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America West Holdings Corporation was an Arizona - based company whose primary holding was America West Airlines. During its acquisition of US Airways, AmericaWest's parent company adopted the name of its competitors parent company, which at the time had the name "US Air Group" and which...

Ameren Corporation NYSE: AEE was created December 31, 1997 by the merger of Missouri's Union Electric Company (formerly NYSE: UEP) and the neighboring Central Illinois Public Service Company (CIPSCO Inc. holding, formerly NYSE: CIP).[3] It is now a holding company for several power companies and...

The Hess Corporation (known as Amerada Hess Corporation prior to May 2006) is an integrated oil company based in New York City, New York, USA. The company explores, produces, transports, and refines crude oil, as well as natural gas. Vertically completing the logistical chain, about 1,360 Hess...

Amer Sports Oyj (formerly Amer-Yhtymä Oyj, OMX: AMEAS) is the largest manufacturer of sporting equipment in the world.[2] Established in 1950, the company is based in Helsinki, Finland. Initially an industrial conglomerate with interests as diverse as shipowning, tobacco products and publishing...

Amedysis, Inc. Statistics: Public Company Incorporated:1982 as Analytical Nursing Management Corporation Employees: 1,521 Sales: $110 million (2001) Stock Exchanges: NASDAQ Ticker Symbol: AMED NAIC: 561310 Employment Placement Agencies; 621610 Home Health Care Services Company Perspectives...

Amec Spie Statistics: Subsidiary of AMEC plc Incorporated: 1900 as Société Parisienne pour l'Industrie des Chemins de Fer et des Tramways Electriques Employees: 24,700 Sales: EUR 3.41 billion ($3.1 billion) (2002) NAIC: 237990 Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction; 236210 Industrial...

Amdocs Limited (NYSE: DOX) is a provider of software and services for billing, customer relationship management (CRM), operations support systems (OSS). Its traditional clients are telecommunications "Tier-1" and "Tier-2" providers such as Telekom Austria, AT&T, BT Group, Cellcom, Comcast...

Amdahl Corporation is an information technology company which specializes in IBM mainframe-compatible computer products. Founded in 1970 by Dr. Gene Amdahl, a former IBM employee, it has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu since 1997. The company is located in Sunnyvale, California...

Amcor Limited (ASX: AMC) is an Australian-based multinational packaging company. Its headquarters are in Melbourne, and it is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. It operates manufacturing plants in 42 countries, and has approximately 30,000 employees and annual sales of US$7,280...

Amblin Entertainment is an American film and television production company founded by director Steven Spielberg and film producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall in 1981. Amblin is only a production company, and has never distributed its own movies, nor has it fully financed its...

Ambassadors Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: EPAX) is a publicly traded educational travel company based in Spokane, Washington.[3] It was originally an operating division of Ambassadors International, Inc., but was divested into a separate corporation in 2002 to form the company under its current...

The Ambac Financial Group, Inc., generally known as Ambac (originally the American Municipal Bond Assurance Corporation) (Pink Sheets: ABKFQ), was an American holding company whose subsidiaries provide financial guarantee products, such as bond insurance and other financial services to clients...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is a US-based multinational electronic commerce company. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, it is America's largest online retailer, with nearly three times the Internet sales revenue of the runner up, Staples, Inc., as of January 2010. Jeff Bezos founded...

Amalgamated Bank Statistics: Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial & Textile Employees Founded: 1923 Employees:433 Total Assets: $3.28 billion (2002) NAIC: 522110 Commercial Banking; 522291 Consumer Lending; 522310 Mortgage and Other Loan Brokers; 523991 Trust...

Alvis Ltd. was created when United Scientific Holdings plc acquired the Alvis division of the nationalised vehicle manufacturer British Leyland in 1981. United Scientific maintained its own name until 1992 when the group was renamed Alvis plc. Alvis acquired Swedish armoured vehicle manufacturer...

Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. Statistics: Nonprofit Company Incorporated: 1958 as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Sales: $15 million (2001 est.) NAIC: 711120 Dance Companies Company Perspectives: Promoting the uniqueness of black cultural expression and the preservation and...

Altron Incorporated Statistics: Public Company Incorporated: 1970 Employees: 1,085 Sales: $165.25 million (1996) Stock Exchanges: NASDAQ SICs: 3613 Switchgear & Switchboard Apparatus; 3672 Printed Circuit Boards Company Perspectives: Altron's business strategy encompasses several elements...

Altiris Inc. is a subsidiary of Symantec specializing in service-oriented management software which allows organizations to manage IT assets. They also provide software for web services, security, and systems management products. Established in 1998, Altiris is headquartered in Lindon, Utah...

Alticor is a privately held corporation, owned and run by members of the DeVos and Van Andel families.[5] It was established in 1999 to serve as the parent company for a handful of business ventures, most notably the direct selling company Amway and Quixtar and a manufacturing and distribution...

Alternative Tentacles is an independent record label based in San Francisco, California and was established in 1979. It was originally used as the label name by the Dead Kennedys for the self-produced single "California Über Alles", and after realizing the potential for an independent label...