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| CIGNA |  | CIGNA
1 Liberty Place
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19192 | 2000 Sales: $19,994,000,000
2000 Earnings: $987,000,000
www.cigna.com |
Cigna, located in downtown Philadelphia, provides 6 million people with health insurance and another 6 million with HMO coverage. They also provide retirement insurance and other employee benifits insurances. See Close-up... | | Sunoco |  | Sunoco
1801 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 | 2000 Sales: $12,664,000,000
2000 Earnings: $422,000,000
www.sunoco.com |
Sunoco, located in downtown Philadelphia, is a major refiner and marketer of crude oil. They have 5 refineries in the U.S. and 3,700 gas stations in 17 states(mostly on the east coast). See Close-up... | | Amerisource |  | Amerisource
300 Chesterfield Pkwy.
Malvern, Pennsylvania 19355 | 2000 Sales: $11,610,000,000
2000 Earnings: $99,000,000
www.amerisource.com |
Amerisource, located on the outskirts of Philadelphia, is basically in the business of distributing drugs (not illegal drugs). Their 21 distribution centers across the country deliver perscription drugs to pharmacies, hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and so forth. See Close-up... | | Crown Cork & Seal |  | Crown Cork & Seal
One Crown Way
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19154 | 2000 Sales: $7,289,000,000
2000 Earnings: $-174,000,000
www.crowncorkandseal.com |
Crown Cork & Seal makes metal cans for canned goods, aluminum cans for soft drinks, and the plastic bottles for soft drinks. They also make more specialized containers such as lipstick and fragrance containers, aersol cans, deoderant cans. See Close-up... | | Unisys |  | Unisys
Township Line & Union Meeting Rds.
Blue Bell, Pennsylvania 19424 | 2000 Sales: $6,885,000,000
2000 Earnings: $225,000,000
www.unisys.com |
Previously a unix and mainframe company, now Unysis is more of a service company. They will design your network. They will set up your servers. They will integrate your mainframe with your PC network. They will help you learn to manage the network. See Close-up... | | Campbell Soup |  | Campbell Soup
Campbell Place
Camden, New Jersey 08103 | 2000 Sales: $6,267,000,000
2000 Earnings: $714,000,000
www.campbellsoup.com |
The Campbell Soup company is the largest maker of soup in the world and has a lot of other great brands as well. It has Pepperidge Farms cookies, V8 Juices, Pace Mexican sauces, Prego Italian sauces, and Godiva chocolates. See Close-up... | | Comcast |  | Comcast
1500 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 | 2000 Sales: $8,218,000,000
2000 Earnings: $2,021,000,000
www.comcast.com |
Comcast is located in downtown Philadelphia and provides cable services to about 6.5 million customers mostly east of the Mississippi. Comcast is also a majority owner of QVC Shopping network, E! Entertainment network, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Philadelphia Flyers. See Close-up... | | CDNow |  | CDNow
610 Old York Rd.
Jenkintown, Pennsylvania 01810 | 2000 Sales: $147,000,000
2000 Earnings: $-119,000,000
www.cdnow.com |
This is the home of CDNow, which is now merged with N2K and headquraterd in New York City. Although CDNow has definitely had some success in this venture, it has been forced to merge with its rival N2K because the giant Amazon.com decided to start selling CD's one day. See Close-up... | | Aramark |  | Aramark
1101 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107 | 2000 Sales: $7,262,000,000
2000 Earnings: $168,000,000
www.aramark.com |
Aramark enables companies to outsource mundane chores such as- running cafeterias, cleaning offices, supplying workers with uniforms and providing daycare for office workers. Aramark does this type of stuff for prisons, colleges, stadiums, convention centers, and tons of businesses. See Close-up... |
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