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Ionics, Incorporated is a leading water purification company active throughout the world in the supply of water and water treatment. The company purifies water using desalination membranes, which it invented and patented in the 1950s. Its products are used by customers and the company itself to...

One of the fastest-growing companies in the United States during the late 1990s, Iomega Corporation manufactures removable disk drives for use with computers. Known primarily for its Zip disk drive, Iomega took the data storage industry by storm during the mid-1990s as consumers quickly embraced...

Invivo Corporation touts itself as the leading producer of vital signs monitoring devices used during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) procedures. Invivo designs, manufactures, and markets monitoring systems that measure the vital signs of patients, selling its product in the United States...

Invitrogen Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets more than 10,000 products for customers involved in life sciences research and the commercial manufacture of genetically engineered products. The company's research kits are used to simplify and improve gene cloning, gene expression, and...

Investor AB is the flagship of the Wallenberg financial empire--the family has long dominated northern Europe's financial sector and, through Investor and other investment vehicles, owns as much as 40 percent of the value of companies listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange (as well as a share of...

Investcorp SA is a globally operating investment group with offices in Bahrain, London, and New York. Since its founding in 1982, Investcorp has defined itself as an investment intermediary, acting as a vehicle to channel the wealth of its Arabian Gulf clients into investments in the United...

Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of home pregnancy test kits and fertility monitors. The company's major brands include its ClearBlue home pregnancy test and the ClearPlan Easy fertility monitor. The company also develops and markets other products relating to...

Invacare Corporation is a world leading maker and distributor of non-acute healthcare products for people requiring home healthcare, for those needing rehabilitative care, and for persons with temporary or permanent disabilities. Among the company's products are power wheelchairs, manual...

Intuit Inc. is the leading U.S. developer of personal finance software. The company, though primarily known for such software packages as Quicken personal finance and TurboTax tax-preparation, attributes about half of its sales to QuickBooks, an accounting software program for small businesses...

Intrado Inc. is the leading supplier of 911-related support services in the United States. The company produces technology to inform emergency dispatchers of potentially lifesaving information, such as the identity and location of 911 callers. It serviced 221 million of 252 million 911 records...

Intimate Brands, Inc. is responsible for the operation of numerous retail stores throughout the United States that specialize in lingerie, personal care products, and women's apparel. Intimate Brands is composed of the Victoria's Secret stores and catalogue, Bath & Body Works, Cacique, and...

Interstate Hotels & Resorts Inc. was formed in August 2002 as a result of the merger of MeriStar Hotels & Resorts Inc. and Interstate Hotel Corporation. It is the nation's largest independent hotel management company, meaning it lacks a signature brand hotel. Interstate manages more than 400...

Interscope Music Group, with its Interscope Records label, is one of the most successful and controversial record companies in the music industry. Founded in 1990 by veteran music producer Jimmy Iovine and Ted Field, one of the heirs to the Marshall Field fortune, Interscope produces and...

International Total Services, Inc. (ITS) provides the world's airports and other public facilities with security services, security equipment, and support staff. The company's Aviation Staffing Services division, which represents the largest part of the company's business, contracts with...

Once known primarily as a telecommunications company, the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT) has interests in financial and business services, the manufacture of automotive and defense products, and hotels. ITT's history is interwoven with the lives of three men: Col...

International Speedway Corporation is one of the largest and most prestigious promoters of car and motorcycle racing in the United States. Three of the company's properties are the premiere speedways of America, including Daytona International Speedway, location of the Daytona 500, the most...

Tracing its history to the formation of the Central Gulf Steamship Corp in 1947, International Shipholding Corporation, Inc. (ISC) is Louisiana's oldest existing steamship company. Through its subsidiaries, ISC operates a diversified fleet of U.S.- and international-flag vessels that provides...

International Shipbreaking Ltd. L.L.C. (ISL) is a Brownsville, Texas, company that dismantles obsolete maritime vessels and equipment for recycling. Privately owned, ISL is the largest and most technically advanced of the handful of companies providing shipbreaking services. Its 43-acre yard is...

Invensys PLC grew out of the merger in 1999 of Britain's Siebe PLC and the British manufacturing conglomerate BTR PLC. Already the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture, distribution, and installation of controls and control systems as Siebe, the company has positioned itself to become a...

International Rectifier Corporation (IR) is the oldest independent power semiconductor manufacturer in the world. IR's products, protected by hundreds of patents, control the direction and flow of electrical current, a necessity for manufacturers of myriad electronics products. IR's technologies...