Greenly House Dukes Place London EC3 England Wood Hall Trust is a company in the process of disposing of its assets. A large and diversified company with interests in construction, shipping, and mercantile operations, Wood Hall Trust was acquired in 1982 by Elders IXL, the Australian conglomerate. Acquired for its more profitable enterprises, which have been merged into those of the new parent co…
231 West Michigan St. P.O. Box 2046 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201 U.S.A. Wisconsin Energy's origins lie in the late 1880s, when financier Henry Villard consolidated Milwaukee's electric and streetcar companies into the Milwaukee Street Railway Company, a subsidiary of an early utility trust called the North American Company. Villard made his acquisitions quietly and in his own name. Within three yea…
410 North Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60611 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: In our pursuit of generational growth and prosperity for our stakeholders, the entire Wrigley organization is committed to acting in a manner consistent with the shared values we hold paramount. We treat each other with trust, dignity, and respect; we create an environment where people from diverse cultures and backgro…
700 North Adams Street P.O. Box 19001 Green Bay, Wisconsin 54307-9001 U.S.A. Wisconsin Public Service Corporation is one of the larger public utilities in the Midwest. It supplies electricity and natural gas to customers in northeastern Wisconsin and part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The company's largest urban markets are the cities of Green Bay, Oshkosh, Wausau, and Stevens Point. Wiscon…
1555 N. Technology Way Orem, Utah 84057-2399 U.S.A. WordPerfect Corporation is the manufacturer of the world's all-time best selling, prepackaged word processing software. Along with its flagship WordPerfect word processing program, the company develops and markets software for a variety of computer operating systems. Its products serve three principal markets: business, work group, and consumer …
525 West Monroe Street Chicago, Illinois 60661 U.S.A World Book, Inc. is a leading publisher of reference materials. Through three of its five divisions, the company markets hundreds of different reference and educational products in more than 50 countries and in more than a dozen languages. Its World Book is the largest selling print encyclopedia in the world by numerical volume. World Book is o…
101 Park Avenue New York, New York 10178 U.S.A. World Color Press Inc. is the largest printer of consumer magazines in the United States and the third largest commercial printer in North America. Headquartered in New York, World Color Press operates 17 production, distribution, and sales facilities throughout the country and is recognized as a leader in various segments of the printing industry. …
5001 North Second Street P.O. Box 7001 Rockford, Illinois 61125-7001 U.S.A. Woodward Governor Co. is the world's oldest and largest manufacturer of controls for prime movers, which are machines that convert either heat or hydraulic energy into mechanical or electrical energy. The company designs and manufactures controls for all types and sizes of steam and diesel engines, hydraulic turbines, air…
727 North Broadway Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 U.S.A. Wisconsin Bell, Inc., is the legal name of what has publicly been known as Ameritech Wisconsin since 1993. The largest provider of local telephone service in the state of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Bell focuses its attention on larger population centers, leaving less populous areas to Wisconsin's many small, independent telephone companies. Wisconsin…
900 Proprietors Road Worthington Ohio 43085 U.S.A. Worthington Foods, Inc., has grown from a tiny manufacturer of specialty foods into a leader of the U.S. markets for vegetarian foods and meat alternatives. The company continued to hold a leading 65 percent share of the meat alternatives market in 1994 despite intense competition from America's largest food conglomerates. By the mid-1990s, Worth…
10990 Roe Avenue Overland Park, Kansas 66211 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Yellow Corporation makes global commerce work by connecting people, places, and information. That's the reason we exist. There are no limits to where we can go and what we can do. Yellow Corporation is a transportation holding company with subsidiaries that specialize in regional, national, and international transportation …
3471 North First Street San Jose, California 95134 U.S.A. Wyse Technology, Inc. is a designer and manufacturer of computer monitors and terminals for mainframe, mini, and desktop computing markets. It is the worldwide leader in the video display terminal market, with over seven million units shipped by 1995. Taiwanese investors purchased Wyse in 1989, but the company maintains headquarters office…
9341 Courtland Drive Rockford, Michigan 49341 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Quality products, fiscal management and steady growth marked the firm's early years. Tanning and manufacturing technology laid the groundwork for one of the industry's most famous success stories--the worldwide popularity of Hush Puppies Brand casual shoes. Founded by a family of hard-working, skilled craftsmen, Wolverine …
1205 Dearborn Drive Columbus, Ohio 43085 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Earnings: The first corporate goal for Worthington Industries is to earn money for its shareholders and increase the value of their investment.... Our Golden Rule: We treat our customers, employees, investors, and suppliers as we would like to be treated. People: We are dedicated to the belief that people are our most important…
101 North Wacker Drive Chicago, Illinois 60606 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The YMCA's mission is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. The effect of the national system is not measured by the number of conference reports, newsletters or phone calls we handle. It is counted by the number of lives changed through what we do--th…
1241 East Main Street Stamford, Connecticut 06902 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our objectives are to broaden our leadership position in the creation, production and promotion of our form of televised and live entertainment events and to leverage our technical and operating skills to pursue complementary entertainment-based business opportunities. Some of the key elements of our strategy are to: c…
Stadhouderskade 1 P.O. Box 818 NL-1000 AV Amsterdam The Netherlands Company Perspectives: Wolters Kluwer's mission is to provide comprehensive, authoritative, and reliable print and electronic products and services that help professionals reduce costs, boost productivity, and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their work processes. Wolters Kluwer NV is one of the worldwide leaders in pu…
1818 H Street, North West Washington, District of Columbia 20433 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The World Bank is the world's largest source of development assistance, providing nearly $30 billion in loans annually to its client countries. The Bank uses its financial resources, its highly trained staff, and its extensive knowledge base to individually help each developing country onto a path of sta…
1525 Perimeter Parkway Suite 210 Huntsville, Alabama 35806 U.S.A. Wolverine Tube Inc. is a technological leader in the design, manufacture, and distribution of copper and copper alloy tubular products in the United States and around the world. The company makes copper tubes for the industrial tube product market, including appliance companies, refrigeration equipment manufacturers, automotive fir…
One O'Hare Centre Suite 9000 6250 N. River Road Rosemont, Illinois 60017-5062 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: To offer superior transportation consisting of more frequent, dependable train service, at competitive prices, with proper equipment, accomplished by customer-minded employees. Wisconsin Central Ltd., the core railroad of the holding company Wisconsin Central Transportation Corporation, was …
Vredebaan 72 2640 Mortsel Belgium Company Perspectives: Xeikon's mission is to develop, produce and market digital color printing systems and related consumables specifically designed to meet the quality, speed, liability, cost, variable content and on-demand requirements for the digital color printing market. Xeikon NV is one of the pioneers of color digital printing technology for the professio…
800 Long Ridge Road Stamford, Connecticut 06904 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our strategic intent is to help people find better ways to do great work--by constantly leading in document technologies, products and services that improve our customers' work processes and business results. Xerox Corporation, though virtually synonymous with photocopying, makes printers, scanners, fax machines, multifu…
701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, California 94089 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 274 million individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, househ…
63 Copps Hill Road Ridgefield, Connecticut 06877 U.S.A. World Duty Free Americas, Inc. operates one of the largest chains of duty free stores in the world. The company sells merchandise through approximately 200 shops, located primarily near U.S. border crossings and in airports. Its most popular products are perfumes, tobacco, and liquor, for the most part of premium brands. Customers save subst…
P.O. Box 111 Baraboo, Wisconsin 53913-0111 U.S.A. Wisconsin Dairies (WD) is one of the largest dairy cooperatives in the United States, a Fortune 500 company that operates 19 manufacturing plants and conducts $2 million worth of business on any given work day. It produces one third of the cheese con-sumed in the United States (not under its own brand name, but by selling it to major food processo…
4801 South Lawndale Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60632-3065 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Making chocolate is a long and complex process that is both science and art. Just as the tropical cacao tree tolerates only a narrow range of temperature and humidity to develop its fruit, World's Finest Chocolate's standards demand perfect conditions, the most modern machinery, dedicated employees and the finest…
101 Market Street, Suite 700 San Francisco, CA 94105 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Working Assets is a long distance, credit card, and online services company that was created to build a world that is more just, humane, and environmentally sustainable. The company was established in 1985 to help busy people make a difference in the world through progressive philanthropy and political activism. Wor…
700 S. Royal Poinciana Boulevard, Suite 800 Miami Springs, Florida 33166 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission is to sustain long-term, profitable growth for shareholders and maintain a global leadership position in the downstream marketing and financing of aviation and marine fuel products and related services. We will accomplish this by providing exceptional value to customers and suppliers …
5001 North Second Street P.O. Box 7001 Rockford, Illinois 61125-7001 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Woodward is a world-class company with customer-focused engineering capabilities. We design and manufacture efficient, low-emission, cost-effective products. Woodward takes an aggressive approach to gaining market share and expanding our customer base. We will achieve these objectives using strategic…
16-10, Ginza 2-chome Chuo-ku Tokyo 104-8125 Japan Company Perspectives: We will raise competitiveness through high-quality services. Yamato Transport Co. Ltd. is the founder of the private parcel delivery service industry in Japan, and the largest player in the market today. The company delivers approximately 900 million parcels each year. Links with United Parcel Service allow Yamato to deliver …
Five Giralda Farms Madison, New Jersey 07940 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our Mission: We bring to the world pharmaceutical and health care products that improve lives and deliver outstanding value to our customers and shareholders. Our Vision: Our vision is to lead the way to a healthier world. By carrying out this vision at every level of our organization, we will be recognized by our employees…
700 North Adams Street P.O. Box 19001 Green Bay, Wisconsin 54307-9001 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: As we move forward, we see a vibrant company that has the capacity to confront short-term challenges head-on without sacrificing its values or its drive to reach its long-term aspiration of creating the world-class energy company. We also see a company that is dedicated to creating value for its sta…
231 West Michigan St. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: While transforming our long-term growth strategy into reality, we are committed to: Focusing on our core businesses of electric generation, electric and gas distribution, and pump manufacturing. Operating our utility companies efficiently and effectively while continuing to generate and deliver safe, reliable and reason…
108 Frederick Street Greenville, South Carolina 29607 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our Mission: To be of service to our customers. To provide our employees a good work place with fair compensations, good benefits and advancement opportunities. To be sound. To be profitable. To be large. A provider of consumer loans, World Acceptance Corporation focuses mainly on the subprime market, comprised of …
3-10-1, Iwamoto-cho Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 101-8585 Japan Company Perspectives: Since we started our motto has been, "Great taste at a reasonable price." Yamazaki Bread makes over 500 products in our 25 factories nationwide, and we deliver to approximately 79,000 outlets. It's our goal to help make our customers' lives easier and more enjoyable. Yamazaki Baking Co., Ltd. is Japan's leading manufacturer…
9341 Courtland Drive N.E. Rockford, Michigan 49351-0001 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our vision is to be recognized as "The World's Premier Non-Athletic Footwear Company." To reach this goal, the entire organization has embraced the following strategic principles designed to generate stockholder value through consistent and growing economic returns: build the strongest brand portfolio in the indu…
525 Lincoln Ave. SE St. Cloud, Minnesota, 56304 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The passing of time in the wood industry brings with it not only an increased wisdom and passion of our trade, but a further appreciation of our world's greatest natural resource--trees. Producing the broadest line of fine hardwoods and laminated componentry in the industry, Woodcraft Industries is committed to providing…
5677 Airline Road Arlington, Tennessee 38002 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We are committed to improving the quality of life of orthopedic patients by providing our customers with the highest quality large joint, extremity, and biologic products. We will provide uncompromising service. We will foster the development of our human resources. We will operate our business ethically and in a manner bey…
614 Walnut Street, 13th Floor Madison, Wisconsin 53726 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Since its founding in 1925, WARF has served the University of Wisconsin-Madison scientific community by patenting the discoveries of UW-Madison researchers and licensing these technologies to leading companies in Wisconsin, the United States and worldwide. In this way, WARF also facilitates the use of UW-Madison r…
240 Royal Palm Way Palm Beach, Florida 33480 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission is to provide a "one-stop-shop" for business printing, graphic services and office consumable items. We've dedicated ourselves to "partnering" with our clients, providing them with a single-source system for purchasing, managing and distributing these print and office consumables. Workflow Management, Inc. tries…
460 Orlando Avenue, Suite 200 Winter Park, Florida 32789 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our Mission: World Publications aspires to be, and be recognized as, the leading force in selected lifestyle and recreational markets by: Providing participants with information, entertainment, knowledge and inspiration through appropriate interactive media. Building relationships with marketing partners by offe…
1500 Eckington Place NE Washington, D.C. 20002-2194 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: One big idea can change everything. And XM Satellite Radio is one big idea. Radio to the Power of X. America's most popular satellite radio service gives you the power to choose what you want to hear--wherever and whenever you want it. XM Satellite Radio Holdings, Inc. broadcasts more than 120 channels of digital rad…
1250 4th Street, Suite 310 Santa Monica, California 90401 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The name Wolfgang Puck, in the eyes of food lovers and experts alike, represents the ultimate in good cooking. That name now refers not only to the world-famous chef himself but also to the culinary empire he has built since the early 1980s: the group of fine dining restaurants through which he first rose to pr…
708 Broadway New York, New York 10003-9555 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Look at our offerings and you'll see not a company running on past successes, but one that works just as hard to launch the new idea as it does to keep the proven title selling--a company that works as hard to publish the best calendar as it does to publish the best book. Workman Publishing Company, Inc., is a leading indepen…
414 Nicollet Mall Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401-1993 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our name reflects our core value--excellence in energy products and services. We are dedicated to providing you the best in service, value and information to enhance your professional and personal life. We are committed to customer satisfaction by continuously improving our operations to be a low-cost, reliable, envi…
Bahnhofstrasse 2, Postfach 102 Zug CH-6301 Switzerland Company Perspectives: We will grow and manage a diversified portfolio of metals and mining businesses with the single aim of delivering industry-leading returns for our shareholders. We can achieve this only through genuine partnerships with employees, customers, shareholders, local communities and other stakeholders, which are based on integ…
7 Jalan Tandang Petaling Jaya 46050 Malaysia Company Perspectives: Our Vision: To be the No. 1 Asian Food and Beverage Company in Malays ia. Current Achievements: No. 1 in Soy Milk Category; No. 1 in Tea Dr ink Category; No. 1 in Canned Meat Range. Targets: No. 1 in Instant N oodle Category; No. 1 in Canned Food Category. Yeo Hiap Seng Malaysia Bhd. is one of the leading food and beverages groups…
245 Townpark Drive Suite 450 Kennesaw Georgia 30144 U.S.A. Company Perspectives Our mission is simple, to make real food for real people ... great tasting snacks made from the finest ingredients and backed by exceptional customer service. From our familiar favorites to our newest varieties, we strive to be the snack you are proud to share with your friends and family. Wise Foods, Inc. is a privat…
Queens Walk Oxford Rd. Reading United Kingdom Company Perspectives Yell creates value by putting buyers in touch with sellers through an integrated portfolio of simple to use, cost-effective advertising products available as printed, online and telephone media. We aim to be the best business information bridge between buyers and sellers, regardless of channel, time or location. Yell seeks to unde…
97 Darling Avenue South Portland Maine 04106 U.S.A. Company Perspectives In the simplest terms, Wright Express, along with its wholly owned subsidiary Wright Express Financial Services Corporation, is a leading provider of fleet and corporate charge cards. Flexible, pre-set cardholder limits and robust data capture from each card transaction provide users with valuable information to better manag…