distribution network

With an estimated two percent of the global market for leather furniture, Industrie Natuzzi S.p.A. is a trend-setter in this highly-fragmented industry. Noting the fragmentation of the industry, the company calls itself "the only truly global furniture manufacturer." Although it is headquartered...

Industrias Penoles, S.A. de C.V. is the world's leading refiner of primary silver. It was mining and refining almost two-thirds of the silver in Mexico, which ranked first among nations in primary silver output, in the mid-1990s. It also was extracting and refining more than 90 percent of...

Industrias Bachoco, S.A. de C.V. is a holding company whose Bachoco, S.A. de C.V. is Mexico's leading poultry producer and one of the world's top ten chicken producers. As a vertically integrated producer, Bachoco has operations that include preparing feed, breeding, hatching, and growing...

Industria de Diseño Textil S.A., also known as The Inditex Group, is one of the world's leading and fastest-growing producer and retailer of clothing fashions. Based in the small Spanish town of A Coruna, Inditex operates more than 2,000 stores worldwide under seven retail formats. The most...

Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Indus International Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise asset management (EAM) and service delivery management (SDM) products to some 300,000 customers in 40 countries. The company offers software and services in the areas of asset management, workforce...

Indigo NV is a pioneering developer and manufacturer of digital printing systems using patented liquid ink technology. Indigo's line of printers enable high-speed, short-run, high-quality color printing on materials ranging from paper to plastic and foil. The company's plateless, liquid ink...

Indigo Books & Music Inc. is the largest retailer of books in Canada. The company's stores, operating under the names Indigo Books, Music & More, The World's Biggest Bookstore, and Coles, are located throughout Canada. Indigo operates 88 superstores and 179 mall stores. Indigo also maintains an...

Indiana Energy, Inc. (IEI) is a holding company with subsidiaries in natural gas distribution and related services. The company's primary subsidiary, Indiana Gas, is a public utility that provides natural gas to approximately 489,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in Indiana...

Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Incorporated, is the Indiana corporate legal entity for Ameritech Corporation, which provides a wide variety of advanced telecommunications services in Indiana. As that state's dominant local telecommunications company, Indiana Bell serves 64 percent of Indiana's...

The Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. operates as the largest company in India in terms of turnover and is the only Indian company to rank in the Fortune "Global 500" listing. The oil concern is administratively controlled by India's Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, a government entity that owns...

Independent News & Media PLC is one of the leading newspaper groups in the English-speaking world. Independent publishes more than 200 national and regional publications in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and South Africa. Australasia accounted for 44 percent of 2002 sales...

Founded in 1991 and based in Palo Alto, California, Incyte Genomics, Inc. (formerly Incyte Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) provides genomics information to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. Incyte is best known for its original product, LifeSeq, a database which provides a complete and...

Inco Limited is one of the world's top producers of nickel. It operates Canada's largest mining and processing operation in Sudbury, Ontario, and runs other mines in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Indonesia. It has interests in refineries in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, and sales and...

Inchcape PLC, a company with more than a 150-year history--starting as a shipping and trading firm and evolving into a diversified conglomerate--has reinvented itself at the end of the 20th century. The company now describes itself as the world's largest independent automotive distribution...

The third-largest and most profitable computer distributor in the United States, InaCom Corporation was formed in 1991, when ValCom Inc. and Inacomp Computer Centers Inc. merged. The resulting company represented an immediate force in the retail computer services industry. In a few short years...

Racine, Wisconsin-based In-Sink-Erator is the world's largest manufacturer of food waste disposal units and hot water dispensers. The company has a sales and service presence in more than 80 countries, and produces millions of disposal units every year. In-Sink-Erator produces eight models of...

In-N-Out Burger, a California Corporation, is a leading fast-food retail chain with more than 120 locations in California and Nevada. Known for its made-to-order hamburgers, fresh ingredients, and efficient service, it has maintained the same basic menu and a simple, customer-friendly philosophy...

In Focus Systems, Inc. was founded and incorporated in 1986 to develop, manufacture and market innovative multimedia projection products using flat-panel liquid crystal display (LCD) technology to present video, audio, graphics and data output from personal computers (PCs), workstations, VCRs...

Imperial Tobacco Group PLC is the United Kingdom's leading tobacco company, with extensive international operations: making and marketing cigarettes, cigars, pipes, roll-your-own and pipe tobacco, and cigarette papers in more than 110 markets worldwide. In the United Kingdom, it is the brand...

Imperial Sugar Company holds the number one position in refined sugar in the United States, with a market share of about 33 percent. The company refines raw cane sugar at four facilities in Texas, Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana, and processes beet sugar at 11 processing plants in California...