pest analysis

Statistics: Private Company Incorporated: 1961 as Daffy Dan's Bargaintown Employees: 600 Sales: $114 million (1997 est.) SICs: 5651 Family Clothing Stores Company Perspectives: As other retailers seek ways to connect with their audience, Daffy's is recognized for its smart, highly creative...

Daewoo (Korean for "Great Universe") or the Daewoo Group was a major South Korean chaebol (conglomerate). It was founded on 22 March 1967 as Daewoo Industrial and was dismantled by the Korean government in 1999. Prior to the Asian Financial Crisis of 1998, Daewoo was the second largest...

Statistics: Public Company Founded: 1904 as Behringwerke Employees: 6,000 Sales: $1.6 billion (2004 est.) Stock Exchanges: NASDAQ Ticker Symbol: DADE NAIC: 339112 Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing; 339111 Laboratory Apparatus and Furniture Manufacturing; 334516 Analytical Laboratory...

DTE Energy Co. (NYSE: DTE) is a Detroit, Michigan-based utility incorporated in 1995 involved in the development and management of energy-related businesses and services nationwide. DTE Energy's largest operating subsidiaries are Detroit Edison, an investor-owned electric utility serving 2.1...

DSM (in full Koninklijke DSM N.V., or Royal DSM N.V.) is a multinational chemical company specialized in life sciences and materials sciences. Its headquarters are in Heerlen, the Netherlands. The activities of DSM are grouped into five clusters: Nutrition, Pharma, Performance Materials, Polymer...

Statistics: Public Company Incorporated: 1976 as Digital Switch Corporation Employees: 4,041 Sales: $536.3 million Stock Exchanges: NASDAQ SICs: 3661 Telephone and Telegraph Apparatus; 3613 Switchgear and Switchboard Apparatus Company History: DSC Communications Corporation is a leading...

DS Smith Plc (LSE: SMDS) is a leading British-based international packaging and office product wholesaling business. It is headquartered in Maidenhead, UK and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Statistics: Public Company Incorporated: 1940 Employees: 10,879 Sales: £1.48 billion ($2.51...

DRS Technologies, Inc. (DRS) is a US-based defense contractor. Previously traded on the NYSE, the company was purchased by the Italian firm Finmeccanica in October 2008. Statistics: Public Company Incorporated: 1968 Employees: 3,750 Sales: $675.8 million (2003) Stock Exchanges: New York Ticker...

DQE Holdings is a traditional utility company based in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company provides electric power to much of metro Pittsburgh, competing with longtime rival Allegheny Power and has extended its services into northern West Virginia and eastern Ohio. Through its chief...

D.R. Horton NYSE: DHI is the largest homebuilder[1] in the United States based on its 18,839 homes closed in the 12-month period ended March 31, 2010. Founded in 1978 by Donald R. Horton in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, D.R. Horton is ranked as the largest homebuilder by units closed in the...

DPL Inc. (NYSE: DPL) through its subsidiary The Dayton Power and Light Company is a public utility that sells electricity to residential, commercial, industrial, and governmental customers in a 6,000-square-mile (16,000 km2) area of West Central Ohio.[1] The Dayton Power and Light Company was...

Statistics: Public Company Incorporated: 1904 as Dibrell Brothers, Inc.; 1920 as A.C. Monk & Co. Employees: 4,000 Sales: $2.17 billion (1998) Stock Exchanges: New York Ticker Symbol: DMN SICs: 5194 Tobacco & Tobacco Products Company Perspectives: DIMON strives to be the preferred global...

Domtar Corporation (TSX: UFS, NYSE: UFS) is the largest integrated producer of uncoated freesheet paper in North America and the second largest in the world based on production capacity, and is also a manufacturer of papergrade pulp. Domtar designs, manufactures, markets and distributes a wide...

Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering American company in the computer industry and a leading vendor of computer systems, software and peripherals from the 1960s to the 1990s. Also known as DEC [1] and using the trademark DIGITAL, its PDP and VAX products were arguably the most popular...

DHL Express is a division of Deutsche Post providing international express mail services.[1] Originally founded in 1969 to deliver documents between San Francisco and Honolulu, the company expanded its service throughout the world by the late 1970s. The company was primarily interested in...

Statistics: Public Company Incorporated: 1977 as DH Associates Employees: 1,025 Sales: $98.9 million (1995) Stock Exchanges: NASDAQ SICs: 3577 Computer Peripheral Equipment, Not Elsewhere Classified; 3679 Electronic Components, Not Elsewhere Classified Company Perspectives: DH Technology has...

Statistics: Wholly Owned Subsidiary of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA Founded: 1960 Employees: 350 Sales: $127 million (2003 est.) NAIC: 453220 Gift, Novelty and Souvenir Stores Company Perspectives: From its inception DFS has focused on a specific customer--the international traveler...

Deutsche Babcock AG (full name: Deutsche Babcock and Wilcox Dampfkessel Werke Aktion-Gesellschaft) was a German manufacturing company based in Oberhausen in the Ruhr District, the center of the German economy. The company was established in 1898 as a German subsidiary of the British boilermaking...

Depfa Bank plc is a Dublin-based German-Irish bank. It provides financial services to the public sector and also provides financing for larger infrastructure projects. The name derivates from Deutsche Pfandbriefbank. Statistics: Public Company Incorporated: 1922 as Preussische...

Statistics: Public Company Incorporated: 1983 Employees: 300 Sales: $119.1 million (1996) Stock Exchanges: NASDAQ SICs: 2844 Toilet Preparations Company Perspectives: DEP Corporation is a diversified, innovative personal care company committed to providing quality products to value-conscious...