Royal Trust Tower Toronto Dominion Centre Toronto Ontario M5K 1G8 Canada Trilon Financial Corporation is a diversified Canadian financial services company that manages trust, insurance, and brokerage operations through three principal subsidiaries. Trilon was formed in 1982 as the financial service company of Brascan, a natural resource recovery and power production company founded in 1899 by Bra…
One CNN Center 100 International Boulevard Atlanta, Georgia 30303 U.S.A. The history of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS), is closely tied to the personal history of its flamboyant founder, chairman, and president, Robert Edward 'Ted' Turner III. Alternately seeking and shunning media attention, Ted Turner has accumulated colorful nicknames, including 'Captain Outrageous,' 'the Mouth of the …
Box 72501 Parkview Johannesburg 2122 Republic of South Africa On April 1, 1990, South African Transport Services echoed the country's changing political environment by altering its own status; in contrast to its status as a government-run enterprise, which it had enjoyed for the previous 82 years, it was now a public company called Transnet Ltd. No longer a state-supported service unconcerned wit…
110 12th Ave. SW Box 1900 Calgary, Alberta T2P 2M1 Canada TransAlta Utilities Corporation is the largest investor-owned electric utility in Canada. TransAlta supplies electric energy to over 630,000 customers, which amounts to approximately 70 percent of Alberta's electricity consumption. Its principal subsidiary, TransAlta Resources Corporation, handles the company's non-utility investments, whi…
2525 Stemmons Freeway Dallas, Texas 75207-2401 U.S.A. Trinity Industries, Incorporated, is a diversified manufacturer of heavy metal products. The company's six basic business segments comprise rail car leasing and the production of rail cars, marine products, structural metal products, pressure and non-pressure tank containers, and metal components. Trinity is a leading rail car manufacturer in …
2001 Ross Avenue, Suite 3400 Dallas, Texas 75201 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our goal is to be the very best at what we do. And our strategy to accomplish this combines a commitment to superior service for the customer with a platform of professional resources that allows us to deliver on that promise. For over half a century, this approach has allowed us to maintain a leading role in the commer…
80 Pine Street New York, New York 10005 U.S.A. Transatlantic Holdings, Inc. (TRH) is an insurance holding company that provides property and casualty reinsurance to other insurance and reinsurance firms in the United States and internationally through its Transatlantic Reinsurance Company and Putnam Reinsurance Company subsidiaries. As of 1993, over 45 percent of TRI's stock was held by American …
6688 North Central Expressway Suite 1400 Dallas, Texas 75206 U.S.A. Triton Energy Corporation is one of the largest U.S. independent oil and natural gas exploration and production companies. It is distinguished from its U.S. peers by its emphasis on overseas operations. Triton's roller coaster ride to success was punctuated by infighting, brushes with bankruptcy, allegations of fraud, and high-ri…
P.O. Box 3270 Pasadena, California 91031 U.S.A. Trader Joe's operates a chain of unique grocery stores that have been described as a cross between a discount warehouse club and a gourmet deli. The company has grown steadily since its inception through innovation and sharp management techniques. In 1994 there were about 75 Trader Joe's stores operating in the western United States from San Francis…
600 Montgomery Street San Francisco, California 94111 U.S.A. Transamerica Corporation is involved, largely through semi-independent subsidiaries, in life insurance, financial services, and real estate services. Through its Transamerica Life Insurance Companies subsidiary, it is the eighth-largest life insurer in North America, and its life insurance operations generated 48 percent of Transamerica…
1900 Richmond Road Cleveland, Ohio 44124-3760 U.S.A. Long a conglomerate, TRW Inc. is now primarily one of the world's leading automotive parts makers, with smaller operations in space and defense technology and information systems and services. TRW's automotive sector is led by its air bag systems, with power-steering systems and engine valves of secondary importance. The space sector has lately…
5655 W. 73rd Street Chicago, Illinois 60638 U.S.A. Turtle Wax, Inc. is the world's largest manufacturer of car-care products. The Chicago-based company controls over 60 percent of the U.S. car wax market and sells its products in Europe, the Pacific Basin, and Central and South America. It also markets chemicals for commercial car washes, owns and operates the largest chain of full-service car wa…
801 West Madison Street Waterloo Wisconsin 53594 U.S.A. Company Perspectives We are a dynamic, innovative company that will compete in global markets and strive for excellence in every aspect of our business. The foundation for our commitment will be to: provide our customers with timely delivery of quality products and services at competitive values; create and maintain a positive environment fo…
3495 Winton Place Rochester, New York 14623 U.S.A. Travel Ports of America, Inc., operates around-the-clock, full-service travel plazas that provide customers with motor fuel, automotive supplies and repairs, groceries, food service, and motel rooms. These plazas serve both truck drivers and the general public. In 1996 Travel Ports operated 15 full-service travel plazas, a mini-travel plaza, and …
6250 LBJ Freeway Dallas, Texas 75240 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Tuesday Morning stores sell a wide assortment of first-quality closeout merchandise. The merchandise can generally be described as gift merchandise and primarily consists of dinnerware, china and crystal, gourmet housewares, bathroom, bedroom and kitchen accessories, linens and domestics, luggage, seasonal decorations such as Chris…
Rua General Pantaleao Telles 40 BR 04355-040 Sao Paulo/SP Brazil Company Perspectives: TransBrasil operates the youngest fleet in Latin America, and one of the youngest in the whole world, 6.8 years. This means more passenger comfort and safer operations. Our fleet consists exclusively of the WideBoeing 767--200/300ER and Boeing 737 in the 300 and 400 versions, the most advanced aircraft today. O…
Four Glenhardie Corporate Center 1255 Drummers Lane, Suite 200 Wayne, Pennsylvania 19087 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: 'Everything Has to Be Right.' Triumph Group, Inc., knows that everything has to work together. We provide a full range of products and services to the aviation industry, with a consistently high level of quality and service. Our companies design, engineer, manufacture, repair, ove…
5 Waterside Crossing Windsor, Connecticut 06095 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: TRC is a national environmental services company of more than 650 professionals with expertise in all areas of air quality and hazardous waste management, regulatory compliance and permitting, water resources engineering, air pollution engineering, risk assessment, and environmental liability consulting. TRC is a multidi…
515 North 6th Street St. Louis, Missouri 63101 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At TWA, our mission is to ensure that our customers accomplish theirs. You, our valued customers, are an important part of TWA's vision. We are committed to continually improving our brand product and focusing on customer service. Every employee has been trained to deliver our unique brand of customer service. Our Custome…
435 North Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60611-4066 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Mission: Build businesses that inform and entertain our customers in the ways, places and at the times they want. Tribune Company is one of the largest media companies in the United States. Its diversified businesses are arranged within two main operating units: Tribune Publishing, generator of 72 percent of overa…
101 East Erie Street Chicago, Illinois 60611-2897 U.S.A. True North Communications Inc. became the sixth largest advertising holding company in the world following its 1997 acquisition of Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon, and Eckhardt Inc. (BJKE). With an estimated 11,000 employees worldwide and projected annual billings of $11.5 billion, True North was now in a league with the industry's biggest players, …
725 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10022 U.S.A. The Trump Organization presides over the assets of the Trump family and includes not only the assets of the flamboyant Donald J. Trump but those accumulated by his father, Fred C. Trump. These assets consisted, in the late 1990s, of apartment buildings, mostly in New York City's borough of Brooklyn, owned and/or managed by Trump corporations; a var…
38 Corporate Circle Albany, New York 12203 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Generating a competitive return on investment for shareholders is Trans World Entertainment's foremost responsibility, and this is the principal goal that guides the board of directors and the entire management team. Trans World Entertainment Corporation is one of the country's largest specialty music retailers. Through such …
Ir. D.s. Tuynmanweg 10 4131 PN Vianen The Netherlands Company Perspectives: Triple P is a leading provider of computing and network solutions, computer services and software solutions to consumers located primarily in The Netherlands and Belgium. Triple P N.V. supplies customized computing and networking products and services, primarily to the healthcare, print and publishing, and telecommunicati…
14901 S. Orange Blossom Trail Orlando, Florida 32837 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Tupperware conducts its business through a single business segment, manufacturing and marketing a broad line of high-quality consumer products for the home. The core of Tupperware's product line consists of food storage containers which preserve freshness through the well-known Tupperware seals. Tupperware also has …
1750 Tree Boulevard St. Augustine, Florida 32086-0410 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our Mission: To provide unmatched retail-oriented marketing and distributing services with a focus on the health conscious/quality conscious consumer. Tree of Life, Inc. is the world's leading marketer and distributor of natural and specialty foods, serving, in 1999, more than 10,000 retailers in the United States,…
800 Fifth Avenue New Brighton, Pennsylvania 15066 U.S.A. Tuscarora Inc. is the largest manufacturer in the United States of custom molded products made from expanded foam plastic materials. It designs and manufactures interior protective packaging and material handling products and components for industrial and consumer products. In addition to custom molded and die-cut plastic foams, it uses the…
645 North Mary Avenue Sunnyvale, California 94088 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: As the only publicly held company in the world dedicated solely to GPS, Trimble is positioned as the major player in the industry. Every day, all over the world, Trimble GPS solutions go to work. Whether it's locating Caspian oil and gas in Kazakhstan or finding a taxi in Oslo, the variety of applications for Trimble G…
10405 New Berlin Road East Jacksonville, Florida 32226 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Trailer Bridge's mission is to provide cost and service effective transportation that contributes to the success of both the customers and the company. The mission will be achieved through commitment to a continual improvement process that best matches customers' needs with the company's strength. Attainment of th…
Karl-Wiechert-Allee 23 D-30625 Hannover Germany Company Perspectives: Quick success is over quickly. To ensure the long-term successful existence of our company, we pursue long-term objectives. These enable us to maintain a clear focus in an increasingly complex and complicated environment which is changing ever more quickly. We aim to be the leading leisure company in Europe, offering quality-co…
1715 Yankee Doodle Road Eagan, Minnesota 55121 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: [Our mission is to] become the most successful provider of the highest quality transportation and logistic services in North America. Our success will be measured by our ability to make all of our customers successful. For those who trust us with their products, we will supply services that surpass their expectations and …
One Canada Square Canary Wharf London E14 5AP United Kingdom Company Perspectives: We have delivered a robust financial performance in 2001. The current economy makes forecasting future performance very difficult but we have developed clear and ambitious plans for all parts of the Group. We have the team and the determination to deliver these plans. In doing so, we expect to create value for shar…
Canadian Executive Offices Suite 3000 8882-170 Street Edmonton, Alberta T5T 4M2 Canada Company Perspectives: Together we are committed to providing an exceptional entertainment and shopping experience in a safe and friendly environment. Triple Five Group Ltd. of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is most widely recognized as the owner of the world's largest mega-mall, recreation, and amusement complex--t…
Tsingtao Beer Tower, 56 Dengzhou Road Qingdao, Shandong 266071 China Company Perspectives: The goal of the Group is to fully utilize its edges in brand and technology and expand the economy of scale through purchasing, merging and setting up of new factories based on the national capital. The Group will speed up to diversify its operations and find and cultivate new economy increasing points to b…
800 South Shamrock Avenue Monrovia, California 91016 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At Trader Joe's, our mission is to bring you the best food and beverage values you can find anywhere, and the information you need to make informed buying decisions. You'll find more than 800 unique grocery items in our label, at prices everyone can afford. We work hard at buying things right: Our buyers travel the …
110 Richards Avenue Norwalk, Connecticut 06856 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We take great pride in the cutting-edge display solutions we design for clients around the world and the high standard of client service we maintain. And we look forward, moving to take advantage of dynamic new technologies, to our continued leadership in the expanding communication environments of the future. Trans-Lux C…
1100 Boulders Parkway Richmond, Virginia 23225 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: "We have set our sights on becoming a world-class company that consistently generates substantial growth in profits and economic value." --Norman A. Scher, president and CEO Tredegar Corporation, based in Richmond, Virginia, is primarily involved, through subsidiaries, in two unrelated businesses: plastic films and alumin…
Jacknell Road Hinckley Leicestershire LE10 3BS United Kingdom One of the oldest names in motorcycle manufacturing, Triumph Motorcycles Ltd. is also one of the youngest--while production of the first Triumph motorcycles began in 1902, in its present incarnation the company has been in business only since 1990. Triumph's motorcycle production facilities in Hinckley, England, had to be completely re…
5303 Shilshole Avenue Northwest Seattle, Washington 98107 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Trident believes that customer satisfaction is achieved through integrity, honesty, and on-time delivery of quality products, value pricing, and full service. We value long-term relationships with our customers. Our goal is to earn customer confidence and our pledge is to maintain a competitive profile. We will…
One CNN Center 100 International Boulevard Atlanta, Georgia 30348 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We thrive on innovation and originality--encouraging risk-taking and divergent voices. We value our customers--putting their needs and interests at the center of everything we do. We move quickly--embracing change and seizing new opportunities. We treat one another with respect--creating value by workin…
375 Hudson Street, 6th Floor New York, New York 10014 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We are proactive in finding solutions for our clients that best achieve their goals. Lasting relationships are the lifeblood of our business. We want the client to feel that our staff is even more committed to the effort than their own staff ... that's what distinguishes us. Personal attention to our clients as ind…
General Management Building Ataturk Airport Yesilkoy 34830 Istanbul Turkey Company Perspectives: Turkish Airlines' mission, as the flag carrier of Turkey, is to provide air transportation services in order to: Pioneer the country's attempts to penetrate world markets; connect all regions with a certain passenger potential within Turkey; serve as a bridge between the Turkish Republics of Central A…
12001 Tech Center Drive Livonia, Michigan 48150-2122 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: In early 2003, TRW Automotive began a new adventure when it became in dependent from its former parent company. A new company with a distin guished past, TRW Automotive is now focused solely on the needs of th e automotive market. TRW Automotive is the global leader in automotive safety systems. One of the top 10 au…
220 East 2nd Avenue Selah, Washington 98942 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Tree Top will be the premier marketer and supplier of processed apple s and other fruit products by: 1: Supplying consumers and customers with high quality products and e xceptional service. 2: Increasing the value of membership to our grow er/owners. 3: Making a positive contribution to the quality of life i n our communiti…
One Centennial Avenue Piscataway New Jersey 08855-6820 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Your comfort is at the center of everything we do. It's that refreshing coolness when you walk in on that hot and humid day. It's the reassuring warmth on the coldest winter night. It's Trane air conditioning and heating: designed, tested and manufactured to last. Trane is a leading global manufacturer of commercia…
96 Mowat Avenue Toronto M6K 3M1 Canada Company Perspectives Tucows' objective is to be the leading provider of Internet services to Internet service providers (ISPs), web hosting companies and other service providers worldwide. Because Tucows was once an ISP itself, our company prides itself on understanding the needs--and championing the rights--of our channel partners. We do not compete with th…
14901 South Orange Blossom Trail Orlando Florida 32837 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Tupperware is one of the most trusted names in housewares. We offer the highest quality products, with the finest design features to meet your special needs. Whether it's getting a good, hot meal on the table at the end of a busy day, toting a nutritious lunch to work, or taking time to learn a new baking secret wi…
590 Madison Avenue 21st Floor New York New York 10022 U.S.A. Company Perspectives At Travelzoo our mission is to give you the best and smartest information. Travelzoo Inc. is one of the few Internet media companies to survive the dot-com meltdown of the early 2000s and achieve profitability. Even so, the travel-related business has not skirted controversy or avoided regular predictions of its dem…
Two Westbrook Corporate Center Suite 1070 Westchester Illinois 60154-5744 U.S.A. Company Perspectives TreeHouse Foods is dedicated to being a leader in supplying high quality products and services to the private label and foodservice industries. Our business is based on the following propositions: Private label food and beverage is a $38 billion sector that has grown at approximately twice the pa…
1525 Rio Vista Avenue Los Angeles California 90035 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Our strategy is to build brand recognition by marketing our products to fashion conscious, affluent consumers who shop in high-end boutiques and department stores and who want to wear and be seen in the latest, trendiest, jeans and related apparel. We plan to limit distribution to the more exclusive boutiques, specialt…