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Citigroup Inc. is a diversified global financial services holding company whose businesses provide a broad range of financial services to consumer and corporate customers. The Company has over 192 million customer accounts in over 100 countries and territories. The Company's activities are conducted through Global Consumer, which delivers a wide array of banking, lending, insurance and investment services; Global Corporate, which provides corporations, governments, institutions and investors with a broad range of financial products and services; Global Investment Management, which offers a broad range of life insurance, annuities and asset management products and services; Private Banking, which consists of traditional banking activities, and Investment Activities, which consists of the Company's venture capital activities.
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPMorgan Chase) is a financial holding company with operations in over 50 countries. Its principal bank subsidiaries are JPMorgan Chase Bank in New York, and Chase Manhattan Bank USA in Delaware. JPMorgan Chase's principal non-bank subsidiary is its investment bank, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. JPMorgan Chase's activities are internally organized into five major business segments: Investment Bank, Treasury & Securities Services, Investment Management & Private Banking, JPMorgan Partners and Retail & Middle Market Financial Services. As of December 31, 2001, the Company had $694 billion in assets and $41 billion in stockholders' equity. In November 2001, the Company merged its two lead banks, The Chase Manhattan Bank and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York. The name of the merged bank is JPMorgan Chase Bank.
American Express Company is engaged primarily in the business of providing travel-related services, financial advisory services and international banking services throughout the world. The Company provides charge and credit cards, travelers checks, travel services, financial planning, investment products, insurance and international banking. American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. provides a global card network, issuing and processing services, the American Express Card, the Optima Card, a number of co-brand Cards, other consumer and corporate lending and banking products, a network of automated teller machines, the American Express Travelers Cheque, stored value products, business expense management products and services, corporate and consumer travel products and services, tax, accounting and business consulting services, magazine publishing, merchant transaction processing and point of sale and back office products and services.
eBay Inc. is a United States-based dynamic pricing online trading platform located at www.ebay.com. eBay developed a Web-based community in which buyers and sellers are brought together in an efficient format to buy and sell items, such as collectibles, automobiles, high-end or premium art items, jewelry, consumer electronics and a host of practical and miscellaneous items. The eBay dynamic pricing (auction-style) format permits sellers to list items for sale, buyers to bid on items of interest and all eBay users to browse through listed items. eBay's service is fully automated, topically arranged and easy to use. Through its wholly owned and partially owned subsidiaries and affiliates, the Company operates trading platforms in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, Canada, France, Austria, Italy and South Korea. For the second quarter of 2001, eBay expects to expand its online trading to include Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Sweden and Brazil.
Dell Computer Corporation is the world's largest direct computer systems company. The Company offers its customers a full range of computer systems, including desktop computer systems, notebook computers, workstations, network servers and storage products, as well as an extended selection of peripheral hardware, computing software and related services. Additionally, the Company offers an array of services to support its customers' online initiatives. The Company's direct model offers in-person relationships with corporate and institutional customers, as well as telephone and Internet purchasing, built-to-order computer systems, telephone and online technical support and onsite product service. Dell sells its products and services to large corporate, government, healthcare and education customers, small-to-medium businesses and individuals.
Amazon.com, Inc. is a Website where customers can find and discover anything they may want to buy online. The Company lists millions of unique items in categories such as books, music, DVDs, videos, consumer electronics, toys, camera and photo items, software, computer and video games, tools and hardware, lawn and patio items, kitchen products, and wireless products. Through its Amazon Marketplace, Auctions and zShops services, any business or individual can sell virtually anything to the Company's approximately 30 million cumulative customers, and with Amazon.com Payments, sellers can accept credit card transactions. In addition to its U.S.-based Website, www.amazon.com, the Company operates four internationally focused Websites: www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.fr and www.amazon.co.jp. The Company also operates the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), a comprehensive and authoritative source of information on movies and entertainment titles, and cast and crewmembers.
AT&T Corporation provides voice, data and video communications services to large and small businesses, consumers and government entities. AT&T and its subsidiaries furnish domestic and international long distance, regional, local and wireless communications services, and cable (broadband) television and Internet communications services. AT&T also provides billing, directory and calling card services to support its communications business. AT&T's primary lines of business are business services, consumer services, broadband services and wireless services. In addition, AT&T's other lines of business include network management and professional services through AT&T Solutions, and international operations and ventures.
priceline.com Incorporated has pioneered an e-commerce pricing system, known as a demand collection system, which enables consumers to use the Internet to save money on a range of products and services, while enabling sellers to generate incremental revenue. Using its consumer proposition, "Name Your Own Price," the Company collects consumer demand, in the form of individual customer offers, for a particular product or service at a price set by the customer. The Company, incorporated in 1997, then either communicates that demand directly to participating sellers or accesses a proprietary database of inventory available to the Company for purchase and, based upon the customer's offer price, elects whether or not to accept that customer's offer. Consumers agree to hold their offers open for a specified period of time and, once fulfilled, offers generally cannot be canceled.
E*TRADE Group, Inc. is engaged in online personal financial services offering value-added investing, banking, research and educational tools, customer service and a proprietary Stateless Architecture infrastructure to its customers through services provided by its wholly owned subsidiaries, including E*TRADE Securities, Inc. (CCS), TIR (Holdings) Limited, E*TRADE Bank, Card Capture Services, Inc., now E*TRADE Access Inc., VERSUS Technologies, Inc. and other international subsidiaries. The Company offers automated order placement and execution, financial products and services that can be personalized, including portfolio tracking, charting and quote applications, real-time market commentary and analysis, news, professional research reports and other information services. Its products also include mutual funds, proprietary mutual funds, bond trading, banking, automated teller machine (ATM) services, and access to participate in initial public offerings (IPOs).
Delta Air Lines, Inc. is an air carrier that provides scheduled air transportation for passengers and freight throughout the United States and around the world. As of February 1, 2001, Delta (including its wholly owned subsidiaries, Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Inc. and Comair, Inc.) served 201 domestic cities in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands, as well as 50 cities in 32 countries in Europe, Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean and Canada. An important characteristic of Delta's route network is its four hub airports in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Dallas/Ft. Worth and Salt Lake City. Each of these hub operations includes Delta flights that gather and distribute traffic from markets in the geographic region surrounding the hub to other major cities and to other Delta hubs.
Intel Corporation is a semiconductor chip maker, supplying the computing and communications industries with chips, boards and systems building blocks that are integral to computers, servers and networking and communications products. Its products are offered at various levels of integration, and are used by industry members to create advanced computing and communications systems. The Company historically was organized into five product line operating segments, consisting of the Intel Architecture Group, the Wireless Communications and Computing Group, the Communications Products Group, the Network Communications Group and the New Business Group. In March 2001, the Company announced that it is combining its Network Communications Group and its Communications Products Group into a single business unit aimed at providing building blocks for networking and telecommunications customers worldwide.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is principally engaged in the operation of mass merchandising stores. At January 31, 2001, the Company operated 1,736 discount stores, 888 Supercenters, 475 SAM'S Clubs and 19 Neighborhood Markets. Internationally, at January 31, 2001, the Company operated units in Argentina (11), Brazil (20), Canada (174), Germany (94), Korea (6) Mexico (499), Puerto Rico (15) and the United Kingdom (241), and, under joint venture agreements, in China (11). The Company operates through three segments, the Wal-Mart Stores segment, the SAM'S Club segment and the International segment.
Drugstore.com, Inc. is an online drugstore, a retail store and information site for health, beauty, wellness, personal care and pharmacy products. The Company designed its store to provide a convenient, private and informative shopping experience that encourages consumers to purchase products essential to healthy, everyday living. Its Website can be accessed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from anywhere that a consumer has Internet access. The Company offers a larger selection of products than typical store-based retailers, along with health-related information, buying guides and other tools designed to help consumers make more educated purchasing decisions. Its shopping lists and e-mail reminders are designed to make it easier for its customers to regularly purchase their preferred products. The markets the Company addresses can be divided into five primary categories: health, beauty, wellness, personal care and pharmacy.
Avon Products, Inc. is a global manufacturer and marketer of beauty and related products, which include cosmetics, fragrance and toiletries, Beauty Plus, which consists of jewelry, watches and accessories, and apparel, and Beyond Beauty, which consists of gift and decorative, home entertainment and health and nutrition products. Avon's business is focused on direct selling, which is conducted in North America, Latin America, the Pacific and Europe. The Company has operations in 52 countries outside the United States and its products are distributed in 86 other countries, for coverage in 139 markets. Avon has entered 26 new markets since 1990, including Russia and China, as well as nations throughout Central Europe, and is evaluating several other markets in Eastern Europe and the Pacific region.
barnesandnoble.com inc. is a holding company whose sole asset is its 27.6% equity interest in barnesandnoble.com llc (B&N.com), and whose sole business is acting as sole manager of B&N.com. B&N.com is focused on the sale of a broad range of knowledge-, information-, education- and entertainment-related products. Since opening its online store in March 1997, B&N.com has attracted more than 7.9 million customers in 228 countries. In addition to books, the B&N.com Website, www.bn.com, offers music, DVD/ video, magazines and related products. B&N.com's online bookstore includes an extensive in-stock selection of in-print book titles, supplemented by more than 20 million listings from its nationwide network of out-of-print, rare and used book dealers. It also offers a comprehensive online selection of college textbooks, in addition to eBooks.
CVS Corporation is principally engaged in the retail drugstore business. As of December 30, 2000, the Company operated 4,133 retail and specialty pharmacy drugstores and various mail-order facilities located in 31 states and the District of Columbia. During 2000, the Company dispensed 300 million prescriptions. The Company's operations are grouped into four businesses, Retail Pharmacy, Pharmacy Benefit Management, Specialty Pharmacy and Internet Pharmacy.
American Greetings Corporation and its subsidiaries operate predominantly in a single industry: the design, manufacture and sale of everyday and seasonal greeting cards and other social expression products. AmericanGreetings.com Inc. (89% owned) markets e-mail greetings, personalized greeting cards and other social expression products through the Company's Websites, www.americangreetings.com, www.egreetings.com, and www.beatgreets.com, as well as co-branded Websites and online services. AmericanGreetings.com also provides design and verse content, which is included in various CD-Rom software products for use on personal computers. AmericanGreetings.com also operates eAgents, an electronic newsletter that consolidates and delivers personalized content from top Internet sites to subscribers.
SBC Communications Inc. is a provider of telecommunications services in the United States and worldwide. Through its subsidiaries, the Company provides communications services and products in the United States and has investments in more than 25 countries. The services and products that the Company offers vary by market, and include: local exchange services, wireless communications, long distance services, Internet services, telecommunications equipment, messaging, paging and directory advertising and publishing. The Company offers its services and products to businesses and consumers, as well as other providers of telecommunications services.
Ashford.com, Inc. is a Web-based retailer focused on luxury and premium products, including new and vintage watches, clocks, diamonds, jewelry, leather goods, writing instruments, fragrances, sunglasses, ties and scarves, altogether offering more than 14,000 styles of products from over 350 leading luxury brands. During the past year the Company has rapidly expanded its primary product focus from offering only new watches to offering 11 different product categories. The Company's Web site features detailed product information, helpful and useful shopping services and innovative merchandising through easy-to-navigate Web pages. The Company offers customers the convenience and flexibility of shopping 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from their homes, offices or other locations. In addition, the Company carries almost all of the products it sells in inventory, which enables it to ship most products to its customers within 24 hours.
Autoweb.com, Inc. is a consumer automotive Internet service. The Company's Website centralizes an extensive collection of automotive-related commerce, content and community offerings to assist consumers in researching, evaluating and buying vehicles and automotive-related products and services such as insurance and financing. In addition, the Company provides automotive content, Web hosting and development services and sales automation services to vehicle manufacturers, dealers and online partners.
Borders Group Inc., through its subsidiaries, Borders, Inc. (Borders), Walden Book Company, Inc. (Walden), Books etc., and others is the second largest operator of book superstores and the largest operator of mall-based bookstores in the world, based upon both sales and number of stores. At January 28, 2001, the Company operated 349 superstores, primarily under the Borders name, including nine in the United Kingdom, two in Australia, and one each in Singapore, New Zealand and Puerto Rico. The Company also operated 869 mall-based and other bookstores, primarily under the Waldenbooks name and 31 bookstores under the Books etc. name in the United Kingdom. The Company is also an online retailer of books, music, and video through the operation of its Internet commerce site, Borders.com.
Brookstone, Inc. is a nationwide specialty retailer offering an assortment of consumer products functional in purpose, distinctive in quality and design, and not widely available from other retailers. The Company's merchandise includes lawn and garden, health and fitness, home and office and travel and auto products. Brookstone sells its products through 225 stores in 38 states and the District of Columbia. The Company also operates a direct marketing business, which includes its traditional Hard-to-Find Tools, its Brookstone Gift Collection and its Gardeners Eden catalogs in addition to an interactive Internet site, www.Brookstone.com.
buy.com Inc. is a multi-category Internet superstore that offers a broad selection of brand name computer hardware and peripherals, software, books, videos, DVDs, computer games, music, clearance products, consumer electronics, sporting goods, office products and supplies, and wireless products and services at everyday low prices. The e-commerce portal, www.buy.com, links the Company's 11 specialty stores. Through these online stores, the Company offers products in a convenient, easy-to-use shopping interface that features extensive product information and multi-media presentations 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Company has selected its stores based upon product lines that are intended to have large market potential, are well suited for e-commerce and are in industries that allow the Company to establish a relationship with a dominant distributor.
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries, is a diversified worldwide entertainment company with operations in five business segments: Media Networks; Studio Entertainment, which produces live-action and animated motion pictures, television animation programs, musical recordings and live stage plays.; Parks & Resorts; Consumer Products, which licenses the Company's characters and other intellectual property for use in connection with merchandise and publications and publishes books and magazines; and the Internet Group
E-LOAN, Inc. is an online provider of consumer loans, offering borrowers the ability to obtain a suitable loan for their personal financial needs. E-LOAN is a diversified consumer lender offering mortgage loans, home equity lines of credit, auto loans, credit cards and small business loans. E-LOAN originates loans through its Website, providing its borrowers with a combination of streamlined technology, personal customer service and cost savings. E-LOAN's Website provides borrowers access to a wide range of consumer debt information and interactive tools.
Equifax, Incorporated is engaged in facilitating and securing commerce by bringing buyers and sellers together worldwide through information, transaction processing and Internet businesses. Global operations include consumer and commercial credit information services, credit card marketing and processing services, check guarantee and authorization, software, modeling, database management, marketing solutions, analytics, direct to consumer services, Internet identity verification and digital certificate services; and, through September 2000, risk management and collection services. The Company's business areas are divided into separate groups and are conducted on a "profit center" basis with self-contained functional integrity, although Equifax supplies centralized overall financial, legal, communications, media relations, tax and similar services.
Fossil, Inc. is engaged in the design, development, marketing and distribution of watches, fashion accessories, apparel and other products. Since its inception in 1984, the Company has grown from its original flagship Fossil watch product into a diversified company, offering an extensive line of fashion watches, small leather goods, belts, handbags and sunglasses under the Fossil and Relic brands and Fossil brand apparel. In addition to developing its own brands, the Company leverages its development and production expertise by designing and manufacturing private-label products for companies that include national retailers, entertainment companies and theme restaurants.
FTD.COM, INC. is an Internet and telephone marketer of flowers and specialty gifts that began selling products directly to consumers through the 1-800-SEND-FTD toll-free telephone number in 1993 and electronically to consumers through the WWW.FTD.COM Website in 1994. The Company offers same-day delivery of floral orders to nearly 100% of the United States population. The majority of floral orders are fulfilled by a group of independent FTD florists that adhere to FTD.COM's quality and service standards. The Company offers over 400 floral arrangements and over 600 specialty gift items, including gourmet gift baskets, holiday gift sets, bath and beauty products, garden products and stuffed animals. Product offerings are available at prices ranging from $17.99 to over $200.
The Gap, Inc. is a global specialty retailer that operates stores selling casual apparel, personal care and other accessories for men, women and children under the Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy brands. As of March 3, 2001, the Company operated 3,740 stores in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan. The Company designs virtually all of its products, which in turn are manufactured by independent sources, and sells them under its brands in the store formats, which include Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy.
Hershey Foods Corporation and its subsidiaries are engaged in the manufacture, distribution and sale of consumer food products. The Company produces and distributes a broad line of chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery and grocery products. Hershey's principal product groups include chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery products sold in the form of bar goods, bagged items and boxed items, and grocery products sold in the form of baking ingredients, chocolate drink mixes, peanut butter, dessert toppings and beverages.
iGo Corporation designs, manufactures and distributes parts and accessories for mobile technology products, such as laptops, cell phones and wireless devices. iGo's mission is to help keep the mobile professional powered up and connected. iGo's products are available toll-free, online, through a dedicated corporate account team, through hundreds of resellers and via a direct marketing catalog. Some of iGo's corporate accounts include AT&T, UPS, Johnson & Johnson and Merck. At year-end 2000, the Company's customer database included profiles of over 750,000 mobile users and detailed transaction histories on over 300,000 buyers. Approximately 65% of the Fortune 500 has purchased products or services from the Company. In addition, the Company has developed strategic relationships with key business partners, such as IBM, Acer, Ariba, Motorola, NEC, AT&T, Ingram Micro, LetsTalk.com, Perksatwork.com, PurchasePro, United Airlines and Delta Airlines.
iPrint Technologies, Inc. is an online provider of print and private-labeled print services for the business market, allowing customers to design and order customized printed products, including stationery, forms and promotional products. For the three months ended 3/31/01, revenues rose 5% to $3.2 million. Net loss decreased 55% to $5.3 million. Results reflect an increase in specialized print services and a decrease in advertising and promotional spending.
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. an integrated content and commerce company that creates how-to content and related merchandise for homemakers and other consumers. The Company's products bear the well-known Martha Stewart brand name, which the Company leverages across a broad range of media and retail outlets. The Company primarily focuses on the domestic arts, providing consumers with the how-to ideas, information, merchandise and other resources they need to raise the quality of living in and around their homes. The Company comprises four business segments, including Publishing, Television, Merchandising and Internet/Direct Commerce, through which content and merchandise relating to its eight core content areas are created and distributed to consumers.
Mattel, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets a broad variety of toy products on a worldwide basis through both sales to retailers and direct to consumers. Mattel's portfolio of brands and products are grouped in categories consisting of Girls, including Barbie fashion dolls and accessories, collector dolls, Cabbage Patch Kids, Polly Pocket and Diva Starz; Boys-Entertainment, including Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Tyco Electric Racing and Tyco Radio Control, Disney, Nickelodeon, Harry Potter, Max Steel and games and puzzles; Infant & Preschool, including Fisher-Price, Power Wheels, Sesame Street, Disney preschool and plush, Winnie the Pooh, Blues Clues, See 'N Say, Magna Doodle and View-Master, and Direct Marketing, including American Girl, Barbie, Wheels and Fisher-Price.
MP3.com, Inc. is engaged in a new approach to the promotion and distribution of music. The MP3.com Website is an online music destination representing one of the largest catalogs of digital music available on the Internet. MP3.com uses the Internet and file formats that make music files smaller to enable its growing number of artists to broadly distribute and promote their music and to enable consumers around the world to conveniently access this continually expanding music catalog. Consumers can search for, listen to and download music free of charge on the MP3.com Website. In addition to the wide variety of music distributed by artists through the MP3.com Website, consumers have a substantial amount of music already in their personal music collections that they want to access, manage and listen to in a variety of ways.
Multex.com, Inc. is a global provider of investment information and technology solutions to the financial services industry. The Company's products include MultexNET, which provides access to real-time broker research, MultexEXPRESS, offering development, hosting and real-time distribution of information for institutional clients; MultexNet On-Demand, which provides access to pay-per-view research on a delayed basis; Multex Investor, offering free and pay-per-view research on a delayed basis, and Market Guide, which provides financial and corporate information on over 15,000 publicly trated companies. Multex.com has more than 500 information and distribution partners including Reuters, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, AOL, Yahoo!, Quicken.com, CBS MarketWatch and CNNfn.com.
VeriSign, Inc. is a provider of infrastructure services to Website owners, enterprises, e-commerce service providers and individuals. Effective January 1, 2001, the Company was organized into two customer-focused lines of business. The Mass Markets Division focuses on delivering all of its products and services to small and medium-size enterprises, as well as to consumers that wish to establish a presence on the Web. The Enterprise and Service Provider Division focuses on delivering all of its products and services to larger enterprises and service providers around the world that want to establish and deliver secure Internet-based services to their customers in both business-to-consumer and business-to-business environments.
In 1901, John W. Nordstrom used his stake from the Alaska gold rush to open a small shoe store in Seattle, Washington. Today, Nordstrom is one of the nation's leading fashion retailers, offering a wide variety of fine quality apparel, shoes and accessories for men, women and children. Now in our 100th year, we operate stores across the country and remain committed to our founding principles of quality, value, selection and service.
OfficeMax, Inc. operates a chain of high-volume, deep-discount office products superstores. As of January 27, 2001, OfficeMax owned and operated 995 superstores in 49 states, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands. In addition to offering office products, business machines and related items, OfficeMax superstores also feature CopyMax and FurnitureMax, in-store modules devoted exclusively to print-for-pay services and office furniture. Additionally, the Company reaches customers with over 20,000 items through its e-commerce site, OfficeMax.com, its direct-mail catalogs and its outside sales force, all of which are serviced by its 19 delivery centers and two national call/customer contact.htm centers. Through joint venture partnerships, OfficeMax operates stores internationally in Mexico and Brazil.
Zones, Inc., formerly known as Multiple Zones, Inc., is a single-source direct reseller of multiple brands of information technology products and services to the small to medium-sized (SMB) market, featuring over 150,000 products and services from more than 2150 vendors. Zones provides technology products and services through multiple demand generation and sales channels, including specialty print and e-catalogs, inbound and outbound telesales outbound account managers and a direct sales force. In addition, the Company has extensive e-business capabilities through a general Web shopping center, as well as custom and off-the-shelf customer-specific e-business sites.
PETsMART, Inc. is an operator of superstores specializing in pet food, supplies and services. As of November 2000, the Company operated more than 530 superstores in the United States and Canada. The Company offers a complete assortment of pet products at prices typically at or below those offered by supermarkets, mass merchandisers and traditional pet food and supply retailers, as well as a wide range of pet services. Through PETsMART Direct, its Internet and catalog division, the Company is a leading worldwide direct marketer of pet-related products. PETsMART Direct and its affiliates sell pet supplies and products to individuals and small businesses through five catalogs and a website, www.petsmart.com. Through State Line Tack, a worldwide catalog retailer, the Company specializes in discount brand name tack, riding apparel and equine supplies. At January 30, 2001, veterinary clinics were operating in approximately half of all PETsMART stores in North America.
Sony Corporation develops, designs, manufactures and sells electronic equipment, instruments and devices for consumer and professional markets. Sony develops, produces, manufactures and markets home-use entertainment hardware and software, principally through Sony Computer Entertainment. Sony also develops, produces, manufactures and distributes recorded music through Sony Music Entertainment Inc. and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.The Company develops, produces, manufactures, markets, distributes and broadcasts image-based software, including film, video, television and new entertainment technologies through Sony Pictures Entertainment. Sony conducts insurance operations through Sony Life Insurance Co., Ltd. and Sony Assurance Inc. In addition, Sony is engaged in leasing and credit financing, satellite distribution services including program supplying businesses in Japan, Internet-related businesses, location-based entertainment complexes and other businesses.
Sotheby's Holdings, Inc. is an auctioneer of fine arts, antiques and collectibles, offering property in over 90 collecting categories, among them paintings, jewelry, decorative arts and books. In addition to both live and Internet auctioneering, the Company's Auction segment is engaged in a number of related activities, including the purchase and resale of art and other collectibles, and the brokering of art and collectible purchases and sales through private treaty sales. The Company also markets and brokers luxury residential real estate through its Real Estate segment, conducts art-related financing activities through its Finance segment, and is engaged, to a lesser extent, in insurance brokerage, art education and restoration activities.
Sprint PCS Group operates a 100% digital PCS wireless network in the United States, using a single frequency and a single technology. Sprint PCS, a subsidiary of Sprint Corporation, comprises Sprint Corporations' wireless PCS operations. The Company provides nationwide service through operating its own digital network in major United States metropolitan areas; affiliating with other companies, mainly in and around smaller United States metropolitan areas; roaming on other providers' analog cellular networks using dual-band/dual-mode handsets; and roaming on other providers' digital PCS networks that use code division multiple access. At year-end 2000, the PCS Group, together with affiliates, operated PCS systems in over 300 metropolitan markets. The service offered by the Company and its affiliates reaches more than 220 million people.
Staples, Inc. is an office products distributor with 1,307 retail stores located in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal, as of February 3, 2001. The Staples' North American Retail segment consists of the United States and Canadian operating units that operate office supply stores. The Contract and Commercial segment consists of Staples Direct, Contract, Quill Corporation and Staples Communications, which sell office products, supplies and services directly to businesses throughout the United States and Canada. The Staples.com segment includes the operations of Staples' e-commerce sites. The European Operations segment consists of six operating units that operate office supply stores in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal, and sell office products and supplies to businesses throughout the United Kingdom and Germany. In April 2001, the Company sold Staples Communications to Platinum Equity L.L.C. of Los Angeles.
Toys R Us, Inc. provides toys, apparel and baby needs to children and their families. As of December 2000, the Company was engaged in the operation of 1,578 retail stores consisting of United States locations comprised of 708 toy stores under the name "Toys "R" Us," 198 children's clothing stores under the name "Kids "R" Us," 143 infant-toddler stores under the name "Babies "R" Us", and 41 educational specialty stores under the name "Imaginarium." Internationally, the Company operates 488 toy stores, including franchise and joint venture stores, under the name "Toys "R" Us." The Company also sells merchandise through its Internet sites at www.toysrus.com and www.imaginarium.com, and through mail order catalogues.
Travelocity is a provider of consumer-directed travel content and travel reservation services on the Internet. For the three months ended 3/31/01, total revenues totaled $72.9 million, up from $27 million. Net loss before accounting change totaled $28.3 million, up from $9.1 million. Total revenues reflect increased sales on the Companys site and higher advertising revenues. Net loss reflects the inclusion of a higher amortization of intangible assets charge.
The Sports Authority, Inc. is a sporting goods retailer. The Company offers customers extensive selections of quality, brand name athletic footwear, apparel and sporting equipment, and high levels of customer service. As of November 2000, it operated 199 sporting goods superstores in the United States. The Company ceased operating its five stores in Canada in March 2000. Mega Sports Co., Ltd., which is now 8.4% owned by the Company, is a joint venture that operates another 19 stores in Japan under a license agreement with the Company. The Company also owns 19.9% of TheSportsAuthority.com, Inc., a joint venture that, since November of 1999, has operated its retail e-commerce site.

 


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