fourth-party logistics

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...

International Power PLC is the largest of the three main electricity-generating companies created from the breakup of the nationalized electricity industry in England and Wales. Carved out as a separate division of the Central Electricity Generating Board in 1989 as privatization loomed...

International Paper Company (IP) is the world's largest producer of paper, packaging, and forest products. Within specific industry segments, the firm is the world's leading producer of printing and writing papers and of bleached packaging board, as well as the second largest maker of...

International Multifoods Corporation was once known as one of the "Big Three" in U.S. flour milling, along with General Mills and Pillsbury. But the company has undergone sweeping restructuring strategies--first diversifying heavily into consumer foods and animal feeds in the 1970s and early...

Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, International Management Group is the world's largest and most influential sports marketing agency, ranking among Forbes magazine's top 200 private companies in the mid-1990s. From its roots as a one-man-show representing professional golfers, International...

International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) is considered the world's second largest lessor of aircraft after General Electric Capital Aviation Services (GECAS). ILFC makes substantial profits by leasing and selling civil aircraft to airlines. In 2000, the company owned a fleet of 500...

International Game Technology (IGT) is the world's leading designer and manufacturer of video slot machines, blackjack, keno and poker games, and proprietary software for computerized game monitoring. Its product line is the most extensive of any gaming equipment manufacturer and holds the top...

International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF) has been a leader in the fiercely competitive flavor and fragrance industry since 1958, when it debuted under its present name. A strictly business-to-business operation, IFF routinely provides individually tailored fragrances for a host of products...

Founded in the late 1970s by televangelist and one-time presidential hopeful Pat Robertson, International Family Entertainment, Inc. (IFE) owns and operates a number of "family-oriented" entertainment companies. Its flagship operation, the Family Channel, is the fifth largest cable television...

Over the course of some 30 years, Patrick J. McGovern has built International Data Group, Inc. (IDG) from a single-publication firm (Computerworld) with a research division into the world's leading information technology (IT) media, research, and exposition company. The company is a global...

International Dairy Queen, Inc. licenses, services, and develops over 5,900 Dairy Queen stores in the United States, Canada, and numerous foreign countries, including Austria, Slovenia, China, Oman, and Guam. In addition to selling its famous dairy desserts, many of the stores also sell...

International Controls Corporation (ICC), is the holding company of Checker Motors Corp. and Great Dane Trailers Inc. Reporting sales of $909 million in 1993, from which it earned a ranking among Fortune magazine's top 500 American companies, ICC had net losses of $43 million, due primarily to...

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is the largest computer maker in the world. Because of its enormous size, power, and success, and because it sells that most modern of tools, the computer, IBM has come to symbolize modern life itself for many. The company's nickname--Big...

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) is the largest labor union in the United States. In 2000, it had some 1.5 million members in 568 local unions in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Teamsters members included truck drivers, hospital workers, farm workers, airline pilots...

International Airline Support Group, Inc. (IASG) supplies operators with parts for older types of aircraft. Its main customers are cargo airlines using older aircraft such as the DC-9 and MD-80. The company diversified in the late 1990s by acquiring inventories of parts for regional aircraft...

Internacional de Ceramica, S.A. de C.V. (Interceramic), a Mexican holding company, is the largest manufacturer of ceramic glazed floor tiles in North America and is also a leading manufacturer of ceramic glazed wall tiles, with some 80 different product lines in all. The company also make grouts...

Intermountain Health Care, Inc. (IHC) is the largest hospital chain and health care organization in the Intermountain West. With 23 hospitals, it serves more than 425,000 individuals in Utah (its main market), Idaho, and Wyoming. It is a vertically integrated company with not only hospitals, but...