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1-800-Flowers (NASDAQ: FLWS) is a floral and gift retailer and distribution company in the United States. It was one of the first retailers to use a 24 x 7 toll-free telephone number and the Internet for direct sales to consumers.[citation needed] The concept of using 1-800-Flowers as a...

Ritter Sport is a German chocolate bar made by Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG. It is distributed throughout the world. Each 100 gram square-shaped bar is divided into 16 smaller squares, creating a four-by-four pattern. Large bars weighing 250 grams and 16.5 gram mini bars are also available...

ALFA (BMV: ALFA /BMAD: ALFAA) is a Mexican conglomerate composed of four business groups: Alpek (petrochemicals), Nemak (heavy industry & military equipment), Sigma Alimentos (foods) and Alestra (electronics & telecommunications). ALFA is the world's leading manufacturer of high-tech aluminum...

Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of cars. Founded as A.L.F.A. on June 24, 1910 in Milan,[2] the company has been involved in car racing since 1911, and has a reputation for building expensive sports cars.[3] The company was owned by Italian state holding company Istituto...

Alfa Laval AB is a Swedish company, founded in 1883 by Gustaf de Laval and Oscar Lamm.[1] The company is a leading producer of specialized products and solutions used to heat, cool, separate and transport products such as oil, water, chemicals, beverages, foodstuffs, starch and pharmaceuticals...

Alfa Corporation Statistics: Public Company Incorporated: 1946 Employees:618 Sales: $587.5 million (2002) Stock Exchanges: NASDAQ Ticker Symbol: ALFA NAIC: 524126 Direct Property and Casualty Insurance Carriers; 524113 Direct Life Insurance Carriers Company Perspectives: To our family of...

World Financial Group (WFG) is a financial services marketing organization based in Duluth, Georgia that markets investment, insurance, and various other financial products through a network of associates in the United States and Canada. WFG is a Network Marketing company that utilizes a system...

Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. (NYSE: ALEX) is a Honolulu-based company that was once part of the Big Five companies in territorial Hawaii. The company today operates businesses in shipping, sugar cane, real estate, and diversified agriculture. It is also the only "Big Five" company that still...

Alexander & Alexander Services Inc. Statistics: Public Company Incorporated: 1922 as Alexander & Alexander, Inc. Employees: 14,500 Sales: $1.34 billion Stock Exchanges: New York SICs: 6411 Insurance Agents, Brokers & Service; 8742 Management Consulting Services; 6719 Holding Companies Nec...

Aldus Corporation, named after the 15th-century Venetian printer Aldus Manutius, was the inventor of the groundbreaking PageMaker software, a program that is generally credited with creating the desktop publishing (DTP) field. The company was founded by Jeremy Jaech, Mark Sundstrom, Mike...

ALDI, short for "Albrecht Discount", is a discount supermarket chain based in Germany. The chain is made up of two separate groups, ALDI Nord (North - operating as ALDI MARKT) and ALDI Süd (South - operating as Aldi Süd), which operate independently from each other within specific market...

Alderwoods Group, formally The Alderwoods Group, Inc., was a provider of funeral, cremation, and cemetery services in North America with operations in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Its executive office is in Toronto, Ontario, and it has administrative offices in Cincinnati, Ohio...

Marketing Strategy of Alcoa, Inc : Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) (from ALuminum Company Of America) is the world's third largest producer of aluminum, behind Rio Tinto Alcan and Rusal.[4] From its operational headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Alcoa conducts operations in 31 countries. Alcoa is...

Alcatel-Lucent is a global telecommunications corporation, headquartered in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France. It provides telecommunications solutions to service providers, enterprises, and governments around the world, enabling these customers to deliver voice, data, and video services...

Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. became the world's largest Aluminium company when Rio Tinto PLC's Canadian subsidiary, Rio Tinto Canada Holding Inc., completed a friendly acquisition of Canadian company Alcan Inc. on November 15, 2007. On this date, Alcan Inc. was renamed Rio Tinto Alcan Inc.. Alcan Inc...

Albertsons (officially New Albertson's, Inc.), a wholly owned subsidiary of Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based SuperValu, is a supermarket retailer that operates 463 grocery stores in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, southern California, Florida and certain parts of Utah [1]...

Alberto-Culver is an American corporation with international sales whose principal business is manufacturing hair and skin beauty care products under such brands as Alberto VO5, Andrew Collinge, St. Ives (skin care products), TRESemmé, FDS, Consort, and Nexxus. It is the number one manufacturer...

Alberta Energy Company Ltd. Statistics: Public Company Incorporated: 1973 Employees: 700 Sales: US $664 million (1995) Stock Exchanges: Toronto Montreal New York SICs: 1382 Oil & Gas Exploration and Production; 1389 Pipelining; 5052 Petrochemicals Company History: Alberta Energy Company...

Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) is a chemical company with corporate headquarters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It is a globally recognized specialty chemical manufacturing enterprise. The Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Company opened in 1887 with the production of kraft paper, also known as...

Alba-Waldensian, Inc. Statistics: Public Company Incorporated: 1961 Employees: 750 Sales: $75.24 million (1998) Stock Exchanges: American Ticker Symbol: AWS NAIC: 315111 Sheer Hosiery Mills; 315192 Underwear & Nightwear Knitting Mills; 339113 Surgical Appliance & Supplies Manufacturing; 42232...