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| Verizon |  | Verizon
1095 Ave. of Americas
New York, New York 10036 | 2000 Sales: $64,707,000,000
2000 Earnings: $11,797,000,000
www.verizon.com |
Verizon along with SBC is the other Baby Bell that decided to become much bigger. Verizon is the combined forces of Nynex (New York Bell), Bell Atlantic (East Coast Bell), and GTE (which could also be called the Bell of rural America). Unified this company now serves 62 million phone customers and 29 million wireless customers. See Close-up... | | PriceWaterhouseCoopers |  | PriceWaterhouseCoopers
1301 Ave. of Americas
New York, New York 10019 | 2000 Sales: $21,500,000,000
2000 Earnings: $Partnership
www.pricewaterhousecoopers.com |
PriceWaterhouseCoopers is another of the big five accounting firms. This company resulted from the merger of Price Waterhouse with Coopers Lybrand reducing the number of accounting firms from 6 to 5. PriceWaterhouse is also big into consulting. See Close-up... | | Time Warner Inc. |  | Time Warner Inc.
75 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, New York 10019 | 2000 Sales: $Subsidiary
2000 Earnings: $
www.timewarner.com |
Headquartered in Rockefeller Center, Time Warner is one of America’s greatest media companies. Warner Brother Studios, WB TV, Bug Bunny, Time Magazine, People Magazine, HBO, CNN, TNT, Cable TV, Warner Books. And now this giant is being devoured by an internet giant- America Online. See Close-up... | | Marsh & McLennan |  | Marsh & McLennan
1166 Ave. of Americas
New York, New York 10036 | 2000 Sales: $10,157,000,000
2000 Earnings: $1,181,000,000
www.marshandmclenannan.com |
After several acquisitions, Marsh & Mclennan has become a muchlarger company focusing in 3 areas- It’s Marsh group which does risk management and insurance for large corporations, its Mercer group which does consulting, and it has Putnam investments. See Close-up... | | UBS Paine Webber |  | UBS Paine Webber
1285 Ave. of Americas
New York, New York 10019 | 2000 Sales: $7,823,000,000
2000 Earnings: $629,000,000
www.painewebber.com |
Even though its not located on Wall Street, Paine Webber is another brokerage firm and investment bank, just like Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, but generally not considered as successful as the other two. See Close-up... | | Fox Entertainment Group |  | Fox Entertainment Group
1211 Ave. of Americas
New York, New York 10036 | 2000 Sales: $8,589,000,000
2000 Earnings: $145,000,000
www.fox.com |
Although owned by the News Corporation of Australia, this is the headquarters of Fox. Fox includes 22 tv stations across the U.S. with great programming such as The Simpsons, X-Files, and Ally McBeal. They also make movies with 20th Century Fox Studios in Los Angeles. See Close-up... | | Amerada Hess |  | Amerada Hess
1185 Ave. of Americas
New York, New York 10036 | 2000 Sales: $12,277,000,000
2000 Earnings: $1,023,000,000
www.ameradahess.com |
Located here is Amerada Hess, an oil and gas company managed by the Hess family. The company has huge oil reserves in the North Atlantic sea and elsewhere in the world and they bring that oil to the U.S. where they market it through 600 gas stations on the Eastern seaboard. See Close-up... | | NBC |  | NBC
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, New York 10112 | 2000 Sales: $6,797,000,000
2000 Earnings: $Subsidiary
www.nbc.com |
NBC is located in Rockefeller Plaza, next to Time Warner and across the street from Fox. NBC is generally considered TV’s most successful network. NBC is actually owned by GE- one of America’s best companies. NBC’s New York studios are located in this building. See Close-up... | | Time-Life |  | Time-Life
1271 Ave. of Americas
New York, New York | 2000 Sales: $Subsidiary
2000 Earnings: $
www.timelife.com |
Time-Life is located about a block away from its parent, Time-Warner. The building houses the offices of Time, People, Forbes, Life, Sports Illustrated, as well as the Warner Books publishing operations. See Close-up... | | Mcgraw-Hill Companies |  | Mcgraw-Hill Companies
1221 Ave. of Americas
New York, New York 10020 | 2000 Sales: $4,281,000,000
2000 Earnings: $403,000,000
www.mcgraw-hill.com |
There are two places where you will see McGraw-Hill’s name- either on the spine of a textbook or on the cover of Business Week. Besides publishing those two things, McGraw is also the owner of Standard & Poors in Wall Street. See Close-up... | | CBS Corporation |  | CBS Corporation
51 W. 52nd St.
New York, New York 10019 | 2000 Sales: $7,373,000,000
2000 Earnings: $780,000,000
www.cbs.com |
Located in stodgy 70’s building called “the rock”, CBS is one of the original 3 TV networks with studios in New York and in Los Angeles. The company also owns Infinity Broadcasting, King World Productions, and has internet sites cbsmarketwatch.com and sportsline.com. CBS is merging with Viacom. See Close-up... | | Alliance Capital Mgmt. |  | Alliance Capital Mgmt.
1345 Ave. of Americas
New York, New York 10105 | 2000 Sales: $1,500,000,000
2000 Earnings: $382,000,000
www.alliancecapital.com |
Located in midtown New York City, Alliance Capital manages assets for big institutions such as pension funds, endowments, insurance companies and banks. They also do have some mutual funds and insurance packages for individual investors. Alliance is part of the Axa group being more than 50% owned by Axa Financial. See Close-up... | | Associated Press |  | Associated Press
50 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, New York 10020 | 2000 Sales: $574,000,000
2000 Earnings: $Cooperative
www.associatedpress.com |
Located in Rockefeller center across the street from Time Warner, is Associated Press. AP is a news reporting service with 240 news bureaus worldwide. Every time you see and AP underneath a photo or at the beginning of an article, that's because someone working for this company wrote it or shot it
. See Close-up... | | Home Box Office |  | Home Box Office
New York, New York | 2000 Sales: $Subsidiary
2000 Earnings: $
www.hbo.com |
HBO is located in this building and is just blocks from its parent Time Warner. HBO is the most profitable of the premium cable services. They have had such successes as Chris Rock, Sex in the City, and now The Sopranos. See Close-up... |
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