Rank Xerox (see panel) are benchmarking enthusiasts and are happy to talk to other companies about it.

Rank Xerox also talks to non-competitors who excel in a particular function.

Many of the waning film company assets were hastily converted and pressed into 'Rank Xerox' service.

He was, however, an utterly brilliant entrepreneur who picked up the ball Rank Xerox dropped and took it right down the field.

Rank Xerox's "realistic plan" calls for the company to triple its revenues in the region, to $300 million, by 1995.

It should not be hard to persuade the sales staff in the three offices to defect to Rank Xerox.

But one thing Rank Xerox is finding easier is getting its products known.

Xerox will pay $960 million to increase its stake in Rank Xerox.

Benchmarking, originally described Rank Xerox, is usually carried out by individual companies.

The first award was made in 1992 to Rank Xerox.