2700 Colorado Avenue Santa Monica California 90404 United States As one of the nation's largest health-care providers, National Medical Enterprises has continually adjusted its own strategies to accommodate a rapidly changing market. National Medical Enterprises (NME) spent its first decade building and acquiring medical facilities and related services. Industry changes during the mid-1980s promp…
Ayatollah Taleghani Street Tehran Iran National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) is the state-owned oil company of Iran, which was Persia until 1935. Its evolution has been shaped by the turbulent history of that country since World War II. Today NIOC is a very large oil-producing company, but one whose future continues to depend on political developments in Iran. NIOC was formed as a result of tension…
30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, New York 10112 U.S.A. The National Fuel Gas Company is an integrated public utility holding company whose operating companies explore, produce, store, and distribute natural gas, build natural gas delivery pipelines, and operate saw mills and dry kilns. The company has 714,700 customers in its primary service areas of western New York State and northwestern Pennsylv…
7 Campus Drive Parsippany, New Jersey 07054 U.S.A. For nearly a century, Nabisco has been one of the most widely recognized names in the American food industry. Today Nabisco Foods Group (formerly Nabisco Brands, Inc.) is among the world's largest manufacturers of cookies and crackers, featuring such famous brands as Oreo, Fig Newtons, and Premium Saltines. Nabisco Brands was formed in 1981 throu…
44 Franklin Street P.O. Box 2002 Nashua, New Hampshire 03061-2002 U.S.A. Nashua Corporation in Nashua, New Hampshire, is a medium-sized company that conducts a variety of businesses. Its core enterprises are photofinishing (processing of film), the manufacture and sale of coated products such as thermosensitive paper and adhesive tapes, computer product manufacture (primarily computer disks), and…
1735 K Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20006-1500 U.S.A. The National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD), is a self-regulating association that runs NASDAQ, an automated over-the-counter stock market which lists the shares of more than 4,600 companies. NASDAQ is the second largest stock market, in terms of dollar values of trade, in the world, and the fastest growing securities market in …
7700 France Avenue South Minneapolis, Minnesota 55435 U.S.A. National Car Rental System, Inc. (or National Interrent, the corporate tagline), is one of the foremost car rental businesses in the world. Privately held National features vehicles made by General Motors (which owns an 81.5 percent share in the company) and functions as a leading partner--with Tilden Interrent, Europcar Interrent, and …
2001 Rexford Road Charlotte, North Carolina 28211 U.S.A. The National Gypsum Company, the second largest producer and supplier of gypsum wallboard and related products in the United States, emerged from bankruptcy and legal difficulties in 1993 as a leaner and financially stronger company. With eight mines and quarries, 24 manufacturing and processing plants, and a network of chartered rail, sea,…
9 West 57th Street New York, New York 10019 U.S.A. National Patent Development Corporation (NPD), incorporated in Delaware in 1959, is primarily a holding company, a legal entity separate and distinct from its various operating subsidiaries. NPD's operations comprise three business segments: Physical Science, Distribution, and Optical Plastics. In addition, National Patent has numerous investment…
1900 East 9th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44114-3484 U.S.A. With more than $32 billion in assets and over 600 branch offices in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, National City Corp. is the third-largest bank holding company headquartered in Ohio and ranks among the top twenty banks in the United States in terms of assets. While the 150-year-old institution grew rapidly in the late twentieth century era of …
30000 Aurora Road Solon, Ohio 44139 U.S.A. National Auto Credit, Inc. is a "new" company with a 25-year heritage. In 1994, the firm shifted its focus from the insurance-replacement segment of the auto rental industry to used car sales and financing. Its initial establishment as Agency Rent-A-Car in 1971 formed the foundation of the insurance-replacement segment of the auto rental industry, consis…
1293 S. Main Street Akron, Ohio 44301 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: "Myers Industries, Inc. is a diversified manufacturer of polymer and metal products for industrial, commercial, and consumer markets, and a nationwide wholesale distributor of tools, equipment, and supplies used in tire servicing and automotive underbody repair. Myers Industries has been traded publicly since 1971 and is listed on…
1500 Corporate Drive, Suite 400 Canonsburg, Pennsylvania 15317-8580 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: By focusing on key principles of quality and integrity, Mylan has established a position of leadership in the pharmaceutical industry; in fact, today, Mylan is the #1 most widely dispensed line of pharmaceuticals in America. The company's success can be attributed to outstanding management, dedicated …
2 South Portage St. Westfield, New York 14787 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: To develop, produce and distribute products of the highest quality and provide prompt and efficient customer service. To provide a secure, expanding market to national Grape Co-operative members and return to them the best possible proceeds for their agricultural products. To hold in highest respect the dignity of its empl…
P.O. Box 759 Rose Hill, North Carolina 28458 U.S.A. The largest swine production company in the United States, Murphy Family Farms Inc. supervises operations that raise piglets to hogs for slaughter in a six-state territory. Murphy Family Farms contracts with other farmers to use their land and their labor to fatten hogs for market, relying on 500 contract farmers in North Carolina, Oklahoma, Mis…
6504 Bridge Point Parkway Austin, Texas 78730-5039 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: National Instruments manufactures software and hardware products for personal computers (PCs) and workstations that scientists and engineers use to build their own specific instruments, known as "virtual instruments." These user-defined systems are for test and measurement and industrial automation applications such a…
1801 W. International Speedway Boulevard Daytona Beach, Florida 32115 U.S.A. The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, known as NASCAR, is the official sanctioning body for the sport of stock car racing. Stock car racing is a competition between cars that use standard auto bodies instead of specially designed exteriors. Stock car racing had a tremendous rise in popularity in the 1990s, …
29-10 Hunters Point Avenue Long Island City, New York 11101 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At National we have one focus, supplying envelopes to the trade! If it's considered an envelope, we make it. Our assortment includes envelopes from commercial and official regulars to custom designed booklets for special direct mail uses, and everything in between. By specializing in one thing, envelopes, Nat…
1251 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10020 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We are proud of our Canadian heritage, our international presence, and of the fact that an increasing number of NHL players come from outside North America, with many countries now represented among the ranks of our players. In recent decades, the NHL's challenge has been to move beyond being perceived as a cold wea…
7600 France Avenue South P.O. Box 355 Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440-0355 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Nash Finch is a high performance organization specializing in the wholesale and retail distribution of supermarket products. Our wholesale operation is sales driven and relentlessly focused on premier service and low cost. In retailing, Nash Finch dominates its primary trade areas through convenie…
702 Highway 82 West Greenwood, Mississippi 38930-1910 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: National is committed to delivering value and fashion in home decor. The company's value orientation is rooted in low-cost production with a fashion focus to bring product to market quickly with attractive margins for retailers at compelling prices. National Picture & Frame Company is a major designer, manufacturer…
10 Mountain Springs Parkway Springville, Utah 84663 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Mission Statement: To benefit the quality of human health and promote positive health care choices by developing, manufacturing, and marketing preventative, curative and nutritive health care products of primarily natural origin. Murdock Madaus Schwabe is an international leader in the herbal or natural products indu…
700 Broadway New York, New York 10003-9562 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The mission of the National Audubon Society is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems by focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats, for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity. The National Audubon Society (NAS or the Society), one of the largest private conservation organizations in this …
One North University Drive Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33324 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Flavors are the primary focus of the company, with superior quality as the masthead of the corporate philosophy. National Beverage's full line of branded, multi-flavored soft drinks, including colas, teas, bottled waters and juice products, satisfy a wide range of consumers. A leading second-tier beverage compa…
15821 Ventura Boulevard Encino, California 91436 U.S.A. National Media Corporation is the world's largest publicly held direct response (infomercial) television company and a leader in the growing world of electronic commerce. The company broadcasts more than 3,000 half hours of programming each week throughout the world, bringing its programming to more than 370 million television households in …
200 Elm Street Dedham, Massachusetts 02026 U.S.A. One of the ten largest U.S.-based movie theater chains, National Amusements Inc. operates more than 1,200 screens in the United States, the United Kingdom, and in South America. A privately held company owned by Sumner M. Redstone and his family, National Amusements operates as the parent company of Viacom Inc., which includes Paramount Communicat…
30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, New York 10112-0002 U.S.A. A broadcasting giant, National Broadcasting Company, Inc., through the NBC Television Network, serves more than 200 affiliate stations in the United States. During the late 1990s, NBC ranked as the number one network in the country, attracting more viewers than rivals ABC, CBS, and Fox. In the early 1990s, NBC ranked as the third network, …
10 Exchange Place Jersey City, New Jersey 07302 U.S.A. National Discount Brokers Group, Inc. is a holding company for National Discount Brokers, a discount broker mainly serving individual investors, and Sherwood Securities, a wholesale market maker specializing in NASDAQ and small-cap over-the-counter stocks. The company also had a controlling interest in Equitrade Partners, a wholesale market m…
280 Park Avenue New York, New York 10017 U.S.A. The governing body for the most popular spectator sport in the United States, the National Football League (NFL) serves as a trade association for 30 U.S.-based franchised teams and operates an American football league in Europe under the name NFL Europe League. The owners of the franchised teams operated their teams much like stand-alone businesses…
1145 17th Street NW Washington D.C. 20036-4688 U.S.A. Company Perspectives After more than a century the National Geographic Society today is propelled by new concerns: the alarming lack of geographic knowledge among our nation's young people and the pressing need to protect the planet's natural resources. As our mission grows in urgency and scope, the Society continues to develop new and excitin…
10400 Yellow Circle Drive Minnetonka, Minnesota 55343 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: As the leader in the entertainment retailing industry, we are embracing new tech-savvy strategies which will enhance and integrate our online and in-store presence to increase customer loyalty, customer retention and, thus, revenue. Our annual cash flow, upwards of $100 million, enables us to implement new strategi…
New Court, Saint Swithin's Lane London EC4P 4DU United Kingdom Company Perspectives: N M Rothschild & Sons is committed to the pursuit of excellence and for this reason concentrates on sectors and markets in which commitment and expertise are more vital than numbers. Where it chooses to compete, the bank ranks with the very best. Its influence and reputation flow from the quality of its people an…
86 Eolou Street Athens 102 32 Greece Company Perspectives: National Bank of Greece, the oldest and largest among Greek banks, heads the strongest financial group in the country. It boasts a dynamic profile internationally, particularly in Southeastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean. National Bank of Greece (NBG) has been a focal point of Greek business and financial life almost from the tim…
6 à 10 boulevard Foch 93807 Epinay sur Seine Cedex France Company Perspectives: The NAF NAF Group is winning back its clientele with both NAFNAF and Chevignon brands strengthened in France and abroad. The NAF NAF Group is poised to make its mark on fashion in the next millennium. France's Naf Naf SA is one of France's top ten women's clothing retailers, operating retail boutiques throughout the …
Highway 265 North Springdale, Arkansas 72765 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At National Home Centers we are very proud to be Arkansas' own home building supplier. We are headquartered in Northwest Arkansas and have been serving the building materials and home improvement needs of the state for 27 years. We appreciate the loyalty our customers have shown us and we're dedicated to offering quality pr…
Königinstrasse 107 D-80791 Munich Germany Company Perspectives: We are developing modern insurance solutions: In a world characterized by change, insurers are faced with ever-new challenges. We support our business partners by identifying future trends, generating future knowledge and developing joint products for the challenges of tomorrow. In this central task, our longstanding tradition of in…
1181 Route 22 Mountainside, New Jersey 07092-22807 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: NEMC supports musicians, the music industry, and musical education with a variety of services, all backed by a commitment to quality and performance. Located in Mountainside, New Jersey, National Educational Music Co. Ltd. (NEMC) is dedicated to providing musical instruments to schoolchildren. NEMC operates the only n…
75 Davies Street London W1Y 1FA United Kingdom Company Perspectives: We operate local transport businesses which are run by local people to meet the needs of the communities we serve. We conduct our business to ensure that these communities receive both economic and social benefits. Our 40,000 employees are committed to improving the quality, value for money and the safety of all our services. We…
25 Research Drive Westborough, Massachusetts 01582 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission is to be a U.S. energy delivery leader through innovation and continuous improvement in safety, service quality, and efficiency, and by operating in an environmentally and ethically responsible manner to the benefit of customers, shareholders, and employees alike. National Grid USA was formed when London-b…
10000 Richmond Avenue Houston, Texas 77042-4200 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: National Oilwell designs, manufactures and sells the major mechanical components for both land and offshore drilling rigs as well as complete land drilling and well servicing rigs. National Oilwell, Inc. is the worldwide leader in providing oil and gas drilling equipment and supplies for offshore and land-based drilling,…
733 15th Street N.W., 2nd Floor Washington, D.C. 20005-2112 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The purpose of NOW is to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all the privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men. The National Organization For Women, Inc., better known by its acronym NOW, is a Washington, D.…
Ballycurreen, Airport Road Company Perspectives: Musgrave's mission is to strive to create and share exceptional added value through: Food distribution businesses, which are different and better. Working closely with customers and suppliers. The empowerment of employees. Musgrave Group Plc is Ireland's largest wholesale grocery distributor and the franchiser of two leading Irish grocery chains. I…
1603 Orrington Avenue, Suite 1600 Evanston, Illinois 60201 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: For equipment rentals or sales, depend on NES to deliver the goods! Based in Evanston, Illinois, National Equipment Services, Inc. (NES) is one of the leading equipment rental companies, offering more than 750 different types of general and specialty equipment to industrial and construction firms. NES operates…
989 Spaulding Avenue SE Grand Rapids, Michigan 49546 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Mission: Challenging children to achieve their greatest potential. Vision: Our shared vision is to build a national organization of over 200 charter schools that become the finest K-8 schools in the country. Using a partnership with parents as our foundation, we will achieve this by combining rigorous, "back-to-basi…
Hafez Crossing, Taleghani Avenue Tehran Iran Company Perspectives: Now in its 24th year of self-reliance, the national petroleum industry is moving on with full strength and confidence utilizing up-to-date technology, powerful and innovative management, highly skilled and creative manpower resources, and a futuristic approach to planning development projects. The second largest producer of oil am…
787 Seventh Avenue, 49th Floor New York, New York 10019 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Headquartered in New York, NFP operates a national distribution network with over 1,300 producers in 40 states and Puerto Rico consisting of more than 135 owned firms and more than 180 affiliated third party distributors specializing in life insurance and wealth transfer, corporate and executive benefits, and fee…
Bashir Sadawi Street Tripoli Libya Company Perspectives: NOC is carrying out exploration and production operations through its own affiliated companies, or in participation with other companies under service contracts or any other kind of petroleum investment agreements. This is in addition to marketing operations of oil and gas, locally and abroad. For this purpose, NOC has its own fully owned c…
1501 M Street, NW Suite 300 Washington, D.C. 20005 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: National Journal Group Inc. is committed to providing publications and services that are nonpartisan, reliable and of the highest quality. National Journal Group Inc. (NJ), based in Washington, D.C., is a nonpartisan publisher of daily, weekly, and monthly magazines and newsletters, as well as books and directories, d…
Stuttgarter Strasse 55-57 D-73033 Göppingen Germany Company Perspectives: True-to-Life and Practical Modeling. With our models we strive to achieve an optimal synthesis between original details and practical robustness, taking the model size into account. This is not a rigid process, but it always results in more sophisticated models, due to improved materials and refined production techniques. …
26 Harbor Park Drive Port Washington New York 11050 U.S.A. Company Perspectives The focus of NMHC's Total Healthcare Solutions is on outcomes--better health outcomes for members and better cost outcomes for plan sponsors. This unique approach is based on our ability to access and analyze a rich set of pharmacy and medical claims data across the entire health plan. With this information and intell…