast Publica…
101 Truman Avenue Yonkers, New York 10703-1057 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Test, Inform, Protect. Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports, is a nonprofit organization established in 1936 to provide consumers with information and advice on goods, services, health, and personal finance, and to initiate and cooperate with individual and group efforts to maintain and enhance the quality of li…
1600 Carling Avenue Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 8R7 Canada Company Perspectives: All over the world, the Corel name stands as the leading branded alte rnative in the software market. Available in 17 languages, our softwa re is known to be full-featured, easy to use, and affordable. Corel Corporation offers personal productivity software used by milli ons of customers in 75 countries across the globe. As …
329 Portland Avenue Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415-1112 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The Cowles Media Company Charter: We are a trusted source of information and ideas that help people pursue their interests and enrich their lives. We are a family of independent companies responsible for their own success and corporate citizenship. The skill and dedication of our people working individually and tog…
6205 Peachtree Dunwoody Road Atlanta, Georgia 30328 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At the Cox companies, we encourage employee creativity, inclusion and calculated risk taking. We're dedicated to customers' and audiences' needs. We seize new business opportunities when the time is right. And, we do what's right for our communities, through sponsorships, donations, and volunteer activities. For some…
3700 Gilmore Way Burnaby, British Columbia V5G 4M1 Canada Company Perspectives: It is important to us that Creo be a place where strong values and solid management philosophies hold true. The innovative technology of Creo is supported by the company's unique business philosophy. Several simple principles guide Creo employees around the world: Our priority is to provide unique and sustainable valu…
1325 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10003 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: What I love about DC is that we're not a one-note business. We can be on-line, we can be CD-ROM, we can be video games and interactive toys, or we can be movies, television, animation. So the opportunities technology brings are all open to us, and each one of those different areas helps all the others&mdash long as …
30 Cleveland Street London W1P 5FF United Kingdom Company Perspectives: How you write and design, rather than add up, is the currency of Dennis. As the publishing industry consolidates around the world into bland corporations, Dennis's edge is its independence, risk-taking, and innovation. It's a philosophy that has served us well. The company has consistently identified, launched, and developed …
2300 East Randol Mill Road Arlington, Texas 76011 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Now making a name for itself with several innovative autograph and memorabilia insert programs, Donruss maintains it's standing as a company renowned for heritage and innovation. Donruss Playoff L.P. makes trading cards that depict the players of Major League Baseball and the National Football League, as well as some p…
31 East Second Street Mineola, New York 11501 U.S.A. Dover Publications Inc. publishes paperbacks, many of them reissued out-of-print works whose copyright has expired. Dover has been called 'the L.L. Bean of books,' for its appeal to mail-order customers, who provide the company with a significant share of its revenues. The publisher is also respected for the high quality of its paper, printing,…
World Financial Center 200 Liberty Street New York, New York 10281 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Dow Jones is in the business of gathering and distributing useful information to business, investment, consumer, and education markets in the United States and abroad. Our chief objective is to serve the public exceedingly well with quality publications and services. In this endeavor our skilled and de…
3445 Peachtree Road NE Atlanta, GA 30326 U.S.A. Dun & Bradstreet Software Services Inc. is one of the world's leading distributors of software for financial, human resource, distribution, and manufacturing applications. The company has over 12,000 customers worldwide and serves approximately 75 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. Dun & Bradstreet Software derives revenue primarily from licensin…
Avenida Vasco de Quiroga 2000 Mexico City, D.F. 01210 Mexico Editorial Television, S.A. de C.V., sometimes referred to as Edivisa, is the publishing subsidiary of Grupo Televisa, S.A. de C.V., the largest media company in Latin America. It is the leader in the publication and distribution of magazines in Mexico and world leader in the publication and distribution of magazines in the Spanish langu…
300 6th Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222-2598 U.S.A. The Education Management Corporation (EDMC) owns and operates 22 post-secondary schools nationwide, providing career education to more than 24,000 students from throughout the United States and over 80 foreign countries. The company offers certificates, Associate degrees, or Bachelor's degrees in: culinary arts/management; graphic design; …
1450 Fashion Island Blvd. San Mateo, CA 94404 U.S.A. Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is one of the world's leading publishers of video and computer games software. Better known video game companies, including Sega, Nintendo, and Atari, manufacture video game players but produce games only for their proprietary equipment. Electronic Arts, on the other hand, produces software for various manufacturers' h…
One Lincoln Court, Lincoln Road Peterborough PE1 2RF United Kingdom Company Perspectives: EMAP's corporate objective is to create one of the world's most highly rated media businesses in terms of people, products and services, growing faster than our competitors and with operating margins of 20%. To obtain and maintain our market leading positions we will run our business aggressively, investing …
40 Monument Circle, Suite 700 Indianapolis, Indiana 46204 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: 11 Commandments of EMMIS: 11: Admit your mistakes. 10: Be flexible--keep an open mind. 9: Be rational--look at all the options. 8: Have fun--don't take this too seriously. 7: Never get smug. 6: Don't underprice yourself or your medium--don't attack the industry, build it up. 5: Believe in yourself--if you think…
5301 Tokay Boulevard Madison, Wisconsin 53711-1027 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Throughout our 25-year history, we have focused on providing applications and services for large, multi-specialty organizations, giving us a deep understanding of both the challenges faced by these groups and the strategies that lead to long-term success. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, Epic Systems Corporation is one of…
1500 Broadway New York, New York 10036 U.S.A. Essence Communications, Inc. is the publisher of Essence, a magazine catering to the contemporary African-American woman that, in 1997, was reaching an estimated five million readers each month, 30 percent of them male. The company also publishes two other magazines and a mail-order catalogue and has an entertainment division hosting an annual televis…
1500 Market Street, Centre Sq. West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The rich heritage of Farm Journal is the same heritage as that earned by American agriculture's farm and ranch families for the past six generations. We became good friends through the years. Wilmer Atkinson said it best 120 years ago: "We shall use our best endeavor to make the Farm Journal a newspa…
3565 Harbor Boulevard Costa Mesa, California 92626 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: FileNet Corporation helps organizations make better decisions by managing the content and processes that drive their business. FileNet's Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions allow customers to build and sustain competitive advantage by managing content throughout their organizations, automating and streamlini…
60 5th Avenue New York New York 10011 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Forbes is a privately held publishing and new media company. Its flagship publication is Forbes, oldest of the nation's major business magazines, which will celebrate its 90th Anniversary in 2007. In an industry increasingly dominated by public conglomerates, Forbes remains one of the largest and most successful family businesses o…
Hellerhofstrasse 2-4 D-60327 Frankfurt am Main Germany Company Perspectives: Editorial Peak Performance. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has time and time again been regarded as one of the world's best newspapers. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung owes this reputation to its detailed, exclusive background reporting and solid analysis. The clear distinction between news and commentary is one of its ba…
555 12th Street, Suite 1450 Oakland California 94607 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Franz Inc. has thrived by making it easy for Lisp users to play leading roles in the software industry, and continuously striving to introduce new functionality and features. Further, Franz Inc. understands that it is critical to grow the Lisp market--special academic pricing, educational tools and scholarship progra…
17666 Fitch Avenue Irvine, California 92614 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our company founder, R.C. Hoiles, left a legacy based on the principles of voluntarism and the libertarian philosophy. Those legacy values--Integrity, Self Responsibility, Respect for Individual Freedom, Community and Life-Long Learning&mdashe the bedrock on which Freedom Communications operates today. We call it the Freedom…
100 Brickstone Square, Fifth Floor Andover, Massachusetts 01810 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: FTP Software, Inc. is a technology leader in the development of infrastructure software for reliable, secure and manageable electronic commerce and exchange of information across public and private networks. The company's mission is "to be the market leader in providing infrastructure software solutions f…
888 Seventh Avenue New York, New York 10106 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The company owns one of the world's largest libraries of family entertainment copyrights and creates, publishes, and markets entertainment and educational products for children and their families through all media. Its extensive library includes Pat the Bunny, The Lone Ranger, Lassie, Underdog, Little Lulu, The Poky Little P…
75 Farringdon Road London EC1M 3JY United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Guardian Media Group plc is a U.K. media business with interests in national newspapers, regional and local newspapers, magazines and radio. The company is wholly-owned by the Scott Trust. The Scott Trust was created in 1936 to secure the financial and editorial independence of the Guardian in perpetuity. Guardian Media Group…
2501 McGee Street Post Office Box 419580 Kansas City, Missouri 64141-6580 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: This Is Hallmark: We believe: That our products and services must enrich people's lives and enhance their relationships. That creativity and quality-in our concepts, products and services&ndashe essential to our success. That the people of Hallmark are our company's most valuable resource. That …
225 Duncan Mill Road, Fourth Floor Toronto, Ontario M3B 3K9 Canada Company Perspectives: Harlequin creates entertaining and enriching experiences for women to enjoy, to share and to return to. Harlequin Enterprises Limited is the world's largest publisher of romance fiction, a market segment reckoned to account for half of all mass market paperbacks purchased. Harlequin, which works with some 1,0…
100 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10011 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., now celebrating its 50th anniversary, is the preeminent American publisher of high-quality art and illustrated books. Founded by Harry N. Abrams in 1949, the company was the first in this country to specialize in the creation and distribution of art books. Prior to the establishment of Abrams, nearly all…
31, rue du Colisée 75383 Paris Cedex 08 France Company Perspectives: Our store of knowledge is growing every day. And at Havas we are committed to sharing it, giving people the keys they need for discovery, understanding, self-improvement and entertaining. We make knowledge available to an increasing number of people around the world, in every possible way, through all media--constantly striving…
3201 Southwest 15th Street Deerfield Beach, Florida 33442 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Changing lives ... one book at a time. Creating personal abundance for readers and customers. Health Communications, Inc. (HCI) is a leading publisher of self-help and inspirational books. The company began by publishing books and pamphlets geared towards counselors and therapists involved in rehabilitation fro…
222 Berkeley Street Boston, Massachusetts 02116 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading publisher of textbooks, instructional technology, assessments, and other educational materials for the elementary and secondary school and college markets. The company also publishes an extensive line of reference publications, fiction and non-fiction for adults and young readers, an…
900 Long Ridge Rd. Stamford, Connecticut 06902 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Improving Customers' Financial Performance Through Analysis. Analytic solutions from Hyperion Software enable companies to improve financial performance by maximizing the value of information. Hyperion's market-leading, Internet-enabled applications support and enhance enterprise-wide financial processes including plannin…
5450 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, California 95054 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Hyperion Solutions Corporation is the global leader in Business Perfo rmance Management software. With Hyperion you can collect, organize a nd analyze data--then distribute it throughout your enterprise using a rich, unified workspace that makes business performance management easier and more powerful than ever …
70 Valley Stream Parkway Malvern, Pennsylvania 19355 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At IKON, we believe delivering value to our shareholders is best accomplished by delivering value to our customers. Now more than ever, customers are searching for ways to gain efficiency and are looking at technology and document processes to streamline work flow and deliver improved productivity. Through the produ…
Independent House 2023 Bianconi Avenue Citywest Business Campus Naas Road Dublin 24 Ireland Company Perspectives: "We rise at dawn in Auckland with the New Zealand Herald and continue the day through Australia and the Queensland Times and our 14 other regional titles, our four million radio listeners at nine stations in Australia, through to the Cape Times and South Africa's largest paper, the St…
Two Penn Plaza New York, New York 10001 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Information Builders develops and markets software and professional services for the creation of high-performance business information systems at large, data-intensive organizations. These products and services form an integrated yet open technology framework for Enterprise Data Access, Enterprise Decision Support Systems, Data …
2777 Summer Street, Suite 209 Stamford, Connecticut 06905 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Information Holdings Inc. is a leading provider of information products and services to scientific, technical, medical, intellectual property, and IT learning markets. Through its Intellectual Property Group, which includes MicroPatent, Master Data Center, Liquent, IDRAC, and LPS Group, IHI provides a broad arr…
4100 Bohannon Dr. Menlo Park, California 94025 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Informix is leading the next great wave in database innovation to enable the world's leading corporations to manage and grow their businesses. With its focused technology strategy, superior customer service, and best-of-breed partnerships, Informix is the demonstrated technology leader for corporate computing environments…
4100 East 3rd Avenue Foster City, California 94404 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Based in Foster City, California, Inktomi develops and markets network infrastructure software essential for global enterprises and service providers. Inktomi's business is divided into Network Products, comprised of industry leading solutions for network caching, content distribution, media broadcasting, and wireless…
One Exeter Plaza, 15th Fl. Boston, Massachusetts 02116 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: IDG's diverse product and services portfolio spans six key areas including: print publishing, online publishing, expositions and conferences, market research, education and training, and global marketing services. Over the course of some 30 years, Patrick J. McGovern has built International Data Group, Inc. (IDG) …
2632 Marine Way Mountain View, California 94043 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: After 20 years Intuit continues to transform business and financial management for small businesses, accounting professionals and consumers. Intuit Inc.'s TurboTax software is the number one selling tax software program in the United States. One in four tax returns completed are prepared using an Intuit tax product. Hold…
The IONA Building Shelbourne Road Ballsbridge Dublin 4 Ireland Company Perspectives: Enterprise portal technology is all about aggregating existing applications and web-enabling businesses, and IONA helps companies do just that. IONA provides industry-leading organizations around the world with complete enterprise portal solutions through the IONA iPortal suite, a comprehensive family of products…
Kings Reach Tower, Stamford Street London SE1 9LS United Kingdom A division of Reed Elsevier, the world's second largest publisher (created in 1993 when Reed International merged with the Dutch company Elsevior), IPC Magazines Limited is the largest consumer magazine publisher in Europe. It has more than 50 magazines in circulation, with its market leaders in the notoriously competitive women's m…
8055 E. Tufts Avenue, Suite 1331 Denver, Colorado 80237 U.S.A. J.D. Edwards & Company is a leading global designer of software for midrange computers. Its software is used by those involved with distribution, manufacturing, finances, human resources management, construction, public services, and other industries. In 1995 J.D. Edwards was supporting branch offices in Europe and Asia and shipping i…
235-243 Jones Street Broadway, New South Wales 2007 Australia John Fairfax Holdings Limited is the holding company for an Australian publishing enterprise established more than 150 years ago. Family owned and operated until the 1990s, Fairfax is the oldest publishing group in Australia, and one of its largest. Its operations are centered around three publications--the Sydney Morning Herald, the A…
111 River Street Hoboken, New Jersey 07030-5774 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Wiley's goal is to anticipate and serve our customer's professional and personal needs for knowledge and understanding while generating financial results that yield attractive returns for all members of the Wiley partnership: employees, authors, and shareholders. Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is a leading publ…
1820 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60605 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Through its brands, which include EBONY and JET magazines, Fashion Fair Cosmetics, EBONY Fashion Fair and JPC Book Division, Johnson Publishing Company has always aimed at increasing African-Americans' pride in themselves by presenting their past and present achievements to America and to the world. This has been done…
53 Manor Place Edinburgh EH3 7EG United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Johnston Press Plc is a major publisher of quality local newspapers, basing its publishing philosophy on local service to local communities. Johnston newspapers are local quality newspapers produced by local teams of people who have a dedicated commitment to producing local newspapers that both inform and reflect the important …
50 West State Street Trenton, New Jersey 08608-1298 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The majority of the company's daily newspapers have been published for more than 100 years and are established franchises with strong identities in the communities they serve. The Journal Register Company (JRC) owns and operates 24 daily newspapers and 185 nondaily publications in seven geographic areas: Connecticut,…
181 Constitution Drive Menlo Park, California 94025 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Founded in 1996, KANA provides the industry's leading external facing eCRM [e-commerce customer relationship management] solutions to the largest businesses in the world, helping them to better service, market to, and understand their customers and partners, while improving results and decreasing costs in contact cen…
50 W. San Fernando Street, Suite 1500 San Jose, California 95113 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Knight Ridder is the nation's second largest newspaper publisher, with products in print and online. The company publishes 31 daily newspapers in 28 U.S. markets, with a readership of 8.7 million daily and 12.6 million Sunday. Knight Ridder also has investments in a variety of Internet and technology com…
Sterling Software, Inc. Suite 1200 300 Crescent Court Dallas, Texas 75201 U.S.A. Acquired and absorbed by Sterling Software, Inc. in 1994, KnowledgeWare Inc. built its reputation as a leading developer of computer-aided software engineering, or CASE, tools. Much more complex than word processing programs, CASE systems are used by computer professionals for the development of applications ranging …
12-21, Otowa 2-chome Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8001 Japan Company Perspectives: Under the present leadership of Sawako Noma, Kodansha has set itself new goals in the ever changing media industry and continues to play a dominant role as a leader of Japanese book and magazine publishing. Kodansha Ltd. is the largest publishing company in Asia. The company is run by a woman, Sawako Noma, which is highly …
8484 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 900 Beverly Hills, California 90211 U.S.A. Larry Flynt Publishing Inc. (LFP) is a privately held publishing company that produces approximately 30 magazines. The company's oldest and best known publication is Hustler, an adult entertainment men's magazine with a circulation of around 750,000. Although many of LFP's other magazines are similar in nature to Hustler, t…
380 St. Peter Street St. Paul, Minnesota U.S.A. Company Perspectives: For more than a quarter of a century, Lawson has delivered leading-edge business management solutions that offer unsurpassed performance, reliability and cost-effectiveness. Lawson focuses on Fortune 2000 organizations, delivering 360 degree e-business solutions to service industries such as healthcare, retail, professional ser…
6053 West Century Boulevard P.O. Box 45028 Los Angeles, California 90045-0028 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Learning Tree International is dedicated to providing continuing education in information technology in order to accelerate the rate at which industry can absorb new technology and improve the productivity of individuals and the organization. The brisk advancements in information technology …
400 Putnam Building 215 N. Main Street Davenport, Iowa 52801-1924 U.S.A. Lee Enterprises, Incorporated is a leading newspaper publisher and operator of television broadcasting stations. Besides publishing about 20 daily newspapers and more than 30 specialty publications, Lee owned and operated eight TV stations in 1994 and manufactured graphic arts systems that it sold to other publishers. Lee's …
Locked Bag 1 Footscray, Victoria 3011 Australia Company Perspectives: Lonely Planet is passionate about bringing people together, about understanding our world, and about people sharing experiences that enrich everyone's lives. We aim to inspire people to explore, have fun, and travel often. And we strive to provide travellers everywhere with reliable, comprehensive and independent travel informa…
55 Cambridge Parkway Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 U.S.A. Lotus Development Corporation, a subsidiary of IBM, is the largest supplier of integrated messaging and groupware products in the world. Its Lotus Notes changed the world of business computing, making it possible for groups of people to share information and ideas through their personal computers at work, using local and wide area network…
5460 Bayfront Plaza Santa Clara California 95054-3600 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Magma's mission is to create and deliver the best EDA software products and solutions, encompassing IC design from concept to completion, enabling our customers' commercial success. Based in Santa Clara, California, Magma Design Automation Inc. develops software that computer chip designers use to produce complex in…
2300 Windy Ridge Parkway Atlanta, Georgia 30339 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Large or small, global or local, established or newcomer ... if you're in business today, you're under pressure to be efficient, cost-effective and competitively astute. The old days of going out to the warehouse, picking products off the shelves and shipping customers a month's worth of inventory are gone. Today, advanc…
11 West 42nd Street New York, New York 10036 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. (MSLO) is the leading integrated content company devoted to enriching the changing lives of today's women and their families. Our community of how-to experts is committed to teaching, innovating, designing, and inspiring with ideas and products that make every day more meaningful, more …
20 West 43rd Street 25th Floor New York, New York 10036-7400 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: With her simple, elegant style and practical, hands-on approach, Martha Stewart has become America's leading lifestyle authority. Her artistic eye and enormous creativity, as seen in her magazine and Emmy-award winning television series, Martha Stewart Living, her numerous books, her syndicated newspaper col…
387 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10016 U.S.A. The Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc., is the largest American publisher of comic books. The company got its start during the Depression and grew rapidly during the 1930s and 1940s when comic books were in their heyday. Its industry suffered a setback in the 1950s, but grew stronger in the 1960s as a new crop of popular characters appealed to t…
33 Holborn London EC1N 2HB United Kingdom Maxwell Communication Corporation plc (MCC) was formerly one of the world's ten largest media groups, with interests in information services and electronic publishing, school and college publishing, language instruction, and reference book and professional publishing. An aggressive, controversial player in the international business world throughout its h…
333 E. Franklin Street Richmond, Virginia 23219 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission is to be a leading provider of high-quality news, information and entertainment services in the Southeast by continually building our position of strength in strategically located markets. Media General, Inc. is a diversified media company with interests in daily and weekly newspapers, broadcast television, a…
8005 S. W. Boeckman Rd. Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777 U.S.A. Mentor Graphics Corporation is among the world leaders in electronic design automation (EDA), the use of computer software to design and analyze electronic components and systems. Mentor Graphics designs, manufactures, and markets software used in a number of industries, including aerospace, consumer electronics, computer, semiconducto…
1325 Borregas Avenue, Building A Sunnyvale, California 94089 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We help companies create long-term value through optimizing technology and business performance. Mercury Interactive Corporation helps corporate customers optimize the performance of their software applications. The company's software testing products detect flaws in software systems, enabling a customer to …
1716 Locust Street Des Moines, Iowa 50309-3023 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We are Meredith Corporation, a publicly held media company founded upon service to our customers. Our cornerstone is knowledge and understanding of the home and family market. From that, we have built businesses that serve well-defined readers and viewers, deliver the messages of our advertisers, and extend our franchises…
47 Federal Street Springfield, Massachusetts 01102 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The company's mission is to be the world's leading provider of information about the English language. Merriam-Webster Inc. is among the world's leading publishers of dictionaries. With its flagship products, Webster's Third International Dictionary and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster boasts a…
1 Microsoft Way Redmond, Washington 98052-6399 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: To enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential. With annual revenues of more than $32 billion, Microsoft Corporation is more than the largest software company in the world: it is a cultural phenomenon. The company's core business is based on developing, manufacturing, and licensing so…
11100 Santa Monica, Suite 600 Los Angeles, California 90025-3384 U.S.A. Miller Publishing Group, LLC owns Tennis magazine and nearly four dozen city-specific monthly travel guides published under the Where banner. The firm also has a stake in Vibe and Spin magazines along with several partners, including investment company Freeman Spogli & Co. and music legend Quincy Jones, who founded Vibe along…
One Canada Square Canary Wharf London E14 5AP United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Mirror Group is transforming itself into a broadly based media company using innovative techniques to maximise efficiency. As well as increasing the profitability of its core brands in a crowded and competitive newspaper environment, it has expanded the product base intelligently into television, regional newspaper…
Burleigh House Chapel Oak Salford Priors Evesham WR11 8SP United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Our philosophy is to enhance shareholder value, measured by the growth and stability of long-term cash flows and achieved through: committed and experienced management; proven financial controls; substantial ongoing investment in product development; selective investment in well-positioned businesses. O…
Burleigh House Chapel Oak Salford Priors Evesham WR11 8SP United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Today, Misys is one of the world's largest independent applications software products groups and the UK's biggest. Its main activities include selling software solutions to banks, transaction processing and claims administration for physicians in the U.S., systems for insurance brokers in the U.K., and …
1145 17th Street NW Washington D.C. 20036-4688 U.S.A. Company Perspectives After more than a century the National Geographic Society today is propelled by new concerns: the alarming lack of geographic knowledge among our nation's young people and the pressing need to protect the planet's natural resources. As our mission grows in urgency and scope, the Society continues to develop new and excitin…
1501 M Street, NW Suite 300 Washington, D.C. 20005 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: National Journal Group Inc. is committed to providing publications and services that are nonpartisan, reliable and of the highest quality. National Journal Group Inc. (NJ), based in Washington, D.C., is a nonpartisan publisher of daily, weekly, and monthly magazines and newsletters, as well as books and directories, d…
4700 S. 19th Street Lincoln, Nebraska 68501-0529 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We are not comfortable just being the leader. With its headquarters in Lincoln, Nebraska, Nebraska Book Company, Inc. is involved in the college bookstore industry. Its college bookstore division operates more than 110 on-campus and off-campus bookstores, where in addition to books, other merchandise, such as apparel be…
501 East Middlefield Road Mountain View, California 94043 U.S.A. Netscape Communications Corporation, based in Mountain View, California, is one of the leading providers of open software designed for use on the Internet and intranets. Netscape offers a line of client and server software, development tools, and commercial applications to create a complete platform for live online applications. Sin…
2805 Bowers Avenue Santa Clara, California 95051-0963 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The vision of Network Associates is to deliver the industry's most comprehensive family of network security and management solutions. Network Associates has the ability to address the needs of the largest enterprises while leveraging investments for the development of future products. This new force in the software…
450 West 33rd Street, 3rd Floor New York, New York 10001 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: As the first hometown owners of the Daily News, Zuckerman and Drasner have demonstrated a strong and continuous commitment to the newspaper as well as the city and its people. A year into their ownership, the Daily News was operating in the black. And today, it is the largest-selling newspaper in the New York me…
1211 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10036 U.S.A. News America Publishing Inc. was established in 1973 as the American arm of The News Corp. Ltd., Rupert Murdoch's multinational network of newspapers. At one time Murdoch's News America Publishing holdings included tabloid newspapers in New York, Chicago, and Boston, a weekly national tabloid newspaper, and a stable of magazines and othe…
2 Holt Street Sydney, New South Wales 2010 Australia Company Perspectives: We strive to produce and distribute the most compelling content to the farthest reaches of the globe. News Corporation Limited is the holding company for the large range of enterprises created or acquired since the 1950s by the Australian-American businessman Rupert Murdoch. It operates as one of the five largest media con…
Newspaper House 34-44 London Road Morden Surrey SM4 5BR United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Newsquest's objective is to hold market leading local information franchises which deliver valuable, trusted products satisfying the needs of their audience. The business is market led and technology driven, focused on generating sustained superior profit growth. In less than five years, Newsquest plc has…
2701 San Tomas Expressway Santa Clara, California 95050 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: NVIDIA Corporation is the worldwide leader in graphics processors and media and communications devices. The unmatched breadth of NVIDIA's product line enriches 3D, 2D, video, audio, communications, broadband connectivity, and high-definition digital video and television for every audience and platform including d…
3180 139th Avenue Southeast, Suite 500 Bellevue, Washington 98005-4091 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Onyx Software Corp. is a global supplier of customer relationship management (CRM) enterprise applications that power a company's entire business world, connecting sales, marketing and service organizations with customers, prospects and partners. Through an innovative mix of Internet technology, st…
275 Frank Tompa Drive Waterloo Ontario N2L 0A1 Canada Company Perspectives Open Text is the market leader in providing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that bring together people, processes and information. Our software seamlessly combines collaboration with content management, transforming information into knowledge that provides the foundation for innovation, compliance and acceler…
599 N. Mathilda Avenue Sunnyvale, California 94085 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Opsware, Inc., formerly Loudcloud, is the leading provider of IT Automation Software, offering a complete solution for enterprises, government agencies and service providers looking to reduce costs and increase IT efficiencies. For approximately two and one-half years, from early 2000 through mid-2002, Opsware Inc., f…
500 Oracle Parkway Redwood Shores, California 94065 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: For nearly 30 years, Oracle has been building and refining a technology platform that delivers the highest-quality information while reducing your cost of doing business. Because if your information systems can create and manage high-quality data, your employees can improve their efficiency, make better decisions, an…
155 East Algonquin Road Arlington Heights, Illinois 60005 United States Company Perspectives: Our Aim: To fear God, tell the truth, and make money. Based in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Paddock Publications, Inc. is a family-owned newspaper publisher. Its flagship publication, The Daily Herald, is the third largest newspaper in Illinois, with a circulation of nearly 150,000. Eschewing…
590 Commerce Boulevard Carlstadt, New Jersey 07072-3013 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Pantone, Inc. is the world-renowned authority on color and provider of color systems and leading technology for the selection and accurate communication of color. The PANTONE Name is known worldwide as the standard language for color communication from designer to manufacturer to retailer to customer. With 40 yea…
128 Technology Drive Waltham, Massachusetts U.S.A. Less than ten years after introducing its first products, Parametric Technology Corp. had established itself as a leader in the computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), and computer-aided engineering software markets. Incorporated in 1985, Parametric Technology Corp. developed and started selling software that engineers us…
Herengracht 466 1017 CA Amsterdam The Netherlands Company Perspectives: PCM Uitgevers has as its goal to take a part in maintaining the diversity of opinion in the press in a parliamentary-democratic state and to take part in maintaining the offer of a broad assortment of books. In the recent past, this direction has led to the following strategy: PCM Uitgevers wants to be a leading publishing gr…
Millbank Tower, Millbank London SW1P 4QZ United Kingdom Pearson plc is a leading British-owned industrial holding company with interests including publishing, financial services, fine china, and oil services, and is closely associated with its founding family, the Pearsons. In its early years the business was dominated by Weetman Dickinson Pearson, later First Viscount Cowdray, who transformed it…
80 Strand London WC2R 0RL United Kingdom Company Perspectives: We have a simple strategy that we all understand and believe in--we will steadily increase value for Pearson's shareholders. We want to make outstanding returns for our shareholders by creating, owning, applying, and exploiting intellectual property and we want to do this in a way that is brave, imaginative, and decent. Since the mid-…
Campbell Centre I 8350 North Central Expressway Suite 1900 Dallas, Texas 75206 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The company's mission is to maximize revenue and profitability for ho tels and travel distributors worldwide by providing the most comprehe nsive and innovative services and technologies in the industry. Pegasus Solutions, Inc. serves the worldwide hotel and travel industr y with a medley o…
1100 Superior Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114-2543 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Penton Media, Inc. is a diversified business media company. We're a publisher of authoritative trade magazines, producer of important trade show/conference events, provider of electronic media and communication tools, a source for reliable direct mail lists and research services, and creators of custom publications. All …
4660 Hacienda Drive Pleasanton, California 94588-8618 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Increasingly we have found that our customers don't choose a software product. They choose a software company. Our customers select PeopleSoft because they like us and because they trust us. Along with product quality and service excellence, we have always put a premium on integrity--it's part of who we are and how…
6420 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90048 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our strategy is to establish the world's leading special-interest publisher and brand equity company. A rising force in the publishing industry, Petersen Publishing Company publishes a host of monthly, bimonthly, quarterly, and annual magazines that each focus on special-interest subjects. In a half-century of busi…
1 Massachusetts Avenue N.W., Suite 610 Washington D.C. 20001 U.S.A. Company Perspectives At Phillips International, Inc., our team takes pride in helping our customers improve their lives through innovative products, services and unique solutions we provide. We constantly strive to be the number one provider of information and advice in the consumer investment marketplace by enabling our customer…
1815 S. Meyers Road Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois 60181 U.S.A. PLATINUM Technology, Inc., is one of America's fastest growing software development companies. Based in a Chicago suburb, PLATINUM writes and sells an extensive line of software tools and utilities that ease the use of International Business Machine Corporation's DB2 mainframe relational database management system. As growth in the mainf…
10801 Nesbitt Avenue South Bloomington, Minnesota 55437 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: PLATO Learning builds technology-based learning environments that give: Teachers the capacity to personalize instruction for every learner on demand, anytime, anywhere; Communities the confidence their students are fully engaged in real learning, with accountability, measurable performance, and real results; and …
680 N. Lake Shore Drive Chicago, Illinois 60611 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Playboy magazine and the Company's powerful brand have been fixtures in popular culture for more than four decades. As we approach the millenium, emerging communications technologies such as DTH, the Internet and digital compression will provide us with even more exciting new opportunities for growth, both domestically a…
One PMS Center Blythewood, South Carolina 29016 U.S.A. Policy Management Systems Corporation (PMSC) provides computer software and information services that help property/casualty and life insurance companies manage their policies. The company's more than 90 software systems provide for the automation of many basic insurance processing functions such as underwriting, claims accounting, financial …
102000 S. De Anza Boulevard Cupertino, California 95014 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Portal Software develops customer management and billing software for communications and content service providers. Portal's real-time, convergent platform enables its customers to rapidly define, deploy, and bill for services with flexible business models. Portal's software is licensed by a majority of the world…
745 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10151 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Primedia is an information company in an information age. As people are increasingly overwhelmed by a barrage of information, Primedia has recognized the value of being the primary source of pertinent information. Primedia's specialty media, education and information properties all share a distinction that reflects the Primedi…
14 Oak Park Bedford, Massachusetts 01730 U.S.A. Progress Software Corporation is a global supplier of application-development and database software products and services for information-service organizations in business, industry, and government. The company's Enterprise Division markets the company's PROGRESS product line which includes a software application development environment (ADE) that c…
2nd Fl., 54 Park St. Sydney 1028 Australia Company Perspectives: Our Strategy: The continuing enhancement of our ability to inform, entertain and service a wide range of consumers through our core television, magazine, gaming and emerging technology businesses. We will reach additional audiences by re-investing our strong cashflows in the latest concepts and formats, the best creative talents and…
18191 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 450 Irvine California 92612 U.S.A. Company Perspectives The Company is committed to providing the highest levels of customer service and attaining equally high marks for client satisfaction and retention. QSI aspires to maintain a stimulating and challenging work environment for our associates and conducts its business affairs according to the very highest levels of…
1800 Grant Street Denver, Colorado 80203 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At Quark, our mission is to develop world-class software that keeps you on the leading edge. The Internet has changed everything about the way you do business. Companies that adapt will thrive. Those that rely on outdated tools will be left behind. To be successful in an increasingly competitive global business environment, you…
612 Rue St. Jacques Montréal, Quebec H3C 4M8 Canada Company Perspectives: Quebecor, a communications leader since 1950, offers clients a complete range of communications products and services, from commercial printing--where we rank first in the world--to cable TV and Internet access, not to mention newspaper, magazine and book publishing, television broadcasting, Internet portals, Web integrati…
8255 N. Central Park Skokie, Illinois 60076-2970 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Rand McNally is the premier global provider of geographic information and services--in both print and electronic media--for travel, reference, education, and entertainment. Rand McNally & Company, a leading U.S. publisher of travel books and electronic media for the travel industry, is perhaps best known for its maps an…
201 East 50th Street New York, New York 10022 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Random House Inc., founded in 1925, is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher. It includes an array of prestigious imprints that publish some of the foremost writers of our time--in hardcover, trade paperback, mass market paperback, audio, multimedia, and other formats. Random House Inc. was alre…
2400 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60616 United States Company Perspectives: Real Times is dedicated to ending illiteracy, reducing crime and encouraging self-empowerment by re-establishing values in the family structure. Real Times Inc. is the owner and publisher of the Chicago Defender, the most respected and history-laden of all publications written for the African American populatio…
2600 Meridian Parkway Durham, North Carolina 27713 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Red Hat is the leader in development, deployment, and management of Linux and open source solutions for Internet infrastructure--ranging from embedded devices to secure Web servers. Red Hat was founded in 1994 by visionary entrepreneurs Bob Young and Marc Ewing. Open source is the foundation of our business model. It …
25 Victoria Street London SW1H0EX United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Our priority will be to develop our products in tune with our customers' needs, and our success will be based upon quality products and information services at appropriate prices. In each of these businesses, we must strike the right balance between building our services in electronic media and optimising the performance of ou…
2350 Bayshore Parkway Mountain View, California 94043 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Remedy, a BMC Software company, delivers Service Management software solutions that enable organizations to automate and manage internal and external service and support processes. With more than 7,000 customers worldwide and over ten years of product development and investment, Remedy delivers out-of-the-box, best…
36 Crosby Drive Bedford, Massachusetts 01730 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: RSA Security, the most trusted name in e-security, helps organizations build secure, trusted foundations for e-business through its RSA SecurID two-factor authentication, RSA BSAFE encryption, and RSA Keon digital certificate management systems. With approximately one billion RSA BSAFE-enabled applications in use worldwide,…
800 Safeguard Building Wayne, Pennsylvania 19087 U.S.A. Safeguard Scientifics, Inc., is one of the few publicly traded venture capital firms in the United States. Like most venture capital firms, Safeguard offers financial backing to fledgling businesses. The company is regarded as unique, however, for its policy of entering into partnerships with its acquisitions and providing extensive support …
Neurottstrasse 16 69190 Walldorf Germany Company Perspectives: Whether opening up new markets or servicing existing ones, SAP is committed to its tested strategy: concentrating on its core business—developing and selling standard enterprise applications software—and partnering with hardware vendors, software suppliers, technology providers, value-added resellers, and consulting firms. SAP AG …
SAS Campus Drive Cary North Carolina 27513 U.S.A. Company Perspectives SAS is the world's leader in business analytics software, delivering the breakthrough technology you need to transform the way you do business. Our software provides one integrated process for analyzing data from every source and gaining the predictive power to drive change at every level. As the world's largest privately held…
Postboks 1178 Sentrum 0107 Oslo Norway Company Perspectives: Schibsted will achieve future growth and value creation as a focused Norwegian and international media company. Schibsted's ambition is to become Scandinavia's leading media company through being the preferred supplier of content to readers, viewers, and advertisers, irrespective of their choice of media. After operating for more than 1…
via Saffi 18 10138 Turin Italy Company Perspectives: Mission: Seat is a multi-platform media company providing the audience with information and services and supplying businesses with visibility and communication tools. Seat Pagine Gialle S.p.A. bills itself as Italy's leading "new economy" company--Seat controls Tin.it, the country's leading Internet Service Provider, as well as Virgilio, the le…
1-2-12 Haneda, Ohta-ku Tokyo 144-8531 Japan SEGA Corporation is a developer of software and games for personal computers, wireless devices, and video-game consoles. SEGA, which once ranked as one of the largest manufacturers of consoles, exited the market in 2001 and began making games for platforms marketed by Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo. The company merged with Sammy Corporation in 2004, beco…
101 Rowland Way Novato California 94945 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Sonic Solutions' mission is to power digital media creation, management and consumption with a broad range of interoperable, platform independent, PC and CE software tools and applications for creative professionals, consumers and OEMs. Unlike other companies in the digital media space, Sonic's products and services are used acro…
150 Bloor Street West Suite 900 Toronto, Ontario M5S 2Y8 Canada Southam Inc. is a Canadian communications conglomerate whose primary business is newspaper publishing. Southam publishes 17 daily newspapers, including the Montreal Gazette and the Windsor Star, and 56 community newspapers. Southam also operates trade shows, produces business-to-business magazines and information services, and sells …
233 South Wacker Drive, 11th Floor Chicago, Illinois 60606-6307 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Two themes have dominated the evolution of SPSS Inc. as a company: SPSS technology has made difficult analytical tasks easier through advances in usability and data access, enabling more people to benefit from the use of quantitative techniques in making decisions; and the company's domain expertise has c…
4300 Fair Lakes Court Fairfax Virginia 22033 U.S.A. Company Perspectives SRA aspires to be one of the best companies in the world, by any measure--a company that creates real value for its customers by providing high quality information technology services and solutions; employs the best people, nurtures them, and enables them to succeed; and steadfastly commits itself to an ethic of honesty and …
8080 N. Central Expy. Suite 1100 Dallas, TX 75206 U.S.A. Sterling Software, Inc., is a computer software company that is in the forefront of developing products for electronic data interchange, otherwise known as EDI. EDI's use of universal standards allows documents to be transmitted computer-to-computer from one business to another even though the businesses may use different software and hardw…
20330 Stevens Creek Boulevard Cupertino California 95014-2132 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Symantec's commitment to corporate responsibility stems from our dedication to earning the trust of our stakeholders. Integrity matters in everything we do, and that includes the policies and practices that guide how we operate in the global marketplace. Symantec Corporation is one of the largest software co…
500 West Madison Chicago, Illinois 60661 U.S.A. System Software Associates, Inc. (SSA) is one of the world's leading providers of software for industrial businesses. It is the single largest supplier of software for the AS/400 line of minicomputers manufactured by IBM. The flexibility of SSA's software products allows them to be reconfigured to meet specific customer and business demands in any i…
Werdstrasse 21 8021 Zurich Switzerland Company Perspectives: Guiding Principles of Our Company: 1. The Tamedia Group wants to assume a leading position as an independent Swiss media company and contribute to independent formation of opinions. 2. The focal point of our operations is in the publishing sector. We consider the quality of products and services and the economic vigor of our company to …
11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P 4EE United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Taylor & Francis has always been fully committed to the publication of scholarly material of the highest quality, and today this continues through the provision of authoritative information in whatever format or medium is required by its customers. The Taylor & Francis Group plc is a fast-growing and leading publisher of scho…
1550 W. Mockingbird Lane Dallas, Texas 75235 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Taylor Publishing, a 60-year-old company, has strong brand recognition and loyalty and a solid reputation for high-quality products. The company is generally regarded as the technological leader in the industry. In addition, Taylor believes that significant growth can be obtained in the markets it now serves and new, untapp…
670 N. Rosemead Boulevard Pasadena, California 91107 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Tetra Tech provides services to protect and improve the quality of life through responsible resource management, sound infrastructure, and rapid communications ability. The company continuously adapts its services to provide for society's changing needs and to meet customer expectations. The three business areas in …
888 Dayton Street, P.O. Box 28 Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: From a two-person operation utilizing a borrowed press, The Antioch Company has grown into a substantial business with 450 employee-owners and multiple units in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Mexico. Through seven decades of growth the company has kept alive the community-oriented spirit and human-centered val…
1 Norway Street Boston, Massachusetts 02115-3195 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: In an age of corporate conglomerates dominating news media, the Monitor combination of church ownership, a public-service mission, and commitment to covering the world (not to mention the fact that it was founded by a woman shortly after the turn of the century, when US women didn't yet have the vote!) gives the paper a…
901 Mission Street San Francisco, California 94103 U.S.A. Publisher of The San Francisco Chronicle, The Chronicle Publishing Company, Inc. is a family-owned business with holdings in television broadcasting, book publishing, and newspaper publishing. In addition to The Chronicle, Chronicle Publishing owns the Massachusetts-based Worcester Telegram and Gazette and the Bloomington, Illinois, Pantag…
350 Madison Avenue New York, New York 10017 U.S.A The Condé Nast Publications Inc. (CNP) is one of the world's foremost publishers of specialized magazines, spanning topics as diverse as high fashion, home decoration, travel, sports, literature, social life and commentary, gourmet cuisine, architecture, and popular culture. Building on the success of his flagship Vogue magazine, which he bought …
7776 Ivanhoe Avenue La Jolla, California 92037 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The Copley Creed: The newspaper is a bulwark against regimented thinking. One of its duties is to enhance the integrity of the individual, which is the core of American greatness. Each city in which we publish is a city of dis-tinctive personality. Each newspaper must be a distinctive newspaper reflecting the life of each…
103 JFK Parkway Short Hills, New Jersey 07078 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: D&B has undergone a period of restructuring in recent years, designed to make D&B a smaller, more tightly focused company. A.C. Nielsen, Cognizant, R.H. Donnelley and Moody's Corporation were all spun off to allow each company to pursue focused strategies for its specific business. And in October 2000, D&B launched an ambi…
25 St. James's Street London SW1A 1HG United Kingdom Company Perspectives: The Economist Group is the leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs. We deliver our information through a range of formats, from newspapers and magazines to conferences and electronic services. What ties us together is the objectivity of our opinion, the originality of our insight--and our adv…
301 South LaSalle Street Indianapolis, Indiana 46201 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: While the George F. Cram Company is over 130 years old, we are still committed to develop a new and innovative product line while maintaining and surpassing quality standards. Indianapolis-based The George F. Cram Company, Inc. is one of the nation's leading publishers and manufacturers of maps, atlases, globes, and…
959 Eighth Avenue New York, New York 10019 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Each day, more than 18,000 people are at work at Hearst, helping to inform, educate, entertain, and inspire millions of readers, viewers, and listeners in virtually every area of communications. Although the company has expanded dramatically in recent years, the principal on which it was founded remains the same--a commitment…
1 Athenaeum Pl. Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 U.S.A. The Learning Company Inc. develops, publishes, and markets a family of premium software brands that educate across every age and area of interest, from young children to adults. The Learning Company's products are sold in more than 23,000 stores across 40 countries through multiple distribution channels including retail, school, online, and di…
1221 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10020-1095 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission worldwide is to enhance the professional and personal development of our customers and help them to reach their potential. …
123 North Pitt Street Alexandria, Virginia U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The Motley Fool is here to Educate, Amuse, and Enrich you. The Motley Fool, Inc. offers personal financial advice and investing strategies to readers through a variety of media. The company maintains a presence online through America Online and through its own web site, www.fool.com, which attracts more than two million visit…
229 West 43rd Street New York, New York 10036 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The core purpose of The New York Times Company is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high quality news, information and entertainment. The New York Times Company (NYTC) is a diversified media company including newspapers, magazines, television and radio stations, electronic information services, an…
75 Fountain Street Providence, Rhode Island 02902 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The Providence Journal Company's roots in publishing are firmly planted in the Providence Journal-Bulletin--America's oldest major daily newspaper of general circulation in continuous publication. The paper that was to become the Providence Journal-Bulletin was born as the Manufacturers' & Farmers' Journal, Providence …
Reader's Digest Road Pleasantville, New York 10570 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. is a global publisher and direct marketer of products that inform, enrich, entertain and inspire people of all ages and all cultures around the world. The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. is a worldwide publisher and distributor of magazines, books, recorded music, and home video…
Sage House Benton Park Road Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE7 7LZ United Kingdom Company Perspectives: At Sage, we see our business as helping small and medium-sized businesses to automate their business processes and transactions. Our origins are in accounting and payroll software, but today we offer a broad range of integrated business applications, including e-business solutions, CRM (customer relations…
400 Encinal Street Santa Cruz, California 95060 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission is to create, market, and support the server software that system builders choose for networked business computing. SCO believes that server-based network computing, which is based on Internet and web technologies, enables businesses to dramatically improve their customer information flow and business transac…
355 South 520 West, Suite 100 Lindon Utah 84042-1911 U.S.A. Company Perspectives As the owner of the UNIX operating system, The SCO Group (SCO) has established itself as a leading provider of innovative UNIX solutions. Millions of customers in more than 82 countries depend on SCO for the Power of UNIX. Based in Lindon, Utah, The SCO Group Inc. owns the UNIX operating system. Operating systems are…
215 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10003 U.S.A. The Source Enterprises, Inc. publishes The Source magazine, which covers hip-hop music and culture and is one of the largest-selling music monthlies on newsstands. The company also sponsors an annual hip-hop music awards ceremony and a syndicated radio show, and lends its name to a clothing line and compilations of hit songs and videos, among …
Toronto Dominion Bank Tower, Suite 2706 Wellington Street West Toronto M5K 1A1 Canada Company Perspectives The Thomson Corporation is a leading global provider of integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides value-added information, with software tools and applications that help its customers make better decisions, faster. We serve more than 20 million…
1427 E. 60th Street Chicago Illinois 60637 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Since its founding in 1891 as one of the three original divisions of the University of Chicago, the Press has embraced as its mission the obligation to disseminate scholarship of the highest standard and to publish serious works that promote education, foster public understanding, and enrich cultural life. The University of Ch…
1150 15th Street, Northwest Washington, D.C. 20071 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The Washington Post Company has established six goals: 1) quality&mdashø produce the best newspapers, magazines, television programs and other products we can; 2) to run an outstanding business, measured by the increase in intrinsic shareholder value over time; 3) to be not just a good, but an exceptional, place for …
97 South Mall Cork Ireland Company Perspectives Characterised by innovation, creativity and exceptional service levels, TCH offers advertisers unique communication solutions across our growing portfolio of media brands. Recognising the dynamic nature of the media landscape we are absolutely committed to developing our own brands as well as those brands which we serve. While recognising fully that…
501 Nelson Place Nashville Tennessee 37214-1000 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We are a diverse team of editors, marketers, sales associates, accountants, designers, and countless other employees, working together to improve the lives of customers. We're developing new media and methods to serve the Christian community in all its diversity. Fulfilling with passion a mission 'to honor God and serve …
5 Penn Plaza New York, New York 10001 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: For 100 years, Thomas Publishing Company has concentrated its full energies on filling one of industry's greatest needs ... the need for up-to-date product information. No other publisher is as totally dedicated to this mission. Celebrating its centennial in 1998, Thomas Publishing Company is a niche reference book publisher dedic…
3303 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto California 94304 U.S.A. Company Perspectives TIBCO is focused on leveraging and extending the capabilities of its software to help companies move toward predictive business: an exciting new way of doing business that lets companies anticipate customer needs, create opportunities and avoid potential problems. As the basis of the real-time movement of data across the …
9600 S.W. Nimbus Avenue Beaverton, Oregon 97008-7163 U.S.A. Timberline Software Corporation develops, markets, and supports accounting and management software for construction, estimating, property management, and architect/engineering industries. With roughly $25 million in annual sales, more than $1.7 million in annual earnings, and more than 25,000 design and construction companies as customer…
Universal House 251 Tottenham Court London W1T 7AT United Kingdom Time Out Group Ltd. is a leading London-based publisher of city guides, such as its flagship Time Out London magazine. Launched in 1968, Time Out London provides a comprehensive guide to that city's cultural events, as well as television listings, guides to shopping, and news features. The magazine's paid circulation stands at more…
75 Rockefeller Plaza New York, New York 10019 U.S.A. From its inception as the thinly capitalized passion of two young men in 1923 through its 1990 merger with Warner Communications Inc., Time Inc. has been a steady, guiding force in U.S. media. As the world's largest media concern, Time Warner's mandate is to expand its global reach and transfer more of its communications arts from print to elec…
One Yonge Street Toronto, Ontario M5E 1P9 Canada The Torstar Corporation is a diversified publisher based in Toronto, with three major business segments: newspapers, book publishing, and children's supplementary educational publishing. Its newspaper operations include publication of the Toronto Star, which has the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in Canada. It also publishes four daily …
Parnassustoren Locatellikade 1 1076 AZ Amsterdam The Netherlands Company Perspectives: Our strategy is to achieve leadership in our chosen markets. The company's strong organic growth is driven by effective business management, the introduction of new products and services and active brand promotion. Overall growth is also driven by selective acquisitions. The company has a robust and sustainable…
435 North Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60611-4066 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Mission: Build businesses that inform and entertain our customers in the ways, places and at the times they want. Tribune Company is one of the largest media companies in the United States. Its diversified businesses are arranged within two main operating units: Tribune Publishing, generator of 72 percent of overa…
One Canada Square Canary Wharf London E14 5AP United Kingdom Company Perspectives: We have delivered a robust financial performance in 2001. The current economy makes forecasting future performance very difficult but we have developed clear and ambitious plans for all parts of the Group. We have the team and the determination to deliver these plans. In doing so, we expect to create value for shar…
351 Executive Drive Carol Stream, Illinois 60188-2420 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: "Tyndale House began with a revelation from God, and it has grown and prospered as serendipities and special opportunities have poured down upon us year after year." --Dr. Kenneth Taylor, chairman While Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. has been known in the Christian publishing industry for decades with its popular L…
U.S. Bank Place 601 Second Avenue South Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402-4302 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We strive to create superior value for our shareholders by fulfilling our customer promise. We simplify our customers' lives by delivering anytime, anywhere access to a comprehensive range of financial solutions. This is the essence of the U.S. Bancorp brand. 'Simplify' means satisfying customer…
Ludgate House 245 Blackfriars Road London SE1 9UY United Kingdom Company Perspectives: United provides business information services principally to the technology, healthcare, media, automotive and financial services industries. The services are provided by our leading market research, news distribution, publishing and events organising businesses. UBM plans to extend the range of its services to…
220 East 42nd Street New York, New York 10017 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Value Line is the most trusted and prestigious name in the investment field. For more than a half-century Value Line has been synonymous with trust, reliability, objectivity, independence, and proven accurate performance and information for investors. We continue to develop and refine our investment information and analysi…
400 Knightsbridge Parkway Lincolnshire, Illinois 60069 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We believe that we must produce quality business information products that meet the needs of the industries we serve. That means getting involved in those industries, being passionate about their growth and success. It means leading those industries, guiding them to new levels of profitability. And most of all it …
350 Ellis Street Mountain View, California 94043 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Veritas Software Corporation is the leading provider of storage management software for data protection, application availability, and disaster recovery. Over 86 percent of the Fortune 500 companies rely on Veritas Software storage management solutions that offer proven interoperability across diverse applications, serv…
894 Ross Drive Sunnyvale, California 94089 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Verity provides software that enables organizations to maximize the return on their intellectual capital investment. Based in Sunnyvale, California, Verity Inc. provides intellectual capital management (ICM) software to some 11,500 private and public organizations, including the U.S. Army, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U…
36 Cooper Sq. New York, New York 10003 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our immediate goal is to maintain and even enhance the editorial quality of our newspapers. Our larger goals are to increase the pace of acquisition of alternative newspapers around the country, utilize the power of these brands in their local markets, to grow a substantial Internet presence and exploit opportunities in the radio…
Ceylonpoort 5-25 P.O. Box 4028 2027 AA Haarlem The Netherlands Company Perspectives: VNU's strategy is to expand professional information activities, expand telephone directory activities, and strengthen consumer information business, resulting in more balanced geographic and media spread, and more activities in growth areas with high margins. The Netherlands' publishing group VNU N.V. has built …
48 rue Camille Desmoulins Issy les Moulineaux F-92791 Cedex 9 France Company Perspectives: We build and develop Internet access products, services and tools and produce great portal content--all to help our customers get the most from the Internet. Wanadoo S.A. is one of Europe's top three Internet service providers (ISPs), along with rivals T-Online and Tiscali. The company, a subsid iary of Fra…
3979 Freedom Circle Santa Clara California 95054 U.S.A. Company Perspectives More than 3.5 million people use WebEx every month to communicate and collaborate online. We continue to develop technological advances without sacrificing the reliability and security that enables on-demand collaboration. Our 23,800 customers understand why we are the proven technology leader, with first-class global su…
Laan van Westenenk 4, 7336 AZ Apeldoorn Postbus 26, 7300 HB Apeldoorn The Netherlands Company Perspectives: Wegener's central role is to deliver appropriate information to clearly defined target audiences and to provide access to specified audiences in an effective and efficient manner through media and marketing services. The company's activities are aimed so as to fulfill the needs of clients i…
610 Opperman Drive Eagan, Minnesota 55123 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The mission of West Group is to continually enhance its position as the foremost provider of information to the U.S. legal market and to expand its presence by becoming the leading provider of solutions to this market. Furthermore, West Group will work to ensure that The Thomson Corporation achieves its mission of becoming the…
Broadfield Park Crawley RH11 9RT United Kingdom Company Perspectives William Reed's mission is to be the market leading provider of business media in the food and drink sectors across the UK. Providing our customers with all the quality information they need through our portfolio of magazines, events, exhibitions, directories, online media, newsletters and related activities. William Reed Core Va…
Stadhouderskade 1 P.O. Box 818 NL-1000 AV Amsterdam The Netherlands Company Perspectives: Wolters Kluwer's mission is to provide comprehensive, authoritative, and reliable print and electronic products and services that help professionals reduce costs, boost productivity, and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their work processes. Wolters Kluwer NV is one of the worldwide leaders in pu…
1555 N. Technology Way Orem, Utah 84057-2399 U.S.A. WordPerfect Corporation is the manufacturer of the world's all-time best selling, prepackaged word processing software. Along with its flagship WordPerfect word processing program, the company develops and markets software for a variety of computer operating systems. Its products serve three principal markets: business, work group, and consumer …
708 Broadway New York, New York 10003-9555 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Look at our offerings and you'll see not a company running on past successes, but one that works just as hard to launch the new idea as it does to keep the proven title selling--a company that works as hard to publish the best calendar as it does to publish the best book. Workman Publishing Company, Inc., is a leading indepen…
101 Park Avenue New York, New York 10178 U.S.A. World Color Press Inc. is the largest printer of consumer magazines in the United States and the third largest commercial printer in North America. Headquartered in New York, World Color Press operates 17 production, distribution, and sales facilities throughout the country and is recognized as a leader in various segments of the printing industry. …
460 Orlando Avenue, Suite 200 Winter Park, Florida 32789 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our Mission: World Publications aspires to be, and be recognized as, the leading force in selected lifestyle and recreational markets by: Providing participants with information, entertainment, knowledge and inspiration through appropriate interactive media. Building relationships with marketing partners by offe…
Five Giralda Farms Madison, New Jersey 07940 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our Mission: We bring to the world pharmaceutical and health care products that improve lives and deliver outstanding value to our customers and shareholders. Our Vision: Our vision is to lead the way to a healthier world. By carrying out this vision at every level of our organization, we will be recognized by our employees…
28 East 28th Street New York, New York 10016-7930 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We distinguish ourselves as the premier technology authority at work, home and play through comprehensive labs-based evaluations, trusted buying advice, recognized industry experts, and thought-provoking news, reviews, opinions and insights. Reaching more than 22 million passionate readers and event attendees, Ziff Dav…
5300 Patterson Avenue, S.E. Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: To be the leading Christian communications company meeting the needs of people with resources that glorify Jesus Christ and promote biblical principles. Zondervan is a leading international Christian communications company, producing bestselling and awardwinning Bibles, books, children's products, software, audi…
