Deep Intelligence Across Industries

Company Headquarters: Essen (Aldi Nord), Mülheim (Aldi Süd), Germany Founded: 1946 Workforce (2017): ~69,367 (Aldi Nord) and ~125,900 (Aldi Süd) Company Working: ALDI is the common brand of two German family-owned discount supermarket chains with over 10,000 stores in 20 countries. The business was split into two separate groups in 1960, which later became Aldi Nord, headquartered in Essen, and Aldi Süd, headquartered in Mülheim. Aldi's Aldi Nord operated 4,731 stores as of 2017, and Aldi Süd operates 5,903 stores globally. Currently, 99%of Aldi Stores offer online grocery delivery through Instacart.

Company Headquarters: New York, US Founded: 1951 Workforce: ~5,000 Company Working: FlightSafety International is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Ltd. The company delivers professional aviation training services to individuals and businesses, which include several commercial aviation companies. Moreover, it provides safety equipment and protective workwear, headsets, paddle wands, and safety products designed specifically for the airport and aviation industries. FlightSafety International offers a range of protective clothing to airport departments for cleaning, de-icing, and personal safety equipment such as engineering, ground support, logistics/cargo, refueling, and security/border enforcement. The company designs, integrates, and manufactures advanced and high-quality flight simulation products. These products are lightweight and have highly robust modular designs and are used for military and commercial purposes.

Company Headquarters: New York, US Founded: 2002 Workforce: ~1,001-5,000 Company Working: Fresh Direct, LLC. is a food tech company and one of the leading online fresh food grocer in, delivering directly to customers throughout seven states of the US. The company introduced FoodKick for faster deliveries of products in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. The company has direct tie-up with local vendors, farmer, and suppliers for fast delivery of products.

Company Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California, US Founded: 1982 Workforce: ~122,400 Company Working: Advanced Rotorcraft Technology, Inc. specializes in engineering analysis aspects such as aerodynamics, controls, structures, handling qualities, and propulsion for rotorcraft simulation and helicopter simulation. The company is involved in the field of analysis, modeling, and real-time simulation for rotorcraft and helicopters. It has developed two comprehensive analysis and simulation tools, FLIGHTLAB and flight dynamics model, and designs for helicopters, rotorcraft, and other air vehicles. These tools have been designed in line with the US Army's Aviation Development Directorate (ADD) and the Rotorcraft Comprehensive Analysis System (RCAS). The company offers services for aircraft design and analysis, avionics and flight control testing, simulator integration, flight test support, and accident investigation. Its simulator integration services provide support for rotorcraft simulation models with training simulators.

Company Headquarters: Colorado, US Founded: 1950 Company Working: Pearl Izumi is a manufacturer of sports apparel. It primarily focuses on road cycling, mountain biking, and triathlons. Pearl Izumi is a subsidiary of Shimano American Corporation. Its manufacturing facility is located in Colorado. It has 1,099 stores located across the Americas and Europe, and it sells its products online as well. The company sells products like jerseys, shorts and bibs, pants and tights, t-shirts and tops, tanks and singlets, tri and race suits, baselayers, warmers, outerwear, gloves, hats, socks, shoe covers, and shoes, among others.

Company Headquarters: Massachusetts, US Founded: 1728 Workforce: ~5000 Company Working: Hollingsworth & Vose Company manufactures advanced materials for batteries, filtration, and industrial applications. The company offers filters for various applications including homes, clean rooms, computers, cars, hospitals, trucks, commercial buildings, and heavy-duty equipment. Moreover, the company also offers batteries for telecom and hybrid vehicle applications. The company offers its products to wide range of industries including aerospace, energy generation, transportation, and manufacturing. Hollingsworth & Vose Company has its presence all over the world, especially in the regions of North America, South America, and Europe.

Company Headquarters: Michigan, US Founded: 1916 Workforce: ~500 Company Working: ACDelco, a subsidiary of General Motors (US) manufactures and supplies various products for the vehicles. The company is engaged in the manufacturing and trading of a range of automotive products. The company offers products such as batteries, bearings, brakes, bumpers, filters, engine components, headlamps & tail lamps, airbags, radiators, spark plugs, wiper parts, transmission components, and oils & fluids. The company offers its products for both Genral motors and non-General Motor vehicles. The company has presence in countries worldwide including the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, China, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and South Africa.

Company Headquarters: Auckland, New Zealand Founded: 1993 Workforce: ~25 Company Working: Orca deals in wetsuits and sports apparel primarily for triathletes. It has various products in its portfolio including triathlon wetsuits, swimrun wetsuits, open water wetsuits, other sports-related clothing, and swimming gears and accessories. It sells its products online in almost all parts of the world. The company has a global distribution deal with the Spanish cycling company, Orbea. Orca was formerly known as Performance Speedsuits Ltd.

Company Headquarters: Quebec, Canada Founded: 1983 Workforce: ~500 Company Working: Louis Garneau Sports is a company that deals primarily in cycling products. Its specialties are cycling bikes, apparel, shoes, helmets, gloves, and other accessories. It also deals in triathlon bikes, garments, shoes, helmets, and other triathlon accessories. Additionally, it deals with Nordic apparel and snowshoes. It has products for men, women, and children. The company has distributors in South Africa, Japan, China, Dubai, Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, UK, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Iceland, Mexico, Chile, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Guatemala, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Brazil, Panama and Ecuador.

Company Headquarters: Denmark Founded: 1963 Workforce: ~200 Company Working: CALDAN Conveyor A/S formed with the merger between the AL-CON Conveyor A/S & CALDAN Conveyor A/S in 2018. It designs, manufactures, and installs internal transport systems for automated painting processes & materials handling worldwide. The company manufactures overhead chain power & free conveyors, floor-based chain power & free conveyors, overhead monorail chain conveyors, floor-based chain conveyors, control systems, worldwide service & support, worldwide installation & commissioning, and conveyor systems. CALDAN Conveyor A/S offers a wide range of overhead conveyor systems ranging from simple manual systems, through powered single line (monorail) to complex power & free systems developed for unit load weights ranging between a few grams to 10.000 kg. It is currently operating through strategic alliance and managed sales and support functions in Brazil, China, India, the US and Canada.

Company Headquarters: Sweden Founded: 1993 Workforce: ~100 Company Working: Since 2018, OCS Overhead Conveyor System Ltd has been a part of Axel Johnson International, a privately owned Swedish industrial group of more than 110 companies in 27 countries, with combined annual sales of USD 1135 million and specializes in material handling, internal transport system, conveyors, warehousing, assembly lines. OCS Overhead Conveyor System Ltd manufactures a complete range of internal transport systems with overhead and floor conveyors for production processes and storage systems for several industries, including automotive and aviation. The company manufactures efficient, clean, and quiet and flexible overhead conveyor systems for order picking, storage, assembly, or manufacturing applications with loading capacities up to 7500kg and driving speeds ranging between 1m/min and 80m/min. Furthermore, the company manufactures overhead conveyors with the friction-based technology that gives a smooth, quiet, and clean motion and offers similar features as in electric monorail systems (EMS) at lower costs.

Company Headquarters: Germany Founded: 1948 Workforce: ~5000 Company Working: Herbert Kannegiesser GmbH (Herbert Kannegiesser) manufacturers products related to industrial washing technology, flatwork, logistics, moldings, and data and information systems. The products related to the industrial washing technology are used in numerous applications ranging from washing, extracting, and drying solutions to flatwork feeding, finishing, and folding as well as full dry folding in garment finishing and sortation systems. Its logistics product category covers overhead conveyor systems, laundry sorting, vacuum transport, and stack management solutions. Its mini loop overhead system offers a practical alternative to the step conveyor, with all the advantages of a modern overhead conveyor, as its storage lane can hold up to 6 sacks of soiled laundry. Its super track system is basically a monorail system, which stores laundry items in a gravity-driven rail system below the building’s roof structure and can alternatively also be used on the clean side of laundry. Herbert Kannegiesser operates through six factories in Germany, one in the UK, and one in the US. It has a distribution network that spans across 54 countries worldwide.

Company Headquarters: Germany Founded: 1977 Workforce: ~80 Company Working: Schönenberger Systeme GmbH (Schönenberger Systeme), a subsidiary of Helm Hellas S.A., designs, develops, manufactures, and supplies lifting equipment, overhead conveyors, and sliding door track systems for both trade customers and end users. It is a leading manufacturer of lifting equipment, power feed systems, overhead conveyor systems, fall arrest safety track, and sliding door track systems. It primarily manufacturers the Omniflo transport system, ILS2100 intra-logistics-system, and Schönenberger pouch sorter. The company manufactures overhead conveyors, which offer numerous advantages, such as modular range of components, simple design, easy installation, economical, wide range of brackets and trolleys, minimal maintenance, and flexibility. The company offers semi-automatic alternatives to fully powered overhead conveyors for use in areas where manual operation is not practical. The parent company Helm Hellas S.A. also offers overhead conveyor system under company name Niko Ltd. Schönenberger Systeme operates through a comprehensive distributor network that spans across most European countries, North Africa, Australia, North America, and Asia.

Company Headquarters: Germany Founded: 1949 Workforce: ~480 Company Working: PSB Intralogistics GmbH (PSB Intralogistics) is a well-recognized conveyor system manufacturer in the intralogistics sector. It primarily offers intralogistics for distribution, intralogistics for production, intralogistics for cold storage, storage systems, dynamic fashion warehouse, multi-access warehouses, order picking systems, floor-conveyor technologies, automated guided vehicles, overhead conveyor systems, and intralogistics software. Additionally, the company provides various services, namely, consulting, system design, simulation, project management, lifecycle service, and retrofit. Its products have automotive, consumer goods, electronics, fashion, retail & e-commerce, health care, third-party distributors, and metal goods & engineering applications. The company offers customized and specific end-use product solutions for end users across the intralogistics sector. PSB Intralogistics has a strong presence in Europe and operates in more than 30 countries around the world.

Company Headquarters: Germany Founded: 1867 Workforce: ~350 Company Working: Dürkopp Fördertechnik GmbH (Dürkopp Fördertechnik) is one of the leading companies offering automated hanging goods distribution centers, worldwide. It is engaged in manufacturing conveyor systems primarily for the fashion and automotive industries. Its product portfolio includes roll adapters, sorter bags, trolleyless systems, split trays, and trolley systems. It offers roll adapters for the automotive industry, under the overhead conveyor system category. The company provides IT services, spare parts logistics, and retrofit services to the end users. Dürkopp Fördertechnik is a wholly owned subsidiary of KNAPP AG, an intralogistics solution and automated warehouse systems provider. It has a strong presence in Europe and North America.

Company Headquarters: Switzerland Founded: 1957 Workforce: ~800 Company working: Ferag AG (Ferag) specializes in developing and manufacturing conveying and processing systems for graphical and direct mailing applications. It caters to the processing, fashion, automotive, food logistics, and e-commerce industries. The company offers conveyors, sortation, hanging, storage/buffering, and related technologies for conveyors and sortation. Furthermore, it provides intralogistics solutions to the end-use industries with related software technologies for control and visualization of processes. Additionally, it provides consulting, system engineering, installation, training, condition assessment, and maintenance services to the clients. Ferag is a subsidiary of WRH Walter Reist Holding AG and sister company to the WRH Global AG, which is legally authorized for the distribution of products and services of Ferag, worldwide.

Company Headquarters: Germany Founded: 1937 Workforce: ~10,500 Company Working: SSI SCHÄFER GMBH (SSI SCHÄFER) is one of the leading companies offering products and systems across material flows and waste engineering applications. Its product portfolio covers products for storage, conveying & transport, picking, and handling. The company provides a wide range of conveyor technologies and solutions for small part carriers and large load carriers. It offers products under the storage, conveying & transport, picking, handling, and interlinked workstations categories. Overhead conveyor systems are included under the conveying & transport product category. The company’s products have applications in the fashion, food & beverage, and retail industries. SSI SCHÄFER operates and manages its business through more than 70 operative companies and nearly 10 production facilities globally. It mainly operates in the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

Company Headquarters: China Founded: 2011 Workforce: ~24,875 Company Working: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. (CATL) is engaged in the production and sale of energy storage systems and power battery systems of new energy and green vehicles. Its products include energy storage systems, lithium battery materials, and power battery systems. The company’s products have applications in electric buses, electric passenger vehicles, diversified special vehicles, electric trucks, grid frequency modulation, commercial & industrial buildings, communication base station, and household energy storage. It also provides integrated product solutions and comprehensive full life cycle services to global clients. The company has offices in the US, Canada, France, Germany, and Hong Kong and manufacturing facilities in Qinghai, Foshan, and Jiangsu.

Company Headquarters: US Founded:1909 Workforce: ~850 Company Working: Murphy Company is a leading producer of quality softwood plywood, beautiful veneered hardwood plywood and panels, and innovative engineered wood products. The company is recognized as a reputed vertically integrated manufacturer due to its straighter, stronger, and more uniform products compared to milled lumber. The company offers its products through three segments, namely, hardwood, softwood, and engineered wood. The hardwood segment covers veneer, cores, finishes, wall paneling, laminates, and custom-crafted hardwood. The engineered wood segment offers LVL structural lumber, flange, concrete form, beams, walls and shores, truss chords, crane mats, laminated veneer studs, scaffold plank, and manufactured home marriage beams. Its LVL products are more sustainable than milled lumber due to its production in controlled environments. The company has six manufacturing mills and offers its products for applications in the residential and commercial sectors

Company Headquarters: New Zealand Founded:1907 Workforce: ~250 Company Working: Nelson Pine Industries Limited (Nelson Pine) is a leading manufacturer of medium-density fibreboard (MDF) and LVL. The company produces GoldenEdge MDF and NelsonPine LVL from radiata pine grown in its plantation forests in New Zealand. It produces LVL in its manufacturing plant where veneers are laminated by hot pressing them into a beam form. The company possesses 16% of the productive land area planted in production forests and has the capacity to process 40% of the forest region’s annual harvest. Nelson Pine is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Forestry Company Ltd (Tokyo, Japan).

Headquarters: Ontario, Canada Founded: 1973 Workforce: ~1800 Company Working: SunOpta Inc. (SunOpta) produces and markets food & beverage products in North America, Europe, and Africa. SunOpta operates in the consumer products and global ingredients segment. The company offers plant-based beverages in the form of aseptic beverages produced from almond, soy, coconut, and rice, among others. It also offers broths, teas, and nutritional beverages along with organic and conventional beverage products that have a long shelf-life.

Company Headquarters: Cary, US Founded: 2012 Workforce: ~51-200 Company Working: Verdesian Life Sciences, LLC is specialized in providing nutritional, seed treatment, biological, and inoculant technologies to farmers and growers. The products manufactured by the company are used in high-value row crops, specialty crops, turf, and ornamental plants. It has more than 300 patents. The company is partnered with Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of California Riverside, University of Chicago, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory among others for research and license purposes. The company has a sales presence in the Americas and Europe.

Company Headquarters: Van Wert, US Founded: 2001 Workforce: ~11-50 Company Working: Advanced Biological Marketing Inc. (ABM) is specialized in the R&D, production, and sales of inoculants globally. The product manufactured by the company is used on major crop types such as soybean, wheat, rice, sugarcane, cassava, and corn, as well as on vegetables such as lentils, dry beans, tomatoes, chickpeas, and cucumbers. The company also offers Induced Gene Expression Triggers (iGET) Technology, Smart Selection, and Focused Microbial Diversity (FDM) techniques that will be used in ABM products. It has warehouse facilities located in Albert Lea, Minnesota, and Lichtenburg, South Africa.

Company Headquarters: Pergamino, Argentina Founded: 1977 Workforce: ~201-500 Company Working: Rizobacter Argentina S.A. (Rizobacter) is specialized in the manufacturing and distribution of microbiological products. The company operates under two business segments namely, crop nutrition and crop protection. It offers inoculants, therapeutic seeds, adjuvants, and fertilizers under its product portfolio. The company serves customers in North America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. It has a sales presence in more than 35 countries globally. It has nine subsidiaries located in France, Bolivia, India, Brazil, the US, Paraguay, Colombia, Uruguay, and South Africa. It operates as a subsidiary of Bioceres.

Headquarters: Florida, US Founded: 1886 Workforce: ~42,000 Company Working: Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc., is a producer, marketer, and distributor of fruits and vegetables. It offers high-quality products in the form of fresh fruits and vegetables as well as freshly-cut fruits and vegetables. It also offers juices, beverages, and snacks. The company operates in the regional markets of the Middle East, Europe, and Africa. It offers its products under the brand name DEL MONTE. It sources its products from self-owned farms and independent growers located in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. It distributes its products through a global network of retail stores, club stores, wholesalers, distributors, and foodservice operators. It operates under three main business segments, namely, Banana, other fresh produce, and prepared food.

Company Headquarters: Louisville, US Founded: 2001 Workforce: ~ 51-100 Company Working: US WorldMeds, LLC, is engaged in developing, manufacturing, and marketing a wide range of pharmaceuticals products primarily in therapeutic areas related to Parkinson’s disease, cervical dystonia, malignant hyperthermia. The company acquired Solstice Neurosciences, LLC, in the year 2010 and acquired its iconic product Myobloc. Some of the major brands of US WorldMeds, LLC, include Apokyn, Lucemyra, Corgard, Myobloc, Revonto, and Xadago. The company manufactures Myobloc which is the only botulinum toxin type B product available in the market.

Company Headquarters: Ontario, Canada Founded: 2014 Workforce: NA Company Working: Drone Delivery Canada is involved in the design, development, and implementation of drone-based logistics systems. The company develops solutions for various sectors such as industrial, government, commercial, and retail & industrial. Drone Delivery Canada’s fully integrated hardware/software patented platform is utilized as a managed service in a SaaS business model. The company is listed on the TSX.V Exchange with the symbol FLT, in the US, and the Frankfurt exchange in Germany under the symbol ABB.F or A2AMGZ, and on the OTC QB market with the symbol TAKOF.