One Gulf & Western Plaza New York New York 10023 United States After years of conducting operations in everything from auto parts to zinc, Gulf & Western has recently narrowed its focus. Today, its primary businesses are in entertainment, financial services, and consumer products. While the company perhaps no longer lives up to the acquisitive image sometimes attributed to it, Gulf & Western none…
777 Third Avenue New York, New York 10017 U.S.A. Grey Advertising is the world's 11th largest advertising agency, with offices in 89 cities around the globe. The company provides integrated communications services to a wide variety of clients whose products include some of the best-known American brand names. From its base in New York's fashion industry, Grey has grown to become an advertiser of …
350 Pine Street Beaumont, Texas 77701 U.S.A. Gulf States Utilities Company (GSU) is an investor-owned public electric utility serving more than 578,000 customers in a 28,000-square-mile region stretching from 50 miles east of Austin, Texas, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. GSU also provides wholesale service to six municipalities and three rural electrical cooperatives. Gulf States generates, transmits…
4925 W. Market St. Greensboro, North Carolina 27407 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Guilford Mills is an integrated designer and producer of value-added fabrics using a broad range of technologies. The company is the largest warp knitter in the world and is a leader in technological advances in textiles, including microdenier warp knits and wide width circular knits of cotton blended with LYCRA. Gui…
Royal Exchange London EC3V 3LS United Kingdom Guardian Royal Exchange plc is one of the largest composite insurers in the United Kingdom, with a portfolio including life insurance, private motor and household insurance, health care, property, and marine business. Internationally, the company competes in the insurance markets of Germany, the United States, Canada, Ireland, and Asia, and has repres…
P.O. Box 1017 Greenwood, South Carolina 29648 U.S.A. Greenwood Mills, Inc. is one of the oldest, most successful textile businesses in the United States. Part of the company's success, and what distinguishes Greenwood Mills from many other companies within the United States, is that the firm's management has cultivated a work force of uncommon stability. Hundreds of employees come from the third …
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 …
4421 Waterfront Drive Glen Allen, Virginia 23060 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: It is our policy to provide quality products and services that meet or exceed both consumer and customer expectations. We will use sound practices to ensure products and services of excellent quality and value. We are committed to continuous quality improvement in all aspects of our business. Hamilton Beach/Proctor-Sile…
400 Wood Road Braintree, Massachusetts 02184 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission is to enhance the safety and quality of the world's blood supply and increase the availability of blood components from a shrinking donor population. Haemonetics Corporation is the world leader in automated blood processing, developing and manufacturing equipment that automatically collects and processes blood a…
35 Braintree Hill Office Park Braintree, Massachusetts 02184 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The first Ground Round restaurant opened its doors in 1969. Though much has changed since then, the goal has always been a friendly neighborhood-style eating and drinking place that features great food, moderately priced, served in a casual, comfortable and fun atmosphere where friends and family could gathe…
15110 North Dallas Parkway Dallas, Texas 75248 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The Company's mission is to provide the opportunity for anyone to travel between cities in North America with safety, dignity and convenience. Greyhound Lines, Inc. is the sole national provider of intercity bus service in the United States. Its fleet of 2,400 buses carries more than 22.5 million passengers each year over…
7, rue de Téhéran 75381 Paris Cedex 08 France Company Perspectives: As a leader in our businesses, we must use our specialized expertise to understand, anticipate and stimulate demand with each type of consumer. Which means that we must continue to stand for what Danone has always represented&ndash-thusiasm, openness and recognition of human worth. Known until 1994 as BSN Groupe S.A., Groupe Da…
125 rue President Wilson 92595 Levallois Perret France Few names are as famously fragrant as Guerlain. One of the oldest continuously operating perfume houses in the world, Guerlain has created some of the world's most durable fragrances over its 170 years--indeed, many of Guerlain's perfumes are said to capture the spirit of their times. From the legendary Jicky to the best-selling Shalimar and …
415 West Main Street Rochester, New York 14608 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The company will remain committed to providing a wide range of aftermarket products to jobbers, new car dealers, professional installers, government agencies, and do-it-yourselfers. It will continue to grow sales in the Professional Auto Warehouse division and to expand its jobber base through the Auto Value program. Hahn…
3600 Lincoln Plaza 500 North Akard Street Dallas, Texas 75201-3391 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We're building a faster, smarter, more nimble, integrated, and responsive company ... a big company moving, reacting, and responding like a small one. Halliburton Company is a world leader in energy services, as well as engineering and construction. The company has two main business segments: the Halli…
Kurgartenstrae 37 D-90762 Fürth Germany Company Perspectives: People are our primary concern. And making technological developments compatible with their desire for more and more comfort. That is what we always strive for. Those are the goals Grundig sets for itself with each new innovation. The result is forward-looking technology, together with timeless, elegant and, above all else, functional…
P.O. Box 2206 500 Gulfstream Road Savannah, Georgia 31402-2206 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Founded in 1958, Gulfstream Aerospace is the world leader in business aviation. The Company has produced over 1,000 aircraft for corporate, government, private, and military customers around the world. The Company's flagship products--the Gulfstream IV-SP and the Gulfstream V&mdashe the world's most techno…
5795 Lindero Canyon Road Westlake Village, California 91362 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our goal in the retail stores business is to continue to expand our position as the leading music products retailer in the United States. We plan to increase our presence in existing markets and open new stores in strategically selected markets. We will continue to pursue a strategy of clustering stores in ma…
121 Habitat Street Americus, Georgia 31709-3498 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Habitat for Humanity International brings families and communities in need together with volunteers and resources to build decent, affordable housing. Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) is a world service organization providing affordable homes with interest-free mortgages to families in need. Founded by Millard a…
Caribe Building, First Floor San Salvador El Salvador Company Perspectives: GRUPO TACA has an aggressive growth and development strategy driven by a four part vision aimed at ensuring dominant revenue production, world class product integrity, a competitive well-prioritized cost structure, and programs to treat our people with the communication and compensation structures needed to maintain high …
PO BOX 2345, 3B2 Westlea Swindon SN5 7HF United Kingdom Fast-growing GWR Group plc is the United Kingdom's leading commercial radio station group--in terms of number of radio stations owned; the company also has reached the government-imposed cap of 15 percent market share. GWR's flagship station is nationally operating Classic FM, which commands its classical music category with an average of so…
100 Park Lane London W1Y 4AR United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Hammerson offers shareholders an exposure to key European real estate markets. Its strategy is to focus on major shopping centres and office buildings. The group is performance oriented, balancing the allocation of capital between income producing properties and developments and recycling its resources to maximise returns. Hammerso…
521 Wall Street Seattle, Washington 98121 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The company's purpose is to transform healthcare, working together every day to improve the care and well-being of our consumers and communities. Our mission, as a consumer-governed organization, is to design, finance, and deliver high-quality healthcare. Our guiding principles are respect, integrity, scientific discipline, a …
Place de L'Etoile 56910 Carentoir France Company Perspectives: Guillemot is committed to being the top producer of exciting accessories and hardware for gamers and to be among the top five gaming hardware and accessories manufacturers worldwide by 2003. Brittany, France-based, Guillemot Corporation has taken the fast track toward becoming one of the world's premier producers of peripherals, hardw…
Polititorvet DK-1780 Copenhagen V Denmark Company Perspectives: It is Group 4 Falck's mission to provide assistance to people, authorities and companies in order to meet their demands for safety and security as individuals or groups on an everyday basis. Our most important task is to further develop the Group's special core competencies within security, safety and Global Solutions in order to ens…
10370 Richmond Avenue, Suite 600 Houston, Texas 77042 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: As a supplier of land drilling services, our business depends on the level of drilling activity by oil and gas exploration and production companies operating in the geographic markets where we operate. The number of wells they choose to drill is strongly influenced by past trends in oil and gas prices, current pric…
One Rockefeller Plaza New York, New York 10020 U.S.A. Griffin Land & Nurseries, Inc. is a spin-off from the Culbro Corporation, which in 1997 decided to separate its holdings into tobacco and nontobacco related businesses. The former became General Cigar Holdings, and the latter Griffin Land & Nurseries. Operating out of its offices in New York City, Griffin is divided into two subsidiaries. Impe…
828 West Sixth Street Austin, Texas 78703 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Core Purpose: Discover visionary ideas that get our clients where they want to go faster than anyone thought possible. Visionary ideas transform the way we think about things, force us to widen our horizons and view the world differently. They raise the bar and help us win for our clients in the marketplace. And that's the thr…
583 Thompson Road Houma, Louisiana 70363 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The best opportunity for Gulf Island Fabrication is the sale of the MINDOC deep water concept. If one can be sold and prove itself operationally, then the company could secure follow-on contracts from other operators in the deep water area. There are other opportunities to more vertically integrate our company with the industry…
Route d'Aunay 501 Vire Cedex France Company Perspectives: We have a vocation: to propose the beautiful and useful for all occasions and place within reach all products that are esthetic, functional, and durable. It is this ambition that leads us to web creativity and industrialization on a daily basis. We have a trade: that of Table Service, that of the refinement of the pleasures of the table. I…
Otilliavej 92500 Valby-Copenhagen Denmark Company Perspectives: Lundbeck's long-term goal is to become a leader on the world market within the treatment of psychiatric and neurological diseases. It is Lundbeck's plan to reach this goal by a combination of organic growth, inlicensing of products and strategic alliances and buy-outs. H. Lundbeck A/S is Denmark's second-largest pharmaceuticals compa…
6333 North State Highway 161, 4th Floor Irving, Texas 75038 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: With tax professionals' understanding of financial concepts and intimate knowledge of clients' financial situations, offering financial planning is the most natural extension of a tax practice, providing the most client-centric, cost effective, and rewarding service to clients. Acquired in 2001 by Wells Fargo…
Universal House Devonshire Street Manchester M60 1XA United Kingdom Company Perspectives: GUS is focusing its skills and resources on the three areas of consumer understanding, choice and service in order to satisfy an even more discerning consumer. Understanding: Through our information solutions business, Experian, we help companies understand the particular needs and circumstances of their cus…
Yu Wei Xi Road South Hua Di Da Dao Fang Cun Guangzhou China Company Perspectives: Our mission is to pursue development at the highest quality in the industry. Our promise is to deliver to you, our customer, an heirloom quality instrument for you and for the generations to follow. You will find that our fine pianos, orchestra instruments, guitars and percussion instruments, from entry-level to pro…
Rembrandt Tower, 1 Amstelplein 1096 HA Amsterdam The Netherlands Company Perspectives: Management's primary objective is to create value for the Company's shareholders. Management believes that stock price performance is a critical measure of shareholder value creation and that systematic increases in the Group's revenues, earnings, cash flow and return on investment are catalysts for stock price…
950 Echo Lane, Suite 100 Houston, Texas 77024 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The executive team has an impressive track record of managing public companies, raising capital, completing acquisitions and operating in the automotive retailing industry. Executive management and operators currently hold more than 30% of the outstanding shares. Group 1 Automotive, Inc. is a leading consolidator of auto d…
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…
Roberto Medellin 800 Mexico City, D.F. 01210 Mexico Company Perspectives: Grupo Financiero Banamex's integration to Citigroup allows it nowadays to offer a broad range of financial services in Mexico and worldwide as part of the main company of financial services in the world, with 200 million accountholders in over 100 countries. Grupo Financiero Banamex S.A. (Banamex) is the largest financial g…
10 Guittard Road Burlingame, California 94010 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At Guittard, we feel customer satisfaction comes from personal relationships built day in and day out on product quality, reliability, responsibility, and integrity. Building long-term relationships with superior products is how we've been doing business for four Guittard generations. With more than a century of experience…
P.O. Box 138 Manama Bahrain Company Perspectives: One of the things Gulf Air takes most pride in is its history. We have come a long way in 50 years--from small-scale commuter service to major international airline--the national carrier of Bahrain, Abu Dhabi (UAE), and Oman. However, be it five or 50 destinations, seven-seater planes or state-of-the-art passenger jets, two things have remained co…
111 Monument Circle, 29th Floor Indianapolis, Indiana 46204 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Although Guidant is a young organization, our four business groups have established track records in their markets. Our structure provides the resources of a large organization, while preserving the innovative and entrepreneurial environment of a smaller company. The business groups stay close to the customer…
775 Passaic Avenue West Caldwell, New Jersey 07006 U.S.A. One of the world's most important auction houses for stamps, Greg Manning Auctions, Inc. (GMAI), is also a major auctioneer of coins, sports cards, movie posters, comic books, and other specialty collectibles. Greg Manning does business across the price spectrum but focuses on high-end specialty markets where its expertise and customer ser…
Royal Exchange London EC3V 3LS United Kingdom Once one of the largest composite insurers in the United Kingdom, Guardian Financial Services, known previously as Guardian Royal Exchange plc, provided life and non-life insurance services as well as financial and investment services to customers in the United Kingdom and abroad. The company struggled in the 1990s, in part due to intense competition …
1 Haier Road, Hi-Tech Zone Qingdao 266101 China Company Perspectives: Haier Is the Sea Haier should be like the sea. Because the sea can accept all the rivers on earth, big and small, far and near, coming all the way to empty into it. Once in the bosom of the sea, every drop will function as a whole and rush together pertinaciously and dauntlessly, under the command of the sea, to a common goal. …
777 Third Avenue New York, New York 10017 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: In these uncertain times, we have stayed true to the singular purpose that has always guided us; to build the value of our clients' brands. We focus relentlessly on our clients, judging our performance by their growth and our prospects by the faith they show in us. This enduring strength is rooted in our souls and permeates ou…
1075 1st Avenue King of Prussia, Pennsylvania 19406 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We offer a quality and cost effective solution for our partners to capitalize on e-commerce and direct response opportunities while remaining focused on their core businesses. By outsourcing with us, our partners benefit from our scalable infrastructure, which is designed to operate multiple e-commerce businesses. As…
4221 Alexandria Pike Cold Spring, Kentucky 41076-1821 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Privately owned and managed by the Griffin Family, Griffin Industries is a recognized leader in sanitary, efficient and punctual service to all customers. Although it's now a global business, the family still runs it the way John L. Griffin taught them--treating customers and associates the way they'd like to be tr…
9600 SW Barnes Road, #200 Portland Oregon 97225 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Our timberlands, mills, marketing department and distribution operations give us unparalleled flexibility within the industry to meet our customers' needs. Hampton Affiliates, Inc. is a vertically integrated lumber company and one of Oregon's top timber firms. It owns more than 155,000 acres of timberland, produces about …
Corporate Head Office Jebel Ali Free Zone P.O. Box 18006 Dubai United Arab Emirates Company Perspectives For nearly half a century, seafarers have been cabling, phoning and, more recently, e-mailing GAC, confident of a professional and courteous reception when they reached port. And it's precisely that peace of mind that has come to be associated with every aspect of GAC's operations today. From …
1924 Pearman Dairy Road Anderson South Carolina 29625-1303 U.S.A. Company Perspectives America's largest sweater company and a leading marketer and designer of women's related separates. Hampshire Group Ltd. is an Anderson, South Carolina-based apparel company and North America's largest designer and marketer of branded and private-label men's and women's sweaters, which are manufactured mostly i…