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Statistics: Public Company Incorporated: 1985 as Delta Health, Inc. Employees: 375 Sales: $139.62 million (2001) Stock Exchanges: New York Ticker Symbol: DVI NAIC: 522298 All Other Non-Depository Credit Intermediation Company Perspectives: Our singular understanding of the industry allows us...

Lawson (TYO: 2651) is a convenience store franchise chain in Japan. The store originated in the U.S. State of Ohio, but today exists as a Japanese company and is the second largest convenience store chain in the country.[1] Statistics: Public Company Incorporated: 1972 as Snow White Dairies...

Dairy Crest Group plc (LSE: DCG) is a major dairy products company in the United Kingdom. Its brands include Cathedral City Cheddar cheese, Utterly Butterly, Vitalite, Clover, St Ivel and Frijj. The company delivers milk to around 1.1 million households via their milkmen. It is listed on the...

Dain Rauscher Wessels was a brokerage and investment banking firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The firm traced its origins to a number of smaller regional securities firms founded in the 1920s and 1930s. In 2000, Dain Rauscher Wessels was acquired by Royal Bank of Canada and operated as a...

Daimler AG (German pronunciation formerly DaimlerChrysler; FWB: DAI) is a German car corporation. It is the thirteenth-largest car manufacturer and second-largest truck manufacturer in the world. In addition to automobiles, Daimler manufactures buses and provides financial services through its...

DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG, or DASA, was the former aerospace subsidiary of Daimler-Benz AG (later DaimlerChrysler and Daimler AG) from 1989. In July 2000 DaimlerChrysler Aerospace merged with Aerospatiale-Matra and CASA to form EADS. Statistics: Public Company Incorporated: 1989 Employees...

Daily Mail and General Trust plc (LSE: DMGT) is a British media conglomerate, one of the largest in Europe. In the UK, it has interests in national and regional newspapers, television and radio. The company has extensive activities based outside the UK, through Northcliffe Media, DMG Radio...

Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd. (ダイハツ工業株式会社, Daihatsu Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha ?, TYO: 7262, OSE: 7262) is a Japanese manufacturer of cars, well known for its smaller models and off-road vehicles. Many of its models are also known as kei jidōsha (or kei cars) in Japan. Its headquarters are located in...

Dai Nippon Printing (大日本印刷, Dai Nippon Insatsu?) (TYO: 7912), established in 1876, is a Japanese printing company. It is involved in a wide variety of printing processes, ranging from magazines through to shadow masks for the production of displays, as well as outcoupling enhancement structures...

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...