3i Group
Abbey — formerly Abbey National
Abbott Laboratories
ABB — Swiss-Swedish international engineering group
ABN AMRO — Amsterdam-based international bank
Accenture — formerly Andersen Consulting
Accor — French leisure firm
ACNielsen — marketing-information company
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
Advent International
Aegon — Dutch insurance firm
Affymax
Air Liquide
Akbank
Alcan — a Canadian company
Alenia Aeronautica
Alenia Spazio
Allied Capital
Allied Domecq
Alstom — merger of Alcatel Alsthom and GEC
Amadeus Capital Partners
Amazon — not Amazon.com
American Airlines
American Bankers Association
American Capital Strategies (American Capital)
American International Group (AIG)
Amgen
Anglo American
Anheuser-Busch (now Anheuser-Busch InBev)
AOL (America Online)
Aozora Bank — was Nippon Credit Bank
Apax Partners
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC)
Arcelor — European steelmaker, merger of Arbed,
Aceralia and Usinor
Arthur Andersen — ex-auditors
AstraZeneca
Asturiana de Zinc — mining company, owned by Xstrata
AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph) also Ma Bell; a Baby Bell
Aventis — see sanofi-aventis
Aviva — formerly CGNU, British insurer
AXA— French insurance company
Bacon & Woodrow — actuaries, now Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow
BAE Systems — formerly BAE
BaFin — German financial regulator
Bain Capital
Banca Intesa — Italian bank
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA)
Banco Totta & Acores — now Banco Santander Totta
Bank Austria Creditanstalt (BACA)
Bank Julius Baer
Bank Leumi le-Israel
Bank of America (BofA)
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi (BTM) — subsidiary of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group (MTFG)
Bank One — now owned by JPMorgan Chase
Barnes & Noble
Barr Rosenberg — Californian firm, now AXA Rosenberg
BASF
Bayerische Landesbank (Bayernlb)
BC Partners
BellSouth
Benetton
Berkshire Hathaway
Bertelsmann
BHP Billiton — South African/Australian mining group
BlackBerry
Blackstone Group (Blackstone)
Bloomingdale's — part of Federated Department Stores
BNP Paribas
Body Shop International — ignore the The and use Body Shop after first reference
Boots — the chemist
Booz Allen Hamilton — consultants
Boston Consulting Group — ignore the The
Bouygues — French construction group (pronounced Bweeg)
BP (which no longer refers to itself as British Petroleum)
Bridgepoint Capital
Bristol-Myers Squibb
British American Tobacco
Brookings Institution
BSkyB
BT — British Telecom
Cable & Wireless
Cadbury Schweppes
Capgemini — IT consultants
CapitaLand — Singaporean company
Carlyle Group (Carlyle)
CASA — Spanish Airbus partner; not Construcciones Aeronauticas SA in full
CASE Foundation — Warsaw think-tank
Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) — no “the”
Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
CFM — consortium of GE and France's Snecma
China Mobile (Communications Corporation)
China Unicom
ChinaEquity
Cisco Systems
Citigroup — Citibank in some countries
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CDR or CD&R)
Clearstream International — formerly Cedel and Deutsche Börse Clearing, now owned by Deutsche Börse
Coca-Cola
CO.NEC — Dutch holding company with central European packaging subsidiaries
Coles Myer — Australian retailer
Colgate-Palmolive
Comcast — American cable operator
Compaq Computer — now part of Hewlett-Packard
ConocoPhillips
Corus — ex-British Steel and Hoogovens
Costco
Crédit Agricole
Crédit Lyonnais — French bank
Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) — investment-banking subsidiary of Credit Suisse
Credito Italiano — Italian bank, now UniCredit
Credito Romagnolo — Italian bank
DBS Land — Singaporean company
DnB NOR
Daewoo Securities
DaimlerChrysler
De Beers
deCODE — Icelandic genetic mapping firm
Dell
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu — consultants/accountants
Delta Air Lines
Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Börse
Deutsche Kredit Börse
Deutsche Post
Deutsche Telekom
Deutz — German diesel-engine maker
Direct Line — insurance subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Scotland
Disney (The Walt Disney Company)
Dow Chemical
Dresdner Anschutz Mezzinvest
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DKW)
DuPont
DZ Bank — merger of DG Bank and GZ Bank
e.ON — German utility
EADS — European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company
Eastman Kodak (Kodak)
easyJet — (but EasyJet at start of sentence)
eBay — (but EBay at start of sentence)
Electricité de France (EDF)
Electrolux — Swedish white-goods producer
Eli Lilly
EMC — data storage
Endesa — Spanish utility
Enel — Italian electricity company
Eni — Italian oil company
Ericsson — Swedish telecoms company
Ernst & Young — accountants
Eurazeo
Euro Disney
Eurostar
Expedia — part of VNU
Exxon Mobil
Fannie Mae — American mortgage underwriter
Fidelity Investments
Financial Services Agency (FSA) — Japan
Financial Services Authority (FSA) — Britain
Forstmann Little
Fortis — Belgo-Dutch bank and insurer
Foster's — beer
France Telecom — no accent
Freddie Mac — sibling of Fannie Mae
Gazprom — Russian energy company
General Atlantic Partners
General Electric (GE)
Generali Group (In Italy: Assicurazioni Generali)
GlaxoSmithKline
Global Insight
Gold Fields
Greylock Partners
Groupe des Assurances Nationales (GAN)
Hamleys
Hannover Re — German reinsurers
Hanson — (not Trust)
HarperCollins — publishers
Harrods — the posh store, no apostrophe
HBOS — merger of Halifax and Bank of Scotland
HCA — health-care provider
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst (Hicks Muse)
Hiram Walker — liqueurs division of Allied Domecq
HSBC — Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank
HSH Nordbank
Hutchison Whampoa
HVB Group (HVB) — German bank
Hyundai — South Korean firm
IAC/Interactive Corp — (IAC)
IATA — airlines' association
IDG Ventures (IDG)
Infosys
ING
INSEAD — European business school
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
Institute for International Economics (IIE)
Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA)
Institute of International Finance (IIF)
Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)
Interpublic — advertising group
Invensys
J.C. Penney
J. Sainsbury (Sainsbury's is the name above the shop)
Japan Airlines
JDS Uniphase
Johnson & Johnson
JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan — investment banking arm of JPMorgan Chase
KBR — part of Halliburton. Stands for Kellogg Brown & Root
A.T. Kearney — part of Deutz
Kellogg's — cereals
KHD Humboldt Wedag — German diesel-engine maker
Kiel Institute for World Economics
Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (Kleiner Perkins)
Kmart
Knight Ridder
Kodak — see Eastman Kodak
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR)
KPMG — consultants/ accountants
L'Oréal
La Poste — French post office
Lafarge-Coppée
Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW)
Landesbank Berlin (LBB)
Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba)
Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz (LRP) — subsidiary of LBBW
Landesbank Saar (SaarLB) — mainly owned by BayernLB
Legal & General — British insurer
Lehman Brothers
LG — new name for Lucky Goldstar
Linklaters & Alliance — law firm
Lipper Analytical Services
Lloyd's — London insurance market
Lloyds TSB
Lonrho
Lord & Taylor — American department store
Lucent Technologies
Luxottica
LVMH — or Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, luxury-goods group
Marks & Spencer
Marshall Field's — American department store
Martini & Rossi
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co
McCann-Erickson — advertising agency
McDonald's — the hamburger chain
McGraw-Hill
MCI — formerly WorldCom
McKinsey — management consultants
Mercapital
Mercedes-Benz — part of DaimlerChrysler
Merrell — drug subsidiary of Dow Chemical
Merrill Lynch
Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
MG technologies (MG) — engineering conglomerate, name may change to GEA
Mitsubishi Corporation
Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group (MTFG)
Mizuho — merger of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Fuji Bank and Industrial Bank of Japan
mmO2 — British mobile-phone company, formerly Cellnet
Mobilcom
Moët & Chandon
Moody's — rating agency
Morningstar — financial research firm
MTU Aero Engines — subsidiary of KKR
MTU Friedrichshafen — makes ship engines, subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
Munich Re
National Australia Bank (NAB) — Australia's largest
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Nedcor Bank
Nestlé
Newbridge Capital
News Corporation (News Corp)
NeXT — computer company
Nielsen//NetRatings
Nikko Securities
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT)
Nomura Securities
Nord/LB
Northwest Airlines
npower — was National Power distributor
NRW.bank
NTT DoCoMo — mobile-phone group
OS/2
OfficeMax
Ogilvy & Mather — advertising agency
Olympia & York
One Equity Partners
Peoples Bank — South African bank
PeopleSoft
PepsiCo
Permira
Pfizer
Philip Morris
Philips — Dutch electronics multinational
Pillsbury
Pinault-Printemps-Redoute
Postbank
Pratt & Whitney
Preussag — now TUI
Priceline — not Priceline.com
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC)
Procter & Gamble
Providence Equity Partners
PSA Peugeot Citroën (then Peugeot on second reference)
QinetiQ
Quadrangle Group
Qualcomm
Qwest Communications
Rabobank International — part of Dutch co-operative
Rabobank Group
RAND Corporation — name comes from research and development
Rank Hovis
Rating Agency Malaysia (RAM)
Reckitt Benckiser — was Reckitt & Colman
Repsol YPF — oil company
Reuters (Reuter can be used adjectivally)
Rio Tinto (not RTZ)
Ripplewood Holdings
Roche (previously known as Hoffmann-La Roche)
Rolls-Royce
Rover Group — now MG Rover Group (defunct)
Royal & SunAlliance (R&SA)
Royal Dutch Shell
Royal Mail — ex-Consignia, holding group for British Post Office
RWE
RWE npower
Ryanair
M&C Saatchi
Saatchi & Saatchi — part of Publicis Group
Sachsen LB
J. Sainsbury (Sainsbury's is the name above the shop)
Saint-Gobain
Saks Fifth Avenue — American department store
Same Deutz-Fahr — Italian tractor-maker
Sanford C. Bernstein — New York stockbroker, bought by Alliance Capital Management
sanofi-aventis — was Sanofi-Synthélabo
Sanpaolo IMI — Italian bank
Santander Central Hispano (SCH) — was Banco Santander Central Hispano
SAP
Saudi Aramco — Saudi state energy firm
savings and loan associations — not loans
SBC Communications
Schering-Plough
Schlumberger
Schneider Druckluft — electronics group
Scudder, Stevens & Clark — investment firm, bought by Deutsche Bank
Sears, Roebuck
Seat Pagine Gialle
SEB (Scandinaviska Enskilda Banken)
Sequoia Capital
Silver Lake Partners
Singapore Exchange (SGX) — merger of Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) and Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX)
Skoda — Czech engineering firm, part of VW Group
SNCF
Snecma — aerospace propulsion and equipment group
Société Générale — private bank
Société Marseillasie de Crédit
Softbank — Japanese software distributor
Southwest Airlines
Spie Batignolles — developer and civil engineering firm
Standard & Poor's
Standard Chartered
STMicroelectronics — abbreviates to ST
SUEZ — was Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG)
Sun Microsystems
Svenska Handelsbanken
Takeda Pharmaceutical — largest pharmaceutical company in Japan. Changed its name in June 2004
Tata Group
Tata Motors
Tate & Lyle
TBWA/Chiat/Day — American advertising agency
TD Waterhouse — stockbroker
Telefónica — Spain's telecoms monopoly
Teléfonos de México, or Telmex
Telstra (Corporation)
Texas Pacific Group (TPG)
Thai Rating and Information Services (TRIS)
Thomas H. Lee Partners (Thomas Lee)
ThyssenKrupp
T-Mobile
TonenGeneral Sekiyu
T-Online
Total
Toys “R” Us
TransUnion — American rating agency
TUI — German travel company
Twentieth Century Fox
Tyco International
Tyson Foods — poultry company
UBS
UFJ Holdings — Japanese holding company, includes UFJ Bank
UniCredit
UniSource Energy
Unisource — paper company
United Airlines
United Distillers (full name United Distillers & Vintners), now part of Diageo
United Distillers and Vinters (UDV)
United Parcel Service (UPS)
Universal Postal Union (UPU)
US Bancorp
US Airways
Abbey — formerly Abbey National
Abbott Laboratories
ABB — Swiss-Swedish international engineering group
ABN AMRO — Amsterdam-based international bank
Accenture — formerly Andersen Consulting
Accor — French leisure firm
ACNielsen — marketing-information company
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
Advent International
Aegon — Dutch insurance firm
Affymax
Air Liquide
Akbank
Alcan — a Canadian company
Alenia Aeronautica
Alenia Spazio
Allied Capital
Allied Domecq
Alstom — merger of Alcatel Alsthom and GEC
Amadeus Capital Partners
Amazon — not Amazon.com
American Airlines
American Bankers Association
American Capital Strategies (American Capital)
American International Group (AIG)
Amgen
Anglo American
Anheuser-Busch (now Anheuser-Busch InBev)
AOL (America Online)
Aozora Bank — was Nippon Credit Bank
Apax Partners
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC)
Arcelor — European steelmaker, merger of Arbed,
Aceralia and Usinor
Arthur Andersen — ex-auditors
AstraZeneca
Asturiana de Zinc — mining company, owned by Xstrata
AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph) also Ma Bell; a Baby Bell
Aventis — see sanofi-aventis
Aviva — formerly CGNU, British insurer
AXA— French insurance company
Bacon & Woodrow — actuaries, now Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow
BAE Systems — formerly BAE
BaFin — German financial regulator
Bain Capital
Banca Intesa — Italian bank
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA)
Banco Totta & Acores — now Banco Santander Totta
Bank Austria Creditanstalt (BACA)
Bank Julius Baer
Bank Leumi le-Israel
Bank of America (BofA)
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi (BTM) — subsidiary of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group (MTFG)
Bank One — now owned by JPMorgan Chase
Barnes & Noble
Barr Rosenberg — Californian firm, now AXA Rosenberg
BASF
Bayerische Landesbank (Bayernlb)
BC Partners
BellSouth
Benetton
Berkshire Hathaway
Bertelsmann
BHP Billiton — South African/Australian mining group
BlackBerry
Blackstone Group (Blackstone)
Bloomingdale's — part of Federated Department Stores
BNP Paribas
Body Shop International — ignore the The and use Body Shop after first reference
Boots — the chemist
Booz Allen Hamilton — consultants
Boston Consulting Group — ignore the The
Bouygues — French construction group (pronounced Bweeg)
BP (which no longer refers to itself as British Petroleum)
Bridgepoint Capital
Bristol-Myers Squibb
British American Tobacco
Brookings Institution
BSkyB
BT — British Telecom
Cable & Wireless
Cadbury Schweppes
Capgemini — IT consultants
CapitaLand — Singaporean company
Carlyle Group (Carlyle)
CASA — Spanish Airbus partner; not Construcciones Aeronauticas SA in full
CASE Foundation — Warsaw think-tank
Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) — no “the”
Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
CFM — consortium of GE and France's Snecma
China Mobile (Communications Corporation)
China Unicom
ChinaEquity
Cisco Systems
Citigroup — Citibank in some countries
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CDR or CD&R)
Clearstream International — formerly Cedel and Deutsche Börse Clearing, now owned by Deutsche Börse
Coca-Cola
CO.NEC — Dutch holding company with central European packaging subsidiaries
Coles Myer — Australian retailer
Colgate-Palmolive
Comcast — American cable operator
Compaq Computer — now part of Hewlett-Packard
ConocoPhillips
Corus — ex-British Steel and Hoogovens
Costco
Crédit Agricole
Crédit Lyonnais — French bank
Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) — investment-banking subsidiary of Credit Suisse
Credito Italiano — Italian bank, now UniCredit
Credito Romagnolo — Italian bank
DBS Land — Singaporean company
DnB NOR
Daewoo Securities
DaimlerChrysler
De Beers
deCODE — Icelandic genetic mapping firm
Dell
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu — consultants/accountants
Delta Air Lines
Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Börse
Deutsche Kredit Börse
Deutsche Post
Deutsche Telekom
Deutz — German diesel-engine maker
Direct Line — insurance subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Scotland
Disney (The Walt Disney Company)
Dow Chemical
Dresdner Anschutz Mezzinvest
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DKW)
DuPont
DZ Bank — merger of DG Bank and GZ Bank
e.ON — German utility
EADS — European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company
Eastman Kodak (Kodak)
easyJet — (but EasyJet at start of sentence)
eBay — (but EBay at start of sentence)
Electricité de France (EDF)
Electrolux — Swedish white-goods producer
Eli Lilly
EMC — data storage
Endesa — Spanish utility
Enel — Italian electricity company
Eni — Italian oil company
Ericsson — Swedish telecoms company
Ernst & Young — accountants
Eurazeo
Euro Disney
Eurostar
Expedia — part of VNU
Exxon Mobil
Fannie Mae — American mortgage underwriter
Fidelity Investments
Financial Services Agency (FSA) — Japan
Financial Services Authority (FSA) — Britain
Forstmann Little
Fortis — Belgo-Dutch bank and insurer
Foster's — beer
France Telecom — no accent
Freddie Mac — sibling of Fannie Mae
Gazprom — Russian energy company
General Atlantic Partners
General Electric (GE)
Generali Group (In Italy: Assicurazioni Generali)
GlaxoSmithKline
Global Insight
Gold Fields
Greylock Partners
Groupe des Assurances Nationales (GAN)
Hamleys
Hannover Re — German reinsurers
Hanson — (not Trust)
HarperCollins — publishers
Harrods — the posh store, no apostrophe
HBOS — merger of Halifax and Bank of Scotland
HCA — health-care provider
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst (Hicks Muse)
Hiram Walker — liqueurs division of Allied Domecq
HSBC — Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank
HSH Nordbank
Hutchison Whampoa
HVB Group (HVB) — German bank
Hyundai — South Korean firm
IAC/Interactive Corp — (IAC)
IATA — airlines' association
IDG Ventures (IDG)
Infosys
ING
INSEAD — European business school
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
Institute for International Economics (IIE)
Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA)
Institute of International Finance (IIF)
Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)
Interpublic — advertising group
Invensys
J.C. Penney
J. Sainsbury (Sainsbury's is the name above the shop)
Japan Airlines
JDS Uniphase
Johnson & Johnson
JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan — investment banking arm of JPMorgan Chase
KBR — part of Halliburton. Stands for Kellogg Brown & Root
A.T. Kearney — part of Deutz
Kellogg's — cereals
KHD Humboldt Wedag — German diesel-engine maker
Kiel Institute for World Economics
Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (Kleiner Perkins)
Kmart
Knight Ridder
Kodak — see Eastman Kodak
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR)
KPMG — consultants/ accountants
L'Oréal
La Poste — French post office
Lafarge-Coppée
Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW)
Landesbank Berlin (LBB)
Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba)
Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz (LRP) — subsidiary of LBBW
Landesbank Saar (SaarLB) — mainly owned by BayernLB
Legal & General — British insurer
Lehman Brothers
LG — new name for Lucky Goldstar
Linklaters & Alliance — law firm
Lipper Analytical Services
Lloyd's — London insurance market
Lloyds TSB
Lonrho
Lord & Taylor — American department store
Lucent Technologies
Luxottica
LVMH — or Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, luxury-goods group
Marks & Spencer
Marshall Field's — American department store
Martini & Rossi
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co
McCann-Erickson — advertising agency
McDonald's — the hamburger chain
McGraw-Hill
MCI — formerly WorldCom
McKinsey — management consultants
Mercapital
Mercedes-Benz — part of DaimlerChrysler
Merrell — drug subsidiary of Dow Chemical
Merrill Lynch
Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
MG technologies (MG) — engineering conglomerate, name may change to GEA
Mitsubishi Corporation
Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group (MTFG)
Mizuho — merger of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Fuji Bank and Industrial Bank of Japan
mmO2 — British mobile-phone company, formerly Cellnet
Mobilcom
Moët & Chandon
Moody's — rating agency
Morningstar — financial research firm
MTU Aero Engines — subsidiary of KKR
MTU Friedrichshafen — makes ship engines, subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
Munich Re
National Australia Bank (NAB) — Australia's largest
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Nedcor Bank
Nestlé
Newbridge Capital
News Corporation (News Corp)
NeXT — computer company
Nielsen//NetRatings
Nikko Securities
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT)
Nomura Securities
Nord/LB
Northwest Airlines
npower — was National Power distributor
NRW.bank
NTT DoCoMo — mobile-phone group
OS/2
OfficeMax
Ogilvy & Mather — advertising agency
Olympia & York
One Equity Partners
Peoples Bank — South African bank
PeopleSoft
PepsiCo
Permira
Pfizer
Philip Morris
Philips — Dutch electronics multinational
Pillsbury
Pinault-Printemps-Redoute
Postbank
Pratt & Whitney
Preussag — now TUI
Priceline — not Priceline.com
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC)
Procter & Gamble
Providence Equity Partners
PSA Peugeot Citroën (then Peugeot on second reference)
QinetiQ
Quadrangle Group
Qualcomm
Qwest Communications
Rabobank International — part of Dutch co-operative
Rabobank Group
RAND Corporation — name comes from research and development
Rank Hovis
Rating Agency Malaysia (RAM)
Reckitt Benckiser — was Reckitt & Colman
Repsol YPF — oil company
Reuters (Reuter can be used adjectivally)
Rio Tinto (not RTZ)
Ripplewood Holdings
Roche (previously known as Hoffmann-La Roche)
Rolls-Royce
Rover Group — now MG Rover Group (defunct)
Royal & SunAlliance (R&SA)
Royal Dutch Shell
Royal Mail — ex-Consignia, holding group for British Post Office
RWE
RWE npower
Ryanair
M&C Saatchi
Saatchi & Saatchi — part of Publicis Group
Sachsen LB
J. Sainsbury (Sainsbury's is the name above the shop)
Saint-Gobain
Saks Fifth Avenue — American department store
Same Deutz-Fahr — Italian tractor-maker
Sanford C. Bernstein — New York stockbroker, bought by Alliance Capital Management
sanofi-aventis — was Sanofi-Synthélabo
Sanpaolo IMI — Italian bank
Santander Central Hispano (SCH) — was Banco Santander Central Hispano
SAP
Saudi Aramco — Saudi state energy firm
savings and loan associations — not loans
SBC Communications
Schering-Plough
Schlumberger
Schneider Druckluft — electronics group
Scudder, Stevens & Clark — investment firm, bought by Deutsche Bank
Sears, Roebuck
Seat Pagine Gialle
SEB (Scandinaviska Enskilda Banken)
Sequoia Capital
Silver Lake Partners
Singapore Exchange (SGX) — merger of Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) and Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX)
Skoda — Czech engineering firm, part of VW Group
SNCF
Snecma — aerospace propulsion and equipment group
Société Générale — private bank
Société Marseillasie de Crédit
Softbank — Japanese software distributor
Southwest Airlines
Spie Batignolles — developer and civil engineering firm
Standard & Poor's
Standard Chartered
STMicroelectronics — abbreviates to ST
SUEZ — was Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG)
Sun Microsystems
Svenska Handelsbanken
Takeda Pharmaceutical — largest pharmaceutical company in Japan. Changed its name in June 2004
Tata Group
Tata Motors
Tate & Lyle
TBWA/Chiat/Day — American advertising agency
TD Waterhouse — stockbroker
Telefónica — Spain's telecoms monopoly
Teléfonos de México, or Telmex
Telstra (Corporation)
Texas Pacific Group (TPG)
Thai Rating and Information Services (TRIS)
Thomas H. Lee Partners (Thomas Lee)
ThyssenKrupp
T-Mobile
TonenGeneral Sekiyu
T-Online
Total
Toys “R” Us
TransUnion — American rating agency
TUI — German travel company
Twentieth Century Fox
Tyco International
Tyson Foods — poultry company
UBS
UFJ Holdings — Japanese holding company, includes UFJ Bank
UniCredit
UniSource Energy
Unisource — paper company
United Airlines
United Distillers (full name United Distillers & Vintners), now part of Diageo
United Distillers and Vinters (UDV)
United Parcel Service (UPS)
Universal Postal Union (UPU)
US Bancorp
US Airways
Verizon Communications
Viacom
Virgin Atlantic Airways
Virgin Group
Vivendi Universal
Vodafone Group
Volkswagen (VW)
W.I. Carr — now Indosnez W.I. Carr Securities
Wachovia
Wal-Mart
Warburg Pincus
WCM — German investment group
WestLB
Westpac Banking Corp
Weyerhaeuser
WH Smith
Windows 95, Windows XP
WL Ross
World Trade Organisation (WTO)
WorldCom — formerly MCI WorldCom, now MCI
WPP Group
Wyeth — formerly American Home Products
Wachovia
Wal-Mart
Warburg Pincus
WCM — German investment group
WestLB
Westpac Banking Corp
Weyerhaeuser
WH Smith
Windows 95, Windows XP
WL Ross
World Trade Organisation (WTO)
WorldCom — formerly MCI WorldCom, now MCI
WPP Group
Wyeth — formerly American Home Products
Xstrata
Yahoo
Yum Brands
Zenith Electronics — subsidiary of LG Electronics
ZenithOptimedia
Zurich Financial Services
ZenithOptimedia
Zurich Financial Services
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