Duisburger Strasse 375 D-4200 Oberhausen 1 Nordrhein-Westfalen Federal Republic of Germany Deutsche Babcock is involved in machine engineering and plant construction through its subsidiary groups Deutsche Babcock Energie-und Umwelttechnik, Deutsche Babcock-Borsig, and Deutsche Babcock Handel. Its products include power stations and boilers, oil and gas firing equipment, nuclear-fuel-reprocessing …
Zentrale Hauptverwaltung Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 43-45 D-6000 Frankfurt am Main 1 Federal Republic of Germany The Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) is the largest transport company in the Federal Republic of Germany. DB operates passenger and freight transport services, by rail and by road. The bulk of its business, however, is rail transport. In 1990 DB carried 1.072 billion passengers. Of those 1.043 bil…
570 West College Avenue P.O. Box 872 York, Pennsylvania 17405-0872 U.S.A. Dentsply International Inc. produces a complete range of equipment and materials designed for prosthetic, preventive, and restorative dentistry. It is the world's largest manufacturer of artificial teeth and consumable dental products and spends more on research and development than any other dental company. Products are ma…
13400 Outer Drive West Detroit, Michigan 48239-4001 U.S.A. Detroit Diesel Corporation manufactures diesel and alternative fuel engines for use in trucks, buses, coaches, commercial and pleasure marine craft, power generation, the construction industry, and the military. Detroit Diesel products are distributed through more than 130 authorized distributors in 88 countries around the world. With 199…
2750 West Moore Avenue Fullerton, California 92833 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The Company's near and long-term operating strategies are focused on stabilizing profitable sales volume in its retail markets, exploiting product innovation and promotions where appropriate profitability is achieved, and aggressively reducing costs to better position the Company to compete under current market condit…
6001 North 24th Street Phoenix, Arizona 85016 U.S.A. Once known for its hotels and casinos, Del Webb Corporation is one of the largest residential developers in the United States as a result of its success in planned retirement communities. The life story of its founder, Delbert E. Webb, reads like a screenplay: fame and fortune pursue the simple boy. According to his official biography, he liked…
Taunusanlage 12 60262 Frankfurt am Main Germany Deutsche Bank A.G. has weathered two world wars, three depressions, and a divided Germany to become one of the world's leading financial institutions and one of the ten largest banks in the world in the mid-1990s. It has positioned itself as a Europe-wide universal bank (one that offers a variety of services) and a global investment bank. Deutsche B…
2100 East Capitol Street P. O. Box 1200 Jackson, Mississippi 39215-1200 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Deposit Guaranty continues to be very much a network of community banks providing friendly, personal service for our customers who value face-to-face relationships and want to use traditional channels to access financial services. We will continue to stress this approach and are focusing on sales …
777 Nicollet Mall Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 U.S.A. Dayton Hudson Corporation operates the well-known Target discount stores, Mervyn's moderately priced retail stores, and the Dayton's, Hudson's, and Marshall Field department stores in the Midwest. From its impecunious beginnings in 1902 on a small plot of land in Minneapolis, the Dayton Hudson Corporation had grown by the late 1990s to become …
2101 E. Via Arado Rancho Dominguez, California 90220-6189 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: DEP Corporation is a diversified, innovative personal care company committed to providing quality products to value-conscious customers. The company is the nation's leading manufacturer of hair styling gel. Taken together, the Dep and L.A. Looks brands also position DEP Corporation as a leader in the overall ha…
1385 Broadway New York, New York 10018 U.S.A. Designer Holdings Ltd. develops, sources, and markets designer sportswear lines for men, juniors, and women under the Calvin Klein Jeans, CK/Calvin Klein Jeans, and CK/Calvin Klein Khakis labels, collaborating with the in-house design teams of Calvin Klein, Inc. to create a broad line of products that includes outerwear, knit and woven tops and bottom…
2515 McKinney Avenue, Suite 1200 Dallas, Texas 75201-1978 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At Dean Foods, we are proud to be in the business of enhancing and enriching the lives of consumers. Our brands are known for freshness, purity, delicious taste and impeccable quality. We sell fresh, nutritious dairy products under an array of local brands that have been staples in their communities for generat…
495A S. Fairview Goleta, California 93117 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our goal is to achieve a level of operational excellence that will clearly distinguish Deckers from its competitors. Our customers can be confident in our ability to deliver a quality product when they need it, which offers the retailer a concrete advantage in doing business with Deckers. Deckers Outdoor Corporation develops, …
23 rue de Bitche 67110 Niederbronn les Bains, Alsace France Company Perspectives: Since De Dietrich was founded in 1684 in a valley north of Strasbourg in the northeast of France, the Group has remained closely devoted to its region of origin which lies, today, at the geographic and economic heart of Europe. After more than 300 years in operation in France's Alsace region, on the German border, D…
1 Dell Way Round Rock, Texas 78682-2244 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Dell's mission is to be the most successful computer company in the world at delivering the best customer experience in markets we serve. In doing so, Dell will meet customer expectations of: highest quality; leading technology; competitive pricing; individual and company accountability; best-in-class service and support; flexib…
1 Cotton Row Scott, Mississippi 38772 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Delta and Pine Land Company looks forward to the future of agriculture and the seed industry and pledges to continue the dependable, dedicated efforts that have led American farmers to recognize us as the industry leader. Delta and Pine Land Company (D&PL) is the largest breeder, producer, and marketer of cottonseed in the United …
De La Rue House Jays Close Viables Basingstoke, Hampshire RG22 4BS United Kingdom Company Perspectives: To innovate and provide secure, cost effective, accessible money and identity products, systems and services that keep our customers, worldwide, two steps ahead of the fraudster. The world's largest commercial banknote printer and banknote paper manufacturer, De La Rue plc has a presence in lit…
One Village Place 6436 City West Parkway Eden Prairie, Minnesota 55344 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: To ensure that all of our collectible product lines maintain their integrity, quality and affordable price points, we retire and introduce several new products and product lines each year. The hand-crafting of our product lines involves many important production steps, but it is the combination of …
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 …
Von-Gablenz-Strasse 2-6 D-50679 Cologne Germany Company Perspectives: The guiding principle of all our entrepreneurial activities is to enhance Lufthansa's market value on a lasting basis. We believe that the optimal conditions for achieving an attractive return on investment are created by achieving a balanced synthesis between the interests of shareholders, customers and employees. Deutsche Luf…
10900 Wilshire Boulevard Suite 1240 Los Angeles, California 90024 U.S.A. Death Row Records, a private company established in 1992, is one of the most lucrative rap labels in the music industry. Since its inception the company has produced several multiplatinum records, grossed hundreds of millions of dollars, and has become the driving force behind the popularization and commercial success of gan…
One Welbeck Street London W1A 1DF United Kingdom Debenhams Plc is one of the United Kingdom's longest continuously operating clothing and goods retailers. The company owns and operates nearly 100 department stores, primarily in England. In the British market, Debenhams' annual sales of more than £1.3 billion place it among the country's top five retailers. Founded in 1778, Debenhams operated as …
178 EAB Plaza Uniondale, New York 11556-0178 U.S.A. Del Laboratories, Inc. manufactures, markets, and distributes cosmetics and proprietary over-the-counter pharmaceuticals. Its main cosmetics products are nail care and nail color products, color cosmetics, beauty implements, bleaches and depilatories, personal care products, and other related cosmetics items. These are marketed under such brand …
1633 Broadway New York, New York 10019-6754 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is dedicated to delivering world-class service to its world-class clients, and we do this in over 130 countries. Our mission is to help our clients and our people excel. These two forces come together in a powerful combination of wide-ranging services in every major business center in the world. Our …
Heinrich-von-Stephan-Strasse 1 D-53175 Bonn Germany Company Perspectives: The Deutsche Post is developing into one of the leading mail communication and logistics concerns in the world. We offer our clients services of the highest quality at competitive prices. We match the expectations of a competitive market as well as the needs of a comprehensive national and international infrastructure. By f…
233 N. Main Street, Suite 200 Greenville, South Carolina 29601 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: For over 90 years Delta products have been known for quality and value. Delta offers a wide variety of styles to meet the needs of its customers. From the initial design until the product is finally shipped, Delta controls the manufacturing processes to insure that each shirt meets the high quality standar…
560 Broadway New York, New York 10012 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our Reason for Being: Dean & DeLuca's mission is to lead the marketplace in the exploration, discovery, and celebration of food from around the globe. Through intelligent and tasteful merchandising, we offer a wide selection of food and kitchenwear from the commonplace to the extraordinary. Our Vision: Dean & DeLuca will become th…
700 Orthopaedic Drive Warsaw, Indiana 46581-0988 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We believe our first responsibility is to the doctors, nurses and patients, to mothers and fathers and all others who use our products and services. In meeting their needs everything we do must be of high quality. We must constantly strive to reduce our costs in order to maintain reasonable prices. Customers' orders mus…
Hartsfield International Airport Atlanta, Georgia 30320 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Since Delta was founded, our company has stood for safe and reliable air transportation, distinctive customer service and hospitality from the heart. Our vision is for Delta to build on its traditions of superior customer service and always to meet our customers' expectations while taking service to even higher l…
Taunusanlage 12 60262 Frankfurt am Main Germany Company Perspectives: Deutsche Bank is dedicated to being the best financial services provider in the world. We endeavour to use our breadth of experience, capabilities and financial strength to create value for our shareholders, customers, employees and society as a whole. Deutsche Bank AG has weathered two world wars, three depressions, and a divi…
Ichibancho FS Bldg 8 Ichibancho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102 Japan DDI Corporation is a Japanese long distance telephone company established to challenge the monopoly of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation. From its conception in the early 1980s, DDI has grown much faster than any of the other monopoly challengers and has achieved a large portion of long distance market share in Japan. The idea f…
Überseering 2 2000 Hamburg 60 Germany Deutsche BP Aktiengesellschaft is one of the top suppliers of petroleum products in the competitively fragmented German market. The company is actively engaged in all facets of the petroleum industry: exploration, crude oil supplies, refining, and petroleum products. Through its affiliates and subsidiaries, Deutsche BP is also involved in petroleum transport…
7 à 11 quai Andre Citroën BP 1002 F-75901 Paris Cedex 15 France Company Perspectives: A European organization and mission: Under the management of a French-Belgian executive committee, Dexia has a board of directors on which five nationalities are represented. The bank's strategy aims to benefit fully from the creation of the single currency by being the European leader in businesses in which i…
5725 Delphi Drive Troy, Michigan 48098-2815 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Achieving optimum performance requires system expertise. An automotive vehicle, in its most basic form, is a group of interacting systems. That's why we believe it's critical to design, test and manufacture each component and module as part of the integrated system in which it operates. We call it the Delphi Automotive Syste…
Masters House 107 Hammersmith Road London W14 OQH United Kingdom Denison International plc is a specialist producer of hydraulic fluid power components and systems. With corporate headquarters in both London, England, and Marysville, Ohio, Denison is a world player in its market. More than half of its sales are generated in Europe, while more than one-third of sales are produced in the United Sta…
Comerica Park 2100 Woodward Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48201 U.S.A. The Detroit Tigers Baseball Club, Inc. operates a Major League Baseball team that is a charter member of the American League, making it one of the longest-lived in the game. The team's many historical highlights include the tenures of legendary players Ty Cobb, active from 1905-26, as well as Hank Greenberg and Charlie Gehringer in…
Potsdamer Platz 2 D-10785 Berlin Germany Company Perspectives: If you want to experience the true Germany, travelling by rail offers a lot of attractive possibilities. Whether you are on a business trip or on holiday you are connected with nearly every town in Germany and you can reach every region comfortably and quickly. Headquartered in Berlin, Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) is Germany's state-owned ra…
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 140 53113 Bonn Germany Company Perspectives: Deutsche Telekom is Europe's largest telecommunications company and one of the worldwide engines of innovation in the industry. Our products and services set standards not only in Germany, but also around the world. We make sure that our customers always have access to state-of-the-art solutions - from high-speed network access se…
1301 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10019-6092 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our lawyers share an aggressive commitment to unrivaled client service. From our most junior associate to our most senior partner, we never lose sight of the need to produce high-quality legal work in a responsive, cost-effective, and personalized manner. We believe that there is no substitute for "battle-teste…
1000 Chopper Circle Denver, Colorado 80204 U.S.A. The Denver Nuggets is a professional basketball franchise based in Denver, Colorado, that operates under the auspices of Kroenke Sports Enterprises, which also owns the Colorado Avalanche, a professional hockey franchise, and the Pepsi Center arena. Company Beginnings The Nuggests franchise was born in 1967 as one of the original members of the ne…
25521 Commercentre Drive Lake Forest, California 92630 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Del Taco offers menu items that appeal to a broad range of tastes with a strong emphasis on quality and value. The menu includes tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, world famous crinkle cut fries, Double Del Cheeseburgers, shakes, and breakfast burritos with new tastes introduced regularly. Each item is made to …
Neue Börsenstrasse 1 60487 Frankfurt/Main Germany Company Perspectives: Our mission is to improve the efficiency of markets. Our objective is to become the preeminent exchange organization. We will provide access to the most attractive securities and derivatives markets. Being the only fully integrated exchange organization worldwide, we offer a full range of trading, clearing, settlement, custo…
20 N. Broadway Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102-8260 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Devon is well positioned to continue its extraordinary path of growth and value creation for its shareholders. With its headquarters in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, publicly traded Devon Energy Corporation is the largest independent oil and gas producer based in the United States. It is also a leading North American indepe…
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 …
One Dell Way Round Rock, Texas 78682-0001 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Dell was founded in 1984 by Michael Dell, the computer industry's longest-tenured chief executive officer, on a simple concept: that by selling computer systems directly to customers, Dell could best understand their needs and efficiently provide the most effective computing solutions to meet those needs. This direct business …
Von-Gablenz-Strasse 2-6 D-50679 Cologne, 21 Germany Company Perspectives: Shouldering Responsibility--Keeping a Balance. Service is our vocation. Our staff constitute our most important asset. As an attractive employer of present and future staff, we endeavour to offer our employees job security, good working conditions, career opportunities and convincing corporate ethics. Our staff honour that …
1405/1425 Route 206 South Bedminster, New Jersey 07921 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Dendrite International, Inc. provides leading-edge solutions & services to the global pharmaceutical industry, including the world's top 20 pharmaceutical companies, with clients in more than 50 countries. Our tools, support skills, and knowledge facilitate more than one million contacts every day between our clie…
2 rue Sextus Michel Paris F-75732 Cedex 15 France Company Perspectives: DCN is a major player in the European and world markets for high-adde d-value naval defence systems. With its long and proud history, the D CN group provides the French Navy and other client forces with direct access to proven capacity for innovation and vast experience in nava l and naval air arm systems, through life suppor…
Terminalstrasse West, Terminal 1 Modul A 85356 München Flughafen Germany Dba Luftfahrtgesellschaft mbH (dba) is one of Germany's leading regio nal airlines. About four million people each year fly dba, which was expanded by a quarter in 2005 when it took over the operations of ano ther German carrier, Germania Express. The airline operated a fleet o f about 30 aircraft in late 2005, with plans t…
8401 Arlington Boulevard Fairfax Virginia 22031-4666 U.S.A. Company Perspectives For a half-century, Dewberry has been a leader in the planning, design, and program management professions. We work in partnership with public- and private-sector clients locally, regionally, and nationally. Dewberry is a professional services firm involved in such areas as architecture, building engineering, design …