Customer Stories: Manufacturing

• ALPS Electric Europa GmbH - A subsidiary of Tokyo-based ALPS Electric Co., Ltd., ALPS Electric Europa specializes in passive and electromechanical components and supplies, offering more than 170,000 different products that address a wide spectrum of customer needs.
  
  
• B/E Aerospace, Inc - The world's leading manufacturer of aircraft cabin interior products, and a leading aftermarket distributor of aircraft component parts, B/E Aerospace, Inc. serves virtually all of the world's airlines and aircraft manufacturers. The company designs, develops, manufactures, sells and services a broad line of passenger cabin interior products for both commercial aircraft and business jets, and provides interior design, econfiguration and conversion services to its customers throughout the world.
  
  
• Canon UK - Canon is a world leader in imaging products and solutions for digital home and office environments, including digital imaging devices, digital and analog copiers, image filing systems, printers, fax machines, bubble jet printers, scanners, cameras, video cameras, binoculars and calculators. Canon also provides complete network solutions, from IT consulting to installation of voice/data networks, including computers and telephone systems.
  
  
• Del Monte Fresh Produce - Del Monte Fresh Produce is one of the world’s leading producers, marketers, and distributors of high-quality fresh and fresh-cut fruit and vegetables. The company is also a leading producer and distributor of prepared fruit and vegetables, juices, beverages, snacks, and desserts across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
  
  
• GE Aircraft Engines - GE Aircraft Engines is the world's leading manufacturer of jet engines for military and civil aircraft. It also manufactures gas turbines for marine and industrial applications. With annual revenues of $11.4 billion, GE Aircraft Engines is one of GE's largest businesses, employing 26,000 people in 40 locations worldwide.
  
  
• Dow Benelux - Dow is a worldwide, leading manufacturer of innovative chemical, plastic, and agricultural products and services. The company highly values the principles of sustainable development, and strives for a healthy balance between economic, ecological, and social responsibilities. Dow's largest plant outside the United States is located in Terneuzen in the Netherlands. It has 26 production units and well over 2,100 employees.
  
  
• Harris Interactive - Harris Interactive, the global leader in online market research, uses Internet-based and traditional methodologies to provide information to a wide range of clients in such markets as advertising, e-business, education, financial services, health care and public policy. With an online panel of over 7 million people and its Global Network affiliates, Harris Interactive conducts research in more than 80 different countries, in more than 30 different languages.
  
  
• Johnsonville Sausage - In an industry where taste counts for everything, Johnsonville Sausage has created its own recipe for success. Founded in 1945 as a butcher shop in Johnsonville, Wisconsin, JohnsonVille Sausage Inc. now operates multiple manufacturing facilities in the United States that produce fresh, smoked and cooked sausage products, breakfast sausage, and snack sausage. The company, now based in Kohler, Wisconsin, distributes its products nationally and internationally. Johnsonville was one of the first in its industry to implement an enterprise resource planning (ERP) backbone to consolidate business systems and share critical business information.
  
  
• Mississippi Chemical Corporation - Mississippi Chemical corporation produces and markets fertilizers through three wholly owned subsidiaries. It has production plants in three U.S. states and the Caribbean.
  
  
• National Textiles, LLC - National Textiles provides yarn, fabric and "cut parts"—fabric cut into pieces for sewing into garments. Its largest customers are the apparel divisions of Sara Lee Corp. that make familiar Sara Lee brands such as Champion,® Hanes™, Hanes Beefy-T,® Hanes Her Way® and Just My Size.® National Textiles is the third-largest consumer of cotton in North America, operating nine manufacturing facilities and a cotton distribution center, all located in the southeast. The company is on the "Forbes 500" list of the largest privately held U.S. companies.
  
  
• Unilever - U.K.-based Unilever's Environmental Safety Laboratory - a state-of-the-art toxicology facility - approves the safety of numerous new and proposed products each year. Streamlining this process is an ongoing priority. A second goal is to develop inventive techniques that help reduce the need for animal testing.
  
  
• Vogt electronic AG - Based at Erlau, near Passau, in lower Bavaria, Vogt is active in a number of markets, including consumer, automotive, and industrial electronics, as well as in the communications technology, office technology, and data systems technology sectors. The company sells products worldwide; operates manufacturing sites in central and eastern Europe, southeast Asia, and North America; and participates in several joint ventures with other electronics manufacturers. Monitoring the complexities of an operation this diverse posed significant challenges.
  
  
• Yamaha Motor Europe N.V. - Yamaha Motor Europe N.V. (YME) is the European headquarters of Yamaha Motor Corporation. YME markets and sells Yamaha motorcycles, as well as a variety of land vehicles and watercraft, in 24 European countries.