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Imperial Parking Corporation, based in Vancouver, Canada, is the largest provider of parking services in Canada and the fourth largest in North America. Impark manages, leases, or owns 1,343 parking lots in Canada and another 294 lots in the United States. Altogether the company controls more...

Imperial Oil Limited is Canada's largest producer of crude oil and a leading producer of natural gas. Imperial, which is 69.6 percent owned by the U.S. corporation Exxon, is Canada's largest refiner of petroleum products, providing the wide variety of products and services that appear under the...

Imperial Chemical Industries PLC (ICI) has gone from being the premier chemical-manufacturing company of Great Britain to being one of the most innovative companies in the world. In more than 70 years, ICI has sought patents on more than 33,000 inventions, resulting in more than 150,000 patents...

Imo Industries Inc. is a multinational industrial manufacturer. The company manufactures a wide array of products through three core divisions: the Power Transmission business segment which designs and manufactures electronic speed motor drives, speed reducers, and various gears; the Pumps...

Iams Company is a manufacturer of premium dog and cat foods which are distributed only through veterinarians, animal breeders, and specialty pet stores. It is the number two company in the high-end pet food niche, and the seventh largest pet food enterprise overall in the United States. The...

Immunex Corporation is a biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufacturers, and markets therapeutic products for the treatment of cancer, infectious diseases, and autoimmune disorders. The company more than doubled its revenue base between 1992 and 1993 as a result of a merger with Lederle...

Known as Imetal until 1999, Imerys S.A. has transformed itself into one of the world's major minerals and materials processing groups. After exiting its historic metals processing activities at the end of last century, Imerys operates through four primary business groups: Building Materials...

Imax Corporation, founded in 1967 and headquartered in Mississauga, Canada, is the pioneer and leader of giant-screen, large-format film entertainment, as well as the industry leader in the creation and production of high-end rides and attractions. Successful products include IMAX Simulator...

Imatra Steel Oy Ab is a specialist manufacturer of steel and steel components for the automotive and mechanical engineering industries. The company's products include low-alloy engineering-grade steel bars, produced at the main Imatra steel works, as well as forged engine blocks and front axles...

In the closing months of 1995, Minnesota's 3M Corporation, one of the bluest of America's blue-chip companies, announced that five of its businesses would be spun off the following year to form a new data storage and medical imaging company named Imation Corporation (from the words imaging...

Imagine Foods, Inc. is a multimillion-dollar producer of organic and natural foods products that are sold in more than 25 countries around the world. The company's nondairy beverages, frozen desserts, and organic soups and broths are category leaders and are sold under the popular Rice Dream...

ImClone Systems Inc., a biotech company based in New York City, is best known for a highly publicized stock scandal that involved its founder and longtime CEO, Samuel Waksal, and his celebrity friend Martha Stewart. The company has never produced a profit and for many years continually shifted...

ITW strives to improve our customers' competitive positions by increasing productivity and quality while reducing manufacturing and assembly costs. ITW achieves this goal through its decentralized operations in 34 countries. These units respond to customers' needs by establishing production...

Illinois Central Corporation owns and operates the oldest land-grant railroad in the United States, the Illinois Central Railroad. That rail system encompasses 2,700 miles of freight railroad lines, traverses six states between Chicago and the Gulf of Mexico, and is the tenth largest railroad in...

Illinois Bell Telephone Company is the legal name of what has generally been known as Ameritech Illinois since 1993. The firm is the largest provider of local telephone service in the state, and recently has been at the forefront of new technologies such as fiber optics and digital switching. It...

Ranked 284 on the Forbes list of largest private companies, Ilitch Holdings Inc. was created in 1999 to manage the business interests of Mike Ilitch, whose Detroit-based private holdings include: Little Caesar Enterprises, Inc., the pizza chain that remains the family's core business; the...

Il Fornaio's mission is to provide our customers with the most authentic Italian experience outside of Italy. We realize our mission by being students and teachers of Italian culinary traditions, preparations and presentations, infusing our heritage into everything we do. We realize our mission...

Igloo Products will be the market leader in activity containers designed for a variety of consumer and commercial purposes. Most of these activity containers are primarily made of plastics and many of them are insulated. These products will be oriented toward sporting goods, automotive...

Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd., Japan's second largest oil refiner, is named after its founder, Sazou Idemitsu. The company has a nationwide network of 23 overseas offices, 22 domestic offices, and 7,000 service stations. The Idemitsu group's primary activities are the securing of oil resources, crude...

Providing power to southern Idaho for much of the twentieth century, Idaho Power Company propelled the progress of the territory and grew to become one of the leading utility companies in the United States. With 17 hydroelectric plants, part-ownership in three coal-fired generating plants, and a...