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- Dolby Laboratories, Inc. develops and delivers sound technologies that assist the entertainment creation process and enhance the entertainment experience. Dolby technologies are standard in a range of entertainment ... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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THX (Mar 02 2008 07:14 GMT) - THX Ltd. is all ears. The company's products and services are devoted to improving the sound and image quality of motion pictures, home and automotive entertainment systems, and computer games and gaming consoles. T... Recent Update Date: |
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- Republican National Committee (RNC) The Republican National Committee (RNC) is the political and fund-raising engine behind the GOP (Grand Old Party), party of many US presidents from Lincoln to Bush. The organization h... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- Democratic National Committee (DNC) From Thomas Jefferson to William Jefferson Clinton, the Democratic Party has been an integral part of the US political landscape. The DNC Service Corporation (better known as the Demo... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- The devil might have gone down to Georgia, but he probably watches Country Music Television (CMT) during breaks from stealing souls. A unit of MTV Networks (which itself is a subsidiary of Viacom), the company airs ... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- The RIAA says you better not rip, burn, or copy and, if you're listening, you better have paid. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) represents US record labels in matters of intellectual property ri... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago regulates banks and bank holding companies in northern Illinois, northern Indiana, southern Wisconsin, the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, and Iowa. It conducts examinati... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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Mars (Mar 02 2008 07:14 GMT) - Mars Incorporated Mars knows chocolate sales are nothing to snicker at. The company makes such worldwide favorites as M&M's, Snickers, and the Mars bar. Its other confections include 3 Musketeers, Dove, Milky Way, Skittles, Twix, and S... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- Jerry Bruckheimer Films What's big, loud, and seen all over? Virtually everything produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Films (JBF). The namesake production company of former advertising executive turned uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer, JBF is... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) has been providing post-production visual effects services to the entertainment industry since 1975. Motion pictures, commercials, trailers, music videos and special venue ... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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Bose (Mar 02 2008 07:14 GMT) - Bose Corporation Bose Corporation is engaged in the manufacture of sound systems. While many of its products are designed for entertainment and home audio solutions, the Company is also prevalent in both the aviation and automotive ind... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can tell you with the utmost of accuracy just what time it is. Created by Congress in 1901 as the US government's first phy... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- American Bar Association (ABA) The American Bar Association (ABA) seeks to promote improvements in the American justice system and develop guidelines for the advancement of the legal profession and legal education. It provides law scho... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- Cousins Subs Cousins Submarines operates and franchises more than 160 Cousins Subs eateries in Wisconsin and about 10 other states. The quick-service restaurants offer a variety of submarine-style sandwiches, both hot and cold, as well... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- Al Capone's Northwoods Retreat Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, built a gangland hideout in Wisconsin's North woods near Couderay in the mid-1920s. Today, 40-minute tours of this estate take viewers through Capone's livin... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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Acclaim (Mar 02 2008 07:14 GMT) - Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. develops, publishes, markets and distributes, under its brand names, interactive entertainment software for a variety of hardware platforms, including Sony's PlayStation 2, Microsoft's Xb... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc. (TER) owns and operates three casino hotel properties in Atlantic City, New Jersey: Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort (Trump Taj Mahal), Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino (Trump Plaza) and T... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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Kodak (Mar 02 2008 07:14 GMT) - The Eastman Kodak Company (Kodak) provides products and services to the photographic, graphic communications and healthcare markets. Consumers use Kodak's system of digital and traditional image capture products and... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- Ripley Entertainment believes in weirdness. The company, a subsidiary of Canadian conglomerate Jim Pattison, publishes the "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" oddities comic strip that appears in about 200 newspapers in 4... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- Adventureland Park is indeed a land within itself. The 180-acre family resort boasts an amusement park with more than 100 attractions, an inn, and a full-service campground. Rides range from roller coasters to kiddi... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- Vail Resorts, Inc. is a holding company that operates through its subsidiaries in three segments: Mountain, Lodging and Real Estate. The Company's Mountain segment owns and operates five ski resort properties, which... Recent Update Date: |
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Xerox (Mar 02 2008 07:14 GMT) - Xerox Corporation (Xerox) is a technology and services enterprise. The Company develops, manufactures, markets, services and finances a range of document equipment, software, solutions and services. Xerox markets an... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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NAVTEQ (Mar 02 2008 07:14 GMT) - NAVTEQ NAVTEQ Corporation (NAVTEQ) provider of digital map information for automotive navigation systems, mobile navigation devices and Internet-based mapping applications. Its map database enables providers of these products and servi... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- RR Donnelley & Sons R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company (RR Donnelley) is a full-service provider of print and related services, including business process outsourcing. It provides solutions in commercial printing, direct mail, financial pri... Recent Update Date: |
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- Wilson Sporting Goods Always a sporty conversationalist, "Wilson," the bouncy, buoyant volleyball and winner of the Critics Choice Award for Best Inanimate Object in a Motion Picture, kept Tom Hanks afloat in the film Cast Away. Wander... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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TransUnion (Mar 02 2008 07:14 GMT) - TransUnion makes sure those past-due student loan bills follow you across the country. The firm is one of the three major consumer credit reporting agencies (the others are Experian and Equifax) that lenders use to ... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- Steinway Musical Instruments Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc. designs, manufactures, markets and distributes products within the musical instrument industry through its wholly owned subsidiaries, The Steinway Piano Company, Inc. (Ste... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- A&E Television Networks is defying the notion that TV rots the brain. It offers a smorgasbord of programming in history, the arts, current events, popular culture, reality, and nature through its two main cable netw... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- Talk about spending a long time in labor: The AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations) has been at it for more than a century. The AFL-CIO is an umbrella organization for more ... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil ... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- American Legion The American Legion was chartered by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic, mutual-help, war-time veterans organization. A community-service organization which now numbers nearly 3 million members -- men and women -- in near... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) From the Internet to the iPod, technologies are transforming our society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- One of the largest and best-known labor unions in the US, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters has 1.4 million members. The Teamsters represents workers in more than 15 industry sectors, including trucking, wa... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- The philosopher Socrates once said, "I am that gadfly which God has given the state." While the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) might have a quarrel with the "God" part, the group has at times proved a stingin... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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Seagate (Mar 02 2008 07:14 GMT) - Seagate Technology Seagate Technology (Seagate) is engaged in the design, manufacture and marketing of rigid disc drives. Rigid disc drives, which are referred to as disc drives or hard drives, are used as the primary medium for storin... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- Western Digital Western Digital Corporation (WD) designs, develops, manufactures and sells hard drives. It sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and original design manufactures for use in computer systems, subsystems ... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- Oh, Gio! Giorgio Armani Corporation (US) is the American arm of Italian fashion house Giorgio Armani S.p.A. The designer and his American Gigolo, Richard Gere, brought Armani to the fashion forefront in North Americ... |
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- Image Comics knows a lot about black ink figures. One of the largest comic book publishers in the US, its comics and graphic novels feature more risqué content than the traditional super hero-based books of its comp... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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Galoob Toys (Mar 02 2008 07:14 GMT) - Galoob Toys Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. was a toy company best known for creating Micro Machines and the video game cheat device called Game Genie. The South San Francisco-based company was founded by Barbara Frankel and Lewis Galoob in 19... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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The Gap (Mar 02 2008 07:14 GMT) - The Gap The Gap, Inc. is a global specialty retailer operating retail and outlet stores selling casual apparel, accessories and personal care products for men, women and children under the Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Piperlime and ... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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Napster (Mar 02 2008 07:14 GMT) - Napster Napster, Inc. (Napster), is a provider of online music for the consumer market. The Company?s digital music distribution services enable fans to sample, listen to, subscribe to and purchase from a collection of online music cat... Recent Update Date: |
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Sonic (Mar 02 2008 07:14 GMT) - Sonic Corp. (Sonic) operates and franchises a chain of drive-in restaurants (Sonic Drive-Ins) in the United States. At August 31, 2005, the Company had 3,188 Sonic Drive-Ins in operation, consisting of 623 Partner D... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- Jack in the Box Inc. owns, operates and franchises Jack in the Box quick-service hamburger restaurants and Qdoba Mexican Grill (Qdoba) fast-casual restaurants. As of October 1, 2006, the Jack in the Box system inclu... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- Carnival Corporation is a cruise and vacation company that offers cruises to vacation destinations. The Company has a portfolio of 12 cruise brands, which include Carnival Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises (Princess), ... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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- Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (A&F) is a specialty retailer that operates stores selling casual apparel, such as knit shirts, graphic t-shirts, jeans, woven shirts, shorts, as well as personal care and other accessories f... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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Timex (Mar 02 2008 07:14 GMT) - Branching out from its original "takes a licking" designs, Timex is strapping on fresh faces so it can tap new markets worldwide. The nation's largest watch manufacturer has expanded its lines from simple, low-cost ... Recent Update Date: Dec 31, 1969 |
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