Based in Peoria, Illinois, Caterpillar Inc. defined themselves as the world’s largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines. The company which commonly referred to simply as CAT is famous for their products featuring caterpillar... 

Bratz is a popular line of fashion dolls and related merchandise designed by Carter Bryant and manufactured by southern California toy company MGA Entertainment. The four original 10″ dolls – Cloe, Jade, Sasha, and Yasmin – are teenagers distinguished by large heads and skinny bodies,... 

The Better Business Bureau (BBB), founded in 1912, is not a government agency, but a private business franchise of local BBB organizations based in the United States and Canada, which work together through the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB). The BBB goal is to foster a fair and effective marketplace,... 

Xilinx, Inc. is the world’s largest supplier of programmable logic devices, the inventor of the field programmable gate array (FPGA) and the first semiconductor company with a fabless manufacturing model. The programmable logic device market has been led by Xilinx since the late 1990s. Over the years,... 

If AC Nielsen collects television audiences data, Arbitron collects listener data on radio audiences. It was founded as American Research Bureau by Jim Seiler in 1949 and became bi-coastal by merging with L.A. based Coffin, Cooper and Clay in the early 1950s. ARB’s initial business was the collection... 

Applebee’s International, Inc. is a United States company which develops, franchises, and operates the Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill and Bar restaurant chain. As of November 25, 2007, there were 1,965 restaurants operating system-wide in 49 states, 17 countries, and one U.S. territory. The... 

Amgen Inc. is an international biotechnology company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. Located in the Conejo Valley, Amgen is the largest independent biotech firm. The company employs approximately 14,000 staff members including the 125 Allied-Barton Security staff and A-post personnel in 2007. Its... 

Avaya Inc. is a privately held telecommunications company which specializes in enterprisetelephony and call center technology. Formerly the Business Communications unit of Lucent Technologies, it was spun off on October 1, 2000 with 34,000 employees. Since the spin-off, Avaya has sold its manufacturing...