Imperial Chemical House Millbank London SW1P 3JF England Imperial Chemical Industries was formed by the 1926 merger of Great Britain's four major chemical companies: Nobel Industries Limited, the United Alkali Company, the British Dyestuffs Corporation and Brunner, Mond and Company Limited. The birth of the ICI coincided with the rise of the two other great chemical cartels, namely, Du Pont and t…
Royal Trust Tower Toronto-Dominion Centre Toronto Ontario M5K 1N4 Canada Inco Limited has been the world's leading producer of nickel since it was founded in 1902. Though it no longer has the monopoly it once had, Inco still supplies 35% of the free world's nickel, and after weathering the commodities recession of the early and mid-1980s its earnings have soared to record heights in the recent pa…
Indian Oil Bhavan G9, Ali Yavar Jung Marg Bandra (East), Bombay 400051 India The Indian Oil Corporation, a 100% state-owned company, is the largest commercial organization in India and ranks among the 100 largest industrial corporations in the world. Since 1959, this refining, marketing, and international trading company has served the Indian state with the important task of reducing India's depe…
500 South 27th Street Decatur, Illinois 62525 U.S.A. The Illinois Power Company is the second largest provider of gas and electricity in Illinois. It supplies electricity to more than 1.25 million subscribers in 309 municipalities and gas to more than 900,000 subscribers in 257 Illinois communities. Illinois Power has three belts of operation across the state: northern, central, and southern. Ill…
2100 Sanders Road Northbrook, Illinois 60062 U.S.A. IMC Fertilizer Group, Inc. (IMCF) was created in 1988 when the onetime International Minerals & Chemicals Corporation divested its fertilizer assets in the form of a new, publicly traded company. As the fertilizer market was then in the midst of a long and disastrous slump, the spin-off proved to be most beneficial for the parent company, which …
150 N. Clinton Chicago, Illinois 60661 U.S.A. Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), the world's second largest market research company, provides customers with a broad range of services designed to assist in making marketing decisions. The company's Information Services Group develops and maintains computerized databases that enable consumer packaged goods companies to accurately monitor the effecti…
455 North Cityfront Plaza Drive Chicago, Illinois 60611 U.S.A. Illinois Central Corporation owns and operates the oldest land-grant railroad in the United States, the Illinois Central Railroad. That rail system encompasses 2,700 miles of freight railroad lines, traverses six states between Chicago and the Gulf of Mexico, and is the tenth largest railroad in the nation. The Illinois Central Railro…
40 West 57th Street New York, New York 10019 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Infinity seeks to maintain substantial diversity among its radio stations in many respects. The geographically wide-ranging stations serve diverse target demographics through a broad range of programming formats, such as rock, oldies, news/talk, adult contemporary, sports/talk, and country. This diversity provides advertise…
One Belle Meade Place 4400 Harding Road Nashville, Tennessee 37205 U.S.A. Ingram Industries, Inc. is a privately held Nashville-based company with a broad array of activities. The company is the leading distributor of books in the United States, through its Ingram Book group. Ingram Book's subsidiaries also wholesale videocassettes, magazines, and other materials. Ingram Marine is the third large…
P.O. Box 149 Pascagoula, Mississippi 39568-0149 U.S.A. Ingalls Shipbuilding, a division of Litton Industries, is a leading supplier and servicer of marine vessels to the United States Navy and also builds ships for some allied navies. With approximately 14,000 employees, Ingalls was Mississippi's largest employer and one of the most financially healthy shipyards in the United States going into th…
362 Lakeside Drive Foster City, California 94404 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: People who work or study in public and academic libraries, corporations, governments, hospitals, schools, and homes rely upon Information Access Company for useful, current information in databases that are easy to access and simple to use. Information Access Company (IAC) is among the worldwide leaders in providing per…
4199 Campus Drive, 9th Floor Irvine, California 92715 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: In-N-Out Burger exists for the purpose of: 1. providing the freshest, highest-quality foods and services for a profit and a spotless, sparkling environment whereby the customer is our most important asset; 2. providing a team-oriented atmosphere whereby goal-setting and communications exist and providing excellent …
One Imation Place Oakdale, Minnesota 55128-3414 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Imation's vision is to deliver unsurpassed value to our customers, shareholders, employees and communities throughout the world. In the closing months of 1995, Minnesota's 3M Corporation, one of the bluest of America's blue-chip companies, announced that five of its businesses would be spun off the following year to form…
Post Office Box 6676 Asheville, North Carolina 28816 U.S.A. Ingles Markets, Inc. is a regional supermarket chain with 188 stores in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, and Alabama. Most stores are located in rural areas, small towns, or suburban communities within 250 miles of the firm's headquarters/distribution center in Asheville, North Carolina. Ingles Markets also o…
3600 West Lake Avenue Glenview Illinois 60026-1215 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Founded in 1912, ITW's recipe for success has been consistent: value added products and outstanding service win the day with customers. We place a high premium on the development of highly engineered products and systems, most of which are developed in tandem with our customers. And we continue to ensure that our custo…
27700B SW Parkway Avenue Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-9812 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: In Focus Systems, Inc. was founded and incorporated in 1986 to develop, manufacture and market innovative multimedia projection products using flat-panel liquid crystal display (LCD) technology to present video, audio, graphics and data output from personal computers (PCs), workstations, VCRs, laser disc players …
Two Penn Plaza New York, New York 10001 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Information Builders develops and markets software and professional services for the creation of high-performance business information systems at large, data-intensive organizations. These products and services form an integrated yet open technology framework for Enterprise Data Access, Enterprise Decision Support Systems, Data …
One Imperial Square Post Office Box 9 Sugar Land, Texas 77487-0009 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: In 1999, we changed our name from Imperial Holly Corporation to Imperial Sugar Company. A name recognized and trusted in the food industry for over 150 years. Although our name says 'sugar' we are much more. Imperial Sugar Company maintains a portfolio of successful consumer sugar brands, has expanded …
82-84, rue du 1er Mars 1943 69628 Villeurbanne Cedex France Company Perspectives: Entertainment is the key to Infogrames' products, but a big part of Infogrames' philosophy is that all of the company's games should give something more to the consumer. Our products are about growth and reward as well as entertainment. The best games are designed to facilitate growth in the person who is playing, w…
111 St. Clair Avenue West Toronto, Ontario M5W 1K3 Canada Company Perspectives: Imperial Oil Limited is one of Canada's largest corporations and has been a leading member of the country's petroleum industry for more than a century. The company's mission is to create value for its shareholders through the development and sale of hydrocarbon energy and related products. Imperial Oil Limited is Cana…
5 Limburglaan 6229 GA Maastricht The Netherlands Company Perspectives: Only Indigo combines the quality of offset printing with the power of digital imaging, and the versatility of practically limitless substrates. Indigo NV is a pioneering developer and manufacturer of digital printing systems using patented liquid ink technology. Indigo's line of printers enable high-speed, short-run, high-qual…
1009 Lenox Drive Building 4 West Lawrenceville, New Jersey 08648 U.S.A. Imo Industries Inc. is a multinational industrial manufacturer. The company manufactures a wide array of products through three core divisions: the Power Transmission business segment which designs and manufactures electronic speed motor drives, speed reducers, and various gears; the Pumps business segment which designs and m…
1630 North Meridian Street Indianapolis, Indiana 46202-1496 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Indiana Energy is committed to maximizing returns to investors, commensurate with business risk, and to providing long-term value to our customers by delivering high-quality, competitively priced products and services. All this we accomplish through our most important assets, our employees, and through suppor…
2525 Speakman Drive Sheridan Science and Technology Park Mississauga, Ontario L5K 1B1 Canada Imax Corporation, founded in 1967 and headquartered in Mississauga, Canada, is the pioneer and leader of giant-screen, large-format film entertainment, as well as the industry leader in the creation and production of high-end rides and attractions. Successful products include IMAX Simulator Rides and IMAX…
4100 Bohannon Dr. Menlo Park, California 94025 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Informix is leading the next great wave in database innovation to enable the world's leading corporations to manage and grow their businesses. With its focused technology strategy, superior customer service, and best-of-breed partnerships, Informix is the demonstrated technology leader for corporate computing environments…
Electronics City, Hosur Road Bangalore 561 229 India Company Perspectives: We are a world leader in providing IT [information technology] consulting and software services. We offer offshore-software services, such as application development, software maintenance, Internet consulting, and establishing software development centers in different parts of the world to provide high quality rapid time-t…
Tour Maine-Montparnasse 33, avenue du Maine 75755 Paris Cedex 15 France Company Perspectives: Imerys pursues a value-creating growth strategy: using its substantial mineral reserves and sophisticated processing expertise, the Group supplies technically advanced products that are essential to the success of a diversified customer base. Known as Imetal until 1999, Imerys S.A. has transformed itself…
521 W. 57th Street, 6th Floor New York, New York 10019 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: IMPATH's mission is to be the definitive, comprehensive resource for the cancer care community. Based in New York City, IMPATH Inc. describes itself as a cancer information company. Originally founded to conduct cancer testing and analysis on an outsourcing basis for smaller hospitals that lacked the sophisticated…
145 King Street West, Suite 1500 Toronto, Ontario M5H 4B7 Canada Company Perspectives: Our goal is to become the most profitable nickel producer in the world. At Inco, we are making good progress toward that goal through our three-part strategy. Our strategy is: to be a low-cost producer at all our operations; to pursue profitable and low-cost growth at our development properties; to grow our spe…
Airlines House 113 Gurudwara Rakabganj Road New Delhi 110 001 India Company Perspectives: Indian Airline's has been setting the standards for civil aviation in India since its inception in 1953. It has many firsts to its credit, including introduction of the wide-bodied A300 aircraft on the domestic network, the fly-by-wire A320, Domestic Shuttle Service, and Walk-in Flights. Its unique orange an…
4790 West 16th Street Indianapolis, Indiana 46222 U.S.A. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation is a family-owned enterprise whose main business is the operation of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indy Racing League. One of the most famous races in all of motor sports--the Indianapolis 500--is run at IMS every Memorial Day weekend. The Indy Racing League began in 1996, with Tony Geor…
7100 Grade Lane Louisville, Kentucky 40232 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our objective is to reduce your waste expense, increase your recycling revenues, recommend equipment and finance options and utilize our technology division to better prepare your company for the Second Industrial Revolution. As the first public company in the waste industry, our personnel are committed and focused to deliver…
2777 Summer Street, Suite 209 Stamford, Connecticut 06905 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Information Holdings Inc. is a leading provider of information products and services to scientific, technical, medical, intellectual property, and IT learning markets. Through its Intellectual Property Group, which includes MicroPatent, Master Data Center, Liquent, IDRAC, and LPS Group, IHI provides a broad arr…
Core-2 Scope Complex, 7, Institutional Area Lodhi Road New Delhi 1100 003 India Company Perspectives: We strive be a major diversified, transnational, integrated energy company, with national leadership and a strong environmental conscience, playing a national role in oil security and public distribution. The Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. operates as the largest company in India in terms of turnove…
70 Valley Stream Parkway Malvern, Pennsylvania 19355 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At IKON, we believe delivering value to our shareholders is best accomplished by delivering value to our customers. Now more than ever, customers are searching for ways to gain efficiency and are looking at technology and document processes to streamline work flow and deliver improved productivity. Through the produ…
1245 San Carlos Avenue San Carlos, California 94070 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Imagine Foods' President and CEO, Robert Nissenbaum, says of his company: "Having experienced the benefits of a natural foods diet on my quality of life as well as the environment, I wanted to make great-tasting natural foods products that would make it easier for people to adopt a healthier lifestyle. It takes more …
20 Manchester Square London W1U 3AN United Kingdom Company Perspectives: ICI's vision is to be the industry leader in creating value for customers and shareholders. ICI will succeed by operating at the highest levels of excellence, acquiring unrivalled knowledge of key markets and using technology creatively. The result will be products which deliver greater benefits for the company's customers, …
P.O. Box 244 Upton Road Bristol BS99 7UJ United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Imperial Tobacco's strategy is based on five key objectives: to focus on tobacco and tobacco-related products, to strengthen our market position in the United Kingdom, to extend our international presence through both organic growth and acquisitions, to pursue opportunities for profitable international development in se…
St.-Martin-Strasse 53 81669 Munich Germany Company Perspectives: We create and maximize value for our customers, shareholders, and employees by: Designing, manufacturing, and marketing the industry's most advanced semiconductor solutions and services; building upon our core competencies and our technological strength, we strive to offer our customers the industry's most comprehensive range of con…
1600 East St. Andrews Place Santa Ana, California 92705 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Ingram Micro is a global market leader with a vast network of resources and infrastructure unrivaled in the IT supply chain management industry. As the largest global wholesale distributor of computer and electronics products, Ingram Micro Inc. acts as the middleman between manufacturers and a wide range of retai…
John Stenbergin ranta 2 P.O. Box 790 FIN-00101 Helsinki Finland Company Perspectives: Our aim at Imatra Steel is to be the best supplier in the supply chain through consistent profitability, top quality, and first-class performance. We place heavy priority on developing our operating efficiency, customer partnerships, and networking abilities in order to create added value and ensure continued cu…
1499 Post Road Fairfield, Connecticut 06430 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our Vision: To enable our clients to help people throughout the world live longer, happier, and healthier lives. Our Mission: To be integral to our clients' success by delivering critical business intelligence, decision support, and services that enable them to optimize their performance and advance the quality of healthcare…
180 Varick Street New York, New York 10014 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: ImClone Systems' goal is to become a fully-integrated biopharmaceutical company that has the capability and resources to take its novel pipeline compounds and develop them from the research and development stage through to commercial manufacture, marketing and sales. ImClone Systems Inc., a biotech company based in New York C…
601 West Cordova Street, Suite 300 Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1G1 Canada Company Perspectives: Since beginning with a single parking lot in 1962, our company has single-mindedly concentrated on developing our chosen area of expertise-parking. Imperial Parking Corporation, based in Vancouver, Canada, is the largest provider of parking services in Canada and the fourth largest in North America…
468 King Street West, Suite 500 Toronto, Ontario M5V 1L8 Canada Company Perspectives: We said in the very beginning that we wanted to create a true booklovers' haven--a place to discover books, music, and more that might, in the rush of life, have gone undiscovered. A place that reflects the best of a small proprietor-run shop bundled with the selection of a true emporium. Indigo Books & Music In…
Independent House 2023 Bianconi Avenue Citywest Business Campus Naas Road Dublin 24 Ireland Company Perspectives: "We rise at dawn in Auckland with the New Zealand Herald and continue the day through Australia and the Queensland Times and our 14 other regional titles, our four million radio listeners at nine stations in Australia, through to the Cape Times and South Africa's largest paper, the St…
4700 21st Street Racine, Wisconsin 53406 United States Company Perspectives: Our sales force has always been aimed at the customer and our management team has always been focused on the industry because we think it's the right thing to do. We don't want to just look at ways of making more disposers--we want to help make the industry a better place. That commitment has been evident during our enti…
2525 Speakman Drive Sheridan Science and Technology Park Mississauga L5K 1B1 Canada Company Perspectives At the heart of the IMAX vision lie three qualities: a commitment to our customers and shareholders; a commitment to excellence; and a commitment to delivering the best entertainment experiences through new technologies. IMAX Corporation, founded in 1967 and headquartered in Mississauga, Canad…
1360 East 9th Street, Suite 100 Cleveland Ohio 44114 U.S.A. Company Perspectives IMG is the world's largest, most diverse and only truly global company dedicated to the marketing and management of sport, leisure and lifestyle. IMG, once known as International Management Group, is the world's leading sports and lifestyle management and marketing company, representing more than 1,000 clients. The f…
1259 NW 21st Street Pompano Beach Florida 33069 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Mission: To become the premier manufacturer and distributor of selected building products and achieve consistent levels of profitability sufficient to increase stockholder value. Based in Pompano Beach, Florida, Imperial Industries, Inc. is a NASDAQ-listed company that manufactures and distributes building materials, prim…