Corporate Web Sites

(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/corps.html)

Most public companies have their own home pages on the WWW. Such pages tend to provide information about their products and services, and many provide press releases and other news about themselves that are useful to investors, other company stakeholders and geography researchers interested in corporate spatial strategies and regional development.

Related Web Sites:

Corporate & Organizational Geography
Evaluation of Corporate Websites [temporarily disabled (contains too many broken links)]
Corporate Disclosure Literature
Disclosure Web Sites
Advance Notification Literature
Early Warning Systems
Puget Sound Area Companies
Other Corporate Data Bases
Corporate Counter Pages
Airlines + Air Transport
Software Industry
Tobacco Issues
Lycos Small Business Company Search
Related Exercise [Alan Forsberg]

The companies listed below represent only a fraction of those with home pages. Other companies can found through one of the alternative sites listed at the bottom of this pages.

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Adobe

Advanced Micro Devices [Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) ist ein weltweit taetiges Halbleiterunternehmen mit Sitz in Sunnyvale, Kalifornien. Der Gesamtumsatz im Jahre 1998 betrug 2,5 Milliarden Dollar.]

AMD Saxony Manufacturing GmbH
30 Jahre nach der Gruendung des Unternehmens wurde AMDs neuestes Werk, die Fab 30, im Oktober 1999 in Dresden eroeffnet. Es gilt als das modernste Halbleiterwerk der Welt. Die Investition in das Unternehmen betraegt insgesamt $ 1,9 Milliarden Dollar, rund DM 3,2 Milliarden. Die AMD Saxony Manufacturing GmbH plant, in Dresden bis zum Jahr 2001/2002 rund 1800 Arbeitsplaetze zu schaffen. In Dresden bauen wir unser europaeisches Mikroprozessoren-Zentrum. Bislang arbeiten mehr als 1.000 Mitarbeiter (May 2000) an der Produktion des AMD-Athlon

News Release (1999) [AMD today dedicated the world's most advanced wafer fabrication facility in Dresden, Germany.]

Aetna

Airbus Industries
American Power Conversion

American President Lines

The American Stock Exchange

Ameritech [Now: SBC]

Apple Computer
Arthur Andersen

AT+T
Aventis [see also Hoechst]

Bank of America

Bankgesellschaft Berlin
Bayerische Motorenwerke (BMW) [München/ Munich]

Bell Atlantic [Telecommunications] [Now: Verizon]

Boeing, Seattle WA
Boise Cascade

Cabletron (Networking Software) [Now: Enterasys]

Cadbury
Cadillac

Chrysler

Cisco Systems

Coca-Cola

Compaq Computer Corporation

Consolidated Freightways [CNF]

Coopers & Lybrand (UK) [Now: PricewaterhouseCoopers]
Costco (Issaquah, WA) || Other Resources

Cray Research

Daimler-Benz (Stuttgart) [Now: Daimler Chrysler]

Dell Computers

Inside Dell's Clicks-and-Mortar Machine From Site Selection magazine, May 2000, C O V E R S T O R Y , b y J A C K L Y N E

Delta

Deutsche Bahn

Deutsche Bank AG

Compaq [Now: HP]

Disney (/Disneyland)
Dun & Bradstreet

DuPont

FANTUS CONSULTING HOME PAGE [Now: Deloitte & Touche]
Federal Express

Ford
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GAP Inc. [San Francisco]

Career Opportunities
Real Estate and Location Analysis Jobs

Genentech, Inc.
"Our mission is to be the leading biotechnology company, using human genetic information to develop, manufacture and market pharmaceuticals that address significant unmet medical needs. We commit ourselves to high standards of integrity in contributing to the best interests of patients, the medical profession, and our employees, and to seeking significant returns to our stockholders based on the continued pursuit of excellent science."

General Electric

General Motors
Georgia Pacific
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

Haworth, Inc. [Furniture]
Heimann Systems Security Systems (A subsidiary of Rheinmetall Industrie AG since 1993) [Now: Smiths Heimann]
Heineken
Herschey Food Corporation
Hewlett-Packard

Hoechst AG
Subsequent to the creation of Aventis, the merger of Hoechst and Rhone-Poulenc, on December 15, 1999, the organizational role and purpose of Hoechst AG changed. Hoechst AG is now an intermediate holding company that operates as an affiliate of Aventis under the Aventis logo. Around 97% of the shares of Hoechst AG are held by Aventis, Strasbourg, France. The remaining 3% are held by different private and institutional shareholders. Hoechst AG is still listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol HOE.
The former Hoechst Web site is still available as a digital archive. However, a lot of the information could be outdated and should not be used for commercial purposes. [ www.archive.hoechst.com ]
Holland America Line [Seattle]

IBM
IBM Deutschland

Intel

Kenworth Trucks [PACCAR, Seattle]
Kmart

Kodak

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Larry's Markets (Seattle Area)

LEGO
Eli Lilly and Company

Lotus

McCaw Cellular, Kirkland WA

McDonald's
McDonnell Douglas

MCI
McKinsey Co.

Mercedes-Benz AG [Stuttgart]
Merrill Lynch
Merrill Lynch [Online]
Microsoft, Redmond WA

Microsoft GmbH (Deutschland)

Mobil Corporation

Network Systems Corporation

Nordstrom ([Retail] Seattle, WA ["Personal Touch America")
Northern Telecom

Novell, Inc.

Paccar Inc.
Pemco Financial Services (Seattle)

Philips Electronics N.V.

Platinum Technology

Prentice Hall || Geography Pages

Price-Costco, Kirkland WA
Price-Waterhouse

Raytheon Company

Redhook Brewery, Seattle WA
Red Lobster (Dining/Restaurants; SUBSIDIARY OF: Darden Restaurants, Inc., (DRI) Orlando, FL.)
R.J.Reynolds Tobacco Co.

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Saab (USA)

Safeco Insurance || or here
SAP - Systems, Applications, Programs [Walldorf, Germany]

SAS

Charles Schwab
Seafirst Bank (Seattle)

Sears

Siemens AG

Siemens USA
Siemens Computer Systems North America
Siemens Components Inc.
Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG (SNI) (Paderborn, Germany)
Siemens-Nixdorf Intranet (News Release)

Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Smiths Detection [Security Systems, "partner" of Smiths Heimann]
Sony Corporation

Sony History
Global Localization "I would thus like to introduce the principle of 'global localization' as our future guiding principle. This is a new way of life for Sony, whereby we meet local needs with local operations while developing common global concepts and technologies." (Morita)
The San Diego Way
Building Plants Close to Markets By 1970, sales in the US had grown considerably and Japanese shipments of large televisions had increased. ...the time was ripe to build a color television plant on US soil. It did not make financial sense to endure the high costs of shipping televisions with bulky picture tubes across the Atlantic. As an additional benefit, if a plant were built close to the US market, products could easily be tailored to the market through adjustments in production volume and product design.

Southwest Airlines

SpaceLabs Medical (Redmond, WA)

Springer Verlag

Sprint
State Farm Insurance

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Swiss Air

Sybase

Target (Retail)
Teledesic Corporation (Kirkland, WA)
Texaco
Texas Instruments

Toyota

Unisys Corporation

United Airlines

United Parcel Service (UPS)

Volkswagen Page

Volvo Group
Volvo Car Corporation
Volvo Penta (Marine)

Wal-Mart
Weyerhaeuser

Windermere Real Estate

Zenith Data Systems

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By Country:

Sweden

Other Corporate Databases

Infoseek Company Profiles
Web Sites of National and International Banks
Publishing Companies

Security and Exchange Commission (SEC)

SEC Edgar Database
SEC Edgar Database

Hoover's Online. The "Corporate Web Register" includes companies listed in the Hoover's Master List of Major US Companies (Public & private with sales above $50 million) as well as "emerging" US companies.
Citizens Trust Home Page (Company Profiles)
The Nasdaq Stock Market
Central Source Yellow Pages [Now: Business Complaints Page]
NYNEX Interactive Yellow Pages

Disclosure (by subscription). "Disclosure is the preferred expert source for company research, analysis and business news & commentary. [...] Disclosure provides quick access to vital, real-time and historical company information via a variety of platforms, including the Internet, numerous online services, CD-ROM, and image-based delivery systems. Disclosure is a subsidiary of Primark Corporation."
Accounting Firms and Organizations (International)
Packet Storm
"... is the largest and most up to date library of information security information in the world. Whether your interest is in building a secure network, penetration testing, vulnerability analysis, or simply learning about computer security, Packet Storm has all the information you need..."

Corporate "Counter Pages"

Corporate Watch
Corporate Watch provides news, analysis, research tools and action resources to respond to corporate activity around the globe. We also talk with people who are directly affected by corporate abuses as well as with others fighting for corporate accountability, human rights, social and environmental justice.

Alternatives to Corporations
Conversations about the Future: Ralph Nader: "Free Speech, Dissent and Citizen Participation" [Recorded at UW in Kane Hall with introduction, 1 hour and 24 minutes (Date: 1999?)]
http://www.amexsux.com/ [American Express Consumer Opinion Web site] "Welcome to the unofficial American Express. consumer opinion web site. If you are visiting this site you are probably unhappy, like myself, with the way American Express. has treated you."
Northworst Air
http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/
UNTIED AIRLINES: The Most Unfriendly Skies
Executive Paywatch (AFL-CIO)
"Intel Secrets" ("What Intel does not want you to know")

Labor Issues (Resources)
MC-Spotlight (McDonald's Libel Suit)
Qwest - Tsewq "We are here to unite victims ... of Qwest. Our goal is to initiate reform in the telecommunications industry and to make Qwest accountable ..."
Stale, countering Microsoft('s Slate)

Wake-Up Walmart

Tobacco's Pros & Cons on the Web:

Small agreement no sure sign in tobacco case; Seattle Times, Saturday, October 3, 1998, by James V. Grimaldi and Matthew Ebnet "The latest, if minor, tobacco settlement between state lawyers and a small part of the tobacco industry might seem as if it would bode well for a more encompassing agreement between the two sides, that this baby step might lead to a big one. But people involved, including the attorney general, say that yesterday's $2 million settlement with the smallest of five tobacco companies - U.S. Tobacco - does not serve as a blueprint for a bigger deal with major companies."
Net analysis: Nicotine notes light up tobacco-industry cases Seattle Times, Sunday, March 22, 1998 by John Schwartz The Washington Post: "An amazing thing happened online recently. A "first installment" of millions of pages of internal tobacco-industry documents hit the World Wide Web on an industry-created Web site." (with embedded web sites)
Chairman Bliley Releases Subpoenaed Tobacco Documents to The American People || Press Release

The Documents [Dec.19, 1997]

Action on Smoking & Health
American Cancer Society
American Smokers Alliance
National Smokers Alliance
R.J.Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Smoke-Free Kids and Soccer
Tobacco B.B.S.
Tobacco Control Archives
Court TV Tobacco Litigation Library

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Corporate Web Sites

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