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Havas SA, a wholly owned subsidiary of utilities and telecommunications giant Vivendi SA, is the largest publishing firm in France and a global media and communications company. Through an extensive network of subsidiaries, Havas publishes professional, reference, education, and consumer books...

Hastings Manufacturing Company makes piston rings, auto mechanic service tools, and, through a joint venture, engine additives and other automotive chemical products. The company's goods are primarily sold in the United States and Canada, though they are also distributed internationally...

Operator of a fast-growing chain of multimedia superstores, Hastings Entertainment, Inc. retails books, music, videos, and computer software through a network of stores predominately located in small towns in the western half of the United States. By the end of the 1990s, Hastings operated 130...

Based in Burbank, California, Haskel International, Inc. is the global leader in the manufacture of hydraulic and pneumatic high-pressure pumping systems and accessories. The privately owned company draws its customers from a wide range of industries, including aerospace, automotive, defense...

Truly successful toy companies do not just make toys; they manufacture popular culture. Hasbro, Inc., which is the second-largest toymaker in the world, behind only Mattel Inc., certainly fits that description. From America's Action Hero to a plastic anthropomorphized potato to vehicles that...

Located in the heart of Chicago, Harza Engineering Company is the premier water resources development firm in the Midwest. The company has a long history of successful projects in the United States and abroad, including the Derbendi Khan Dam, built in Iraq in 1963, which was at that time the...

Founded in 1944, Harveys Casino Resorts is an established owner, operator, and developer of high quality hotel/casinos in Nevada and new gaming jurisdictions. Through its subsidiaries, the company owns and operates Harveys Resort/Casino, the largest hotel/casino in Lake Tahoe, Nevada; Harveys...

Harvey Norman Holdings Ltd. is one of Australia's most successful retail groups, controlling an empire of more than 150 department stores. Nearly all of these stores, which emphasize computers, home entertainment equipment, and home appliances are operated on a unique franchise model, wherein...

Hartmarx Corporation is a holding company for a number of clothing companies, including its flagship brands of men's tailored clothing (suits, sportcoats, and slacks): Hart Schaffner & Marx and Hickey-Freeman. From its tailored beginnings, Hartmarx expanded into men's and women's...

Harte-Hanks, Inc. is a diversified direct marketing company offering a host of services to customers worldwide. The company's specialties include data analysis, strategic planning, and market research. Originally a newspaper business cofounded by Houston Harte and Bernard Hanks, over the years...

Harsco Corporation was formed in 1956 as the result of a merger between Harrisburg Steel Corporation, Heckett Engineering Inc., and Precision Castings Co. Within the next three decades, through a series of acquisitions--which were integrated as company divisions and subsidiaries&mdash well as...

Harry's Farmers Market Inc. is an Atlanta-based grocery chain, but its megastores are far removed from the traditional groceries of yesteryear. Specializing in perishable food products and ready-to-eat meals, Harry's appeals chiefly to a clientele with sophisticated tastes, plenty of disposable...

Harry Winston Inc. is the corporate name of The House of Harry Winston, one of the world's most prestigious luxury jewelers. The worldwide operation is run from a Fifth Avenue location in New York City, where the company not only maintains a salon open to a select clientele, but also operates...

Harry N. Abrams, Inc. is the largest publisher of art and illustrated books in the United States. The company publishes and distributes about 200 titles each year and maintains as many as 1,500 titles in print. Abrams puts out many well-known series of books about art and artists, including the...

Harry London Candies, Inc. is a North Canton, Ohio-based confectioner primarily known for its high-quality chocolate products. The company also offers caramels, mints, and toffees. A subsidiary of Alpine Confections, Inc., Harry London produces some 2,000 different items in its...

Harrods Holdings represents one of the most prestigious names in shopping history, operating the famed Harrods department store at Knightsbridge, London. The seven-story, 111,000-square-meter building, which includes more than 74,000 square meters of selling space, features 330...

The chain that became Harris Teeter started as two small North Carolina enterprises in the late 1930s. The first of these was Harris Super Market, opened in Charlotte in 1939 by W. T. Harris, who had borrowed $1,500 to start the business three years earlier. Though nothing like the vast shopping...

Harris Interactive Inc. combines the capabilities of the Internet with the name recognition of renown opinion pollster Louis Harris, and has become one of the world's fastest growing Internet-based market research companies. After Louis Harris and Associates was purchased in 1996 by a Rochester...

The origin of the Harris Corporation, a leading American electronics company, is actually to be found in the printing business. What began as a minor manufacturer of printing press machinery has evolved during this century into an important developer of cutting-edge electronics technology. In...

William Harrah parlayed a Reno bingo parlor into a company, Harrah's Entertainment, Inc., consisting of Nevada casinos, hotels, and nightclubs that brought in nearly $200 million a year before his death in 1978. Harrah's later opened a casino-hotel in Atlantic City and expanded rapidly in the...