logistics management

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...

Intermet Corporation is one of the largest independent foundry companies in the world, involved in producing ferrous and non-ferrous casting products for the automotive and industrial equipment industries. Intermet manufactures ductile iron, gray iron, and aluminum castings at 19 locations in...

Based in Everett, Washington, Intermec Technologies Corporation is a leading global supplier of supply chain information products, services, and systems. While the company is recognized for developing the world's most widely used bar code symbology, its offerings have evolved to include the...

Intergraph Corporation develops and sells software, hardware, and services for technical professionals, particularly for those customers who are involved in computer-aided design, management, and engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE). Formerly a manufacturer of UNIX-based CAD systems, Intergraph initiated a...

Originally a manufacturer and distributor of carpet tile, Interface, Inc., has developed into an international presence in the commercial and institutional interiors industry. Carpet tiles, uniform floor covering modules that are easier to maintain and replace than broadloom carpet, continue to...

Interep National Radio Sales Inc., formerly the Interep Radio Store, specializes in representing radio stations and selling broadcast time for national spot advertising, which is separate from local advertising and network advertising, which is broadcast simultaneously in network-affiliated...

Insight Enterprises, Inc. specializes in the direct marketing of brand-name microcomputers, peripherals, and software through catalog, phone, and Internet sales. The company's customer-focused account executives sell to price-conscious, computer-literate end users in U.S. and Canadian home...

Based in Toronto, Canada, Intercorp Excelle Foods Inc. is a family-owned and operated manufacturer and distributor of more than 300 kinds of salad dressing, dips, meat and steak sauces, marinades, and mayonnaise to the retail and food service markets. Products lines include Renee's Gourmet...

With operations on every continent on the globe, Belgium's Interbrew S.A. ranks second among the world's brewing companies behind only Anheuser-Busch and first in its home country, with brewing operations in 26 countries and sales in over 120. The company emerged as a top European brewer in the...

Interbrand Corporation is a subsidiary of Omnicom Group Inc., the world's largest advertising conglomerate. Interbrand is devoted to all aspects of branding, helping clients to develop new brand names or reposition existing ones through proprietary research methodologies. The company also...

Inter-Regional Financial Group, Inc. (IFG) is one of the nation's ten largest full-service regional brokerage and investment banking companies. It operates through two subsidiaries that serve clients primarily in the western half of the United States: Dain Bosworth Incorporated, based in...

Inter Parfums, Inc., formerly known as Jean Philippe Fragrances, is a New York City-based manufacturer and distributor of fragrances and cosmetics. The company's brand name and licensed designer fragrance lines, including Burberry, Ombre Rose, S.T. DuPont, and others, are marketed and sold...

InterDigital Communications Corporation has been a pioneer in wireless telecommunications technology for more than 30 years. The publicly traded company is based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. InterDigital's inventions, technology, and systems can be found in cell...

Inter Link Foods PLC is the rising star of the British baking industry. Since its formation in 1994, the company has grown through acquisitions and organically to take a place in the United Kingdom's top five industrial bakers, with the objective of claiming the number two spot in the market...