The strength of the Global Benchmarking Council lies in its elite partner companies. Partner companies represent varied industries, especially pharmaceuticals, health care, financial services, utilities and telecommunications. GBC partner representatives offer expertise in a wide range of functional areas, such as quality and process improvement, benchmarking, customer service, and strategic planning. Any organization that strives for excellence will benefit from partnership in the Global Benchmarking Council!

Welcome our latest partners, Altria Client Services, Bausch & Lomb, Boost Mobile and BD, who have joined the Global Benchmarking Council in 2009!

Global Benchmarking Council Partners:

Altria Client Services Altria Group is the parent company of Philip Morris USA, U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company, John Middleton, Ste. Michelle Wine Estates and Philip Morris Capital Corporation and in addition, Altria Group, Inc. holds a continuing economic and voting interest in SABMiller. As the parent company, Altria Group owns and develops financially disciplined businesses that are leaders in responsibly providing adult tobacco consumers with superior branded products.
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Bausch & Lomb Bausch & Lomb is the eye health company, dedicated to perfecting vision and enhancing life for consumers around the world. Its core businesses include soft and rigid gas permeable contact lenses and lens care products, and ophthalmic surgical and pharmaceutical products.
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Boost Mobile Boost Mobile is a division of Sprint Corporation that offers wireless phones and services with no contracts, credit checks or activation fees. Boost is among the most popular prepaid wireless brands in the U.S. and has approximately four million customers - the majority of which are 18 to 34 years old. Boost-branded wireless phones with its exclusive Boost® Walkie-Talkie service are available nationwide at approximately 17,500 major retail and independent wireless dealer locations; with Re-Boost® available at approximately 100,000 locations throughout the U.S.
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BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) BD is a global medical technology company that is focused on improving drug delivery, enhancing the diagnosis of infectious diseases and cancers, and advancing drug discovery. BD develops, manufactures and sells medical supplies, devices, laboratory instruments, antibodies, reagents and diagnostic products through its three segments: BD Medical, BD Diagnostics and BD Biosciences. It serves healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, the pharmaceutical industry and the general public.
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Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson, through its operating companies, is the world's most comprehensive and broadly based manufacturer of health care products, as well as a provider of related services, for the consumer, pharmaceutical, and medical devices and diagnostics markets. The more than 250 Johnson & Johnson operating companies employ approximately 120,500 men and women in 57 countries and sell products throughout the world.
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Lockheed Martin For more than 75 years, we've helped revolutionize the aerospace industry with a passion for invention that is unparalleled. As our defense and homeland security customers turn their attention to integrated, networked capabilities to fight the War on Terrorism, we offer an invaluable resource to help them define and deliver that future. Lockheed Martin's Center for Innovation is a powerful net-centric experimentation and analysis laboratory. Backed by an expansive network of our best labs and brightest minds, the Center for Innovation serves as a focal point for resourceful thinking and revolutionary technology - ideals that have been a proud hallmark of our Corporation from the very start.
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UCB Group By integrating biology (bio) and chemistry (pharma), we can gain much deeper insights into disease pathways, including the complexities of severe diseases, as well as producing more potent, cost-effective drugs.The unique combination of expertise in large, antibody-based molecules and small, chemically-derived molecules places us in a strong position to realise this ambition.
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DWA Healthcare Communications Group We strategize with the world’s leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to raise awareness of and educate healthcare professionals on scientific and medical topics.
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Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems ohnson & Johnson Health Care Systems (JJHCS) provides account management and customer support services to key health care customers, including hospital systems and group purchasing organizations, leading health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, and government health care institutions. The company also provides contract management, logistics and supply chain functions for the major Johnson & Johnson franchises. With more than a decade of successful outcomes and a track record of launching 12 multi-million and -billion dollar pharmaceutical brands, we have the expertise to: Educate healthcare professionals Build networks of business and scientific advisors Provide strategic solutions throughout the product life cycle Drive market share
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Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters is a leading global provider of integrated information-based solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson Reuters provides value-added information, with software tools and applications that help its customers make better decisions, faster. We serve professionals in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, scientific research and healthcare.
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MetLife Headquartered in New York, NY, MetLife and its affiliates offer a full range of insurance and other financial products and services. In addition to life, non-medical health and property and casualty insurance, MetLife is a leader in savings and retirement products and services for individuals, small businesses and large institutions. MetLife is the largest life insurer in terms of life insurance inforce in North America, and offers financial products and services to 86 of the Fortune 100 companies.
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CenterPoint Energy CenterPoint Energy, Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, is a domestic energy delivery company that includes electric transmission and distribution, natural gas distribution and sales, interstate pipeline and gathering operations, and more than 14,000 megawatts of power generation in Texas. The company serves nearly five million customers primarily in Arkansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. Assets total approximately $20 billion. CenterPoint Energy became the new holding company for the regulated operations of the former Reliant Energy, Incorporated in August 2002. With more than 11,000 employees, CenterPoint Energy and its predecessor companies have been in business for more than 130 years.
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KLA-Tencor KLA-Tencor Corporation is the world's leading supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related microelectronics industries. The company's comprehensive portfolio of products, software, analysis, services and expertise is designed to help IC manufacturers manage yield throughout the entire wafer fabrication process-from R&D to final yield analysis. Since yield improvements are key to increasing manufacturing productivity and profitability, the yield management market that KLA-Tencor leads has outperformed the semiconductor capital equipment market segment as a whole.