American Express Co.

Public Company, Headquarters Location
200 Vesey St., New York, NY 10285-1000, United States
(212)640-2000, (212)640-2458 fax, http://www.americanexpress.com

Primary SIC: Personal Credit Institutions, Primary NAICS: Consumer Lending
Description: Founded in 1850, as an express delivery business, American Express has grown into an international corporation whose principal products and services are charge and credit payment card products, and travel-related services offered to consumers and businesses. The company's Global Network and Merchant Services segment manages the Global Consumer Group, Global Merchant Services and Global Network Services. The Global Consumer Group offers charge and lending card products, and consumer travel services and stored value products such as Travelers Cheques. As of 2008, the company's Global Network Services had established more than 117 card issuing or merchant acquiring arrangements with banks and other institutions in 125 countries. Global Merchant Services provides access to rich transaction data through American Express' closed loop network. The Business-to-Business Group segment provides business travel, corporate cards, network services, merchant acquisition and merchant processing. American Express' various products and services are sold globally through direct mail, the Internet, third-party sales forces and direct response advertising. American Express cards permit cardmembers to charge purchases of goods and services at the millions of merchants that accept cards bearing the American Express logo. The company added net total of 8.4 million cards in 2007, bringing total worldwide cards-in-force to 86.4 million. More

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American Express Co., News and Information

Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems.(Editorial)
Journal of Advanced Transportation; 12/22/2009; 1896 words; ...A), represented by the European and American Schools have been developed. Those schools...article was processed personally by a Co-Editor--in--Chief. At this point I would like to express my great appreciation to Mr. Szymon Fierek...

Free films made freely: Paolo Gioli and experimental filmmaking in Italy.(GLOBAL CINEMA)(Critical essay)
CineAction; 12/22/2009; 6126 words; ...shooting and printing of films) ... I express my love for the cinema through the movie...Emilio Settimelli, Remo Chiti (all co-authors of the Manifesto of Futurist...the legacies of the European and North American avant-gardes while fashioning a body...

Extremists more willing to share their opinions, study finds.
NewsRx Health & Science; 11/22/2009; 1197 words; ...they are more willing to express themselves," said Kimberly Rios Morrison, co-author of the study...studies, Morrison and her co-author found that college...alcohol were more likely to express their opinions than others...implications for how Americans view the political opinions...

2010 National Tire Safety Week Announced.
Journal of Transportation; 11/21/2009; 1203 words; ...of Be Tire Smart partners are: AAA, American Car Care Centers (ACCC), Automotive...Big O Tires, Costco, Discount Tire Co., Dunn Tire, Expert Tire, Firestone...and Service, Wal-Mart Tire and Lube Express and many others. Tire and auto retailers...

Research from G.G. Harrigan and co-authors reveals new findings on agricultural and food chemistry.
Agriculture Week; 11/19/2009; 611 words; ...States, "MON 87460 contains a gene that expresses cold shock protein B (CSPB) from Bacillus...contact G.G. Harrigan, Monsanto Co., Prod Safety Center, 800 N Lindbergh...of Agricultural and Food Chemistry is: American Chemical Society, 1155 16th St., NW...

Finance: Full-service securities brokerage firm, card and consumer lending, foreign commercial bank and financial planning services. Services: Travel agency, information processing and related services.


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