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Silicon Image is an American semiconductor design company. The company manufactures a variety of integrated circuits commonly used in modern computers and consumer electronic devices, but is focused on storage, distribution and presentation of high-definition content in the consumer electronics...

Silicon Graphics, Inc. (commonly initialised to SGI, historically sometimes referred to as Silicon Graphics Computer Systems or SGCS) was a manufacturer of high-performance computing solutions, including computer hardware and software, founded in 1981 by Jim Clark. Its initial market was 3D...

Six Flags Entertainment Corp. is the world's largest amusement park corporation based on quantity of properties and the 4th most popular in terms of attendance.[2] The company maintains 14 properties located throughout North America, including theme parks, thrill parks, water parks and family...

Shure Incorporated is a consumer and professional audio-electronics corporation who designs and manufactures microphones, Wireless microphone wireless microphone systems, personal monitor systems, phonograph cartridges, discussion systems, mixers, and digital signal processing. The company also...

Shirokiya (白木屋?) was one of Japan's oldest companies, as well as the largest retailer during the early 20th century. In the 1950s, it was purchased by another Japanese corporation and began an expansion overseas, primarily in Hawaii. However, in 2001, the company was largely dissolved. Today...

Sequoia Voting Systems was a California-based company that is one of the largest providers of electronic voting systems in the U.S., having offices in Oakland, Denver and New York City. Some of its major competitors were Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems) and Election...

Service Corporation International (NYSE: SCI) is North America’s largest provider of end-of-life arrangements and services. With its headquarters in Neartown, Houston, Texas, United States,[2][3] SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries in 43 states, eight Canadian provinces...

Seattle's Best Coffee, a subsidiary of Starbucks, is a specialty coffee retailer and wholesaler based in Seattle, Washington. Seattle's Best Coffee has retail stores and grocery sub-stores in 20 states and provinces and the District of Columbia. Sub-stores can also be found within many other...

Sears, officially named Sears, Roebuck and Co., is an American chain of department stores which was founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in the late 19th century. Formerly a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Sears[2] merged with Kmart in early 2005, creating the...

Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX) is one of the world's largest manufacturers[2] of hard disk drives. Incorporated in 1978[3] as Shugart Technology,[4] Seagate is currently incorporated in Dublin, Ireland[5] and has its principal executive offices in Scotts Valley, California. Recorded Media...

SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) NYSE: SAI is a FORTUNE 500 scientific, engineering and technology applications company headquartered in the United States with numerous federal, state, and private sector clients. It works extensively with the United States Department of...

Schoep's Ice Cream is an ice cream manufacturing company based in Madison, Wisconsin.[1] some companies have been criticized for apparently thinking that all Internet shoppers are the same, instead of realizing that there are many reasons why customer may visit a site (Stell and Paden, 2002)...

AT&T Inc. is the largest provider of fixed telephony in the United States, and also provides broadband and subscription television services. As of January 2011, AT&T is the largest provider of mobile telephony service in the United States, with over 95.5 million wireless customers, just ahead of...

Sauer-Danfoss (formerly Sauer-Sundstrand and Danfoss Fluid Power until 2000) designs, manufactures, and markets engineered hydraulic and electronic systems and components for use primarily in applications of mobile equipment. The product range serves markets such as agriculture, construction...

SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) is an American multinational corporation that designs and manufactures flash memory card products. SanDisk was founded in 1988 by Dr. Eli Harari and Sanjay Mehrotra, non-volatile memory technology experts. SanDisk became a publicly traded company on NASDAQ in...

Salem Communications (NASDAQ: SALM) is a U.S. radio broadcaster, Internet content provider, and magazine and book publisher specializing in evangelical Christian and conservative political talk radio. It owns 99 commercial radio stations, 65 of which are in the top 25 markets. Salem is the fifth...

Salary.com, Inc. is a compensation and human resource management solutions company in the United States human capital Software as a Service (SaaS) market. The company's services are used by compensation professionals for compensation planning.[1 The About this Industry chapter provides general...

Safeway Inc. (NYSE: SWY), a Fortune 500 company, is North America's third largest supermarket chain, with, as of December 29, 2007, 1743 stores located throughout the western and central United States and western Canada.[3] It also operates some stores in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Eastern...

Safeco Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, is a national U.S. insurance company. It holds naming rights to the Seattle Mariners' baseball stadium, Safeco Field. Safeco was founded in Seattle, Washington in 1923 by Hawthorne K. Dent as the General Insurance Company of America, a property...

S3 Graphics, Ltd is a company specializing in graphics chipsets. Although they do not have the large market share that they once had, they still produce graphics accelerators for home computers under the "S3 Chrome" brand name. Relationship Marketing Suppliers attempt to create and strengthen...