Researcher,

I am looking to gether the following facts about some winshield wiper companies

1. Gross Sales
2. Profit
3. Materials / Labor Cost
4. Other similar and applicable

Some companies I'd like informatino on are

1. RainX (www.rainx.com)
2. Pylon (unknown)
3. Trico (may be spelled wrong, unknown)
4. Any other significant windshield wiper company

I'm looking to get a loan from a bank that needs this information to
back me, so this information needs to be professional, not just an
informal web page. If you could provide me with definite contact
information to get this (i.e. call this number to get it), that would
be okay too, but I'll give a tip if you can get me the documents.

If you have any questions, just let me know.

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Request for Question Clarification by omnivorous-ga on 15 Mar 2004 08:57 PST

JGortner --

Pylon is one of the Qualitor companies, which are owned by private
investment group, Wind Point Partners:
http://www.qualitorinc.com/

Trico is a private firm:
http://www.tricoproducts.com/index.cfm?location_id=49

RainX is also private:
http://www.rainx.com/frame_sitemap.htm

As a result, you'll have a hard time finding good data on gross sales,
let alone operating breakdowns.  The best sources of data might be
comparisons of auto parts manufacturing.  The authoritative source for
that is Harbour & Associates, which does a series of annual analyses:
http://www.harbourinc.com/

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

Might also want to check out D&B; of course you will have to pay for
each report, but that is one of the primary sources for data on
private companies.

Hi,

What does D&B stand for? I'd like to contact them somehow.

JGortner:

Dun & Bradstreet, though my experience is that their reports on
private companies are worth very little, as they rely on companies
supplying the data themselves:
http://www.dnb.com/us/

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA