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'''Kimball International, Inc.''' is an American company which consists of furniture brands: Kimball, National, Interwoven, Etc., David Edward, D'Style and Kimball Hospitality. It is the successor to '''W.W. Kimball and Company''', the world's largest ] and ] manufacturer at certain times in the 19th and 20th centuries.


On March 8, 2023, ] entered into an agreement to purchase Kimball International.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://investors.hnicorp.com/news/news-details/2023/HNI-Corporation-to-Acquire-Kimball-International/default.aspx | title=HNI Corporation to Acquire Kimball International }}</ref> On June 1, 2023, the acquisition was completed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://investors.hnicorp.com/news/news-details/2023/HNI-Corporation-Completes-Acquisition-of-Kimball-International/default.aspx|title= HNI Corporation Completes Acquisition of Kimball International |work=HNI Corporation|access-date=2023-07-26|language=en-US}}</ref>
'''Kimball International, Inc.''' {{nasdaq2|KBALB}} is a manufacturer of furniture and industrial electronics.


==History==
Kimball International basically consists of two groups: The Office Furniture Group and Kimball Electronics.
===Kimball Piano and Organ===
This division started as a piano dealership in ] in 1857 as W.W. Kimball and Company by ] (1828–1904). In 1864, Kimball moved from its earliest location in the corner of a jewelry store to sales rooms in the ] where Kimball sold pianos made by ] piano makers ], ], ], ], ], and the ]. Kimball also sold less expensive ]s. The ] destroyed all of Kimball's commercial assets in 1871, but he continued selling from his home, and rebuilt his dealership business.<ref name=Palmieri>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wJikoOk9Kd0C&pg=PA205 |pages=205–207 |title=Encyclopedia of keyboard instruments |volume=3 |first1=Robert |last1=Palmieri |first2=Margaret W. |last2=Palmieri |first3=Igor |last3=Kipnis |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2005 |edition=2 |isbn=0-415-93796-5}}</ref>


In 1877, W.W. Kimball began assembling its own reed organs, using ] made by the J.G. Earhuff Company and cases made by contractors. After three years, the company began offering organs made entirely in house. In 1882, the Kimball company was incorporated, and an expansive factory was built to produce reed organs. Soon, the factory was producing 15,000 organs a year; the world's largest organ maker.<ref name=Palmieri/> Kimball stopped making reed organs in 1922 after having produced 403,390 instruments.<ref name=Palmieri/>
== History ==


]
=== Keyboard Instrument ===
In 1887, Kimball began building a five-story factory for making its own pianos, and the next year produced 500 instruments of unremarkable quality. Kimball hired veterans from ] and ], and these men initiated improvements to the piano line. By 1893 at the ], at which Kimball received the "Worlds Columbian Exposition Award", Kimball was known for high quality, efficiency in manufacture, and aggressive sales practices using 35–40 traveling salesmen to cover cities and remote areas. Prominent East Coast piano makers snubbed the Chicago exposition because they feared Chicago favoritism, and because of philosophical differences between their reliance on traditional name brand faithfulness and Kimball's streamlined modern efficiency which greatly threatened their sales.<ref name=Palmieri/>]In 1890, Kimball hired Englishman Frederic W. Hedgeland, trained at his family's organworks in London: W.M. Hedgeland. Hedgeland supervised a portable ] design about the size of a large ]. The pipe organ division of Kimball also built large, permanent pipe organs, including one for the ] in 1901. When the pipe organ division was closed down in 1942, some 7,326 models had been built.<ref name=Palmieri/>


Kimball was involved in making ]s, the first effort being an automatic mechanism in 1901. As well, from 1917 to 1929, Kimball produced an attractive line of cabinet ]s.<ref name=Palmieri/> The company built a new building, the ], in 1916. It is now the Lewis Center at ].
Founded by W.W. Kimball in 1857 as a piano dealership, it was discontinued after 1996 but remains one of America's oldest and most distinguished keyboard instrument manufacturers. It was at one time the largest such manufacturer. Kimball was known for its low-cost upright pianos possible due to its use of vertical integration. Kimball began manufacturing in 1886, and reached its peak activity in 1910 with 4000 pianos made per year. During this time, Kimball was a respected builder of ]s until World War II.


During ], Kimball produced aircraft parts for major military airplane manufacturers such as ], ] and ]. After the war, piano production resumed but a series of poor financial decisions by W.W. Kimball Jr led the company into decline. In the mid-1950s, Kimball built a luxurious new factory in the Chicago suburb of ], but the factory's high costs, its poor performance, and flagging sales brought the company into grave financial crisis.<ref name=Palmieri/> Kimball had slipped from being the world's largest piano maker to the seventh largest, and it was nearly insolvent.<ref name=KimballHistory/>
=== Jasper Acquisition ===


In 1959, the W.W. Kimball Company was purchased from the last remaining Kimball family heir by Mr. Arnold F. Habig, becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of The Jasper Corporation which began operations in 1950 and founded by Mr. Arnold F. Habig. The combined company was later renamed Kimball International.
Kimball International was previously known as '''Jasper, Inc'''. In 1959, Jasper purchased the '''W. W. Kimball Company''' and, in 1974, renamed itself Kimball International. Kimball went public in 1976.


Piano production was relocated to the small, southern Indiana town of West Baden, Indiana, where the company was rejuvenated and once again began to grow. Ten years after the purchase, Kimball was once again the world's largest piano company.
== Today ==


=== Jasper Corporation to Kimball International===
As of ] ], Kimball Electronics Group has acquired the dysfunctional company Reptron Manufacturing Services based in Tampa, Florida. This acquisition includes 4 facilities in Michigan, California, Tampa, and Minnesota. Reptron specialized in end to end manufacturing solutions for medical devices. The acquisition brings 1200 more employees into Kimball. Kimball Electronics Group manufacturing now consists of products ranging from Automotive to Medical, Industrial and Furniture.
The Jasper Corporation was founded in 1950 in ], by Mr. Arnold Habig to make television cabinets, cabinets, and furniture.<ref name=KimballHistory>{{cite web |url=http://www.kimball.com/kimball_history.aspx |title=The Jasper Corporation |work=Kimball History |publisher=Kimball International |access-date=September 5, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917072039/http://www.kimball.com/kimball_history.aspx |archive-date=September 17, 2011 }}</ref> Jasper Corporation prospered from expanding television sales and from its investment in ], giving the company self-sufficiency. In 1959, Jasper, Inc., purchased the W. W. Kimball Company as a wholly owned ]. Jasper moved its Kimball piano manufacturing to ] in 1961; some {{convert|26|mi}} northeast of the town of Jasper.<ref name=Palmieri/><ref name=KimballHistory/> The first Indiana-made pianos were plagued with quality problems, but the issues were addressed and the pianos improved.<ref name=Palmieri/> In 1966, Jasper bought the prestigious Austrian piano maker ].<ref name=Palmieri/>


By 1969, Kimball had returned to its former position as the world's largest piano maker.<ref name=KimballHistory/> The subsidiary made some 100,000 pianos and organs annually during its peak years in the 1960s and 1970s.<ref name=KimballHistory/> An average day saw 250 pianos and 150 ]s shipped from the factory.<ref name=KimballHistory/> ]s from Kimball in Indiana ranged from compact {{convert|4|ft|5|in|cm|adj=on}} models to larger {{convert|6|ft|7|in|cm|adj=on}} models. In ], the ] division made concert grand pianos as large as {{convert|9|ft|6|in|cm}}: the ]. Kimball also made upright pianos in {{convert|42|in|cm|adj=on}} and {{convert|46|in|cm|adj=on}} sizes, but not smaller ] models; a decision which allowed great profits to be made by competitors.<ref name=Palmieri/> However, Kimball produced inexpensive console pianos, between upright and spinet size, in a subsidiary plant across the ] in ], doing business as '''Kimco'''.<ref name=Palmieri/>
== Office Furniture Group ==


Based on the success of piano and organ sales, Jasper determined to leverage the Kimball brand recognition to assist sales of office furniture, home furniture and electronics.<ref name=KimballHistory/> Company leaders realized that the Kimball brand had far greater popular recognition than the Jasper brand,<ref name=Palmieri/> and in 1974, Jasper changed its name to Kimball International, going ] in September 1976 with the ] of 500,000 shares of ].<ref name=KimballHistory/>
Office Furniture Group focusses on the office furniture business of the company. It comprises three distinct brand names: Kimball Office, National Office Furniture, and Kimball Hospitality.


In 1980 Kimball International bought ], a New York piano maker founded in 1869, and Conn Keyboards, the piano and organ division of ]. The acquisitions were ill timed, as piano and organ sales were in a long-term downward trend. In 1984, Kimball shipped and loaned 84 baby grands to the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee for their use at the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Opening Ceremony. In a section devoted to the Hollywood musical with George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" as the main theme, the 84 baby grands were rolled out under the arches of the L.A. Memorial Coliseum. Kimball operated Krakauer for five years in New York before closing the plant.<ref name=Palmieri/>
=== Kimball Office ===


Because of a worldwide decline in piano and organ purchases through the 1980s and 1990s, the Kimball piano and organ subsidiary was discontinued in February 1996. The last Kimball ] was signed by every worker and company executive, and remains on display at Kimball's showroom in Jasper, Indiana.<ref name=KimballHistory/> The Bösendorfer piano brand continued unaffected, but was sold back to Austrian buyers in 2002.<ref name=Palmieri/>
Kimball Office made its first desk in 1970, responding to market demands for high quality office furniture.The company introduced the now standard concept of in-stock inventory and quick shipment of orders, revolutionizing the industry and forcing a move away from unresponsive manufacturing. Kimball Office quickly built its reputation on a combination of high quality and value, exceptional customer service, and reliability as a supply partner for its dealers and soon became recognized as a premier supplier of traditional wood office furnishings. Building on a standard of excellence, the company expanded its offerings into a broad product line, including casegoods, systems, seating, filing, and tables.


==Today==
=== National Office Furniture ===
On October 31, 2014, Kimball International announced the spin-off of Kimball Electronics resulting in a new furniture company.


===Kimball===
In 1980, Kimball International answered the call for mid-priced office furniture by forming National Office Furniture. As part of Kimball International, National entered this highly competitive segment of the market with distinct advantages, including quality wood construction, stocked inventory for quicker ], state-of-the-art production facilities and an outstanding value for the dollar. The company grew quickly, gaining a stellar reputation for providing high-quality products and personal service at an affordable cost.
The Kimball brand made its first desk in 1970. Kimball expanded its offerings into a broad product line, including casegoods, systems, seating, filing, and tables.


Kimball is based in Jasper, Indiana, operates manufacturing facilities in Jasper, and in Salem, and has showroom locations in major metropolitan areas around the U.S.
=== Kimball Hospitality ===


===National===
Kimball entered the lodging market in 1985, quickly becoming a premiere supplier. Kimball Hospitality has furnished over 14,000 rooms in ]' major hotels and casinos, and is the largest supplier of room furnishings to this tourist mecca.
In 1980, Kimball International formed National Office Furniture to make mid-priced office furniture.


== Kimball Electronics Group == ===Kimball Hospitality===
Kimball International entered the lodging market in 1985. Kimball Hospitality has furnished over 14,000 rooms in ]'s hotels and casinos.{{citation needed|date=February 2016}}


==Awards and honors==
Kimball Electronics Group, the electronic contract assemblies manufacturing arm of Kimball International, is a technology company providing design, engineering, manufacturing, packaging, and distribution of electronic assemblies and circuit boards.
* 2016: Kimball International was again recognized with the Great Place to Work certification.
* 2015: Kimball International was recognized with the Great Place to Work designation.
* 2007: Kimball International was listed in 2007 by ''Forbes'' magazine as one of the "Platinum 400", also known as "America's Best Big Companies".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/88/biz_07platinum_The-400-Best-Big-Companies-Consumer-Durables_7Company.html |title=Special Report: The 400 Best Big Companies – Consumer Durables industry |work=Forbes |date=December 21, 2006 |access-date=September 5, 2011}}</ref>
* 2006: Kimball International was honored in 2006 by “Occupational Hazards” magazine, when its Kimball Office – Cherry Street manufacturing facility was named one of the "10 Safest Companies in America".
* 2004: Kimball International was listed in 2004 by ''Fortune'' Magazine as "America's Most Admired Companies".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/03/08/363695/index.htm |title=Who's Up and Who's Down How companies rank in their industries |work=Fortune |date=March 8, 2004 |last=Harrington |first=Ann |access-date=September 5, 2011}}</ref>


==References==
Kimball Electronics Group is a leading contract manufacturer of durable electronics and serves a variety of industries on a global scale. Kimball Electronics Group has facilities operating in ]; ]; ]; ]; ]; ]; ], ]; ], ]; ], ]; ], ]; and ], ]. These facilities employ the most modern, state-of-the-art equipment that is used in the manufacturing of high reliability products for the Automotive, Medical and Industrial markets. Kimball Electronics Group is focused on long term customer relationships and works continuously to bring value to its customers.
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==External links==
Kimball Electronics Group was established in 1961 to build electronic organs. In the late 1980s KEG became focused solely on contract electronic manufacturing services. Since that time, KEG has strived to be a worldwide Electronics Manufacturing Service Industry leader in providing superior services and technology.
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== Corporate statistics ==


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Headquarters<br/>
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1600 Royal Street<br\>
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Jasper, Indiana 47549<br\>
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U.S.A.
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'''Annual Sales''':
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* 2006: $1.142 Billion
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* 2005: $1.053 Billion
* 2004: $1.053 Billion
* 2003: $1.154 Billion
* 2002: $1.172 Billion
* 2001: $1.261 Billion
* 2000: $1.228 Billion
'''Number of Employees''':
* 2006: 6,797
* 2004: 8,700
* 2003: 8,700
* 2000: 10,088
* 1990: 7,971
* 1950: 30

'''2006 Employee Break-down''':
* Indiana: 3,485
* Other United States: 1,159
* Non-US: 2,153
* Worldwide Total: 6,797

== Awards and Honours ==

* 2007: Kimball International was listed in 2007 by “Forbes” magazine, as one of the '''Best Big Companies in America'''.

* 2006: Kimball International was honored in 2006 by “Occupational Hazards” magazine, when its Kimball Office -Cherry Street manufacturing facility was named one of the '''10 Safest Companies in America'''.

* 2004: Kimball International was listed in 2004 by "Fortune" Magazine as '''America's Most Admired Companies'''

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American furniture manufacturer
Kimball International, Inc.
FormerlyJasper Corporation
Company typeSubsidiary
Traded asNasdaq: KBAL
IndustryFurniture
PredecessorW.W. Kimball & Company
Founded1950; 75 years ago (1950), in Jasper, Indiana
FounderArnold Habig
HeadquartersJasper, Indiana
Area servedWorldwide
ProductsFurniture
BrandsKimball
Number of employees2500
ParentHNI Corporation
SubsidiariesKrakauer Brothers
Websitekimballinternational.com

Kimball International, Inc. is an American company which consists of furniture brands: Kimball, National, Interwoven, Etc., David Edward, D'Style and Kimball Hospitality. It is the successor to W.W. Kimball and Company, the world's largest piano and organ manufacturer at certain times in the 19th and 20th centuries.

On March 8, 2023, HNI Corporation entered into an agreement to purchase Kimball International. On June 1, 2023, the acquisition was completed.

History

Kimball Piano and Organ

This division started as a piano dealership in Chicago in 1857 as W.W. Kimball and Company by William Wallace Kimball (1828–1904). In 1864, Kimball moved from its earliest location in the corner of a jewelry store to sales rooms in the Crosby Opera House where Kimball sold pianos made by East Coast piano makers Chickering and Sons, the J & C Fischer Piano Company, Hallet & Davis, F.C. Lighte, Joseph P. Hale, and the W.P. Emerson Piano Company. Kimball also sold less expensive reed organs. The Great Chicago Fire destroyed all of Kimball's commercial assets in 1871, but he continued selling from his home, and rebuilt his dealership business.

In 1877, W.W. Kimball began assembling its own reed organs, using actions made by the J.G. Earhuff Company and cases made by contractors. After three years, the company began offering organs made entirely in house. In 1882, the Kimball company was incorporated, and an expansive factory was built to produce reed organs. Soon, the factory was producing 15,000 organs a year; the world's largest organ maker. Kimball stopped making reed organs in 1922 after having produced 403,390 instruments.

The Chicago Kimball building in the 1880s

In 1887, Kimball began building a five-story factory for making its own pianos, and the next year produced 500 instruments of unremarkable quality. Kimball hired veterans from Steinway & Sons and C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik, and these men initiated improvements to the piano line. By 1893 at the World's Columbian Exposition, at which Kimball received the "Worlds Columbian Exposition Award", Kimball was known for high quality, efficiency in manufacture, and aggressive sales practices using 35–40 traveling salesmen to cover cities and remote areas. Prominent East Coast piano makers snubbed the Chicago exposition because they feared Chicago favoritism, and because of philosophical differences between their reliance on traditional name brand faithfulness and Kimball's streamlined modern efficiency which greatly threatened their sales.

(Photo) A reed Organ
A Kimball Reed Organ.

In 1890, Kimball hired Englishman Frederic W. Hedgeland, trained at his family's organworks in London: W.M. Hedgeland. Hedgeland supervised a portable pipe organ design about the size of a large upright piano. The pipe organ division of Kimball also built large, permanent pipe organs, including one for the Mormon Tabernacle in 1901. When the pipe organ division was closed down in 1942, some 7,326 models had been built.

Kimball was involved in making player pianos, the first effort being an automatic mechanism in 1901. As well, from 1917 to 1929, Kimball produced an attractive line of cabinet phonographs. The company built a new building, the Kimball Building, in 1916. It is now the Lewis Center at DePaul University.

During World War II, Kimball produced aircraft parts for major military airplane manufacturers such as Boeing, Douglas and Lockheed. After the war, piano production resumed but a series of poor financial decisions by W.W. Kimball Jr led the company into decline. In the mid-1950s, Kimball built a luxurious new factory in the Chicago suburb of Melrose Park, Illinois, but the factory's high costs, its poor performance, and flagging sales brought the company into grave financial crisis. Kimball had slipped from being the world's largest piano maker to the seventh largest, and it was nearly insolvent.

In 1959, the W.W. Kimball Company was purchased from the last remaining Kimball family heir by Mr. Arnold F. Habig, becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of The Jasper Corporation which began operations in 1950 and founded by Mr. Arnold F. Habig. The combined company was later renamed Kimball International.

Piano production was relocated to the small, southern Indiana town of West Baden, Indiana, where the company was rejuvenated and once again began to grow. Ten years after the purchase, Kimball was once again the world's largest piano company.

Jasper Corporation to Kimball International

The Jasper Corporation was founded in 1950 in Jasper, Indiana, by Mr. Arnold Habig to make television cabinets, cabinets, and furniture. Jasper Corporation prospered from expanding television sales and from its investment in vertical integration, giving the company self-sufficiency. In 1959, Jasper, Inc., purchased the W. W. Kimball Company as a wholly owned subsidiary. Jasper moved its Kimball piano manufacturing to West Baden Springs in 1961; some 26 miles (42 km) northeast of the town of Jasper. The first Indiana-made pianos were plagued with quality problems, but the issues were addressed and the pianos improved. In 1966, Jasper bought the prestigious Austrian piano maker Bösendorfer.

By 1969, Kimball had returned to its former position as the world's largest piano maker. The subsidiary made some 100,000 pianos and organs annually during its peak years in the 1960s and 1970s. An average day saw 250 pianos and 150 electronic organs shipped from the factory. Grand pianos from Kimball in Indiana ranged from compact 4-foot-5-inch (135 cm) models to larger 6-foot-7-inch (201 cm) models. In Vienna, the Bösendorfer division made concert grand pianos as large as 9 feet 6 inches (290 cm): the Imperial Bösendorfer. Kimball also made upright pianos in 42-inch (110 cm) and 46-inch (120 cm) sizes, but not smaller spinet models; a decision which allowed great profits to be made by competitors. However, Kimball produced inexpensive console pianos, between upright and spinet size, in a subsidiary plant across the Texas–Mexico border in Reynosa, doing business as Kimco.

Based on the success of piano and organ sales, Jasper determined to leverage the Kimball brand recognition to assist sales of office furniture, home furniture and electronics. Company leaders realized that the Kimball brand had far greater popular recognition than the Jasper brand, and in 1974, Jasper changed its name to Kimball International, going public in September 1976 with the initial public offering of 500,000 shares of common stock.

In 1980 Kimball International bought Krakauer Brothers, a New York piano maker founded in 1869, and Conn Keyboards, the piano and organ division of C.G. Conn ltd. The acquisitions were ill timed, as piano and organ sales were in a long-term downward trend. In 1984, Kimball shipped and loaned 84 baby grands to the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee for their use at the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Opening Ceremony. In a section devoted to the Hollywood musical with George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" as the main theme, the 84 baby grands were rolled out under the arches of the L.A. Memorial Coliseum. Kimball operated Krakauer for five years in New York before closing the plant.

Because of a worldwide decline in piano and organ purchases through the 1980s and 1990s, the Kimball piano and organ subsidiary was discontinued in February 1996. The last Kimball grand piano was signed by every worker and company executive, and remains on display at Kimball's showroom in Jasper, Indiana. The Bösendorfer piano brand continued unaffected, but was sold back to Austrian buyers in 2002.

Today

On October 31, 2014, Kimball International announced the spin-off of Kimball Electronics resulting in a new furniture company.

Kimball

The Kimball brand made its first desk in 1970. Kimball expanded its offerings into a broad product line, including casegoods, systems, seating, filing, and tables.

Kimball is based in Jasper, Indiana, operates manufacturing facilities in Jasper, and in Salem, and has showroom locations in major metropolitan areas around the U.S.

National

In 1980, Kimball International formed National Office Furniture to make mid-priced office furniture.

Kimball Hospitality

Kimball International entered the lodging market in 1985. Kimball Hospitality has furnished over 14,000 rooms in Las Vegas's hotels and casinos.

Awards and honors

  • 2016: Kimball International was again recognized with the Great Place to Work certification.
  • 2015: Kimball International was recognized with the Great Place to Work designation.
  • 2007: Kimball International was listed in 2007 by Forbes magazine as one of the "Platinum 400", also known as "America's Best Big Companies".
  • 2006: Kimball International was honored in 2006 by “Occupational Hazards” magazine, when its Kimball Office – Cherry Street manufacturing facility was named one of the "10 Safest Companies in America".
  • 2004: Kimball International was listed in 2004 by Fortune Magazine as "America's Most Admired Companies".

References

  1. Our company at Kimball International
  2. "HNI Corporation to Acquire Kimball International".
  3. "HNI Corporation Completes Acquisition of Kimball International". HNI Corporation. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  4. ^ Palmieri, Robert; Palmieri, Margaret W.; Kipnis, Igor (2005). Encyclopedia of keyboard instruments. Vol. 3 (2 ed.). Taylor & Francis. pp. 205–207. ISBN 0-415-93796-5.
  5. ^ "The Jasper Corporation". Kimball History. Kimball International. Archived from the original on September 17, 2011. Retrieved September 5, 2011.
  6. "Special Report: The 400 Best Big Companies – Consumer Durables industry". Forbes. December 21, 2006. Retrieved September 5, 2011.
  7. Harrington, Ann (March 8, 2004). "Who's Up and Who's Down How companies rank in their industries". Fortune. Retrieved September 5, 2011.

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