logistics management

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...

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...