American Express Co. (AXP) provides financial advisory, international banking, and travel services. American Express Financial Advisors services and products include financial planning and advice, investment advisory services and a variety of products, including insurance and annuities, investment certificates and mutual funds. American Express Bank products and services include providing personal financial services, global trading, and corporate and private banking. Its travel related services include Charge Cards, Card member lending products, Travelers Cheques, and corporate and consumer travel services. American Express operates on a global basis, although the principal market for financial advisory services is the United States. In April '01 the company acquired Sierracities.com.
Company Web Site: www.americanexpress.com

American National Insurance (ANAT) provides insurance and investment-management services. It offers individual and group insurance products, including life, accident, health, and property and casualty coverage. Revenues from individual life insurance premiums account for about 33% of the company's revenues. ANI's Securities Management and Research subsidiary offers variable-annuity accounts and provides management-consulting services to mutual funds. The company is licensed to operate in the United States and Europe. ANI agreed to acquire Farm Family Holdings in 2000.
Company Web Site: www.anico.com

Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM) processes and markets agricultural commodities and related products. It processes corn, wheat, rice, barley, and oilseeds. The company's operations include milling wheat and rice into flour; processing corn to produce corn sugar, syrup, starch, and alcohol; and refining cane sugar. Revenues from processing oilseeds generate approximately 56% of the company's revenues. ADM markets its commodities in the United States and abroad. The company also operates a fleet of trucks, railcars, and boats to transport its products.
Company Web Site: www.admworld.com

Brunswick (BC) produces and markets recreational products. The company's consumer brands include Mercury and Mariner outboard engines; Mercury Mercruiser sterndrives and inboard engines; and Sea Ray, Bayliner, Baja, and Boston Whaler pleasure boats. Its brands also include Life Fitness, Hammer Strength, and ParaBody fitness equipment; Zebco and Quantum fishing equipment; Igloo, American Camper, and Remington camping gear; Igloo coolers and ice chests; Brunswick bowling centers, equipment, and consumer products; and Brunswick billiards tables.
Company Web Site: www.brunswickcorp.com

CTS (CTS) manufactures electronic components, including electronic connectors, loudspeakers, programmable switches, industrial electronics, hybrid microcircuits, ceramic filters, crystal oscillators, quartz crystals, and automotive-control devices. The company markets its products to users in the automotive, communication, data-processing, defense, aerospace, consumer-electronics, distribution, and instruments-and-controls industries in the United States and overseas. Sales to the computer-equipment industry account for approximately 32% of CTS' revenues.
Company Web Site: www.ctscorp.com

Dover Corp. (DOV) is a diversified industrial manufacturer. Dover Diversified makes packaging and printing machinery, heat transfer equipment, food refrigeration and display cases, construction and agricultural cabs, and specialized bearings and compressors. It also makes products used in the defense, aerospace & automotive industries. Dover Industries makes products for the waste handling, bulk transport, automotive service, commercial food-service, packaging, welding and construction industries. Dover Resources makes products for the automotive, fluid handling, petroleum and chemical industries. Dover Technologies builds automated electronics assembly and testing equipment, industrial printers and specialized electronic components. In Jun 01, It acquired Kurz-Kasch, Inc. and Multitest AG.
Company Web Site: www.dovercorporation.com

Fortune Brands (FO) manufactures consumer goods. The company's products include Jim Beam whiskey, Lord Calvert Canadian whiskey, Gilbey's gin and vodka, Moen plumbing supplies, Masterlock locks, Waterloo tool-storage products, ACCO and Rexel office products, Swingline staplers, Day-Timer time-management systems, King Cobra golf clubs, Titleist golf balls and clubs, and Foot-Joy leisure and athletic products. Fortune Brands markets its products in the United States and overseas. Foreign sales account for approximately 27% of the company's total sales.
Company Web Site: www.fortunebrands.com

Kroger (KR) is the largest food retailer in the U.S., operating 2,354 supermarkets in 31 states. About 1,200 supermarkets are operated under the Kroger name, while the rest operate under nearly two dozen different banners including Fred Meyer, Ralph's, Fry's, King Soopers, Dillons, and QFC. It manufactures more than 3,000 grocery items under its Private Selection, Kroger, and FMV labels. It also operates more than 800 convenience stores under the Kwik Shop, Quik Stop, and Tom Thumb names, among others, as well as 389 fine jewelry stores. It acquired Fred Meyer Inc. in 1999.
Company Web Site: www.kroger.com

Lam Research (LRCX) manufactures semiconductor-processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. Its products deposit specific films on a silicon wafer and selectively etch away parts of various films to create a circuit design. The company's products include multichamber systems that integrate up to four circuit chambers on a single platform, and chemical-vapor systems that expose a silicon wafer to various gases containing material to be deposited. Lam Research also produces four types of single-wafer plasma-etch systems.
Company Web Site: www.lamrc.com

Pharmacia (PHA) develops and manufactures pharmaceutical, agricultural, and food products. The company produces anti-infectives, oral contraceptives, and drugs that treat cardiovascular, central-nervous-system, and gastrointestinal diseases. In addition, the company produces Simplesse fat substitute, Nicorette smoking-cessation products, and Rogaine topical solution. It also makes herbicides and breeds vegetables that are protected from insects and herbicides. Pharmacia sold its sweetner operations in May 2000. The company merged with Monsanto in 2000.
Company Web Site: www.pharmacia.com

Philip Morris (MO) produces tobacco, food, and beer products. Its tobacco division produces cigarettes under brand names such as Marlboro, Merit, L&M, and Virginia Slims. Its Kraft General Foods subsidiary makes food products under brand names that include Kraft, General Foods, Jell-O, Tombstone, and Oscar Mayer. Philip Morris' Miller Brewing subsidiary brews beer sold under brand names such as Miller, Lowenbrau, Meister Brau, Icehouse, Red Dog, and Hamm's. Foreign revenues account for about 51% of the company's revenues. It agreed to acquire Nabisco Group Holdings in 2000.
Company Web Site: www.philipmorris.com

Republic Services (RSG) provides nonhazardous solid-waste collection services. The company provides these services for commercial, industrial, municipal, and residential customers through 151 collection companies in 24 states. It also owns or operates 81 transfer stations and 55 solid-waste landfills. The landfills have a total of 7,380 permitted acres and an available permitted-disposal capacity of 1.1 billion in-place cubic yards. Approximately 74% of its revenues come from waste collection and 13% are from landfill operations.
Company Web Site: www.republicservices.com

TRW (TRW) provides technology-based automotive, aerospace, and defense products. The company makes automotive systems such as occupant restraints, steering systems, and engine components, and produces electronic components and systems for spacecraft and defense applications. The company markets its products to governmental agencies and users in the automotive, defense, banking, finance, and other industries in the United States and overseas. Foreign sales account for approximately 45% of the company's total sales.
Company Web Site: www.trw.com

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (VSH) makes discrete passive and discrete active electronic components. Vishay's products consists of fixed resistors, tantalum capacitors, multi-layer ceramic chip capacitors, film capacitors, power MOSFETs, power integrated circuits, signal processing switches, diodes and transistors. Unlike integrated circuits, which combine the functions of many electronic components in one chip, discrete components perform one specific function per device, and are used in virtually all types of electronic products, including computers, automobiles, household appliances, satellites and weapon systems. Vishay sells its products primarily to original equipment manufacturers, OEM subcontractors, and distributors that resell to OEMs.
Company Web Site: www.vishay.com

Wells Fargo (WFC) is the holding company for subsidiaries that operate more than 5,600 banking and mortgage-lending offices in the United States and abroad. The banks offer personal-computer banking and trust services, as well as credit cards. The banks also make real-estate, agricultural, business, foreign, and consumer loans. The company's other subsidiaries offer investment- and mortgage banking, insurance, and securities-brokerage services. Wells Fargo acquired First Security and Brenton Banks in 2000. It agreed to acquire First Commerce Bancshares in 2000.
Company Web Site: www.wellsfargo.com