Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Piedmont Airlines, Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, MedStar Health, PRS Guitars, Mills Corporation, JackBe, Radio One, LibLime, WorldCell, Identification Technology Partners, Inc., Mars, Digex, Big Johnson, Perdue Farms, Snyder Communications, Netcordia, JW Marriott Hotels, CDA Investment Technologies, Gifford's Ice Cream & Candy Co., Aquilent Inc., Courtyard by Marriott, Review and Herald Publishing Association, JASCO USA, London Fog, Joanne's Bed and Back, Rodeway Inn, Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative, Chesapeake Bay Magazine, Choptank Electric Cooperative, Public Opinion Research, AGV Sports Group, Foundation Coal, Total Wine & More, JW Marriott Kuala Lumpur, Land Warfare Resources Corporation, Allied Aviation, The Derrydale Press, Mullin/Ashley Associates, Chesapeake Shipbuilding, McShane Bell Foundry. Excerpt: The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. is the parent company to the luxury hotel chain, Ritz-Carlton Hotels. The hotel company is a subsidiary of Marriott International. The company also has marketing agreements with Bulgari Hotels & Resorts, and two privately owned hotels, The Ritz Hotel, London, and the Hotel Ritz Madrid. In 1983, the brand was sold to The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C., based in Atlanta, Georgia, which began expansion of the brand to other locations. The company grew to become the hospitality leader in the US under the leadership of President and COO Horst Schulze. Schulze's strong conviction of customer loyalty and emphasis on a value/mission driven philosophy for the "Ladies and Gentlemen serving Ladies and Gentlemen" became a benchmark in the industry to which other companies aspired. Under his leadership the hotels earned an unprecedented two Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards and grew from four to forty U.S. locations . During this time, The Ritz-Carlton also became kno...