Kungsträ°årdsgatan 8 S-106 40 Stockholm Sweden The S-E-Bank Group, the parent of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken and Scandinavia's largest banking group, continues to move ahead in a highly competitive market by its consistent pursuit of two goals: to expand in widening geographical areas and to add profitable financial instruments and services in response to demand. As government banking pol…
13, Honshio-cho Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 160 Japan After sparking a revolution in Japanese eating habits, tastes, and nutrition, Snow Brand Milk Products Company, Japan's leading butter and cheese producer, has pursued an expansion program that now includes meat products, convenience foods, wine, and pharmaceutical goods. Snow Brand operates a chain of restaurants, a research-and-development center for …
234 Bath Road Slough SL1 4EE United Kingdom Slough Estates plc is Britain's largest industrial property investment company, with a property portfolio valued at about £2 billion. The development and management of industrial or trading estates, sites containing a number of units of industrial property occupied by several different companies, was pioneered by Slough in the 1920s and still forms the…
200 Commerce Street Smithfield, Virginia 23430 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Smithfield Foods now owns roughly 50 percent of the hogs we slaughter and raises additional hogs, which we do not process, that are marketed under long-term contracts to other companies. We realize a number of benefits by vertically controlling such a substantial portion of our raw materials. By controlling half our hog s…
7 North 8th Street Richmond, Virginia 23219-3301 U.S.A. Signet Banking Corporation is a registered multi-bank, multi-state holding company with 24-hour telebanking, 240 regional offices, and over 230 automatic teller machines (ATMs) located throughout Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Virginia providing a wide range of financial services to its customers and shareholders. With assets in exc…
65 Locust Avenue New Canaan, Connecticut 06840-4725 U.S.A. Smith Corona is a world-famous designer, manufacturer, and marketer of portable and compact electronic typewriters, personal word processors, electronic reference products, and accessories. Having achieved considerable success in the typewriter business beginning in the late 19th century, the company saw its fortunes decline in the late 1…
B.P. 329 38509 Voiron Cedex France Company Perspectives: Rossignol's wish is simple: to share with you our passion for the wonderful world of winter sports. Skis Rossignol S.A. is one of the world's premier manufacturers of ski equipment. Headquartered in Voiron, a small town in southeastern France, the company was among the first to make skis in France and was an early leader in ski technology a…
388 Greenwich Street New York, New York 10013 U.S.A. From its unprepossessing beginnings in Philadelphia more than a century ago, Smith Barney has grown into a financial powerhouse. The acquisition in 1993 of Shearson Lehman Brothers Holdings' retail brokerage and asset management businesses made the amalgamated firm, with an army of 11,000 financial consultants (brokers) and 495 branch offices, …
411 North Sam Houston Parkway, Suite 600 Houston, Texas 77060-3545 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our people and technology make us a world leader in drilling tools and services. We work together to constantly improve customer satisfaction, employee opportunity and shareholder value. Smith International, Inc. is a leading global supplier of products and services for the oil and gas and petrochemica…
26722 Plaza Drive P.O. Box 9077 Mission Viejo, California 92690-9077 U.S.A. Sir Speedy, Inc. is one of the world's largest franchisors of printing, copying, and digital-network centers. In 1995, the Sir Speedy network comprised more than 800 centers operating under the Sir Speedy name and over 40 centers under the Copies Now name. These centers were located throughout the United States and in 16 …
4700 South Boyle Avenue Los Angeles, California 90058 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: With over 125 years of success, the same conviction drives the business and future of Smart & Final, its ability to deliver consistent customer satisfaction and value. Smart & Final provides customer value through low warehouse prices, convenient store locations, and personalized customer service. Store personnel h…
1201 Third Avenue, Suite 4900 Seattle, Washington 98101 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: For as far into the past as anyone can determine, human beings have drawn benefit from natural resources--for shelter and safety; comfort and commerce; recreation and renewal. But people have a unique ability to change their environment--for better or for worse. No natural law ensures htat we do the right things …
400 Interpace Parkway Building C, 3rd Floor Parsippany, New Jersey 07054 U.S.A. Six Flags Theme Parks, Inc., is the second-largest theme park operation in the United States. Marketing itself as "Bigger than Disneyland, closer to home," the company has ten parks spread throughout the country and draws an estimated 22 million patrons per year. According to the company's marketing slogan, 85 percent…
Heron House, 15 Adam Street London WC2N 6LA United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Smith & Nephew aims to be the first choice for patients, customers, investors, and employees, by establishing and meeting clear performance targets, developing innovative new products, and earning the trust of all with whom we deal. Smith & Nephew plc operates as a medical device provider in more than 35 countries. I…
1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10020 U.S.A. Simon & Schuster Inc. became a division overseeing the publishing operation of Viacom, Inc., one of the world's largest entertainment and media companies, when it was acquired in 1994 as part of Paramount Communications. Simon & Schuster is the world's largest publisher of educational books, computer books, and books published in the Eng…
P.O. Box 479 Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03802 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At Simplex Technologies Inc. every employee is responsible for safe operations and uncompromising quality. These characteristics are inherent in the company's corporate culture; they are designed and built into its facilities, products and processes.... Simplex aims to be a healthy and safe plant, a good neighbor to the env…
228 Manhattan Beach Boulevard, #200 Manhattan Beach, California 90266 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The Company's objective is to become a leading source of contemporary casual and active footwear while ensuring the longevity of both the Company and the Skechers brand name through controlled, well managed growth. The Company strives to achieve this objective by developing and offering a balanced a…
6900 Main Street P.O. Box 9729 Stratford, Connecticut 06497-9129 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Welcome aboard the fastest way to the future of vertical flight. Sikorsky. Designers and builders of the world's most advanced helicopters for commercial, industrial and military use. Our mission is to put our customers at the forefront of vertical flight. And we accomplish that mission, every day, throu…
2000 W. 41st Street Baltimore, Maryland 21211 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The 1990s have been exciting years for the broadcasting industry and the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 has been the single biggest catalyst for change within the television and radio industry. With even more regulatory changes predicted before the turn of the century, SBG is well equipped to meet the challe…
11600 Sallie Mae Drive Reston, Virginia 20193 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The key to Sallie Mae's success is the vitality of the mission it serves: ensuring universal access to higher education through low cost, well-serviced student loans. Meeting the needs of its customers and its partners in the higher education and financial communities is what will drive the success of the company for the n…
150 North Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60601-7568 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Smurfit-Stone is far more than an amalgamation of two industry leaders. It is a larger, more effective company, focused entirely on the market for paper-based packaging. The merger improves integration within our system, increases operating efficiency, and lowers costs. It allows us to apply each company's strengt…
115 W. Washington Street Indianapolis, Indiana 46204 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Simon Property Group is about building shareholder value in the retail real estate business. It's about providing retailers with world class venues in which they can build lasting and mutually beneficial relationships with their customers. And it's about providing our shareholders with consistent and reliable perfor…
5175 West 2100 South West Valley City, Utah 84120-1252 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission is to provide the finest temperature-sensitive transportation in the country, without losing sight of our goals, our people, our stockholders, or our customers. Simon Transportation Services Inc. serves customers throughout the lower 48 states and also Canada and Mexico. From its headquarters in the Sa…
P.O. Box 501 Airmail Transit Centre Singapore, 918101 Republic of Singapore Company Perspectives: Today, SIA is internationally recognised as one of the world's leading carriers. Our route network spans over 90 cities in more than 40 countries, we fly the most modern fleet in the industry and we are the world's largest operator of Boeing 747-400s, which we call MEGATOPs. But we never forget that …
1000 Jefferson Drive S.W. Washington, DC 20560 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The Institution is an independent instrumentality of the United States holding some 140 million artifacts and specimens in its trust for "the increase and diffusion of knowledge." It is also a center for research dedicated to public education, national service and scholarship in the arts, sciences, and history. The Smiths…
2520 Bypass Road P.O. Box 743 Elkhart, Indiana 46515 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Skyline is committed to producing the best products at the best prices. It has earned a reputation for uncompromising integrity in all of its relationships with communities, suppliers, retailers and with the hundreds of thousands of Americans who live in Skyline-built homes and enjoy Skyline-built RVs. Skyline Corpo…
2100 Roosevelt Avenue Post Office Box 2208 Springfield, Massachusetts 01102-2208 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At the foundation of our success throughout the last century-and-a-half is the reputation for dependability and quality our products and services have earned worldwide. Smith & Wesson Corporation is the world's leading manufacturer of handguns. Among the company's best known products over…
21st Floor, Wisma Sime Darby Jalan Raja Laut 50350 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Company Perspectives: Sime Darby is fully committed to the development and progress of the Asia-Pacific region, dedicated to the pursuit of excellence, and the realisation of its corporate objectives, while consistently upholding its longstanding values of integrity and professionalism. Sime Darby Berhad is the largest congl…
Klarabergsviadukten 90 SE-111 91 Stockholm Sweden Company Perspectives: Mission: Skanska's mission is to develop, build and maintain the physical environment for living, traveling and working. By combining its resources in these fields, the Group can offer clients attractive, cost-effective and thus competitive solutions. Vision: Skanska shall be a world leader--the client's first choice--in cons…
425 Lexington Avenue New York, New York 10017-3954 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We believe that the talent of our associates is considerable, as we consistently attract the nation's top law students. Associates and partners alike demonstrate commitment to communities as well as clients, making substantial and ongoing pro bono contributions across a breadth of not-for-profit issues and organizatio…
Dr.-Carl-von-Linde-Strasse 2 D-82049 Pullach Germany Company Perspectives: We want to expand the value creation chain of our firm spectacularly. We know much more about our customers than others and we want to offer them more than simply cars. This strategy changes the company dramatically. We stand before a genuine revolution. Sixt AG is Germany's number one car rental company and it continues t…
21 New Street Bishopsgate London EC2M 4HR United Kingdom Singer & Friedlander Group plc is one of the United Kingdom's last remaining independent merchant banks, providing investment banking services to an essentially private clientele. The firm offers a wide range of services, such as asset management and independent savings accounts, including offshore banking facilities, unit trusts, and finan…
Company Perspectives: We strive to identify properties located in New York's most dynamic submarkets--those that are at the forefront of New York City's continuing renaissance. SL Green Realty Corporation is a self-managed real-estate investment trust (REIT) that owns, manages, leases, acquires, and redevelops Class B office properties, almost all of them in midtown Manhattan. Class B buildings a…
2, boulevard du Général Martial-Valin 75724 Paris Cedex 15 France Company Perspectives: Because continuous improvement is not a haphazard process, Snecma aims to achieve progress through a structured, professional framework. In our drive to improve efficiency, we are applying our proven aerospace industry professionalism to progress initiatives. Snecma Group is considered the world's oldest man…
521 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10017 U.S.A. Silverstein Properties, Inc. is a family-owned corporation controlled by Manhattan real estate developer Larry A. Silverstein. Its portfolio in 2000 included 8.4 million square feet of space in New York City. A dynamic entrepreneur who has been described as an unquenchable optimist, Silverstein was only temporarily stunned by the September 2001 des…
One Concourse Parkway, Suite 800 Atlanta, Georgia 30328-6188 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Simmons is the world's number one name in bedding--with $1 billion in worldwide sales. And the number one market share in accounts where we do business. Our history is one of innovation. Today more than ever, Simmons is dedicated to producing distinctive, consumer-benefit-driven products such as Simmons, Bea…
Sveavägen 44 S-103 50 Stockholm Sweden Company Perspectives: Our vision at Skandia is a declaration of our interest in helping people achieve their goals for quality of life. Our products and services enable people to invest and build up the financial resources they need to make their dreams come true. Since its founding in 1855, Sweden's Skandia Insurance Company, Ltd. (Försäkringsaktiebolage…
234 Bath Road Slough SL1 4EE United Kingdom Company Perspectives: Slough Estates is committed to building and owning quality buildings for business located in prime business centers in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, and North America to provide its shareholders with superior growth of net assets and earnings per share to enhance overall shareholder value. Slough Estates PLC is Britain's …
11501 Northeast Expressway Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73131-6416 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Today, Six Flags is the gold standard of regional theme park entertainment. The parks are bigger and bolder than ever, offering cutting-edge, one-of-kind rides and so much more. A licensing agreement with DC Comics and Warner Bros. Consumer Products allows Six Flags the exclusive theme park rights to many o…
100 East Highway 34, Suite 113 Matawan, New Jersey 07747 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Silhoutte Brands is devoted to satisfying the desires of health conscious consumers by providing them with the best tasting, guilt-free alternatives available in the entire ice cream industry. We are dedicated to manufacturing the finest low-fat and fat-free ice cream items. Silhouette Brands, Inc., is a Matawan…
Kungsträdgårdsgatan 8 S-106 40 Stockholm Sweden Company Perspectives: SEB's business concept is to offer financial advice and to handle financial risks and transactions for companies and private individuals in order to: create real customer satisfaction, give shareholders a competitive return, and be seen as good corporate citizens of society. The group strives to be a leading North European ba…
4180 Thunderbird Lane Fairfield, Ohio 45014 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: In 1949, on a hilltop overlooking Cincinnati, Ohio, Nicholas Lambrinides and his sons opened a small restaurant and began serving what would soon become a Cincinnati icon--Skyline Chili. The name came from the impressive view of the city's outline against the sky and has since become synonymous with a unique dish known as Ci…
500 North Spring Street Port Washington, Wisconsin 53074-1752 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: "The way to a beautiful lawn." Wisconsin-based Simplicity Manufacturing, Inc., makes lawn mowers, riding mowers, garden tractors, and a variety of attachments. The company is also known for its Giant-Vac leaf blowers, trail vacuums, debris handlers, and collection systems, as well as for chipper shredders, …
4 Hamilton Landing, Suite 100 Novato, California 94949-8256 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At Smith & Hawken, we believe in the beauty of the garden, whether five acres or one plant. A subsidiary of The Scotts Company, Smith & Hawken, Ltd. is a Novato, California-based company best known for its upscale gardening catalog. Over the course of 25 years, it has added retail outlets, a wholesale operati…
1221 Avenue of the Americas, 36th Floor New York, New York 10020 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Satellite radio is the future of music and audio entertainment. And SIRIUS is satellite radio. We offer over 120 channels of satellite radio: 65 devoted to commercial-free music, in almost every genre imaginable, plus 55 channels of sports, news and talk. From our futuristic studios in NYC's Rockefeller …
1901 Riverfront Parkway Chattanooga, Tennessee 37408 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our reputation for quality and service is as strong as the products we've been supplying since 1900. A subsidiary of Reliance Steel & Aluminum Company, Siskin Steel & Supply Company is a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based company that processes and distributes steel and aluminum products. Siskin serves customers throughou…
455 René-Lévesque Boulevard West Montreal, Quebec H2Z 1Z3 Canada Company Perspectives: Founded in 1911, SNC-Lavalin has been active internationally for nearly 40 years, establishing a multicultural network that spans every continent. The SNC-Lavalin companies have offices across Canada and in 30 other countries around the world and are currently working in some 100 countries. SNC-Lavalin mainta…
2100 Roosevelt Avenue Springfield, Massachusetts 01104-1606 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Smith & Wesson is one of the world's most recognizable brands, and for good reason. Since we first opened our doors, we have focused on designing and manufacturing innovative solutions that are unparalleled in the field of personal safety and protection. Almost every major law enforcement and military agency …
1 Beach Street, Suite 300 San Francisco California 94133 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Skyy brings a wide selection of distinctive tastes to fit any cocktail occasion. A subsidiary of the Italian beverage company Davide Campari-Milano SpA, Skyy Spirits LLC produces America's second-highest selling super-premium vodka. Skyy Vodka is known for its thorough distillation and filtering process, which th…
The Bailey Skipton BD23 1DN United Kingdom Company Perspectives At Skipton, we consider ourselves to be a strong and innovative provider in the mortgage and investment markets. But at a time of great competition, the Society has grown by acquiring subsidiary companies which has set us apart from our contemporaries. This group structure enables us to strengthen our position and build for the futur…