CONTENTS
Preface page vii
List of Abbreviations ix
Company Histories
Advanced Marketing Services, Inc. 3 Department 56, Inc. 144
Aer Lingus Group plc 7 Dover Publications Inc. 148
Agence France-Presse 11 Ecolab Inc. 151
Airborne Freight Corporation 15 Federal Prison Industries, Inc. 157
American Locker Group Incorporated 19 Fenwick & West LLP 161
America West Holdings Corporation 22 Fluor Corporation 164
Ameritrade Holding Corporation 27 The Ford Foudation 170
Amtran, Inc. 31 Frank J. Zamboni & Co., Inc. 173
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. 34 G.D. Searle & Co. 177
Arjo Wiggins Appleton p.l.c. 38 General Electric Company 183
Ashtead Group plc 41 Gilbane, Inc. 191
ASV, Inc. 44 Griffon Corporation 194
Audiovox Corporation 48 Grupo Gigante, S.A. de C.V. 197
Ault Incorporated 51 Heineken N.V. 200
Automobili Lamborghini Holding S.p.A. 55 Henkel KGaA 205
Baltek Corporated 59 Hermes International S.A. 211
Barrick Gold Corporation 62 The Hockey Company 215
The Boy Scouts of America 66 Hyder plc 219
Brass Eagle Inc. 70 IDT Corporation 222
British-Borneo Oil & Gas PLC 73 Instinet Corporation 225
Broadcom Corporation 76 Iwerks Entertainment, Inc. 228
Bufete Industrial, S.A. de C.V. 80 J. Crew Group, Inc. 231
Canal Plus 83 JDS Uniphase Corporation 235
Canandaigua Brands, Inc. 87 Jockey International, Inc. 238
Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung 92 The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Cathay Pacific Airways Limited 98 Foundation 243
Childtime Learning Centers, Inc. 103 Korn/Ferry International 247
China Airlines 107 Leiner Health Products Inc. 250
Cisco Systems, Inc. 111 London Stock Exchange Limited 253
Comair Holdings, Inc. 116 Lucent Technologies Inc. 257
Compass Group PLC 121 marchFIRST, Inc. 261
Cramer, Berkowitz & Co. 125 Mayo Foundation 265
DaimlerChrysler AG 128 McKechnie plc 270
De La Rue plc 138 Meggitt PLC 273
Menard, Inc. 277 Seagate Technology, Inc. 400
Merck & Co., Inc. 280 Select Comfort Corporation 405
Minnesota Power, Inc. 286 Selfridges Plc 409
Montres Rolex S.A. 292 Stanley Furniture Company, Inc. 412
Motorola, Inc. 296 Starbucks Corporation 415
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. 303 Stoll-Moss Theatres Ltd. 420
Nortek, Inc. 308 T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. 423
O'Sullivan Industries Holdings, Inc. 313 Taylor Nelson Sofres plc 428
Olivetti S.p.A. 316 Textron Inc. 431
Opus Group 321 The Thomson Corporation 435
Otto Versand (GmbH & Co.) 324 3Com Corporation 441
Outback Steakhouse, Inc. 329 The Topps Company, Inc. 446
Parsons Brinckerhoff, Inc. 333 Travis Perkins plc 450
Pier 1 Imports, Inc. 337 Triarc Companies, Inc. 453
Pilkington plc 342 Twinlab Corporation 458
Pixar Animation Studios 348 UAL Corporation 462
Polk Audio, Inc. 352 United Rentals, Inc. 466
Potlatch Corporation 355 United States Postal Service 470
Prodigy Communications Corporation 360 United States Surgical Corporation 476
The Quaker Oats Company 363 United Technologies Corporation 481
Radio Flyer Inc. 368 The Vanguard Group, Inc. 486
RCM Technologies, Inc. 371 Vitro Corporativo S.A. de C.V. 490
Ritz Camera Centers 375 Waterford Wedgwood plc 493
RMC Group p.l.c. 378 Water Pik Technologies, Inc. 498
The Rockefeller Foundation 384 West Group 502
Rollerblade, Inc. 388 Williams Communications Group, Inc. 507
St Ives plc 393 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 511
The SAS Group 396 Zenith Electonics Corporation 514
Index to Companies 521
Index to Industries 693
Notes on Contributors 721
