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Medco Health Solutions: provides pharmacy benefit programs and services for clients, members of client-funded benefit programs, and individual patients in the United States. Its clients include employers, federal, state, and local government agencies, and managed care organizations. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. Nestle S.A. is the world’s largest food company. The company’s principal business is the manufacture of baby food, dairy products, nutrition products (cereals, dietetic foods, yogurt, etc.), ice cream, chocolate and confectionery, prepared foods, beverages, food services, bottled water, pharmaceutical products, cosmetics and pet care products. In 2007, the Swiss-based company posted record sales and profits; sales increased 8% from 2006, while profits increased 16.74%. Nokia Corporation engages in the manufacture of mobile devices and mobile networks. It also provides equipment, solutions, and services for network operators, service providers, and corporations. The company operates in four segments: Mobile Phones, Multimedia, Enterprise Solutions, and Networks. The Mobile Phones segment offers mobile phones and devices based on GSM/EDGE, 3G/WCDMA, and CDMA cellular technologies. The Multimedia segment enables to create, access, and share multimedia in the form of advanced mobile multimedia computers and applications with connectivity over multiple technology standards. The Enterprise Solutions segment offers various products and solutions, including enterprise-grade mobile devices, underlying security infrastructure, software, and services for businesses and institutions. The Networks segment provides network infrastructure, communications, and networks service platforms, as well as professional services to operators and service providers. The company was founded in 1865 and is based in Espoo, Finland. Oracle Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, distribution, servicing, and marketing of database, middleware, and application software. It offers software license updates, product support, and other services. The company operates in five segments: New Software Licenses, Software License Updates and Products Support, Consulting, On Demand, and Education. The New Software Licenses segment provides licenses for database and middleware software that includes database management software, application server software, analytics, development tools, and collaboration software; and applications software, which provides enterprise information for various sectors, such as financials, human resources, maintenance management, manufacturing, marketing, product lifecycle management, procurement, projects, and supply chain planning. The Software License Updates and Products Support segment provides customers with rights to unspecified software product upgrades and maintenance releases, and Internet access to technical content, as well as Internet and telephone access to technical support personnel. The Consulting segment designs, implements, deploys, and upgrades database, middleware, and applications software. The On Demand segment provides multi-featured software and hardware management, and maintenance services for its database, middleware, and applications software. This segment also provides customers configuration and performance analysis, and annual on-site technical services. The Education segment offers Internet-based training for use of its database, middleware, and applications software. PepsiCo Inc. was founded in 1965 through the merger of the Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay companies. The company manufactures, markets, and sells a variety of salty, convenient, sweet and grain-based snacks, and carbonated and non-carbonated beverages. The company is organized in four divisions: Frito-Lay North America (31% of revenues in 2006), PepsiCo Beverages North America (27%), PepsiCo International (37%), and Quaker Foods North America (5%). PepsiCo distributes its products through direct store delivery, broker warehouse, and food service and vending distribution networks to its customers, including franchise bottlers, distributors, and retailers. It is the largest snack company in the world with 2006 revenues of more than $35 billion, an 8% increased from 2005. Pfizer, Inc. engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and marketing of prescription medicines for humans and animals, as well as consumer healthcare products worldwide. It operates in three segments: Human Health, Consumer Healthcare, and Animal Health. In addition, the company offers empty soft-gelatin capsules, contract manufacturing, and bulk pharmaceutical chemicals. It offers its products to health care providers, such as doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, hospitals, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, Managed Care Organizations, and government agencies. Philips Electronics N.V. (PHG): Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. operates as an electronics company with activities in the domains of healthcare, lifestyle, and technology. It operates in four segments: Medical Systems, Domestic Appliances and Personal Care, Consumer Electronics, and Lighting. Medical Systems segment offers X-ray, magnetic resonance, and computed tomography products; nuclear medicine; patient monitoring and ultrasound systems; defibrillators and other cardiac care technologies; picture archiving and communications systems; medical transcription services; and customer services. Domestic Appliances and Personal Care segment provides shaving and beauty, domestic appliances, health and wellness, and oral healthcare products. Consumer Electronics segment offers flat TV; home theater in a box systems; DVD, DVD+RW, and hard-disc recording systems; voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) cordless digital phones; HD and Internet protocol TV set-top boxes; remote controls; digital photo displays; peripherals and accessories, such as headphones, cables, and recordable media, as well as amBX peripherals accessories; and VoIP phone with Skype and MSN. Lighting segment provides incandescent and halogen lamps, compact and normal fluorescent lamps, gas-discharge and special lamps, automotive lighting products, luminaires, electromagnetic and electronic ballasts, and solid-state components, modules, and systems. Siemens Aktiengesellschaft operates as an electronics and electrical engineering company worldwide. The Information and Communications segment offers analogue and digital telephones, enterprise solutions, carrier networks, wireless modules, and information technology (IT) environment integration, and IT consulting services. The company’s Automation and Control segment provides products and services in low voltage control and installation technology; automation, motion control, and drive system; and process automation areas. Siemens Power segment offers equipment for converting energy into electricity and heat; and supplies various power-related equipment, systems, and services. The company’s Transportation segment provides products and services for railway transportation. The Medical segment offers diagnostic and therapeutic systems and devices, and information technology systems for clinical and administrative purposes. Siemens’ Lighting segment offers lighting products for various applications. The Financing and Real Estate segment offers various services, including equipment and sales financing, project and export financing, investment management, and insurance services, and provides real estate development, disposal, lease, and management services. Stryker Corporation was incorporated in Michigan in 1946 as the successor company to a business founded in 1941 by Dr. Homer H. Stryker, a leading orthopaedic surgeon and the inventor of several orthopaedic products. Today, Stryker Corporation is one of the world's leading medical technology companies with the most broadly based range of products in orthopaedics and a significant presence in other medical specialties. Stryker works with respected medicalprofessionals to help people lead more active and satisfying lives. The company segregates its operations into two reportable business segments: Orthopaedic Implants and MedSurg Equipment. Target Corporation engages in the operation of general merchandise and food discount stores in the United States. It offers an assortment of general merchandise, including consumables and commodities; electronics, entertainment, sporting goods, and toys; apparel and accessories; and home furnishings and decor; as well as a line of food items. The company operates its stores under Target and SuperTarget brands. It also serves its customers through online. The company distributes its products through a network of distribution centers and import warehouses. As of May 4, 2007, the company operated 1,502 stores in 47 states and 182 SuperTarget stores in 21 states, as well as 25 distribution centers and 4 import centers. Target Corporation was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. T. Rowe Price Group Inc. manages assets for individuals through mutual funds and for institutions in separate portfolios. It has a family of more than 80 stock, bond, and money market funds with low expenses. It also offers discount-brokerage and trust services, retirement accounts, and investment-management services. Fund managers are guided by the company's investment philosophy of controlling risk, resulting in relatively stable fund returns. Nearly all of its funds have below-average expenses compared with other funds in the same categories. Its portfolio managers are careful about their investments, paying attention to valuation and not betting the farm on any one stock or sector. UnitedHealth Group Incorporated provides healthcare services in the United States. Its Uniprise segment delivers health care and well-being services to employers, individual consumers, and other health care organizations; and provides consumer-driven health plans and consumer activation services, as well as health-care-focused financial services. It also offers transactional processing services to intermediaries and health care entities. The company's Health Care Services segment offers consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services; administrative and other management services to customers that self-insure the medical costs of their employees and their dependents; and non-employer based insurance options for purchase by individuals, which are designed to meet the health coverage needs of consumers and their families. As of December 31, 2006, UnitedHealth Group offered its services and resources through 520,000 physicians and other care providers, and 4,700 hospitals. The company was founded in 1974 and is based in Minnetonka, Minnesota. Veolia Environnement SA and its subsidiaries provide environmental management services to public authorities, individuals, and industrial and commercial customers worldwide. It operates in four segments: Water, Environmental Services, Energy Services, and Transportation. The Water segment provides water and wastewater services, such as management and operation of drinking water plants, wastewater decontamination and recycling plants, drinking water distribution networks, and wastewater collection networks. The Environmental Services segment provides waste management and logistical services, which include waste collection; waste treatment; cleaning of public spaces, offices, and factories; maintenance of production equipment; treatment of polluted soil; and management of waste discharge at industrial sites. The Energy Services segment provides heating and cooling systems, thermal and multi-technical services, industrial utilities services, installation and maintenance of production equipment, integrated facilities management, and electrical services on public streets and roads. The Transportation segment provides urban, urban beltway, and other supplementary transportation services; intercity and regional transportation services; and transportation management services. The company was founded in 1853 as Vivendi Environnement SA and changed its name to Veolia Environnement SA in 2003. Veolia Environnement SA is headquartered in Paris, France. Verizon Communications, Inc. provides communication services worldwide. It is a leader in providing broadband and other wireline and wireless communication services to mass market, business, government, and wholesale customers. Verizon is the second largest telecommunication company by market capitalization. Verizon operates in two segments: Wireline and Domestic Wireless. Verizon’s Wireline segment offers telephone services, broadband video and data services, television services, and other communication products and services worldwide in 150 countries. Verizon’s Domestic Wireless segment operates as Verizon Wireless, in which Verizon owns 55 percent and Vodafone Group PLC owns 45 percent. Verizon Wireless provides wireless voice and data products and services across the United States. Verizon Wireless operates America’s most reliable wireless network, serving 63.7 million customers nationwide. Walt Disney operates as a diversified entertainment company worldwide. The company’s Media Networks segment comprises domestic broadcast television network, television production and distribution operations, domestic television stations, cable/satellite networks, domestic broadcast radio networks and stations, and the Internet and mobile operations. It operates the ABC Television Network and 10 owned television stations, the ESPN Radio and Radio Disney networks, and 46 owned radio stations. This segment also produces, licenses, and distributes cable and animated television programming; and operates ABC-, ESPN-, ABC Family-, SOAPnet-, and Disney-branded Internet Web site businesses, as well as Club Penguin, an online virtual world for kids. The company’s Parks and Resorts segment owns and operates the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida that includes theme parks; hotels; vacation ownership units; a retail, dining, and entertainment complex; a sports complex; conference centers; campgrounds; golf courses; and water parks. This segment also owns and operates Disneyland Resort in California, Disney Vacation Club, Disney Cruise Line, and ESPN Zone facilities; manages Disneyland Resort Paris and Hong Kong Disneyland Resort; licenses the operations of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Japan; and designs and develops new theme park concepts, attractions, and resort properties. Its Studio Entertainment segment produces and acquires live-action and animated motion pictures, direct-to-video programming, musical recordings, and live stage plays. The company’s Consumer Products segment licenses Disney characters, and visual and literary properties to manufacturers, retailers, show promoters, and publishers; and publishes books and magazines, computer software, and video game products. This segment markets its products through its own and licensed retail stores, and through a Web site. The Walt Disney was founded in 1923 and is based in Burbank, California. Waste Management, Inc (WMI) provides waste and environmental services in North America. The company provides collection, transfer, recycling and resource recovery, disposal, and landfill services. Waste Management also develops, operates, and owns waste-to-energy facilities in the United States. WMI also rents and services portable restroom facilities to cities and commercial customers; and provides street and parking lot sweeping services. WMI’s customers include commercial, industrial, municipal, and residential customers; other waste management companies; electric utilities; and governmental entities. The Company manages and evaluates its operations through seven operating Groups, five of which are organized by geographic area (Eastern, Midwest, Southern, Western and Canadian Groups) and two of which are organized by function (Recycling and Wheelabrator Groups). Download 140.17 Kb. Share with your friends:
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