Riverpark 800 Connecticut Ave. Norwalk Connecticut 06856 United States The Continental Group has long been a financially stable container company. Engaged in the mature and traditionally slow growth industry of canmaking, its revenues have increased every year without interruption since 1923. The company has overcome the problems endemic to canmaking (small profit margins, shrinking domestic mark…
Houghton Park Corning, New York 14831 United States Corning Incorporated, Corning Glass Works until 1989, began as a producer of specialty glass. The firm specializes in glass, glass fibers, ceramics, and laboratory services. During the 1980s Corning moved from slow-growing markets to development of products in new technologies, such as fiber optics. The company has joint ventures throughout the …
1-1, Shibaura 1-chome Minato-ku Tokyo 105 Japan Cosmo Oil Co., Ltd. imports crude oil and other petroleum products into Japan and, using its own refineries, produces gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, gas oil, heavy fuel oil, and lubricants. It markets these products under the Cosmo brand name throughout Japan, Cosmo Oil also operates a network of gasoline service stations. In the early 1990s Cosmo Oil…
169 Postfach Königsworther Platz 1 D-3000 Hanover 1 Germany Long established as the leading German tire producer, Continental Aktiengesellschaft attained international prominence through a series of major acquisitions in Europe and in the United States starting in 1979. By 1991 Continental was the fourth-largest tire producer in the world. In the second half of 1991, Continental and Pirelli, the…
Six Penn Center Plaza Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19103 United States Consolidated Rail Corporation--best known as Conrail--was formed by the U.S. government out of six bankrupt railroads serving the northeastern United States. Conrail began operations in 1976. It was returned to the private sector through a public stock offering in 1987, after establishing a record of steady profits. Between the 1…
4 Irving Place New York New York 10003 United States Consolidated Edison (Con Ed) supplies various forms of power to the greater New York City area. The company's earliest predecessors illuminated New York streets with gas in the 1820s, Thomas Edison's original electrical distribution system formed the basis of the modern Consolidated Edison in the 1880s, and the company built the world's first p…
2100 East Grand Avenue El Segundo, California 90245 U.S.A. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) is one of the largest software developers and computer systems integrators in the United States. The firm operates, designs, and installs computer-based information systems, offers consulting services, and processes medical insurance claims. CSC was formed in Los Angeles in 1959 by Fletcher Jones and Ro…
1201 Maple Street Greensboro, North Carolina 27405 U.S.A. The Cone Mills Corporation is the world's largest manufacturer of denim fabric, and the United States' largest printer of home furnishings fabrics. With a broad range of offerings, the company operates 12 plants, most of which are located in North Carolina. Started by two brothers with a background in wholesale groceries, Cone grew steadil…
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…
600 Wilson Lane P.O. Box 715 Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055 U.S.A. Continental Medical Systems, Inc. (CMS), is the country's largest provider of rehabilitative medical services. The company operates 36 rehabilitation hospitals, 120 out-patient clinics, and a wide range of contract rehabilitation and medical services in all 50 states. CMS got its start as a nursing home operator, but left this …
4201 Lexington Avenue North Arden Hills, Minnesota 55126 U.S.A. Control Data Systems, Inc., (CDSI) provides computer systems integration services to businesses and governments around the world. In addition, the company provides services and software to owners of CYBER mainframe computers, once manufactured by the company's corporate parent. CDSI is one of two companies created from the ruins of t…
200 Continental Blvd. El Segundo, California 90245 U.S.A. ComputerLand Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Merisel, Inc. is a leading retailer of computer systems and related products. The company distributes computer products from major microcomputer manufacturers to a network of approximately 750 independently owned computer outlets in the United States. The principal computer manufacturers, in…
107 Selden St. Berlin, Connecticut 06037-1616 U.S.A. Going into the mid-1990s, Connecticut Light and Power Co. (CL&P) had been the largest utility in that state since 1927. At the end of 1993, the company was providing electric service to over one million customers in 149 Connecticut cities and towns. Its generating capacity of 5.292 megawatts came from a combination of steam, internal-combustion…
277 Park Avenue New York, New York 10172 U.S.A. The second largest grain and related commodities company in the world, Continental Grain Company also represented one of the largest private companies in the world and one of the most secretive. Starting as a commodity trading business in Belgium in 1813, Continental Grain developed simultaneously with the modern industrial and agricultural age. Ind…
1 Curie Court Rockville, Maryland 20850 U.S.A. Computer Data Systems, Inc. does 90 percent of its computer service business with federal and state governments, primarily in setting up and operating data processing systems for its client agencies and selling its own prepackaged software to them. Computer Data Systems (CDSI) grew from humble beginnings in 1968 with four employees to become one of t…
1002 Sherbrooke Street West Suite 2300 Montreal, Quebec H3A 3L6 Canada Based in Montreal, Corby Distilleries Limited markets a full range of domestically produced distilled spirits and liqueurs as well as imported cognac, scotch, gin, and a variety of wines. Leading brands marketed and distributed by Corby include Lamb's, Wiser's, and Canadian Club. The company boasts a legacy of success dating b…
901 E. Street, NW Washington, D.C., 20004 U.S.A. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes government money to public television and radio stations and to organizations that create programming for them. While nearly all of its funding comes from Congress, it is not a government agency. During the 1960s, during a period of intense scrutiny and criticism of television, a report by the Car…
1359 Broadway New York, New York 10018 U.S.A. Concord Fabrics, Inc. designs and produces knit fabrics and designs woven fabrics from both natural and synthetic fibers, in a wide variety of colors and patterns. Most of its output is sold to manufacturers, chiefly of women's apparel. The company also sells its products to chain, department, and fabric stores for retail sale to customers who sew at …
600 North Dairy Ashford Road Houston, Texas 77079 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our role is to find and develop oil and natural gas, to manufacture a wide range of petroleum products, and to transport and market them through a variety of channels. We do this in a superior way, and by doing so serve our customers very well. We benefit from being an integral part of Du Pont and strive in everything …
Broad and Chestnut Streets P.O. Box 7618 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19101-7618 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Stated below are our CoreValues.... We value people. We will treat all people with respect and courtesy and create an environment that supports the attainment of their personal and professional aspirations. We value performance. Exceptional contributions by individuals and by teams are crit…
1333 West Loop South, Suite 1700 Houston, Texas 77027 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our strategy is to aggressively and profitably expand and defend our position as an established market leader in our served markets through product leadership, focused attention, aggressive marketing, responsive service, and teamwork. Cooper Cameron Corporation operates as a leading manufacturer of oil and gas indu…
1600 Smith Street Houston, Texas 77002 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our goals are simple--they are our customers' goals. We continue to deliver a high-quality product each and every day, getting our customers where they want to go, on-time and with their bags, while providing pre-flight and inflight service that is globally recognized for consistency and excellence. Continental Airlines, Inc. is …
One Fordham Road North Reading, Massachusetts 01864-2619 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The Company's marketing strategy is centered on the Converse All Star brand, which is positioned as the American performance brand with authentic sports heritage. The company believes that there are significant opportunities to build the brand, which commands high consumer awareness generated by reason of its 91…
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 …
6560 Rock Spring Drive Bethesda, Maryland 20817 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Comsat has refocused on its core strengths in international satellite communications services and network services and technology. Our goal is to increase profit, reduce debt and return significant value to the shareholders. We are building our future with a solid base of assets, strong cash flows from our satellite serv…
1800 Continental Boulevard Charlotte, North Carolina 28273-6311 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: I envision Continental General Tire entering the next century as the industry leader in providing unprecedented levels of service to customers along with a knowledge-based partnership designed to help the customer's business and our business grow together in profitability.--Bernd Frangenberg, President an…
Lima & Western Avenues Findlay, Ohio 45839-0550 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Cooper's greatest strength is its wide customer and market base. In tires, we maintain a healthy balance between house brands, which we market to a loyal 1,300 member independent dealer network, and private label customers such as Sears Roebuck and Co., Pep Boys and Winston Tires. In engineered rubber products, we serve …
10 Burton Hills Boulevard Nashville, Tennessee 37215 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: CCA is quality, meeting the highest standards of performance as established by the American Correctional Association. CCA is value, providing more programs and services for its price. CCA is innovation, looking at every project on its own merits to determine the solution that is best for government and the company. …
11350 Random Hills Rd., Ste. 240 Fairfax, Virginia 22030 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Computer Learning Centers grew up with the computer field. We started training technical professionals more than 40 years ago--long before computers became a way of life at home and in business. We have been at the forefront of technology for a long time, but most importantly, we have developed the most advanced…
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…
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…
4311 Jamboree Road Newport Beach, California 92660-3095 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Conexant is the world's largest independent company focused exclusively on providing semiconductor system solutions for communications electronics. With revenues of approximately $1.5 billion, Conexant has aligned its business to target the fastest-growing markets of the worldwide communications marketplace. The …
6 Hutton Center Drive, Suite 400 Santa Ana, California 92707 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Since positive student outcomes are a critical driver of our long-term success, we devote substantial resources to maintaining and improving our student retention and placement rates. We also offer a variety of student services such as tutoring, counseling and placement services. ... We view our students as …
4000 Hollywood Boulevard, Suite 650N Hollywood, Florida 33021 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Concord's mission is to be a world class, high quality, low cost designer, developer and manufacturer of popularly priced, easy-to-use cameras and consumer products with performance results and appropriate equity returns for shareholders. With low-cost manufacturing facilities operating in the People's Repu…
The Pilot House Lewis Wharf Boston, Massachusetts 02110 United States Continental Cablevision is a leader in the cable television industry and is renowned for its enlightened community relations practices and its commitment to customer service. Consequently, Continental Cablevision has enjoyed greater success than most cable providers when negotiating for new franchises. The notion of paying to r…
600 Travis, Suite 5800 Houston, Texas 77002 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We believe size creates opportunities; we believe strong brands are important; we believe global solutions enhance profitability; and we believe people make the difference. These same convictions will guide us as we continue to generate increased earnings and value for our shareholders in the years ahead. After spending most…
One Riverfront Plaza Corning, New York 14831 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Corning leads primarily by technological innovation and shares a deep belief in the power of technology. The company has a history of great contributions in science and technology, and it is this same spirit of innovation that has enabled us to create new products and new markets, to introduce new forms of corporate organiz…
5300 Town and Country Boulevard, Suite 500 Frisco, Texas 75244 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our business strategy is to continue to build shareholder value by exploiting our existing reserve base, pursuing exploration and acquisition opportunities in our core operating regions, maintaining a low cost structure, and having substantial financial flexibility. Comstock Resources, Inc. is a small inde…
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…
30 Millbank London SW1P 4WY United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Corus aims to be an innovative company with a strong customer focus, providing metal solutions to an increasingly sophisticated marketplace. The Corus strategy is targeted at creating shareholder value by achieving world class competitiveness through operating excellence and technological advance. The emphasis is on achieving leadin…
2525 Horizon Lake Drive, Suite 120 Memphis, Tennessee 38133 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Reliable performance and continuous uptime are priorities, because processing transactions is our core competency. Concord EFS, Inc., based in Memphis, Tennessee, provides a full range of electronic payment and deposit services, from authorizing and routing a fund transfer to settlement. The company's Network…
1-1-1, Shibaura Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8528 Japan Company Perspectives: As we are welcoming in the 21st century, our new theme is to "create new values." By adopting this theme, we will work on participating in new crude oil development projects, making research and development of new sources of fuel, further re-engineering our operations across all of our departments (including ambitious alliances…
Vahrenwalder Strasse 9 D-30165 Hanover Germany Company Perspectives: We understand and respect the interests of our stakeholders. Our stakeholders are our customers and shareholders, our employees, the community, our partners, and our suppliers. We work closely with stakeholders across a broad front, delivering customer benefits, creating shareholder value, and building a working environment that…
1501 Front Street Morgan City, Louisiana 70381 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Conrad is committed to maintaining and enhancing its reputation for quality, service, and integrity. Plans continue to be to develop new markets and expand existing products, services, customers, and markets while maintaining attractive profit margins. Conrad continues to position itself to increase capacity and services …
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…
555 West 57th Street New York, New York 10019 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Participation in the Continuum partnership enables each member institution to better fulfill its traditional mission by making available an impressive array of resources for the provision of state-of-the-art and compassionate care. Together, we are superbly equipped to identify and respond to the health-related needs of th…
600 North Dairy Ashford Street Houston, Texas 77079-1100 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Purpose: Use our pioneering spirit to responsibly deliver energy to the world. ConocoPhillips is the third largest U.S. integrated oil company, behind only Exxon Mobil Corporation and ChevronTexaco Corporation. The company was formed in August 2002 from the $15.12 billion merger of Conoco Inc. and Phillips Petro…
804 Green Valley Road, Ste. 300 Greensboro, North Carolina 27408 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Cone Mills continues to be one of America's leading textile manufacturers. We are the world's largest and most diversified producer of denim fabrics and the largest commission printer of home furnishings fabrics in the United States. Cone Mills sells to markets around the globe, in over 35 countries. Con…
370 Woodcliff Drive, Suite 3000 Fairport, New York 14450 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Constellation's strategy of creating breadth across categories and geographies, and leveraging scale in core markets, delivers long-term profitable growth for shareholders. This strategy allows us more investment choices, flexibility to address changing market conditions and stronger routes-to-market, which resu…
111 Kayaker Way Easley, South Carolina 29642 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Confluence Watersports today may be the industry's most influential c ompany. But our size does not undercut what we have always been: pass ionate outdoors enthusiasts who can't cross a bridge without checking the conditions of the water below, paddlers who can't sit through a meeting without daydreaming about favorite esca…