707 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles California 90017 United States First Interstate Bancorp is one of the largest bank holding companies in the United States. The company's 55 banks collectively operate 1,033 branches in 13 states, giving it the widest geographical coverage of any banking company in the country. First Interstate is a familiar name to literally millions of Americans who bank there.…
11444 West Olympic Boulevard Los Angeles California 90064 United States Incorporated in 1969, First Executive Corporation (FE) is a holding company engaged in the life insurance industry through its two principal subsidiaries--the California-based Executive Life Insurance Company (EL) and the Executive Life Insurance Company of New York (EL-NY). Insurance products include immediate and deferred a…
P.O. Box 1911 Danbury, Connecticut 06813-1911 U.S.A. First Brands is a leading consumer products company with operations based on a number of major brands: STP oil, Glad and Glad-Lock plastic wrap and bags, Prestone antifreeze, Simoniz car waxes, polishes, and cleaners, and Scoop Away and Ever Clean cat litter products. A product of a leveraged buy-out, the company was organized in 1986. Unlike m…
P.O. Box 1249 Jackson, Mississippi 39215-1249 U.S.A. First Mississippi Corporation is the largest company chartered in Mississippi and the only company from that state to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Operating in one of the more economically underdeveloped regions of the United States, First Mississippi is a crucial local enterprise. In addition to providing employment and tax revenu…
108 East Michigan Avenue Kalamazoo, Michigan 49007 U.S.A. First of America Bank Corporation is one of the Midwest's largest bank holding companies and is ranked among the top 35 banking companies in the country based on net income, profitability, and size. Its 566 branch banks in Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana offer conventional checking and savings programs as well as numerous other financial s…
550 Broad Street Newark, New Jersey 07102 U.S.A. First Fidelity Bank is regarded as one of the most stable and reliable financial institutions in the United States. With a distinguished history dating back to 1812, encompassing numerous banking panics, a civil war, two world wars, and the Great Depression, First Fidelity has developed into one of the preeminent banks on the eastern coast of Ameri…
Two First Union Center Charlotte, North Carolina 29288-0507 U.S.A. First Union Corporation, with headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, ranks as the nation's ninth largest bank holding company, based on total assets. Its employee base--nearly 35,000 strong--serves a customer group of more than 7 million people. The bank's 1,314 banking branch offices in the economically diverse South Atlantic…
210 Baronne Street P.O. Box 60279 New Orleans, Louisiana 70160-0279 U.S.A. With $6.7 billion in assets in 1993, First Commerce Corporation was the largest multibank holding company in Louisiana. First Commerce offers complete banking and related financial services to commercial clients and individuals in Louisiana and southern Mississippi. It operates through five banks and several service subsid…
One M&T Plaza P.O. Box 223 Buffalo, New York 14240-0223 U.S.A. A major banking force in New York State, First Empire State Corporation is the holding company for two primary banking subsidiaries, Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, and The East New York Savings Bank. Headquartered in Buffalo, New York, First Empire concentrated its expansion in upstate New York throughout the 1980s and early…
1132 Bishop Street Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 U.S.A. With assets of $7.3 billion in 1994, First Hawaiian, Inc., is the second largest bank holding company in Hawaii. Its primary subsidiary is First Hawaiian Bank. Through that bank and four other subsidiaries, the holding company operates about 90 bank branches, provides various financial services, and leases and finances commercial equipment and vehi…
79 South Main Street Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 U.S.A. First Security Corporation, the oldest multistate bank holding company in the United States, operated 245 full-service banking offices in six states--Utah, Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, Nevada, and Wyoming--and owned various non-bank subsidiaries during the mid-1990s. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, First Security possessed $10.21 billion in cons…
165 Madison Avenue Memphis, Tennessee 38103 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our goal is to be the most efficient revenue growth company. We will never relinquish our focus on revenue growth, for that is the foundation for our future. One of the 50 largest bank holding companies in the United States, First Tennessee National Corporation has provided banking services to Tennesseans since the Civil War…
2001 Bryan Tower Dallas, Texas 75201 U.S.A. First USA, Inc. is one of the largest credit card companies in the United States. Through its First USA Bank subsidiary, the company serves over 7.8 million credit card users throughout the nation, managing about $8.9 billion in credit card loans. All of the credit cards issued by First USA are either Visa (84 percent) or MasterCard (16 percent). Of tho…
6400 Arlington Boulevard Falls Church, Virginia 22042-2336 U.S.A. First Virginia Banks, Inc. is the oldest registered bank holding company headquartered in Virginia, with 23 separately-chartered member banks throughout Virginia, Maryland, and Tennessee. In addition to over 350 branch banking offices, the holding company has insurance, advertising, and mortgage subsidiaries with operations in seve…
601 2nd. Avenue South Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 U.S.A. First Bank System Inc. is one of the largest and most successful regional bank holding companies in the United States. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, First Bank System is made up of nine banks, four trust companies, and numerous other non-bank subsidiaries spread across a multi-state area, including Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota,…
8000 Maryland Avenue 1300 St. Louis, Missouri 63105 U.S.A. A global supplier of control valves and regulators, Fisher Controls International, Inc. is one of the largest and oldest process control companies. Fisher's Type 1 pump governor was invented by the founder in 1880 and remains--virtually unchanged--part of the company's product line today. Those unfamiliar with the work of control valves a…
4600 Arrowhead Drive Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission is to be a leader in global manufacturing and distribution of quality inks, colorants, supplies, and expert support services to the graphic arts industry and other color consumers. Flint Ink Corporation is the largest American-owned manufacturer of printing inks, inkjet inks, and toners, for newspaper, directo…
135 Main Street San Francisco, California 94105 U.S.A. With more than 150 branches in seven states and assets of about $15 billion, First Nationwide Bank was among the largest savings and loan institutions in the United States going into the mid-1990s. The bank provides a full range of consumer financial services, including banking, loan, and investment services. Beginning in the mid-1980s, First…
NBC Center 1248 O Streets Lincoln, Nebraska 68508 U.S.A. First Commerce Bancshares, Inc. is the holding company for National Bank of Commerce Trust & Savings Association, a bank with a long and distinguished history in the state of Nebraska. First Commerce holds over 99 percent interest in National Bank of Commerce and six other banks in the state, including First National Bank & Trust, Overland …
600 University Street, Suite 1525 Seattle, Washington 98101 U.S.A. The owner of an unusual combination of businesses, Fisher Companies Inc. operates as the holding company for three distinct businesses--Fisher Mills Inc., Fisher Broadcasting Co., and Fisher Properties Inc.--involved in flour milling, radio and television broadcasting, and real estate, respectively. Majority owned by members of th…
1120 Route 73 Mount Laurel, New Jersey 08054 U.S.A. The Fleer Corporation holds a special position in the history and development of two quintessentially American activities: bubble gum and trading cards. After nearly seventy years, Fleer continues to manufacture more than four million pieces of its Dubble Bubble--the original bubble gum--each day. As one of the top three trading card companies, …
6301 Waterford Boulevard P.O. Box 26647 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73126-0647 U.S.A. Fleming Companies, Inc. is the largest food wholesaler in the United States. The company stocks the shelves of more than 3,500 supermarkets and other retail food stores in 42 states and the District of Columbia, as well as in several foreign countries. Fleming has shown exceptional innovation in meeting the changing…
24th Floor, Two Exchange Square 8 Connaught Place Central Hong Kong In the somewhat murky world of Asian conglomerates, First Pacific Company Limited is one of the fastest-growing and most transparent. A publicly traded holding company, First Pacific is majority-owned by Indonesia's powerful Salim Group. First Pacific's portfolio includes 13 companies, operating in 40 countries, with 45,000 emplo…
Fletcher Challenge House 810 Great South Road Penrose Auckland New Zealand Company Perspectives: "Fletcher Challenge is a New Zealand headquartered corporation devoted to creating superior shareholder value by taking resources to customers better in pulp and paper, energy and building industries. Fletcher Challenge strives for excellence in everything it does through industry leadership in fulfil…
1201 Lund Boulevard Anoka, Minnesota 55303 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The mission of First Team Sports is to develop and market sporting goods products under specific brands through selected channels of distribution. First Team Sports continually develops its various products to meet the objectives of innovative design, exceptional price value, and high quality. First Team Sports, Inc. is the w…
3125 Myers Street Riverside California 92503-5527 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Fleetwood will lead the Recreational Vehicle and Manufactured Housing industries in providing quality products, with a passion for customer-driven innovation. We will emphasize training, embrace diversity and provide growth opportunities for our associates and our dealers. We will lead our industries in the application …
636 Girard Ave. East Aurora, New York 14052 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission is to support today's families with young children, through a breadth of products, including toys and children's products that make early childhood more fun and enriching. Fisher-Price Inc. is the world's largest preschool products company. Fisher-Price has dominated the infant and preschool toy market for over 6…
Mannerheimintie 14 A P.O. Box 235 Helsinki Finland Company Perspectives: Fiskars is a company with roots and wings. Its roots have stayed firmly embedded in the soil of its old ironworks community in western Uusimaa Province in Finland, but its wings have shown themselves to be strong enough to support its consumer-driven business throughout the world. Fiskars Corporation, headquartered in Helsin…
316 Royal Poinciana Plaza Palm Beach, Florida 33480 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The people at Florida Crystals share a proud heritage of farming that is vitally linked to the environment. We act as stewards of the land, balancing our natural resources and protecting surrounding ecosystems to ensure a healthy and sustainable future. Florida Crystals Inc. is the umbrella company for the various bu…
One Liberty Lane Hampton, New Hampshire 03842 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Fisher Scientific International Inc. is committed to serving science. The company's global logistics infrastructure and distribution expertise, ability to source products around the world, alliances with third-party suppliers, and integrated supply of maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) products will continue to expand…
Tietotie 11 A Helsinki-Vantaa Airport P.O. Box 15 01053 Finnair Finland Based in Helsinki, Finnair Oy is the national airline of Finland and the sixth-oldest airline in the world. Operating passenger and air freight services throughout Finland and the Baltic region, Finnair also provides regular and seasonal service to Europe, North America, and Asia. An Early Start Finnair was established in 192…
3901 Liberty Street Road Aurora, Illinois 60504-8122 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: To continue to further improve and broaden the entire home safety category--developing innovative products that continue to keep homes safe and sound. For more than 25 years, First Alert, Inc., along with its subsidiaries, has been a leading worldwide manufacturer and marketer of a line of home safety products. The …
5660 New Northside Drive Suite 1400 Atlanta, Georgia 30328 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Although First Data has 33,000 employees, all business activities and decisions are guided by a core set of values. They serve as the foundation for everything First Data does, and it's through these values that First Data maintains a profitable and well-run business. The First Data values are: embodying the h…
One Federal Street Boston, Massachusetts 02110-2010 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: FleetBoston Financial is combining the best of our two organizations, Fleet and BankBoston, to create exceptional financial opportunities for 20 million customers. Our innovative banking services are complemented by a firm commitment to strengthen the communities where we do business through financial support, sponso…
30 South Pearl Street Albany, New York 12207-0052 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We will now be directing our efforts and capital to research-driven investment banking, capital markets, and venture capital operations. This positions First Albany as one of the only employee-owned public companies remaining in the securities industry with a pure institutional focus. First Albany Companies Inc., actin…
11 Ubi Road, #07-01/02 Meiban Industrial Building Singapore 408723 Company Perspectives: Headquartered in Singapore, Flextronics International is a leading provider of flexibility and speed in Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in the fast-growth communications, networking, computer, medical and consumer markets. Flextronics is a major global opera…
BP1 Route de la Gare 85707 Pouzauges Cedex France Located in the Vendée, in the northwestern region of France, Fleury Michon S.A. produces self-service delicatessen and other packaged meat products, such as patés, and ready-to-cook meals for the Fremch consumer supermarket and restaurant markets. With sales at EUR 365 million in sales, Fleury Michon is one of France's leaders in its industry an…
First Choice House London Rd. Crawley, West Sussex RH10 2GX United Kingdom Company Perspectives: First Choice is a leading European leisure travel company comprising mainstream and specialist tour operations, travel retail and aviation businesses. Having escaped a hostile takeover attempt by larger rival Airtour Plc, and at the same time seeing the collapse of a proposed merger with Switzerland's…
15 Riverside Avenue Westport, Connecticut 06880-4214 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At First Aviation we have a favored expression: "better is better." It used to be that a company could offer the market a product with better attributes and demand a premium for that product. Today, the market demands products with the best attributes at the lowest possible price. This phenomenon is driving the tren…
1251 Avenue of the Americas New York City, New York 10020-1104 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our practice serves our clients' business needs, in every area of intellectual property law. Our unparalleled experience and commitment to excellence enables us to provide cost-effective service and results that are second to none. Fish & Neave, one of the nation's most respected law firms, specializes in …
6F, Formosa Plastics Rear Building 201-24 Tun Hwa North Road Taipei Taiwan Company Perspectives: First International Computer, Inc. was formed by Dr. Ming J. Chien in 1980 and has enjoyed considerable success year after year. FIC is now a dominant force in the technology market both in research and development and manufacturing fields. As Computer, Communication and Consumer Electronics (3C) mark…
690 E. Lamar Boulevard, Suite 400 Arlington, Texas 76011 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: First Cash Financial Services, Inc. is a leading provider of specialty consumer finance products. First Cash Financial Services, Inc. operates one of America's largest chains of pawnshops and check cashing/short-term advance stores, found in 11 states and Mexico. The Arlington, Texas company (as of March 2003) o…
Route de La Plaine 45 CH-1283 La Plaine, Geneva Switzerland Company Perspectives: Do businesses have a soul? This question was raised by Alain Etchegoyen, a renowned French professor of philosophy and business consultant. At Firmenich we are convinced that businesses do have a soul. Apart from its people and resources, our soul is the spirit which has enabled us to remain true to ourselves and to…
Tietotie 11 Helsinki-Vantaa Airport P.O. Box 15 01053 Helsinki Finland Company Perspectives: Finnair is committed in its business operations to profitable, value-creating growth. Operational efficiency and product quality are at the highest level among European airlines. This provides a good foundation to continue the good start that has been made on increasing traffic in strongly growing markets…
205 S. Center Street Marshalltown, Iowa 50158 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Fisher Controls International LLC is now a member of the Emerson Process Management family of companies which is a division of Emerson. Becoming part of this new corporation is the latest in the long history of growth and change for the control valve manufacturing company founded as the Fisher Governor Company in 1880. A g…
311 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 4000 Chicago, Illinois 60606 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission is to create industrial real estate solutions that mutually benefit our customer and our company. First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. (FIRT) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) based in Chicago, Illinois, focusing on the acquisition, development, and management of industrial properties in the top…
2399 26th Avenue North St. Petersburg, Florida 33734 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Flanders Corporation, headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, designs, manufactures and markets precision high-performance filtration products. Flanders is a vertically integrated company, with nine filter assembly plants, two metal working facilities, and a paper mill among its thirteen operating sites. The Compa…
666 Burrard Street, Suite 1000 Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2X8 Canada Company Perspectives: The Finning Formula: Leverage the CAT brand; Command strong regional market shares; Maximize parts, service and rental revenue; Solve difficult customer problems; Establish clear financial expectations throughout the organization; Transfer the formula to other geographies. Finning International Inc. is…
4400 Post Oak Parkway Houston, Texas 77027-3421 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At Fisk, we take pride in our past, are committed to our present and look forward to our future. During our storied history, we have gained experience on virtually every building type or unusual site condition in every region of the country. We've brought our expertise in electrical and low voltage systems to numerous no…
26180 Curtiss Wright Parkway Cleveland, Ohio 44143 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Focus on Safety, Service, and Consistency. Luxurious, state-of-the-ar t aircraft aren't the only highlight of flying with Flight Options; i n addition, our flight crews are trained to the highest industry stan dards. Each aircraft is operated by dual-captain certified pilots who each have received annual simulator tra…