Pitheavlis Perth United Kingdom PH2 ONH General Accident is the holding company for General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation, which is the third-largest composite insurance group in the United Kingdom. The company was founded in Perth, Scotland, in 1885 at the height of the Industrial Revolution, when Great Britain had become known as the "workshop of the world." British preeminence a…
500 Lake Cook Rd. Suite 400 Deerfield, Illinois 60015-5269 U.S.A. Gaylord Container Corporation is a major national manufacturer and distributor of corrugated containers, containerboard, unbleached kraft paper, multiwall bags, grocery bags and sacks, and specialty chemicals. By the 1990s the company served more than 3,000 customers through a network of three paper mills, 24 converting plants, one…
173 Ghent Rd. Fairlawn, Ohio 44333-3330 U.S.A. GenCorp is a leading manufacturer of aerospace and defense products, including rocket motors and bombs. Through its several divisions, the company also produces plastics as well as automotive and satellite communications equipment. GenCorp began as General Tire & Rubber, a company founded in 1915 by William O'Neil. O'Neil had served as a dealer at th…
87 Cambridge Park Drive Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140 U.S.A. Genetics Institute, Inc., (GI) is a biotechnology firm engaged in the research, development, and commercialization of pharmaceuticals through recombinant DNA and other genetic technologies. The company has developed drugs to make the blood of hemophiliacs clot, as well as substances that stimulate the production of red and white blood …
1 Neumann Way Cincinnati, Ohio 45215-6301 U.S.A. The GE Aircraft Engines unit of the General Electric Company is the world's leading manufacturer of aircraft propulsion systems. The company attributes its success in the industry to heavy investment in research and development, stringent quality control, and excellent customer relations. GE Aircraft Engines is also one of the nation's top exporter…
One High Ridge Park Stamford, Connecticut 06904 U.S.A. The General Signal Corporation is the leading manufacturer of equipment and instruments for process control, and electrical and industrial technologies. General Signal was founded in 1904 in New York as the General Railway Signal Company and primarily operated as a railway supplier. The company diversified its product base, most notably in th…
One Geico Plaza Washington, D.C. 20076 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Ever since our beginning, the GEICO name has been synonymous with outstanding service. Instead of using agents, we've marketed directly to customers. At first, those customers were exclusively government workers. In 1958, the company began serving other customers as well. In 1980, GEICO became the first insurer to provide 24-hour…
One GBC Plaza Northbrook, Illinois 60062 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: To sustain our long-standing leadership in the binding, laminating and visual communication marketplaces, GBC never relents in its drive to understand and serve customers. Technological innovation and customer service excellence continue to serve as the foundation for expanding our business. General Binding Corporation (GBC), i…
3190 Fairview Park Drive Falls Church, Virginia 22042-4253 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: 'Strength on Your Side' means that General Dynamics delivers what it promises. We intend to maintain financial, technological, and managerial strength to benefit our shareholders, our customers, and our employees. General Dynamics Corporation is a leading defense contractor, with nearly 60 percent of the compa…
181 West Madison Street Chicago, Illinois 60602 U.S.A. The General Instrument Corporation is the leading American provider of cable television equipment. The company manufactures television set-top converters for cable transmission as well as scrambling devices for cable satellite signals. The company also provides fiber optic cables and coaxial cables for television transmission, as well as semi…
Metro Center One Station Place P.O. Box 10045 Stamford, Connecticut 06902 U.S.A. General Host Corporation owns and operates Frank's Nursery & Crafts, Inc., a chain of specialty retail stores that sell craft and Christmas supplies as well as lawn and garden products. The company that became known as General Host, however, spent its first 50 years managing a group of bakeries. In the late 1960s, th…
1579 Straits Turnpike Middlebury Connecticut 06762-1299 U.S.A. General DataComm Industries is a leading provider of multimedia networks and telecommunications equipment used by businesses, telephone companies, and governments worldwide. The company is involved in all aspects of its telecommunication networks, from designing, manufacturing, and marketing its products, to offering installation and …
1536 Beech Street, P.O. Box 4066 Terre Haute, Indiana 47804 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The key element in General Housewares Corp.'s strategy is to grow by focusing on products that "delight and excite" the consumer. In practice, the phrase "delight and excite" embraces three different characteristics of products: (1) delivery of unexpected value to the consumer (i.e., the performance of the pr…
148 West State Street Kennett Square, Pennsylvania 19438 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Genesis Health Ventures was founded in 1985 on the visionary principal that health care for the elderly was too focused on long-term custodial care. Instead, founder, chairman and chief executive officer Michael R. Walker sought to build a company that worked with each customer to promote independence and the ac…
P.O. Box 10212 56 Top Gallant Road Stamford, Connecticut 06904-2212 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Gartner Group is successful for one simple reason--we assist our clients in making better decisions about IT. By delivering quality research and advice, by responding to the rapidly changing IT marketplace with new products, services and delivery options, and by rigorously maintaining our independent …
17180 Bernardo Center Drive San Diego, California 92128 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Since the opening of its first Souplantation in 1978 in San Diego, California, Garden Fresh Restaurant Corporation has expanded to 61 salad buffet restaurants with locations in Southern California, where they are known as Souplantation, and in Northern California and ten other states, where they are known as Swee…
3135 Easton Turnpike Fairfield, Connecticut 06828-0001 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: GE has always been a multi-business company. Over the past 125 years, GE has swiftly evolved to seize new opportunities created by changes in technology and the economy. Today GE is building new platforms in industries and markets with above-GDP growth that provide opportunities to apply GE technology and manageme…
40, boulevard Haussmann 75009 Paris France Galeries Lafayette S.A. is a holding company for four major retail chains, including Nouvelles Galeries, Bazar Hotel de Ville, and Monoprix. Its namesake chain of department stores boasts Europe's largest department store, the historic, ten-story flagship location in Paris. Known as "The Beautiful Lady," the 500,000 square-foot headquarters store generat…
Financial Centre 695 East Main Street Stamford, Connecticut 06904-2351 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At General Re, our aim is to be the first choice provider of risk assessment and risk transfer solutions for our clients. We intend to anticipate and meet or exceed the needs and expectations of our clients worldwide. As we strive to be the best we can be, we are committed to an attitude of Continu…
10000 Highway 55 Minneapolis, Minnesota 55441-6365 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: To be the premier provider of integrated marketing services to our clients, measurably impacting their results through the delivery of superior strategic, developmental and executional marketing services. Gage Marketing Group, a widely diversified marketing business, has provided services to roughly 75 percent of the …
9130 Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90069 U.S.A. Geffen Records Inc. is the second record label founded by David Geffen, the richest, most successful entertainment mogul of the 20th century and certainly one of the most controversial. A series of business deals highly favorable to Geffen left him with a personal fortune approaching $1 billion. The record labels he founded and has since …
19411 Atrium Place, Suite 170 Houston, Texas 77084 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: An outing to Garden Ridge is more than just a shopping trip. It is a unique adventure into a friendly, entertaining atmosphere that fulfills customers' emotional needs for home decorating. The company's buyers and merchandising staff recognize that the home is more than just a place to live. Our stores stimulate home …
14303 Gateway Place Poway, California 92064 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Mission: To be the leading integrator of personalized technology solutions. Vision: To improve the quality of life through technology. Values: Leadership, Innovation, Caring, Honesty, Discipline and Focus. Following its March 2004 acquisition of eMachines, Inc., Gateway, Inc. ranks as the third largest personal computer in t…
Dorstener Strasse 484 D-44809 Bochum Germany Company Perspectives: All group companies focus on their customers and their specific needs. GEA staff are capable of listening to their customers and are their partners at the regional, international and global levels. Our employees are a key to our success. Their knowledge, their abilities and their commitment give us our competitive strength. They c…
71 Lewis Street Greenwich, Connecticut 06830 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The core purpose of Genesee & Wyoming is to be a leader in rail related services, anticipating and responding rapidly to customers' requirements and the dynamics of a competitive market place. Through its subsidiaries, Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (GWI) oversees the operations of short-line and regional freight railroads and prov…
300 Sixth Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: General Nutrition strives to be the leading provider of products, services, and information in the self-care and personal health enhancement markets. General Nutrition Companies, Inc., is the largest specialty retailer of vitamin, mineral, and sports nutrition supplements in the world. It is also a leading supplier of pe…
Garuda Indonesia Building Jl. Merdeka Selatan 13 Jakarta 10110 Indonesia A state-owned company, Garuda Indonesia is a major international and domestic airline that has been the flagship of Indonesia's airways for more than forty years. It is the largest airline in Southeast Asia and one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere, carrying more than 16,000 passengers daily to an expanding list of 1…
One General Street Akron, Ohio 44329-0012 U.S.A. General Tire, Inc., is a world leader in the manufacture and marketing of tires of all kinds and is a major exporter of tires around the world. A subsidiary of Continental Aktiengesellschaft (A.G.), Europe's second-largest tire and rubber manufacturer--and the fourth-largest in the world&mdash of 1987, General Tire constitutes the biggest and most …
1 Gaylord Drive Nashville, Tennessee 37214 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our vision is to provide a broad array of entertainment and hospitality vehicles, products, and services that create a positive difference in the lives of the people we serve. We will do this by integrating existing entertainment and hospitality businesses and acquiring and building businesses that can help make this vision b…
201 High Ridge Road Stamford, Connecticut 06927 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) is the world's Premier aviation solutions provider with a fleet of over 900 planes leased to 155 airlines in 54 countries. Our customers include: major flag carriers; large scheduled passenger carriers; charter operators; low fare carriers; regional jet operators; cargo carriers; sele…
Number One General Mills Boulevard Post Office Box 1113 Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Consumers choose General Mills because we offer competitively superior products and services. Employees choose General Mills because we reward innovation and superior performance and release their power to lead. Investors choose General Mills because we consistently deliver financial …
300 Renaissance Center Detroit, Michigan 48265-3000 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: General Motors' enjoys a long tradition of accountability, integrity, and transparency that has helped establish our reputation as a leader in corporate responsibility. We place a high value on communicating clear, consistent, and truthful information about our performance to our employees, suppliers, dealers, invest…
23 rue Philibert-Delorme 75840 Paris, Cedex 17 France Company Perspectives: Gaz de France is determined to pursue its ambitious strategy of development along the entire gas chain, from the wellhead to the burner tip, by combining internal and external growth to strengthen its position among leading gas operators in Europe. In 2001, we intend to strengthen our role as a public service addressing l…
4 Tesseneer Drive Highland Heights, Kentucky 41076-9753 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: General Cable--one company with the broadest product and global reach in the wire and cable industry. It's a new power, built upon diverse resources that are ready to serve a global market. It's about new ideas sketched on all four hemispheres. And it's about the world ... connected. General Cable Corporation, wi…
44 High Street West Nyack, New York 10994 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Through flexibility in manufacturing and sourcing, as well as attentive customer service, the Company strives to be a reliable, innovative and cost effective provider of bearing components and products to the approximately $5 billion per year U.S. bearing market. General Bearing Corporation manufactures, sources, assembles, an…
Members Hill Brooklands Road Weybridge Surrey KT13 OQU United Kingdom Company Perspectives: The Group's strategy is to maintain and develop strong market positions, capitalising on its proven ability to build brand equity. In the key UK cigarette market, Gallaher aims to defend vigorously its leading position in the high margin premium sector and to continue to increase its share of the growing l…
1800 Gardner Expy. Quincy, Illinois 62301 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our goal is to create innovative compressed air, petroleum pump, and natural gas compressor solutions that help facilitate the free flow of products from manufacturers to their respective end users in North America and around the world. We also deliver custom-designed equipment packages which often provide our customers with t…
Schachenstrasse 77 CH-8645 Jona Switzerland Company Perspectives: All we do has to ultimately be of value to our customers. After all, it is they who determine whether we are successful. Geberit AG is Europe's leading manufacturer of sanitary technology. The Jona, Switzerland-based company covers every aspect of sanitation systems and components, with products covering the entire range of buildin…
3550 General Atomics Ct. San Diego, California 92121 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: In an age of global change, there's a company dedicated to the premise that change creates opportunities ... an international company committed to improving the human condition through technology. That company is General Atomics. General Atomics is involved in a number of high-tech ventures, including fusion researc…
110 N. Wacker Drive Chicago, Illinois 60606 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The corporate mission of General Growth Properties is to create value and profit by acquiring, developing, renovating, and managing regional malls in major and middle markets throughout the United States. General Growth Properties, Inc. (GGP) is the second largest shopping mall owner/operator in the United States, trailing o…
2441 Viscount Row Orlando, Florida 32809 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our corporate mission is to extend and improve the quality of life everywhere by providing innovative, healthy foods which may significantly reduce the risk of certain diseases linked to the consumption of high fat, high cholesterol foods and other foods with harmful ingredients. With our great tasting and timely product line, …
Management Building Garuda Maintenance Facility Soekarno-Hatta Airport Cenkareng Indonesia Company Perspectives: We have long been a driving force behind the remarkable development of tourism in Indonesia. Additionally, we are providing access from major overseas markets to all parts of the archipelago, simulating travel through vigorous promotion and pioneering development of tourist facilities.…
120 Clover Place Edison, New Jersey 08837-3735 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our Mission: To be the world leader in the design, manufacture, and sales of professional audio products. To excel in product innovation, product value, and the creation of proprietary technology and to provide outstanding customer service and support. To act in the best interest of our customers worldwide. Gemini Sound P…
35 West 56th Street New York, New York 10049 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: General Maritime Corporation is a leading provider of international seaborne crude oil transportation services, owning and operating one of the largest tanker fleets in the world. General Maritime Corporation owns and operates a fleet of close to 50 mid-sized tankers, making it the world's second largest tanker company (bas…
5th Floor, Harbour Place 103 South Church Street George Town, Grand Cayman Cayman Islands Company Perspectives: Technology that touches people. Our customers around the world are loyal and take pride in having "guidance by Garmin." Our dealers and employees are likewise devoted to designing, selling, and servicing our consumer electronics. Garmin's success is not due solely to the quality of our …
Mount Hope Avenue Lewiston, Maine 04240 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our company is a family business that embraces all stakeholders. We help our customers market, promote, and motivate through the manufacture and distribution of the promotional products and marketing services we provide. We sell nationwide to businesses of all sizes through sales persons, printed catalogs, the Internet. Geiger B…
387 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10016-8899 United States Company Perspectives: General Cigar Company is the largest manufacturer and marketer of premium, imported, hand-made or hand-rolled cigars--those made with long filler and all natural tobacco leaf. Through another subsidiary, Culbro Tobacco, it grows, cures, ages and processes the majority of the Connecticut Shade tobacco in the wo…
2250 William D. Tate Avenue Grapevine, Texas 76051-3978 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our goal is to enhance our position as the nation's largest specialty retailer of new and used video game products and PC entertainment software by focusing on the following strategies: Targeting a Broad Audience of Game Players; Enhancing Our Image as a Destination Location; Offering the Largest Selection of Use…
Balsberg, P.O. Box QV CH-8058 Zurich-Airport Switzerland Company Perspectives: We have shared beliefs, consistent standards and common systems. Our main focus is airline catering and related business activities. We will develop new business opportunities where we can take advantage of our core competencies. Customers prefer us because our passion shines through everything we do. We are dedicated …
2150 Gold Street Alviso California 95002 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Technology is the primary driver of Genesis Microchip's leadership position in both the flat-panel TV and LCD monitor markets. Because of the breadth of its intellectual property, from the company's initial founding as well as strategic acquisitions that contributed mixed-signal integration, Faroudja video processing and DTV tec…