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February 3, 1997

To: CLS Associates

From: Nicholas Johnson

Re: Companies List

Note: "You will be known by the companies you keep." What follows is an alphabetical list of your nominations (January 22) for the largest global corporations in the businesses of telecommunications, mass media, computers and other electronics. For the most part, every company you nominated is listed here. (A couple of you listed companies in the form of illustrations of lines of business, rather than as the world's largest, and so those were not used.) The number of lines (the letter "l") following the company name is the number of nominations. I have marked (with a "*") those that I would put on a short list -- just FYI and off the top of my head without research; there is no reason for you to be influenced by that.

Advance Publications, Inc. (Newhouse) l

Alltel l

*America OnLine l

Ameritech l

Apple ll

*AT&T lllll ll

Autodesk l

Barclays l

Bell Atlantic l

BellSouth l

Bertelsmann AG l

*British Telecom ll

Comcast l

CompuServe l

*Deutsche Telekom l

Digital Equipment Co. ll

Disney (See Walt Disney)

Eastman Kodak Co. ll

EMI-UK l

Fox l

France Telecom l

Fujitsu l

General Electric llll

GTE l

*Hewlett Packard lll

*IBM lllll ll

*Intel lllll

Invesco l

ITT ll

Loral Space & Communications l

Lotus Development Corp. l

Lucent/Celcom l

Matsushita lll

MCI Communications llll

*Microsoft lllll ll

*Motorola lllll l

NCR lNEC l

*News Corporation Ltd. ll

Novell l

NTT l

NYNEX ll

Olivetti l

Pacific Telesis Group l

Pathe-French l

Philip Morris l

Phillips Electronics l

RCA l

Samsung l

SBC Communications l

Sharp l

Siemens ll

*Sony lllll l

Sprint lll

Sun Microsystems ll

Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) l

*Time-Warner Inc. llll

Tokyo Electric l

Toshiba lUnited Technologies l

*USWEST l

*Viacom Inc. l

*Walt Disney Co. lll

Westinghouse l

WorldCom l


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