Brentwood House 169 King's Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4EF United Kingdom Amstrad plc, the consumer-electronics and computers manufacturer, has, since 1980, achieved a name for turning electronic products--television, video cassette recorders, word processors, personal computers, camcorders, and satellite dishes--into affordable goods found in homes and businesses throughout Europe, North America, …
1201 Lake Robbins Dr. The Woodlands, Texas 77380-1046 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At Anadarko, we strive for excellence in all that we do. We hire the best people in the business, then challenge and reward them for their efforts. We provide them training, technology and resources to do the job right. Our very low turnover rate is a true competitive advantage, helping us earn the reputation as a …
One Technology Way P.O. Box 9106 Norwood, Massachusetts 02062-9106 U.S.A. Analog Devices, Inc. is one of the world's leading producers of precision performance electronic components, including linear, mixed-signal, and digital integrated circuits, which are used to help convert sensory data into a digital format that can be understood by computers. Analog's integrated circuits are used in laborat…
55 Walkers Brook Drive Reading, Massachusetts 01867 U.S.A. The Analytic Sciences Corporation (TASC) is a leading provider of applied information technology services. The company is primarily a government contractor, providing services to the Department of Defense and the national security apparatus. Founded in the 1960s, TASC grew steadily throughout its early years, then expanded dramatically du…
1420 Broadway Hewlett, New York 11557 U.S.A. Anchor Bancorp, Inc., and its wholly owned subsidiary, Anchor Savings Bank F.S.B., are among the largest publicly owned savings and loan institutions in the United States. The bank focuses its activities on the New York metropolitan area, with additional operations in Florida. After 100 years of uneventful activity in Brooklyn, Anchor began to expand t…
100 Fourth Avenue North Bayport, Minnesota 55003-1096 U.S.A. Andersen Corporation is the world's largest wood window manufacturer and is believed to control roughly 15 percent of the domestic market. The 90-year-old company manufactures a wide variety of window styles, available in over 1,100 different sizes, at a single 63-acre plant in Bayport, Minnesota, alongside the St. Croix river. Although…
AmSouth Center 1900 Fifth Avenue North Birmingham, Alabama 35203 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: To succeed as a bank, we give you a quality of service you won't find anywhere else--a relationship that is unparalleled. That extra level of service begins, we believe, with six basic values that we practice at AmSouth every day: do more that is expected; if something's wrong, make it right; make time f…
1115 West Fifth Avenue P.O. Box 600 Lancaster, Ohio 43130-0600 U.S.A. Anchor Hocking Glassware has been one of the world's leading producers and marketers of glass tableware and ovenware for most of its nine decades in business. Acquisitions and mergers expanded the company's interests into glass containers, plastics, and hardware, increasing annual sales to a peak of more than $900 million in th…
1160 Ridder Park Drive San Jose, California 95131 U.S.A. Anthem Electronics, Inc. is one of the most successful and one of the largest semiconductor distributors in the United States. The company specializes in highly advanced, sophisticated technology products such as computer subsystems and other computer accessories, including RAMs (random access memory units), ROMs (read-only memory units), P…
200 East Randolph Drive Chicago, Illinois 60601 U.S.A. Amoco Corporation is active in three main fields within the petroleum, natural gas, and chemical industries: exploration and production, petroleum products, and chemical products. Amoco is the largest producer of natural gas in North America, sells gasoline through more than 9,600 service stations in 30 states, and produces such chemical prod…
P.O. Box 3608 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105-3608 U.S.A. AMP Incorporated is the world leader in electrical and electronic connection devices and interconnection systems, claiming 19 percent of the $19 billion worldwide interconnections market. Boasting more than 100,000 types and sizes of products in its line and a reputation for dependable customer service and high quality, AMP has long enjoyed…
424 South Woods Mill Road Chesterfield, Missouri 63017 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: To attract and maintain superior associates who are committed to building a results-oriented culture by providing customers with quality products and services in a timely fashion which will, consequently, add value over the long term for our shareholders. Angelica Corporation is a major manufacturer and retailer o…
Badstrasse 115 71336 Waiblingen Baden-Wuerttemburg Germany Company Perspectives: For a company that has managed to integrate technological advancement with old-world craftsmanship, the future can only yield greater expectations. Stihl is committed to designing and building high quality and innovative products. We are committed to our employees and to the future of the power equipment industry. Ba…
44 Main Street Johannesburg 2001 Republic of South Africa Company Perspectives: The Corporation will continue to follow its successful strategy of geographic and business diversity, within the still relevant and appropriate mining finance house structure, to seek out and exploit opportunity wherever it is and ensure the continuation of superior long-term growth. Formed in 1917 as South Africa's f…
500 Broadway Redwood City, California 94063-3199 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Ampex has excelled at processing and storing visual information for more years than most of today's technology companies have been in existence. As the world increasingly demands that information be created, stored, and transmitted in visual form, Ampex remains at the forefront of innovation. Ampex Corporation is among …
500 Renaissance Center Detroit, Michigan 48243 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: ANR is committed to being the highest value provider of natural gas services to our customers. ANR Pipeline Company, a subsidiary of the Coastal Corporation, operates one of the largest interstate natural gas pipeline systems in the United States. Through its 12,600 miles of pipeline and 200 billion cubic feet of undergro…
30 South Wacker Drive Chicago, Illinois 60606 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Ameritech is a trustworthy and caring leader energized to create innovative, simple solutions for our customers' expanding communication needs. Ameritech Corporation is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the United States. Ameritech's Bell Group, which provides exchange telecommunications and local and long…
709 East South Temple Salt Lake City, Utah 84102-1205 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The mission of American Stores Company is to be the premier, national, food and drug retailer, that understands and surpasses our customers' expectations for service, value, and convenience. Our success is directly dependent on our people who must work together as associates to fulfill this mission. Built largely t…
One Busch Plaza St. Louis, Missouri 63118 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Innovation, a long-standing strategy at Anheuser-Busch, represents the path to greatness. Adolphus Busch employed this strategy 120 years ago to make Budweiser the first national beer--using new ideas like pasteurizing beer, refrigerating railcars to transport it across the country and mobilizing grassroots salespeople to mark…
Anam Industrial Co., Ltd. 280-8 Songsu 2-ga Sungdong-gu Seoul Korea Amkor Electronics, Inc. 1345 Enterprise Drive West Chester, Pennsylvania 19380 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Since our early days, we have recognized the need to remain at the forefront of industry technology. We devoted an entire division to technology enhancing activities, and as consumer technology continues to advance at a rap…
815 Pilot Road, Suite G Las Vegas, Nevada 89119 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Anchor Gaming is a diversified gaming company that seeks to capitalize on its experience as an operator and developer of gaming machines and casinos by developing gaming oriented businesses. Anchor develops and distributes unique proprietary games, currently operates two casinos in Colorado, and operates one of the large…
Sunday River Access Road Bethel, Maine 04217 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Great snow, fast lifts, a wide range of terrain and outstanding services--these things skiers and riders demand. So we create these dynamic attractions that drive market share and increase revenues across all our businesses. Bethel, Maine-based American Skiing Company (ASC) is a holding company that operates through various…
4333 Amon Carter Boulevard Fort Worth, Texas 86155 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: To be the world's leading airline by focusing on industry leadership in the areas of: Safety, Service, Network, Product, Technology, Culture. AMR Corporation is a holding company whose principal subsidiary is American Airlines, Inc., which was founded in 1934. With the acquisition of Trans World Airlines, Inc. (TWA), …
1345 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10105 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Arthur Andersen is a global, multidisciplinary professional services organization that provides clients, large and small, all over the world, the thing they need most to succeed: knowledge. Our work is to acquire knowledge and to share knowledge--knowledge of how to improve performance in management, business proces…
P.O. Box 6820 One Centennial Avenue Piscataway, New Jersey 08855-6820 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: American Standard believes that its business and global diversity, coupled with its market leading positions and high level of profitability, provide a solid foundation for consistent growth and superior financial returns. American Standard Companies Inc. has its roots in the 19th century as a manuf…
2418 Main Street Rocky Hill, Connecticut 06067 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The Ames mission is to provide quality products for family and home at discount prices; provide a convenient and efficient shopping experience; achieve a sustainable competitive advantage; build and sustain strong supplier partnerships. Ames Department Stores, Inc. is one of the largest discount retailers in the United St…
7575 Fulton Street East Ada, Michigan 49355-0001 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Amway has become one of the world's largest direct selling companies by offering anyone the opportunity to have a business of their own. The pioneer of multilevel marketing (MLM), Amway Corporation manufactures and sells its own products as well as brand name products from other companies through a network of three mill…
8100 AMF Drive Richmond, Virginia 23111 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our long-term business strategy is designed to: Create a nationally recognized chain of bowling centers in the U.S. and key international markets. Leverage our brand and strong base of installed bowling equipment to grow sales of bowling products on a global basis. Become the employer of choice in our industry and in the communi…
385 Hall Avenue Wallingford, Connecticut 06492 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We have spent much effort in the past few years in moving our product lines to growth areas, especially in the communications market, and we have aggressively developed new products to address the rapid deployment of digital and fiber optic technology and the converging markets of voice, video and data communications. We …
4520 Main Street Kansas City, Missouri 64111 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The caretakers of a nation's culture are its storytellers. What is a culture, after all, but the collection of stories people tell about themselves through their music, art, dance and literature? Through the stories they tell, people remember their history and envision their future. They entertain and enlighten themselves. …
1705 Mariposa Street San Francisco, California 94107 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our brewers employ no modern short-cuts and each brew is virtually handmade with an all-malt mash, in our handmade copper brewhouse; a veritable museum of the simple, traditional brewhouses of old. While we strive to practice the art of classical brewing, we employ state-of-the-art methods to ensure that our product…
Brentwood House 169 King's Road Brentwood, Essex CM14 4EF United Kingdom Company Perspectives: The future of Amstrad lies in understanding the latest technology and then creating and developing products using that technology. At Amstrad, we are "Always Innovating." Amstrad plc, previously known as a consumer-electronics and computers manufacturer, achieved a name for itself by turning electronic …
Little Chalfont Buckinghamshire HP7 7NA United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Amersham is about visualising life at all levels within the human body--from the molecules and biochemicals that make our genetic structure, to cells, tissues, and organs. Our strategy is to build our position as a leading provider of products and technologies to enable the molecular medicine revolution, in which disease…
Press Office, International Secretariat Peter Benenson House 1 Easton Street London WC1X 0DW United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Amnesty International's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. Amnesty International undertakes research and action focused on prev…
20 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5AN United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Anglo American PLC, with its subsidiaries, joint ventures and associates, is a global leader in the mining and natural resources sectors. It has significant and focused interests in gold, platinum, diamonds, coal, base and ferrous metals, industrial minerals and forest products, as well as financial and technological st…
Tupoleva Street 1 03062 Kiev Ukraine Ukraine-based Antonov Design Bureau, a scientific and technical complex named after Oleg Konstantinovich (O.K.) Antonov, designs transport, regional, and special purpose aircraft. The bureau is engaged in designing and building new prototype aircraft and modifications of earlier designs, providing their operational support and follow-up engineering work on the…
6690 Beta Drive, Suite 300 Mayfield Village, Ohio 44143 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: "Where America Swims" is more than a slogan. It represents our base of more than 350,000 pools installed over the past 50 years and a reputation synonymous with quality and integrity. Anthony & Sylvan Pools Corporation is America's largest, and only, publicly traded installer of in-ground residential concrete swi…
Badstrasse 115 71336 Waiblingen Baden-Württemberg Germany Company Perspectives: Progress based on tradition. The basic values of STIHL's company culture have grown historically and evolved over a long period. STIHL has reached its leading position on world markets with a company philosophy formulated for the long term. The continuity in company management and the personal commitment of the owner…
Level 3, 678 Victoria Street Richmond, Victoria 3121 Australia Company Perspectives: Ansell's vision is to be a global leader in broad-based healthcare protection, providing exceptional solutions, products, and values to our customers. Ansell Ltd. operates as a multinational company that manufactures, distributes, and markets protective products and services related to professional, occupational,…
4 Station Square, Suite 200 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219-1119 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our Mission: To lead the high-performance segment of the EDA market by leveraging electromagnetics across component, circuit and system design. Ansoft Corporation is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based developer of electronic design automation (EDA) software, used by electrical engineers in the design of suc…
P.O. Box 959 Valley Forge, Pennsylvania 19482 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission is to build shareholder value by delivering pharmaceutical and healthcare products, services and solutions in innovative and cost effective ways. We will realize this mission by setting the highest standards in service, reliability, safety and cost containment in our industry. AmerisourceBergen Corporation is o…
30 Finsbury Square London EC2A 1AG United Kingdom Company Perspectives: AMVESCAP's mission is to Help People Worldwide Build Their Financial Security, and we do that by delivering superior investment performance and client service around the world. Our overall goal is to become one of the top players in every market we choose to compete in. AMVESCAP PLC is one of the largest independent investmen…
5 Princes Gate London SW7 1QJ United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Antofagasta is a large scale, low cost copper producer with good opportunities for growth. Antofagasta plc is one of the world's leading producers of copper, with total production levels nearing 472,000 tons in 2003. The focus of the company's operations is its Los Pelambres mine site, which began production in 2001 and has extend…
9360 Towne Centre Drive, Suite 110 San Diego, California 92121 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Amylin Pharmaceuticals is committed to improving the lives of people with diabetes and other metabolic diseases through the discovery, development, and commercialization of innovative, cost-effective medicines. Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops medicines to treat diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular d…
33 West Monroe Street Chicago, Illinois 60603 U.S.A. Andersen is the name encompassing Arthur Andersen LLP and other international entities that were members of Andersen Worldwide SC, once the massive umbrella organization overseeing Arthur Andersen & Co. and Andersen Consulting. After being convicted in 2002 of obstructing justice in relation to the Securities and Exchange Commission's investiga…
1800 Onna, Atsugi-shi Kanagawa 243-8555 Japan Company Perspectives: Company Philosophy: Anritsu, with sincerity, harmony, and enthusiasm, will contribute to creating an affluent ubiquitous network society by providing "Original & High Level" products and services. Company Vision: To be a shining light by contributing to the development of the global network society. To be a global market leader b…
600 Travis, Suite 4200 Houston, Texas 77002 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Straight talk is how we communicate--with clients, colleagues, courts and adversaries. It's our promise to give you advice instead of just options, the bottom line instead of lawyer-speak, and the truth about where you stand and what we think. Though our individual styles may vary, our constant goal is to cut through confusi…
700 North Central Avenue, Suite 550 Glendale, California 91203 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our objective is to continue to strengthen our competitive position a s the preferred provider of business-to-business document mana gement, document distribution and logistics, and print-on-dema nd services. American Reprographics Company (ARC) is the largest reprographics com pany in the United States, p…
203 Cooper Avenue North P.O. 1377 St. Cloud, Minnesota 56302 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Behind the trucks and the technology there are always THE PEOPLE OF A TS. Our employees are the real reason ATS is such a spectacular opera tion. We attract--and keep--the best, working hard to make ATS a plac e that good talented people want to be. In all honesty we can say tha t Anderson Trucking Service, …
P.O. Box 7868 Santa Rosa, California 95407 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Have you ever noticed how something almost magic happens when you coo k your own food from scratch? How you connect with each ingredient an d feel your way through each step of the creation? How you use your s enses to make even the smallest adjustments toward perfection? This " magic" happens every day at Amy's. When people …