1, Koedong dong Pohangshi Kyongbak Republic of Korea Pohang Iron and Steel Company (POSCO), 70% owned by the government of the Republic of Korea, is an integrated iron and steel producer which, since starting production in 1973, has enabled Korean industry to move from virtually complete dependence on imported iron and steel to reliance on domestic supplies for most needs. The 1lth-largest steel …
30 St. James's Square London SW1Y 4PY United Kingdom The Post Office, the largest carrier of mail and parcels in the United Kingdom, is organized as a group with three separate business divisions. Royal Mail, with its monopoly of the letter service, is profitable; Parcelforce, which competes with private firms in the delivery of parcels, makes a loss; and Post Office Counters makes a modest profi…
151 Easton Boulevard Preston, Maryland 21655 U.S.A. The Preston Corporation is a holding company for three trucking lines: Preston Trucking Company, Saia Motor Freight Line, Inc., and Smalley Transportation Company, which together provide long- and short-haul freight transportation services throughout the eastern United States. The company boasts high productivity and a solid relationship with it…
121 S.W. Salmon St. Portland, Oregon 97204 U.S.A. Portland General Corporation is a diversified holding company whose main subsidiary, Portland General Electric Co. (PGE), generates, buys, transmits, distributes, and sells electricity to more than 580,000 customers in northwestern Oregon. The company's other large subsidiary, Portland General Holdings, provides financial flexibility for nonutilit…
1900 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, DC 20068 U.S.A. Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO) is an investor-owned utility serving the electricity needs of 1.9 million people in the Washington, D.C., area. Its territory, which includes the District of Columbia as well as major portions of Montgomery and Prince George's Counties in Maryland, is characterized by an affluent population and balance…
400 Main Street East Hartford, Connecticut 06108 U.S.A. Pratt & Whitney is one of the largest aircraft engine manufacturers in the world. The company gained a leading position in the piston-driven aircraft engine market during the 1930s and made the transition to jet engines during the early 1950s. Today Pratt & Whitney manufactures only jet engines, while smaller engines and those for propeller …
4500 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44103 U.S.A. Premier Industrial Corporation is one of the United States' largest broad-line electronics distributors. It has a record of conservative yet outstanding performance: record earnings in 31 of 33 years as a publicly-traded company, and a balance sheet with 30 percent cash. Despite more than a dozen acquisitions, Premier Industrial Corporation has neve…
One PMS Center Blythewood, South Carolina 29016 U.S.A. Policy Management Systems Corporation (PMSC) provides computer software and information services that help property/casualty and life insurance companies manage their policies. The company's more than 90 software systems provide for the automation of many basic insurance processing functions such as underwriting, claims accounting, financial …
200 S. Richland Drive Princeton, Indiana 47671 U.S.A. Potter & Brumfield Inc. (P&B) is the leading manufacturer of electronic relays--devices that control the flow of electric current--in the United States. Vital components in a wide range of products, relays are found in small appliances, automobiles, furnaces and air conditioners, and vending machines. P&B also designs and markets timers, conne…
777 Third Avenue New York, New York 10017 U.S.A. Ply Gem Industries Inc. is a leading national manufacturer and distributor of specialty products for the home improvement industry. Its products, which include wood and vinyl windows and doors, vinyl siding and accessories, vacuum cleaner bags, and numerous specialty products, are sold primarily in home stores. Ply Gem is actually an amalgam of sev…
1500 S.W. First Avenue Portland, Oregon 97201 U.S.A. Pope and Talbot, Inc., is one of America's oldest and most successful wood-fiber products companies. The firm makes and markets wood pulp, softwood lumber, consumer tissue, and disposable diaper products. Pope and Talbot serves a variety of markets, including the housing industry, newsprint manufacturers, printing and writing paper manufacturer…
300 Nyala Farms Road Westport, Connecticut 06880 U.S.A. Playtex Products, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and distributor of household and personal care products. Its brand name products include Playtex and Ultimates Silk Glide tampons; Playtex Nurser disposable feeding systems for infants; Cherubs and Smile Tote cups and bottles for babies and toddlers; Playtex Living, Handsaver, and Wearshield h…
P.O. Box 578 Dayton, Ohio 45401 U.S.A. Under the parentage of the Metromedia Company, Ponderosa Steakhouse is one of America's leading budget steak house chains. After 20 years of sometimes heated competition, Ponderosa was brought together with rival Bonanza under the corporate umbrella of John Warner Kluge's Metromedia Company. Each chains' profitability has historically been subject to the vag…
4600 Southeast Harney Drive Portland, Oregon 97206 U.S.A. A leading manufacturer of large, complex structural investment castings for the aerospace industry, Precision Castparts Corp. also manufactures blades and vanes used in commercial and military aircraft jet engines, as well as castings for use in industrial, automotive, medical, and other commercial applications. During the mid-1990s, Preci…
Suite 500 122 - 1st Avenue South Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada S7K 7G3 Company Perspectives: In a world eager for plant nutrients, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (PCS) offers double strength: by capacity, it is the world's largest potash company and third largest phosphate producer. Export-oriented, it is a global pace-setter. Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. is the world's large…
321 East Main Street Ada, Oklahoma 74820 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: To provide middle America with affordable access to quality attorneys and to the legal system of the United States of America through exceptional customer service and rigorous screening of all Provider and Referral Law Firms. Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. develops, underwrites, and markets various legal service plans for custom…
70432 Stuttgart Germany Company Perspectives: The first sports car bearing the Porsche name rolled out of a small test workshop in Gmund, Austria in June 1948. Back then, none of its founding fathers could have imagined the success story that more than one million descendants of this 'Porsche Number One' have written in the five decades since then. It is from this tradition that we draw the energ…
Powell Duffryn House London Road Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 2AQ United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Powell Duffryn is an industrial group engaged in Ports and Engineering. We aim to provide high quality services and products for our customers, challenging opportunities for employees and sustained growth for shareholders. Once nearly synonymous with the Welsh coal mining industry, Powell Duffryn p…
1020 Petersburg Road Hebron, Kentucky 41048 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Pomeroy Computer Resources, Inc. is a full-service computer integration company, providing a comprehensive assortment of professional services from consulting to procurement to configuration to asset management to ensure complete customer satisfaction and corporate sustainability. This statement serves as a guideline, ensuri…
601 West Riverside Avenue, Suite 1100 Spokane, Washington 99201 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Potlatch is a company committed to increased earnings and a superior rate of return, achieved by talented, well-trained and highly motivated people; properly supported by a sound financial structure; and with a keen sense of responsibility for the environment and to all of the publics with whom the compan…
P.O. Box 156 55 Jewelers Park Drive Neenah Wisconsin 54957-0677 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Our mission as The Product Realization Company is to provide a complete menu of value-added design and manufacturing services from which our customers can choose, giving them a competitive advantage in time to market, technology, flexibility and total cost. Plexus Corporation refers to itself as a "product…
2100 Highway 55 Medina Minnesota 55340-9770 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Over our 50-year history, Polaris has built a very good company simply by growing internally. One segment at a time, we've transformed from a snowmobile company into a flexible manufacturer of motorized products for people who enjoy the outdoors. We have ample opportunities to grow by continuing to innovate and build high-qua…
100 Canton Road Kowloon Hong Kong Playmates Toys is a Hong Kong-based toy manufacturer whose American subsidiary, Playmates Toys Inc., is one of the leading marketers of toys in the United States. Founded in 1966, Playmates Toys entered the big leagues of the toy industry in 1988 when it purchased the license to manufacture action figures based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics. The "her…
Gerrit van der Veenlan 4 3743 DN Baarn Netherlands PolyGram Holding, Inc. Worldwide Plaza 825 8th Avenue New York, New York 10019 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: A blend of innovation and diversity, PolyGram has evolved from its roots in music to become one of the world's preeminent entertainment companies. A creative company, we are driven by the individualistic spirit of our collective music and f…
One Riverside 4401 Northside Parkway Suite 800 Atlanta, Georgia 30327-3057 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We are committed to building better neighborhoods throughout America, not only for our residents, but for the greater community, taking care to preserve the environment, improve infrastructures, and enhance the beauty of our settings. Post Properties, Inc. is known throughout the "Sun Belt" sta…
2311 South 7th Avenue Bozeman, Montana 59715 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: These guiding principles reflect the quality and integrity of Powerhouse's products, services and people, and are critical to the realization of the Company's business vision: Our customers are our priority; Our purpose is to produce above average returns for our shareholders through long-term earnings growth; We provide in…
11501 Northeast Expressway Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73131 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Premier Parks' mission is to be the very best theme park company in the world by focusing our attention on our guests' experiences and striving to create family fun and fond memories. With its 1998 acquisition of Six Flags, Premier Parks, Inc. became the world's largest regional theme park and the second leading…
549 Technology Square Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We are reinventing Polaroid and the way we approach customers, while at the same time digital technology is enabling new ways to create and use images. Polaroid Corporation, founded on Edwin H. Land's belief that consumer markets should be created around inventions generated by scientific research, is a world leader…
1251 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10020 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: PricewaterhouseCoopers is the world's largest professional services organization. Drawing on the knowledge and skills of 155,000 in 150 countries, we help our clients solve complex business problems and measurably enhance their ability to build value, manage risk and improve performance. The international partnershi…
423 W. Eighth Street, Suite 200 Kansas City, Missouri 64105 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our commitment to total quality is shaping the future of food production. Food production has entered a new era, and Premium Standard Farms is leading the way with new methods that manage all aspects of pork production, from the farm to the dinner table. The unique Premium Standard Farms process is based on s…
One PPG Place Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15272-0001 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Our Vision: We will be recognized as a preeminent global engineered-materials and services company that fully engages our people, passionately embraces new ideas, seeks out transforming technologies and operates with unbending ethical standards. PPG Industries, Inc. is a global producer of protective and decorative coati…
800 North First Street St. Louis, Missouri 63102 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: In a competitive industry dependent upon unit expansion for significant growth, growing the Company means increasing the number of sites. The Company continually and selectively explores gaming developments in current and emerging markets, including riverboat, land-based and Indian gaming opportunities. President Casino…
751 Victoria Square Montreal, Quebec H2Y 2J3 Canada Company Perspectives: Power Corporation is committed to enhancing shareholder value through the active management of long-term investments and responsible corporate citizenship. It is of the view that these objectives are best achieved and risks minimized through sectoral and geographic diversification. Power believes that the future belongs to …
5 Greenway Plaza P.O. Box 2504 Houston, Texas 77252-2504 U.S.A. Pogo Producing Company is engaged in the exploration, development, and production of natural gas both domestically and at selected onshore sites in Canada and Hungary and offshore sites in the Gulf of Thailand and in the United Kingdom and Danish sectors of the North Sea. Its major regions in the United States are Louisiana and Texas…
209 Avenida Munoz Rivera Hato Rey, Puerto Rico 00918 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Banco Popular is a local institution dedicating its efforts exclusively to the enhancement of the social and economic conditions in Puerto Rico and inspired by the most sound principles and fundamental practices of good banking. Banco Popular pledges its efforts and resources to the development of a banking service …
Two North Ninth Street Allentown, Pennsylvania 18101-1179 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: PPL Corporation's integrated business strategy&mdash well as its commitment to its customers and the communities it serves--is making the company one of the most successful generation-owning marketers of electricity in the evolving U.S. market, a premier energy delivery company in the Mid-Atlantic region, and a…
45 Rockefeller Plaza New York, New York 10020 U.S.A. Price Communications Corporation has historically been a nationwide communications company owning and then disposing of a number of television, radio, newspaper, cellular telephone, and other communications and related properties. Its primary holding in 2001 was Price Communications Wireless, Inc., which was engaged in the construction, develop…
999 Third Avenue, Suite 2300 Seattle, WA 98104-4096 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At Plum Creek, our entire company is united in carrying out the key strategies that are central to our future growth: Expanding our asset base with high-quality acquisitions. Managing our lands to maximize their value. Continually improving upon our market-driven, value-added product focus. And leading the industry i…
102000 S. De Anza Boulevard Cupertino, California 95014 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Portal Software develops customer management and billing software for communications and content service providers. Portal's real-time, convergent platform enables its customers to rapidly define, deploy, and bill for services with flexible business models. Portal's software is licensed by a majority of the world…
1100 N. Broadway Street Carlinville, Illinois 62626 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our Mission: To manufacture consumer dairy products of the highest quality. To meet the expectations of our customers. To deliver exceptional patronage to our farmer-owned cooperative members. To provide opportunities for growth and fulfillment throughout the Prairie Farms family. To make a positive difference in our…
One Center Court, Suite 200 Portland, Oregon 97227 U.S.A. It seemed fitting that the board of governors of the National Basketball Association (NBA) saw a future for their sport in Portland, where pioneers settled in 1845 at the convergence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. Years earlier, from 1804 to 1806, explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark had blazed the Oregon Trail, opening the…
POSCO Center Daechi-4-dong Kangnam-ku, Seoul Company Perspectives: POSCO strives to contribute to its customers and all individuals by providing products and services that will benefit every aspect of society. Towards this goal, we aspire to lead the industry in the areas of management and product quality. We place extreme importance on innovation and we value core business and ethical principles…
800 Connecticut Avenue Norwalk, Connecticut 06854-9998 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Priceline.com is an Internet-based transactional service that offers products in two categories: a travel service that offers leisure airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, packaged vacations and cruises; and a personal finance service that markets home mortgages, refinancing and home equity loans through an i…
2000 Westchester Avenue Purchase, New York 10577 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Polar Air Cargo's mission is to work in partnership with international air freight forwarders and agents by providing them high quality, efficient services at competitive prices and with the highest safety standards of any airline in the world. International air freight forwarders and agents are assured that they and th…
1500 S.W. First Avenue, Suite 200 Portland, Oregon 97201-5830 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Pope & Talbot's strategic focus and corporate structure encompass the complementary businesses of two forest industry groups: wood products and pulp. The Company manufactures softwood lumber and market pulp in the U.S. and Canada. We have continually prospered in the face of cyclical markets since 1849 by p…
1899 Wynkoop Street Denver, Colorado 90202 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: PSI's commitment to improving performance distinguishes our work. We apply our deep understanding of policy, technology, and operations to help our clients solve problems, automate processes, and enhance performance. Policy Studies, Inc. (PSI) provides administration outsourcing, research, and consulting services to local, st…
Avenida Fontes Pereira de Melo 4 Lisboa P-1069-300 Portugal Company Perspectives: Mission and Outlook We intend to be the largest Portuguese business group and to be amongst the largest international infocommunications groups. To reach this aim we will keep up the strong growth and will create shareholder value through: Leadership in all national business; International growth and leadership; Bel…
Ulica Grada Vukovara 49 10000 Zagreb Croatia Company Perspectives: With over 80 years of experience in the pharmaceuticals arena and a longstanding research tradition, PLIVA is now a global specialty pharmaceutical player. PLIVA d.d. is Central and Eastern Europe's leading pharmaceutical company. Through much of its history it produced vitamins and generic drugs for Soviet states. The company att…
Pershing Road Weehawken, New Jersey 078087 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: NY Waterway has the largest ferry and excursion fleet in the NY Harbor, but it is still a family business with all the personal attention to service and amenities that it had when it was just Arthur's ferry. The largest ferry operation in North America, Port Imperial Ferry Corporation serves the New York City metropolitan are…
19701 Da Vinci Foothill Ranch, California 92610 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: For over 90 years Price Pfister has been a leader in the plumbing fixture industry. As a company, we pride ourselves in the development of high-quality kitchen & bar, tub & shower, and lavatory faucets, as well as our kitchen and bath accessories. Price Pfister products are backed by the Pforever Warranty, one of the mos…