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Information Holdings Inc. (IHI) provides a wide range of information products and services, including reference works, journals and other subscription services, and electronic databases on CD-ROM and over the Internet. Its principal fields of activity include intellectual property management...

Information Builders, Inc. (IBI), a computer software firm, is one of the largest privately held companies in New York City. It ranked among the world's top 20 independent software vendors in the mid 1990s and was recognized as an industry leader in fourth-generation-language (4GL) technology...

Information Access Company (IAC) is among the worldwide leaders in providing periodical indexes and the articles accompanying them in electronic form. IAC is also considered a pioneer in the various means of delivery of this information--on microfilm, optical disc, and the Internet--and has...

Informa Group plc assembles and sells specialized information in six broad business sectors: finance and insurance; telecommunications and media; law and tax; maritime, trade, and transportation; life sciences and pharmaceutical; and energy and commodities. Informa had £283,442 in 2002 revenues...

France's Infogrames Entertainment S.A. is on the fast-track to global domination of the world's video game market. Infogrames creates, publishes, and distributes video game titles across all of the major video game platforms, including for the Sony Playstation, Nintendo 64, and Sega Dreamcast...

Infinity Broadcasting Corporation operates as one of the largest radio broadcasting companies in the United States with over 180 radio stations in 41 markets. The majority of the company's stations are found in the 50 largest U.S. radio markets. Through the Viacom Outdoor Group, Infinity also...

During Infineon Technologies AG's short life as an independent company, it has become the fourth largest DRAM manufacturer in the world, the second largest semiconductor manufacturer in Europe, and one of the top ten semiconductor manufacturers in the world. With 33,800 employees, Infineon has...

Mini-conglomerate Industrie Zignago Santa Margherita S.p.A. operates in three primary sectors: glass, textiles, and wine. The company is one of Italy's largest wine producers and distributors through its Santa Margherita subsidiary. Santa Margherita operates wineries throughout Italy, including...

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...