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Ispat Inland Inc. is the sixth largest steel producer in the United States. Formerly a unit of Inland Steel Industries, it was acquired by Ispat International N.V. in 1998. Inland has long been one of the most innovative and technologically advanced integrated steel mills. In the early 1980s...

Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc., only a decade old in 2000, had by then already grown into one of the ten largest, publicly-held gaming corporations in the nation. By 2001, it ranked seventh and was still growing. The company owns and operates 11 riverboat and dockside casinos in Louisiana...

Isetan Company Limited is one of Japan's leading department store companies, particularly noted for its merchandising strength in the area of high-fashion apparel for women in their 20s and 30s. It has compensated for its comparatively late entry into the field by innovation and niche-building...

Iscor Limited has surprised the worldwide steel industry by shedding its valuable mining assets--spun off as publicly listed Kumba Resources in 2001--and restructuring itself as one of the world's lowest cost producers of flat steel and long steel products. Iscor also has shown itself as one of...

Based in Toronto, Irwin Toy Limited is a leading Canadian developer, manufacturer, marketer, and distributor of toys. Irwin sells its own products and the goods of foreign companies, under license, to toy dealers in Canada, which accounts for about 90 percent of company sales. It also licenses...

Iron Mountain, Inc., is the largest records and information management company in the world. The company provides a full range of records storage and management services to the business sector, health care industry, law profession, and management consulting industry throughout the United States...

Irkut Corporation is a leading developer and producer of aircraft and aviation products. In March 2004, Irkut became Russia's first publicly traded defense company. Originally the Irkutsk Aircraft Factory, one of the Soviet Union's major manufacturers of combat aircraft, including the MiG-23...

Irish Life & Permanent Plc (ILP) is the Republic of Ireland's third largest financial institution. The combination of Irish Life, Irish Permanent, and TSB Bank, ILP operates in both the insurance and retail banking markets. Irish Life carries out the group's insurance operations and is the...

France's Ipsos SA has climbed to the top ranks of the worldwide market research industry, claiming the number nine position worldwide. In certain categories, the company ranks even higher--number two worldwide in the advertising segment and number four worldwide in market research. Since 2001...

Based in Cherry Valley, Illinois, Ipsen International Inc. is a leading thermal processing equipment and systems manufacturer and is privately owned by investors at Germany's Ruhrgas Industries GmbH. Ipsen has research and development facilities on two continents, as well as four worldwide...

One of Brazil's largest privately held companies, Ipiranga S.A. focuses on the domestic oil and petrochemical sectors. The company operates through the following primary divisions: Companhia Brasileira de Petróleo Ipiranga (CBPI); Distribuidora de Produtos de Petróleo Ipiranga (DPPI); Refinaria...

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...