Southern Pacific Building One Market Plaza San Francisco California 94105 United States The venerable Southern Pacific railroad operates a core route of 7,500 miles of railway in 14 of the western United States, its territory forming a broad crescent from Portland, Oregon, to New Orleans, Louisiana, and up through the Midwest. Faced with new and overwhelming competition in the 1980s, Southern Pac…
227 Church Street New Haven, Connecticut 06510 U.S.A. The Southern New England Telecommunications Corporation (SNET) is the primary telecommunications company in Connecticut. SNET provides a variety of services beyond local phone service to the citizens of its New England home state. Founded as a member of the Bell system, the company retained affiliation with AT&T --part owner of SNET--up until …
150 Bloor Street West Suite 900 Toronto, Ontario M5S 2Y8 Canada Southam Inc. is a Canadian communications conglomerate whose primary business is newspaper publishing. Southam publishes 17 daily newspapers, including the Montreal Gazette and the Windsor Star, and 56 community newspapers. Southam also operates trade shows, produces business-to-business magazines and information services, and sells …
850 76th Street Southwest Grand Rapids, Michigan 49518 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The company's mission is to consistently satisfy customers with quality food and related retail and distribution products and services. Spartan's new strategic focus is based on the customer and they are working to become a total consumer driven organization and to accumulating the best total knowledge of consumer…
127 Public Square Cleveland, Ohio 44114 U.S.A. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Society Corporation is one of the fastest-growing and most innovative bank holding companies in the United States. The corporation is focused in the Great Lakes Basin, but also has subsidiaries in Florida, New York, Missouri, Colorado, and Texas. Society Corp.'s primary business activities include general banking and…
777 Gibraltar Drive Milpitas, California 95035 U.S.A. Solectron Corp. is a leading worldwide independent provider of manufacturing services to electronics equipment manufacturers, including IBM, Apple Computer, and Hewlett Packard. Examples of equipment for which Solectron manufactures circuit boards and other assemblies include computers, telecommunications gear, medical electronics, avionics, a…
7-35 Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku Tokyo 141-0001 Japan Company Perspectives: Recognizing that environmental protection is one of the most pressing issues facing mankind today, Sony incorporates a sound respect for nature in all of its business activities. With this philosophy, Sony has defined environmental conservation as an important part of its management strategy. The Sony Group has cre…
Southern Electric House Westacott Way Littlewick Green Maidenhead Berkshire SL6 3QB United Kingdom Southern Electric PLC was the second-largest regional electricity company in England and Wales, serving 2.5 million domestic, commercial, and industrial customers. Its 16,900-square-kilometer region extended from London in the east to Somerset in the west, and from Oxfordshire in the north to the Is…
20 Northwest Fourth Street Evansville, Indiana 47741 U.S.A. Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company (SIGECO) is an electric and gas utility company serving the southwest portion of the state of Indiana. In 1995 the utility was providing electricity to about 120,000 electricity customers and about 100,000 gas customers. It was also operating nonregulated businesses related to real estate, facili…
1000 Reynolds Road Charlotte, Michigan 48813 U.S.A. Michigan-based Spartan Motors Inc. is a world leader in the engineering and manufacturing of custom chassis for fire trucks, recreational vehicles, transit buses, school buses, and other specialty vehicles. Founded in 1975, Spartan went public in 1984 and has shown remarkable growth in sales and earnings through the 1980s and 1990s. Spartan Moto…
5241 Spring Mountain Road PO Box 98510 Las Vegas, Nevada 89193-8510 U.S.A. Southwest Gas Corporation is a natural gas utility serving one of the fastest growing regions of the United States. Southwest purchases, transports, and distributes natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers in three states: Nevada, particularly the Las Vegas and northern Nevada areas; California, inc…
1000 East 87th Street Chicago, Illinois 60619 U.S.A. Soft Sheen Products Inc. is the top U.S. producer of ethnic hair care products. Its 200-plus products include shampoos, conditioners, relaxers, perms, and gels. They are marketed under various brand names, including Alternatives, Baby Love, Care Free Curl, Frizz Free, as well as Sportin' Waves, Wave Nouveau, and Optimum Care. The company sells …
121 King Street West, Suite 2100 Toronto, Ontario Canada Company Perspectives: Spar had grown over the years into a complex company with a number of lines of business operating in a variety of markets. One of the management team's guiding principles over the past couple of years has been to reduce that complexity&mdashø streamline Spar--so we can focus on fewer, large, core businesses. The resul…
Osterbrooksweg 35-45 D-22867 Schenefeld Germany Company Perspectives: Our goals are 1) the results-based and consumer-oriented optimization of our product mix emphasizing freshness and local specifics; 2) increasing consumer awareness of the SPAR profile (sympathy, freshness, quality and security) by managing neighborhood stores in an exemplary manner and by profile-enhancing consumer marketing; …
2702 Love Field Dr. Dallas, Texas 75235 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The mission of Southwest Airlines is dedication to the highest quality of Customer Service delivered with a sense of warmth, friendliness, individual pride, and Company Spirit. Southwest Airlines Co. (SWA), the model for budget upstarts everywhere, has become the largest domestic airline in the United States, by number of passen…
1415 South Main Street Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 U.S.A. SOS Staffing Services is one of the nation's largest firms providing temporary employees for clerical, light industrial, technical, and information technology positions. It also provides its customers with consulting services and outsourcing for payroll and drug testing. Most of its more than 140 offices are located in the western United St…
402 West I-30 Garland, Texas 75043 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Every day at Spaghetti Warehouse we roll hundreds of meatballs by hand. Sauces are prepared fresh from scratch following authentic Old World recipes. We use real domestic and imported cheeses in our recipes. Fresh vegetables and meats are purchased from local suppliers. Our lasagna is layer after layer of fresh meats, cheeses, noodle…
504 Lavaca Street, Suite 800 Austin, Texas 78701 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission is to serve customers and the environment with commitment, leadership and innovation. Southern Union Company is a publicly owned international holding company for public utilities and other energy-related businesses; the company's principal line of business is the distribution of natural gas. As the 16th lar…
1610 Cornerway Blvd. San Antonio, Texas 78219 U.S.A. Solo Serve Corporation is a Texas-based chain of off-priced or discount retail stores offering a wide array of name-brand and other merchandise at prices substantially less than those found at department stores such as J.C.Penney's and Sears or specialty clothing stores. The company's stores are located throughout Texas and Louisiana, and sell …
888 Seventh Avenue New York, New York 10016 U.S.A. Soros Fund Management LLC runs a group of pools of money, called hedge funds, that trade in an array of financial instruments for the benefit of individuals and pension funds with the resources to take risks in the expectation of realizing great rewards. Soros Fund Management operates the Quantum Group of Funds, which had gross assets of $21.5 bi…
3, avenue Newton 78180 Montigny-le-Bretonneux France Company Perspectives: Our purpose: Our company is a community that includes our clients and customers, our employees and our shareholders. Our purpose is to exceed their expectations. To achieve this mission, we focus on responsible growth in sales and earnings, while contributing to the economic health of the countries where we provide our ser…
1334 York Avenue New York, New York 10021 U.S.A. Sotheby's Holdings, Inc. is the holding company for Sotheby's, one of the world's premier fine arts auction houses. The company got its start in the mid-18th century, focusing on the British book market, and later in the century branched out into other markets. Sotheby's began to expand beyond its British base in the 1940s, and it had established a…
6606 W. Broad Street Richmond, Virginia 23260 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: 'Analysts come and analysts go. When times are good in agriculture, there are analysts who predict that population growth has overtaken our ability to produce, and thus agriculture will always be good. Then when favorable weather in the major producing regions results in two or three bin-busting crops at the same time that…
101 Park Avenue Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: For more than 40 years, Sonic has worked to build its dominant position in the drive-in restaurant business and create a franchise system that offers extraordinary entrepreneurial opportunities in the quick-service restaurant industry. Sonic Drive-Ins offer made-to-order sandwiches and feature signature items such as Extra…
24-1, Nihonbashi-Hakozakicho Chuo-ku Tokyo 103-8501 Japan Company Perspectives: Vision: Softbank aims to leverage the power of the digital information revolution to make knowledge available to people no matter who or where they are and, by doing so, to foster the realization of a better life for all. Softbank Corp. is a holding company whose primary interest is the Internet. The company holds sta…
Avenida Caminos del Inca 171 Chacarilla del Estanque Santiago de Surco Lima 33 Peru Southern Peru Copper Corporation, a holding company, is Peru's largest privately owned concern. It operates the Toquepala and Cuajone mines, some 10,500 to 10,900 feet above sea level in the Andes Mountains, about 610 miles southeast of Lima, Peru. It also operates a smelter and refinery in the Pacific coastal cit…
1901 Tigertail Boulevard Dania Beach, Florida 33004 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Sound Advice is a retailer of high-quality consumer electronics products with 24 Sound Advice stores in Florida, five Bang & Olufsen specialty stores, two Showcase Home Entertainment stores in Arizona, and an Electronics Interiors store in Palm Beach Gardens. By offering our customers the best products and the best s…
29, Boulevard Haussmann 75009 Paris France Company Perspectives: The Société Générale Group is a major European player recognized for its profitability and its capacity for innovation. It figures in the top tier of the most profitable banks in Europe, thanks to its well-adapted development strategy and the remarkable dedication of its teams responsible for implementing this strategy. Sociét
One South Jersey Plaza Folsom, New Jersey 08037 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: South Jersey Industries is an energy services holding company. Our natural gas utility has historically been our primary activity and has accounted for the vast majority of our profits. We also provide through several subsidiaries, nonregulated energy services that include marketing gas and electricity on a retail basis …
Somerfield House Whitchurch Lane Bristol BS14 0TJ United Kingdom Company Perspectives: The Somerfield Group incorporates the Somerfield and Kwik Save supermarket business units which together operate over 1,330 stores nationwide. Somerfield's focus is on its key strength as the U.K.'s biggest neighborhood supermarket offering easy to shop convenience in its smaller high street stores with a focus…
225 North Barranca Avenue, Suite 200 West Covina, California U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Southwest Water is a unique player in the water and wastewater operations industry, capitalizing on the rapid growth of service outsourcing, while maintaining a solid foundation in the regulated utility business. Working with cities, utility districts, private companies, and developers, the company provides …
13, Honshio-cho Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 160-0003 Japan Company Perspectives: Snow Brand has refocused on its original corporate mission of contributing to consumer health by providing superior milk and dairy products. For delicious, worry-free products, we are carrying out integrated quality assurance activities from raw materials procurement and production to distribution and sales. Our strategy inclu…
777 Gibraltar Drive Milpitas, California 95035 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission is to provide worldwide responsiveness to our customers by offering the high quality, lowest total cost, customized, integrated, design, supply-chain, and manufacturing solutions through long-term partnerships based on integrity and ethical business practices. Solectron Corporation operates as the world's larg…
15130 Concord Circle Morgan Hill, California 95037-5428 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At Specialized, building bikes isn't a job. It's a full-bore, hardcore religion. A religion that's helped us evolve as a company and as riders over the last 20 years. To some, our obsession may seem a little sick in the head. But then, those people probably don't ride. They don't understand that, to be the best a…
2795 East Cottonwood Parkway, Suite 660 Salt Lake City, Utah 84117-7261 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Mission: to be the best hearing aid company in the world. Core Values: we are committed to delivering improved satisfaction to hearing impaired consumers; we are committed to delivering outstanding service & value to hearing aid dispensers; we are committed to continuous innovation; we are committ…
37 East Main Street Warrenton, Virginia 20186 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our primary strategic objective is to serve the small to medium-sized business market with an array of unique and useful services, including a full array of commercial mortgage and nonmortgage loans. These loans include commercial real estate loans, construction to permanent loans, development and builder loans, accounts r…
Djenane El Malik, Hydra 160335 Algiers Algeria Sonatrach, formerly Entreprise Nationale Sonatrach, is the Algerian state-owned oil and gas company. It has control--both direct and indirect--over all aspects of the country's hydrocarbons and has guided Algeria toward its present status as the second largest global supplier of liquefied natural gas. Sonatrach produces about 90 percent of all Algeri…
8031 Avonia Road Fairview, Pennsylvania 16415 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Using a solutions-oriented approach, we provide products tailored to meet our customers' specific needs by anticipating and solving their systems architecture and performance problems. We combine engineering expertise, design and testing capabilities, vertically integrated manufacturing processes and flexible production sc…
Gremio de Toneleros 24, Poligono Palma de Mallorca E-07009 Spain Company Perspectives: Sol Meliá is the leading hotel company in Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean, the third largest hotel company in Europe and number ten in the world ranking. Sol Meliá is also the largest resort hotel chain in the world. The company provides more than 350 hotels in 30 countries under its Meliá Hotels, TRY…
10590 West Ocean Air Drive, Suite 300 San Diego, California 92130 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our drive is to set higher standards in lens design, material development, manufacturing excellence, and customer service that has made us a worldwide leader. Sola International Inc. designs and manufactures eyeglass lenses, primarily focusing on the plastic lens segment of the market, which the company…
14 rue Jeanne d'Asnieres Clichy F-92611 France Company Perspectives: We offer simple, inventive and reliable choices for everyone, everywhere, every time. Honor the past, invent the future. Our vision and our philosophy are central elements of our culture, guided by our shared values: ethics, responsibility, teamwork, simplicity, and ingenuity. Since its founding more than 50 years ago, BIC has b…
40 Richards Avenue Norwalk, Connecticut 06854-2327 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: South Beach Beverage Company (or "SoBe" as we call it around here) makes and markets the world's best-tasting naturally flavored beverages. We've designed our "healthy refreshment" beverages with fun, active people (presumably like you) in mind. South Beach Beverage Company, Inc. is a leading marketer of noncarbonated…
6001 Park of Commerce Blvd., Suite 2 Boca Raton, Florida 33487 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Manufacturing quality hand tools since 1760. Spear & Jackson, Inc. is one of the world's oldest manufacturers of hand and garden tools, and also makes magnetic equipment and measuring tools. The firm's brands include Spear & Jackson garden tools, Neill hand tools, Elliot Lucas pincers and pliers, Robert So…
27500 Riverview Center Boulevard, Suite 400 Bonita Springs, Florida 34134 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: No other company that we know of has seen or tried to capitalize on t he opportunity to build a new model for selling the family entertainm ent category at mass market retail, until now. No other company can b uild and install attractive fixtures and procure promotional advertis ing to draw atte…
24-1, Nihonbashi-Hakozakicho Chuo-ku Tokyo 103-8501 Japan Company Perspectives Vision: Softbank aims to leverage the power of the digital information revolution to make knowledge available to people no matter who or where they are and, by doing so, to foster the realization of a better life for all. Softbank Corporation has reinvented itself, again, as the driving force behind Japan's fast-growin…
6415 Idlewild Road, Suite 109 Charlotte North Carolina 28212 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Sonic Automotive, Inc., a Fortune 300 Company and member of the Russell 2000 Index, is among the largest automotive retailers in the United States. Charlotte, North Carolina-based Sonic Automotive, Inc. is the third largest automobile retailer in the United States, a Fortune 300 company, and a member of the R…
115 King Street Stellarton B0K 1S0 Canada Company Perspectives At Sobeys Inc., our focus is clear and steadfast--we are focused on food, driven by our fresh expertise, supported by superior customer service--in the right-sized, right format stores for each individual market we serve. Our passion for food--supported and enabled by processes and tools that engage our people to get the job done well…
James House Warwick Road Birmingham United Kingdom Company Perspectives Our business is about people, about high service content, about a quality approach and, above all, about honest and professional engagement. Our people share the benefits and values of a single, unified, European family. We understand the needs of our customers, adapt quickly to change, and deliver the services and support th…
101 Rowland Way Novato California 94945 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Sonic Solutions' mission is to power digital media creation, management and consumption with a broad range of interoperable, platform independent, PC and CE software tools and applications for creative professionals, consumers and OEMs. Unlike other companies in the digital media space, Sonic's products and services are used acro…
Kwatrechtsteenweg 160 Wetteren Belgium Company Perspectives The mission of Spector Photo Group is to help consumers enjoy audiovisual experiences and to capture emotional moments in order to revive them and cherish them. In fulfilling its mission, Spector Photo Group will also create added value for its shareholders, its staff members and all other stakeholders, as well as for the community in wh…