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Syco Entertainment, often known simply as Syco, is a British entertainment company established by British entertainment mogul Simon Cowell. Syco has a range of artists in its company from Little Mix, to Camila Cabello. The company operates a record label, talent agency, film, music, and television production company, as well as a music publishing house. It operates a global joint venture between Cowell and Sony Music Entertainment focused on the production and marketing of music, television, film and digital content. It employs a staff of more than 50 in offices in London and Los Angeles, and manages a string of high-profile television and music brands through partnerships with the label Sony Music and the television production company, FremantleMedia. Syco was initially owned by Simon Cowell, then sold to Sony. But in 2010, a new company was formed as a 50/50 partnership between Cowell and Sony, keeping the pre-existing name Syco but titled as Syco Entertainment.
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Entertainment
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Steel Connect, Inc. is a company that provides supply chain management services to software companies. During the dot-com bubble, the company had a market capitalization of $41 billion and owned the naming rights to the home stadium of the New England Patriots. Between 1995 and 1999, its stock was the best performing stock in the United States, returning 4,921%. After the crash of the bubble, the stock price fell 99%.The company was formerly known as College Marketing Group, CMG Information Systems, CMGI Inc., and ModusLink Global Solutions, Inc.
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Supply chain management
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Herbal Magic is a Canadian weight loss and nutrition company based in Toronto, Ontario. Operating through a network of approximately 150 weight loss and nutrition centres across Canada, Herbal Magic is Canadas largest commercial weight loss company. The program includes one-on-one personal coaching, natural health products and grocery store bought food.
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Weight Loss
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Wilmington Trust is one of the top 10 largest US institutions by fiduciary assets. Wilmington Trust is currently a provider of international corporate and institutional services, investment management, and private banking, and is renowned for its prestigious brand and services. The firm was founded on July 8, 1903, as a banking, trust, and safe deposit company by DuPont president T. Coleman du Pont. In 2010, it became a subsidiary of M&T Bank.
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Financial
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The Harmony Company was, in its heyday, the largest musical instrument manufacturer in the United States. They made many types of stringed instruments, including ukuleles, acoustic and electric guitars, and violins.
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Musical instruments
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Annas Linens was an American retailer. It was based in Costa Mesa, California. The company was founded in 1987 by Alan Gladstone, who named the store after his mother. The first location opened in Los Angeles, California. In 1993, the chain filed for bankruptcy due to the poor economy of southern California at the time. It emerged from bankruptcy in December 1994.The stores were stocked with household items, with merchandise sold at discounts. Stores were usually 10,000 square feet in size. It had more than 250 stores in 19 states. In early 2012, it partnered with DDR Corp. to expand into Puerto Rico. In 2015, the chain filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy with money owed to creditors in excess of 100 million dollars. Most locations closed. On Aug. 27, 2015, 41 store leases were taken over at auction out of a debtors sale by National Stores Inc.
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Retail
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Constantin Medien AG is a German media group, based in Ismaning near Munich, active in the area of sports, film and event marketing to medium-sized media companies. As an independent player in the German media market, the Group operates independently and is not attached to the large media groups. Founded by Thomas Haffa, after the fallout from the dot-com bubble and reorganisation, the company has grown through acquisition. In 2007 it purchased a stake in the Swiss media company Highlight Communications AG, which in 2008 was increased gradually to 47.3%. The former name EM.TV stands for Entertainment, Merchandising, TV.
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Marketing
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Morning Consult is a privately held technology and media company established in 2013. The company specializes in online survey and market research and has offices in Washington, D.C. and New York City. Morning Consult provides survey research tools, data services and news to organizations in business, marketing, policy and politics. The companys proprietary brand tracking platform, Brand Intelligence, tracks nearly 1,000 companies, products and individuals by surveying 5,000 people every day.
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survey research
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Compact Verlag is a German publishing house, based in Munich. It was founded in 1976 by the publisher Friedrich Niendieck. In October 2008, Niendieck announced the sale of its publishing group to the publishing company European Professional Publishing Group . Since September 2014, Compact Verlag belongs to Vermar, which has its headquarters in Berlin. Compact publishes about 1,000 books and electronic products. In addition, licenses have been issued in over 35 countries.
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Publishing house
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Shandong Iron and Steel Group Co Ltd , commonly known as Shandong Steel, is a Chinese steel company based in Jinan. 2015 it was ranked as 12th biggest steel producer of the world with an production of 21.7 millions tonnes of steel. In 2009, it took a 67% stake in Rizhao Iron and Steel. SISG is controlled by the provincial government of Shandong. SISG was formed in March 2008 when the provincial government of Shandong merged two state-owned steel producers.
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Steel industry
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The NPD Group, Inc. is an American market research company founded on September 28, 1966 and based in Port Washington, New York. In 2017, NPD ranked as the 8th largest market research company in the world, according to the independent AMA Gold Report Top 50 report. The NPD Group operates in 20 countries, across more than 20 industries. NPD measures how consumers shop across all channels, sourcing data from both retailers and consumers to quantify sales, share, distribution, and velocity. The market research company collects point-of-sale data, tracking retailers, distributors, and foodservice operators, measuring whats selling at 1,250 retailers, across 300,000 stores. NPD also interviews 12 million consumers annually and tracks millions of their receiptsfollowing the same consumers over timeto understand shifting tastes and trends.
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Market research
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KWG Property Holdings Limited is one of the largest privately owned property developers in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It is engaged in the development of residential, commercial and hotel properties in Guangzhou, Suzhou, Kunshan, Chengdu and Beijing. In particular, KWG is focusing on developments in the Zhujiang New Town, a new central business district in Guangzhou and the venue of Asian Games in 2010.The company was established in 1995 and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007.
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Real estate
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Tasty Bite is a range of consumer packaged goods, of pre-prepared ready to eat, all-natural Indian and pan-Asian cuisine. Launched in 1995, Tasty Bite offers over 30 products across 4 categories: entres, rices, noodles and meal inspirations. The flavors range from classic Indian restaurant favorites such as a Channa Masala to unique fusion items such as the Tofu Corn Masala. The products require no cooking, have no preservatives, require no refrigeration, and can be used as a main dish or a side or entree dish. Tasty Bite products are available in every state in the U.S. and are sold in most major grocery chains in the international/Asian foods aisle.
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Consumer Packaged Goods
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Virgin Vacations is the inclusive tour arm of Virgin Atlantic Airways featuring land components in combination with Virgin Atlantic air to London. It was initially established in 1994. In May 2002, Virgin Vacations became a separate company after partnering with other airline carriers traveling to various worldwide destinations. Virgin Vacations offers travel packages to Europe, Asia, the South Pacific, Central America, South America, and South Africa. Travellers have the option of choosing complete vacation packages or the opportunity to create their own personalized holiday. The current chairman of Virgin Vacations is Richard Branson. Virgin Vacations is an allied member of United States Tour Operators Association .
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Tour operator
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Sinofert Holdings Limited or Sinofert , formerly Sinochem Hong Kong Holdings Limited, is the largest all-rounded fertilizer enterprise in China. It is engaged in chemical fertilizer business in China, which involves research and development, production, procurement, distribution of various fertilizers. It is 53% owned by Sinochem Group, 22% owned by PotashCorp, and the remaining 25% is traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
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Chemical fertilizer
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DirecTV Now is a subscription streaming television service owned by AT&T, which allows subscribers in the United States to stream programming from cable channels without the long term commitment. The service was launched on November 30, 2016. As of May 2018, the service has 1.5 million subscribers. The data used by the service is zero rated for AT&T Mobility customers while on the AT&T network, as well as T-Mobile US customers who have the carriers Binge On feature enabled. On July 13, 2017, it was reported that AT&T is going to introduce a cloud-based DVR streaming service as part of its effort to create a unified platform across DirecTV and DirecTV Now streaming service, with U-verse to be added soon.
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Pay television
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Broadspectrum, formerly known as Transfield Services Ltd , is a corporation operating in Australia but owned by Spanish company Ferrovial since June 2016. Broadspectrum was publicly listed until it was purchased by Ferrovial. Broadspectrum provides operations and maintenance, asset management, project and capital management outsourcing and infrastructure development services to the resources and industrial, infrastructure services and property and facilities management sectors. Broadspectrum operates in Australia and New Zealand.
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Infrastructure
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The Valentine-Seaver Company was an American furniture company. It was founded by Louis Lincoln Valentine and Andrew E. Seaver. In 1927 it was acquired by the Kroehler Manufacturing Company. Designs by the company are held in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
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Furniture company
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Kao Corporation is a chemical and cosmetics company headquartered in Nihonbashi-Kayabacho, Ch, Tokyo, Japan.
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Personal care
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Nectar is a Serbian beverage company. It is headquartered in Baka Palanka, Serbia.
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Beverages
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The National Union of Somali Journalists is a media organization based in Mogadishu, Somalia. It was formed in 2002, in response to an attempt by the short-lived Transitional National Government to re-establish regulation over the local media industry. The agency also organizes events as part of the broader national development initiatives, including a 2014 Media Peace campaign in the capital, which was held in conjunction with the Somali Media Independent Houses Association to mark International Peace Day. NUSOJ has its headquarters in the Waberi District. National Union of Somali Journalists is currently led by Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimuu the Secretary General of the Union and Mahir Jama the President of NUSOJ. They were elected in Mogadishu on 17 May 2016. Both Moalimuu and Mahir are respected journalists in Somalia.
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Media
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Samsung Life Insurance is a South Korean multinational insurance company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, and a subsidiary of the Samsung Group. It is the largest insurance company in South Korea and a Fortune Global 500 company. Samsung Lifes principal products include life, health insurance and annuities. Samsung Life was a private company from its foundation in 1957 until it went public in May 2010. The IPO was the largest in South Korean history and made Samsung Life one of the countrys most valuable companies measured by market capitalization. Its headquarters are situated across from Namdaemun, a historic gate located in the heart of Seoul.
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Insurance
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Notimex is the official Mexican news agency, their slogan is News Agency of the Mexican State. It was created on August 20, 1968, to handle coverage of the 1968 Summer Olympics. It is headquartered in Mexico City and has eight regional coordinating offices throughout Mexico. Its staff consists of over 300 writers, editors, photographers, reporters and correspondents. It was originally called Agencia Mexicana de Noticias Notimex. Its goals, according to law, were contributing to the realization of the peoples right to information through the provision of professional news services, to Mexican state and any other person, entity or public body or private, domestic or foreign, with genuine editorial independence .In June 2006, following reform of its charter, its official name became Agencia de Noticias del Estado Mexicano. The principal reform was independence from the Secretary of the Interior and administration by a governing board composed of representatives of the state.
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News agency
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Nexity is a French company that focuses on real estate development and the provision of related services.
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Real estate development
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TrueBridgeCapital Partners is a boutique alternative asset investment firm. TrueBridge offers venture capital fund of funds services, as well as direct investment opportunities. Founded by Mel Williams, formerly of the UNC-Chapel Hill Management Company, and Edwin Poston, formerly of the Rockefeller Foundation, in 2007.TrueBridge raised its first venture capital-focused fund of funds in 2008 with a final fund size of more than $310 million, its second fund in 2011 closing on more than $342 million, and its third fund in 2014 closing at a hard cap of $400 million. In 2016, TrueBridge closed its fourth and latest fund at a hard cap of $400 million. The firm invests primarily in first quartile venture managers focused on the Information Technology sector, and also directly co-invests in select technology companies alongside those managers. The firm dedicates a portion of its investments to seed-stage funds.
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Investment Management
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Horizon Nuclear Power is a British energy company that is expected to build new nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom. It was established in 2009, with its head office in Gloucester, and is now owned by Hitachi.
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electricity generation
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UST Global is an American multinational provider of Digital, IT services and solutions, headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, United States. Stephen J. Ross founded UST Global in 1998 in Laguna Hills. The company has offices in USA, India, Mexico, UK, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Spain and Poland. UST Global specializes in Healthcare, Retail & Consumer Goods, Banking & Financial Services, Telecom, Media & Technology, Insurance, Transportation & Logistics and Manufacturing & Utilities. Sajan Pillai is the Chief Executive Officer of UST Global and a member of the companys board of directors.
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IT Services
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GD Power Development Company, or Guodian Power Development Company, the subsidiary of China Guodian Corporation, engages in the generation and supply of electric power and heat. It was founded in 1992 and was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 1997. It is headquartered in Beijing, China.
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Power generation
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West Channel is a Greek local channel which broadcasts from the city of Kozani for the periphery of West Macedonia. It was created and launched in April 1991 by the lawyer Vicky Papafilippou and the businessman and benefactor Zissis Dardalis. The two founders had a common dream: the creation of a channel of communication between the residents of Western Macedonia and these who live in Thessaloniki and Athens . West Channel has 17 transponders that cover all the places of the Region of Western Macedonia, up to the south-eastern regions of Albania and the Republic of Macedonia. The character of program is informative, however it falls short of the remainder factors that characterize a modern regional TV Station.
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Television
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Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd. is one of the largest real-estate developers in Japan and is involved in property management and architecture research and design. MEC owns Japans second tallest building, the Yokohama Landmark Tower, as well as the Sanno Park Tower and Marunouchi Building in Tokyo. Mitsubishi Estate has its headquarters in the Otemachi Building in temachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo. It is one of the core Mitsubishi companies.
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Real estate
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Dean Foods is an American food and beverage company and the largest dairy company in the United States. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the company maintains plants and distributors in the United States. Dean Foods has 66 manufacturing facilities in 32 U.S. states and distributes its products across all 50. The companys 58 brands include DairyPure, TruMoo, Friendlys, Mayfield, Deans, Meadow Gold, Tuscan and Alta Dena. Dean Foods was acquired by the Dallas-based Suiza Foods Corporation, who later adopted the Dean Foods name.
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Food processing
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Hritage was a banner of discount grocery stores owned by Provigo to market smaller supermarkets in Quebec. First launched on February 24, 1982 by Provigos Econoprix subsdiary, the Hritage banner eventually began to replace some Provigo/Dominion locations in the 1980s after Dominion Stores entirely withdrew from Quebec. The years 1993 and 1994 saw a brief resurgence of new Hritage stores .The increasing popularity of the Maxi division coupled with the aging image of Hritage had Provigo reconsidering about the future of the chain. In 1995, Hritage was disbanded and its stores were either converted to Maxi or, to a lesser extent, Lintermarch brand. The first two logos of Maxi used a similar font as Hritages logo.
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Supermarket
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Amrutanjan Healthcare Limited is an Indian pharmaceutical company established by Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao in Mumbai in 1893.
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Ayurvedic
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Collins Industries is a Hutchinson, Kansas company that specializes in manufacturing of Type A and Type B school buses, and also manufactures ambulances and other special-purpose vehicles. The company was founded in 1971 and as of 1998 it was made up of four subsidiaries: Collins Bus Corporation, Wheeled Coach Industries, Inc. World Trans, Inc. and Capacity of Texas, Inc. The company has about 900 employees, in three manufacturing facilities.
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Manufacturing Transportation
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Future Games was a video game company based in Beroun, Czech Republic. The company focused mostly on adventure games. The studio was closed in 2011 due to financial problems after release of Alter Ego.
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Game development
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Flottweg SE is a manufacturer of machines and systems for mechanical liquid-solid separation. The headquarters is located in Vilsbiburg , Germany. The company develops and produces decanter centrifuges, separators and belt presses. Flottweg has subsidiaries and branch offices with service centers in the United States , Peoples Republic of China, Russia, Italy, Poland, France, Australia and Mexico.
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Separation Technology
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Roku, Inc. is an American publicly traded company based in Los Gatos, California. Roku manufactures a variety of streaming players that allow customers to access Internet streamed video or audio services through televisions. Roku has an advertising business and also licenses its hardware and software to other companies.
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Consumer electronics
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Studebaker-Worthington was a diversified American manufacturer created in 1967 through a merger of Studebaker, Wagner Electric and Worthington Corporation. The company was in turn acquired by McGraw-Edison in 1979.
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Manufacturing
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Francis Baylie was a shipbuilder based in Bristol, England, during the 17th century, a well established merchant shipbuilder who also built warships for the English Royal Navy.
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Shipbuilding
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Port Line was a passenger and cargo shipping company, initially formed as the Commonwealth and Dominion Line in 1914, and in operation in one form or another until 1982.
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Shipping
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Perpetual Entertainment, founded in March 2002, was an American developer, publisher and operator of networked multiplayer games and MMORPGs. Their headquarters was located in San Francisco, California, United States. From October 2007 to February 2008 the company was known as P2 Entertainment. The company was best known for its development of two MMOs: Star Trek Online and Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising.
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Computer and video game industry
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Razor Entertainment Group , founded in 2005, was a private company that produced trading cards and collectibles. Based in Dallas, Texas, it was best known as a producer of baseball cards and other lithographic products.
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lithographic commercial printing
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Foros is a boutique investment bank headquartered in New York. Founded in 2009 by former Deutsche Bank M&A chief Jean Manas, the firm provides divestitures, joint ventures, capital raising, spin-offs and split-offs, raid defense, and mergers and acquisitions advisory services. In its first months of operation, Foros advised Virgin Mobile USA on its $680 million sale to Sprint Nextel and Ciena Corporation on its $520 million purchase of Nortels Metronet Ethernet Networks. In November 2009, Foros advised IMS Health in its $5.2 billion acquisition by the private equity firm TPG and the Canada Pension Plan. This was the largest private equity sale in 2009.After its initial year, the firm has played a role in several large transactions. In 2010, Foros advised Interactive Data Corp. in its $3.4 billion acquisition by Silver Lake Partners and Warburg Pincus. In 2011, Foros advised Medco on its $28.5 billion sale to Express Scripts with JP Morgan and Lazard.
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Investment Banking
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Shaw Media was the television broadcasting division of Shaw Communications. Shaw Media owned the Global Television Network, which broadcasts nationally via 13 television stations, as well as 19 specialty channels including Slice, HGTV Canada, Showcase, Food Network Canada, and History. On April 1, 2016, Shaw Medias properties were subsumed by sister company Corus Entertainment.
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Mass media
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Minera San Xavier is a subsidiary of the Canadian company New Gold Inc. that operates a gold and silver mine near Cerro de San Pedro, a municipality of San Luis Potos just 12 kilometers away from the capital city of the state. The city of San Luis Potos was founded after gold was discovered in the hills near Cerro de San Pedro in the 15th century. The company has defied legal resolutions against its operation by arranging economically with the Mexican ecological authority, the Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources , pushing them to disregard ecological research done by some independent institutions and to instead accept most other independent as well as company-funded and government required studies. Continuous internal and external monitoring of mining activities has not produced any evidence of contamination to date.
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Mining
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The Fender Custom Shop is a division of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, housed within their headquarters complex in Corona, Riverside County, California. The Fender Custom Shop produces special-order guitars for customers through a Custom Shop dealer network, creates limited edition high end quality guitars, builds limited edition amplifiers, and does some research & design for the parent company.
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Musical instruments
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Vox Solid Communications is a privately owned public relations company with headquarters in Las Vegas, Nevada and an office in Austin, Texas. The company is a boutique agency specializing in public relations, social media, marketing and promotions.
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Public Relations
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Air Service Training is an organisation in Perth, Scotland, that has been training engineers and pilots for airlines, maintenance organisations and the military since 1931. It is owned by Perth College UHI, with training taking place on the college campus and at Perth Airport, near Scone.
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Aeronautical engineering and flying training
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Rax Roast Beef is a regional U.S. fast food restaurant chain specializing in roast beef sandwiches. The company is based in Ironton, Ohio. Once a major player in the fast food industry, Rax has extensively scaled down their operations since their peak in the 1980s. Their closest rival in terms of menu offerings is Arbys.
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Fast food
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Spectris plc is a supplier of precision instrumentation and controls. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
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Instrumentation
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Glenn Marine Group is a Singapore-based supplier of maritime services including naval logistics and the operation of shore-base support including cruise terminals and port operations.
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Maritime and
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Ever Shipping Lines Inc. is a company based in Zamboanga City with four ships, MV Ever Queen of Asia, MV Ever Queen Emilia, MV Ever Sweet and MV Rosalinda. They operate routes from Zamboanga City to Bongao, Tawi-Tawi, and Zamboanga City to Olutanga, Zamboanga Sibugay.
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Shipping
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Xcite Energy is an oil company based in the United Kingdom. The companys main asset is the Bentley Heavy Oil Field in the North Sea, although it also has a number of smaller assets included in License P.1979, located near to the Bentley Oil Field.
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Oil and gas
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Hitachi Shipbuilding Corporation is a major Japanese industrial and engineering corporation. It produces waste treatment plants, industrial plants, precision machinery, industrial machinery, steel mill process equipment, steel structures, construction machinery, tunneling machines, and power plants. Despite its name, Hitachi Shipbuilding no longer builds ships, having spun this business off in 2002.
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Heavy Industry
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Orexo is a pharmaceutical company based in Uppsala, Sweden initially financed with venture capital provided by HealthCap. The company was founded in 1995 and their first product Diabact UBT, a breath test for diagnosing the causative agent of stomach ulcers , was introduced in 2000. In 2003, the company adopted the name Orexo and in 2005 the company was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
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Pharmaceutical
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Whittle Shortline is a toy company owned and operated in the United States.
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Manufacturing
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Sal. Oppenheim is a German private bank founded in 1789 and headquartered in Cologne, Germany. It offers asset management solutions for wealthy individual clients and institutional investors. The bank became a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank in 2009. In 2017 Deutsche Bank decided to discontinue the Sal. Oppenheim brand and to fully integrate their business.
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Private banking
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Filmways, Inc. was a television and film production company founded by American film executive Martin Ransohoff, and Edwin Kasper in 1952. It is probably best remembered as the production company of CBS rural comedies of the 1960s, including Mister Ed, The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Green Acres, as well as the comedy-drama The Trials of OBrien, the western Dundee and the Culhane, the adventure show Bearcats!, the police drama Cagney & Lacey, and The Addams Family. Notable films the company produced include The Sandpiper, The Cincinnati Kid, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Ice Station Zebra, Summer Lovers, The Burning, King and Brian De Palmas Dressed to Kill and Blow Out. Filmways acquired famous companies throughout the years, such as Heatter-Quigley Productions, Ruby-Spears Productions and American International Pictures.
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Motion pictures
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Ingenious Media is a British media investment and advisory group founded in 1998 by Patrick McKenna, who is its chief executive officer. It has four operating divisions: investments, ventures, asset management, and corporate finance. The group works in media and entertainment, leisure, sport, clean energy, and real estate. In July 2014, Ingenious Media was investigated by HMRC for promoting tax avoidance schemes. In October 2014, HMRC sent accelerated payment notices to people who had invested with Ingenious Media, demanding payment of substantial amounts of tax.
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Investment
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Spotlight Innovation Inc. is a United States pharmaceutical holding company. The company currently maintains two subsidiaries: Caretta Therapeutics, Inc. and Celtic Biotech Iowa, Inc. Spotlight Innovation Inc. is based in Urbandale, Iowa and is publicly traded on the OTCQB marketplace under the stock ticker symbol, STLT.
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Health care
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Two River Consulting, LLC is a New York-based venture capital firm and merchant bank focused on the life science sector. It specializes in investments in life science, biotechnology, and in firms focused on developing preventative and therapeutic technologies for a broad spectrum of disease areas including oncology, cardiovascular disease, neurological disorders, and companion animal health care. Two River was founded in September 2004 by partners Joshua Kazam, Peter Kash, and David Tanen Dr. Arie S. Belldegrun, MD, FACS Joins Two River as Chairman and Partner. Reuters. 29 April 2008. Retrieved 26 June 2013.</ref > The firm has offices in New York City and Los Angeles.
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Private equity
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HiddenLevers is a financial technology company with offices located in both New York City and Atlanta. It provides financial advisors and professional traders with Web-based tools to assess macro risks and stress test portfolios. Advisors use the correlations engine and easy user interface to help clients understand risk in portfolios, showcase hedging strategies, and compare portfolios in several macro-economic outcomes.
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Financial advice
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Redline is a multinational wireless communications network designer and manufacturer headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada. It also maintains offices and operations in Florida, California, Romania and Oman. Redline Communications develops and sells wide-area industrial networks that operate over wide geographic areas. Redline sells wireless terminals that provide TCP/IP transport for fixed, portable and full-motion terrestrial and seaborne deployments as well as software, tools and services. Redline Communications products and technologies are used in a variety of markets and industries, including Oil and Gas, Military, Government and Telecom Service providers. The companys networks are sold directly to end customers, and its wireless terminals are sold indirectly though resellers.
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Communication equipment
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Parke-Davis is a subsidiary of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. Although Parke, Davis & Co. is no longer an independent corporation, it was once Americas oldest and largest drug maker, and played an important role in medical history. Parke-Davis was acquired by WarnerLambert in 1970, which in turn was bought by Pfizer in 2000.
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Pharmaceutical
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Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited , abbreviated as MIDHANI, is a specialized metals and metal alloys manufacturing facility in India, located in Hyderabad, Telangana. MIDHANI is an ISO 9001:2000 company with modern metallurgical facilities and technical competence.
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Metallurgy
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Tread Lightly! is a nonprofit organization in the United States with the mission to empower generations to enjoy the outdoors responsibly through stewardship to further the goals of responsible and ethical recreation. As a nonprofit, Tread Lightly! is a member-based organization. Individual, small business, corporate and other nonprofit members support and help spread the Tread Lightly! message. With more than 40,000 members and supporters and more than 80 official partners, Tread Lightly! continues to grow and have a more powerful educational impact.
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Outdoor
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Dahabshil Bank International , also known as the Dahabshil International Commercial Bank, is a bank headquartered in the federal republic of SomaliaDahabshil Bank International is one of the main banks in Djibouti. It is a subsidiary of DGH Group Dahabshiil. The bank has access to substantial foreign direct investment from the Gulf region.
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Banking
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The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society is a building society based in Hinckley, Leicestershire, UK, with origins dating back to 1861.
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Banking
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The Germanos Chain of Stores is a multinational chain of retail electronic goods vendors. They specialize in offering high-end electronic devices such as computers, digital cameras, mp3 players and mobile phones. They also offer fixed and mobile telephony as well as internet solutions. They belong to the Germanos Group which in turn is indirectly owned by the Greek mobile operator Cosmote.
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Retail
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Intrahealth Systems Limited is a privately held company that develops, licenses, supports and sells electronic health record software, medical practice management software, and related services. Founded in Auckland, New Zealand by Dr. Mark Matthews and Dr. Andrew Hall in 1997, they have since moved their headquarters to the City of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 2005. Apart from the head office, Intrahealth maintains offices in Auckland, New Zealand Sydney, Australia and Toronto, Canada.
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Health informatics
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Singingfish was an audio/video search engine that powered audio video search for Windows Media Player, WindowsMedia.com, RealOne/RealPlayer, Real Guide, AOL Search, Dogpile, Metacrawler and Singingfish.com, among others. Launched in 2000, it was one of the earliest and longest lived search engines dedicated to multimedia content. Acquired in 2003 by AOL, it was slowly folded into the AOL search offerings and all web hits from RMC TV to Singingfish were being redirected to AOL Video and as of February 2007 Singingfish had ceased to exist as a separate service. Singingfish powered audio search continues to live on for the time being at AOL Search and other AOL properties. However, little if any development has been done since August 2006. Singingfish powered video search is no longer publicly available and is now being re-directed to AOL Video Search.
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Internet Search
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Beijing Capital International Airport Co., Ltd. , majority owned by Capital Airport Holding, is engaged in the ownership and operation of the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China and the provision of related services. The company provides aircraft and passenger facilities, ground support services and fire-fighting services for airlines. It is also in charge of franchising ground handling agent services, in-flight catering services, retail shop operations, food and beverage businesses, and leasing of advertising spaces inside and outside the terminals. The companys H shares was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 1 February 2000. It plans to issue A shares on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in near future. Li Peiying, a former head official of the company from 19952003, was found guilty in February 2009 of accepting $4 million in bribes and stealing a further $12 million in public funds.
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Airport
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Basell Polyolefins was a joint venture between BASF and Royal Dutch Shell. Leonard Blavatniks Access Industries acquired it from the venturers for $5.7 billion in August 2005. In 2007, Basell merged with the privately owned US company Lyondell Chemical Company to form LyondellBasell, which went bankrupt in the US in January 2009 and emerged from bankruptcy in April 2010.Basell was the worlds largest producer of polypropylene and advanced polyolefins products, the worlds largest producer of polyethylene, and a global leader in the development and licensing of polypropylene and polyethylene processes, and a leader in catalysts.
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Polypropylene
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Deep Silver Dambuster Studios Ltd., doing business as Dambuster Studios, is a British video game developer located in Nottingham, England. The studio was set up by Deep Silver on 30 July 2014, as a successor to Crytek UK, which closed the same day, and continued the development on Homefront: The Revolution.
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Video game industry
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Galson Laboratories is an industrial hygiene and indoor air quality testing company. It was founded in 1970 by Allen Galson. The company specializes in helping companies comply with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration , and with any emerging legislation concerning indoor and outdoor environmental conditions. Galson is a member of the New York Association of Approved Environmental Laboratories. Galson is also one of fewer than 250 laboratories to qualify for the Industrial Hygiene Laboratory Accreditation Program.
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Industrial hygiene
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Kroton is the largest private educational company in the world and was founded in 1966 in Belo Horizonte. It has operated for over 45 years in all educational segments, such as preschool, elementary, secondary, adult high school, college preparatory school, free courses, and other related educational activities, as well as higher, professional, and post-graduation education.
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Higher education
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Calibre is a multi-channel Australian Menswear and Fashion label launched in 1989 by founder Gary Zecevic. Calibres aesthetic specialises in tailored suiting, casual wear and menswear accessories with an urban design edge.
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Fashion
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The American Express Company, also known as Amex, is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Three World Financial Center in New York City. The company was founded in 1850 and is one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is best known for its charge card, credit card, and travelers cheque businesses. In 2016, credit cards using the American Express network accounted for 22.9% of the total dollar volume of credit card transactions in the US. As of December 31, 2017, the company had 112.8 million cards in force, including 50 million cards in force in the United States, each with an average annual spending of $18,519.In 2017, Forbes named American Express as the 23rd most valuable brand in the world , estimating the brand to be worth US$24.5 billion. In 2018, Fortune ranked American Express as the 14th most admired company worldwide, and the 23rd best company to work for.
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Banking
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ONroute is the operating brand name of Host Kilmer Service Centres , a Canadian service company which operates highway rest areas along Highway 400 and Highway 401 in the province of Ontario. The company is a joint venture between international hospitality company HMSHost and Canadian businessman Larry Tanenbaums investment company Kilmer van Nostrand. The ONroute name is a modified version of the word enroute using the provinces postal abbreviation: ON.
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develop and manage
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Fisker Coachbuild was a car design firm based in Orange County, California. The company produced custom sports cars. It produced the Tramonto and Latigo CS. It also designed and manufactured aftermarket parts such as aluminum alloy wheels, engine covers and interior trim packages for select luxury vehicles. Fisker Coachbuild also provided design services for companies in various industries.
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Automotive
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Elegant Resorts is a luxury travel retailer based in Chester, UK. The company was founded in 1988 by Geoff Moss and Barbara Catchpole. The company was sold to Al Tayyar, a global travel group, in 2014 for a reported 14.3 million.
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Travel
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Plymouth Rock Studios was a proposed film and television production studio in Massachusetts. The studio had held a now-expired option to buy Waverly Oaks Golf Club in Plymouth as the site for the $650 million, 1,260,000-square-foot development originally slated to be complete in 2010. The proposal included fourteen sound stages 10-acre back lots, a multipurpose theater, a hotel and offices. The original proposed location for the studio complex was located in South Plymouth, near the town lines of Bourne and Wareham, but was rejected because of faulty land titles. Construction of the studio was planned to start in July 2009, but was delayed indefinitely in November 2009 when construction funding fell through weeks before the planned groundbreaking.
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Film
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Lojas Renner is the largest Brazilian department stores clothing company, headquartered in Porto Alegre - Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It was the first Brazilian corporation with 100% of shares traded on Stock Exchange and listed on the Novo Mercado, highest among the different levels of corporate governance in So Paulo Stock Exchange . The major Lojas Renners competitors are Marisa, Riachuelo, C&A, Forever 21 and Hering.
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Department store
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Fidelis Cybersecurity is a cybersecurity company focused on automated detection and response of advanced threats and data breaches. IBM, the United States Army and the United States Department of Commerce are among its customers. Fidelis offers network security appliances, which include the companys patented Deep Session Inspection architecture. The company claims speed and accuracy in network traffic inspection among its technical differentiators. In August 2012, General Dynamics announced an agreement to acquire Fidelis into its Advanced Information Systems division. In April 2015, Marlin Equity Partners entered into an agreement with General Dynamics to acquire Fidelis Cybersecurity Solutions with the intention of creating a new advanced threat defense service. In February 2016, the New York Times reported that Fidelis had been hired to provide the hardware and software to monitor the University of California network.
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Network Security
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Ultra is a Brazilian company operating in the sectors of fuel distribution, through Ipiranga, Ultragaz and Liquigs in the production of specialty chemicals, through Oxiteno in the storage of liquid bulk, through Ultracargo and in pharmacies, through Extrafarma, all of which are subsidiaries entirely controlled by Ultrapar holding. The company is publicly traded under the name Ultrapar on So Paulos stock exchange and on New Yorks .Ultra is Brazils fourth largest company, and according to the yearly publication Valor 1000 of the Brazilian newspaper Valor Econmico, its net revenue in 2013 was 60.9 billion reais .Ultra is among the 500 largest companies in the world, according to a ranking prepared by Fortune magazine in 2014.
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Conglomerate
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GreenButton was a New Zealand-based software firm. The company specialized in moving independent software vendors and enterprises to cloud computing. Founded in 2006, GreenButton was based in Wellington, New Zealand, with additional offices in Palo Alto, California and Seattle. GreenButton was acquired by Microsoft on 2 May 2014 its technologies were integrated into its Azure service.
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Cloud computing
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TESBL Inc, is a private American multinational conglomerate company that produces a variety of commercial and consumer products, engineering services and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers, from private consumers to major corporations and governments. The company operates four business units, known as Space Systems , Communications, Navigation, Surveillance / Air Traffic Mgmt , Integrated Mission Systems , Information & Sensor Solutions . TESBL is headquartered in Inglewood, California. Its current chief executive officer is Gopi Seti. As of Jan 2014, TESBL operates in over 32 countries and has offices in over 9 countries.
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Aerospace
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J is the tenth letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its normal name in English is jay or, now uncommonly, jy . When used for the palatal approximant, it may be called yod or yot .
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Engineering
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Life Is My Movie Entertainment is an American production company and film distributor based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2011 by Vincent Vittorio, specializing largely in independent documentary film with a focus on political, social, and human interest stories.
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Film and Television
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Jaipan Industries Limited is Indian home appliances company based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It manufactures and markets various Home Appliances and Non stick cookwares under the brand name of Jaipan. It is also manufactures of consumer durable products and Mobile handsets. It also markets its products in a number of countries like Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Bangladesh, Nepal, U.A.E. It has more than 140 products, 125 distributors and more than 6000 dealers across India. Its products include food processors, mixers, juicers, hand mixers, blenders, irons, sandwich toasters, pop-up toasters, roti makers, mechanical fans, home theatres, gas heaters, gas burners, water purifiers, vacuum cleaners, tea kettles, rice cookers, dutch ovens, ovens, stainless cutlery and dinnersets.
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Home appliances
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Telos Corporation is an information technology consulting company located in Ashburn, Virginia. The companys name is derived from the Greek word for purpose or goal. Telos primarily serves government and enterprise clients, receiving a large number of its contracts from the United States Department of Defense .
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Consulting
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Elektrisk Bureau or EB was a Norwegian manufacturer of telecommunication equipment. It was founded in 1882 and lasted until 1993 when it became part of Asea Brown Boveri . The company was located at Billingstad in Asker.
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Telecommunication
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Pica8, Inc. is a computer networking company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. Pica8 is a vendor of operating systems on white box network switches delivering software-defined networking solutions for datacenter and cloud computing environments. The companys products include Linux-based OpenFlow-supporting switching operating system PicOS, which is shipped either as standalone software or pre-loaded onto a range of 1/10/40 Gigabit Ethernet switches based on commoditized switches purchased from original design manufacturers .The companys approach is to combine commodity network hardware with Debian Linux, OpenFlow controller and Open vSwitch to create more democratic SDN solutions with competitive price compared to conventional embedded switches.
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Cloud Networking
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The Sowind Group is a Swiss Haute Horlogerie company founded by Luigi Macaluso and headed by Franois-Henri Pinault as its chairman since July 2011. Kering is the majority shareholder . Michele Sofisti was named CEO of Sowind Group in August 2011.
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Watchmaking
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Hot Entertainment is a Japanese adult video production company which has its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan and specializes in works featuring amateur actresses in reality videos.
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Pornography
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S is the 19th letter in the Modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
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Manufacturing
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Constellium is a global producer of aluminium semi-products with headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was created when Rio Tinto sold off Alcan Engineered Products to Apollo Management and FSI in 2011. Alcan Engineered Products was the result of various mergers and acquisitions between Pechiney, Alcan and Alusuisse. Constellium is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Euronext Paris since May 2013.It has a board of ten directors and maintain a one-tier board of directors consisting of both executive directors and non-executive directors . Under Dutch law, the board of directors is responsible for the policy and day-to-day management. The non-executive directors supervise and provide guidance to the executive directors. Constellium manufactures aluminium rolled products and extruded products based on a large variety of advanced alloys. It has customers in different industries, including mainly aerospace, automotive and packaging sectors.
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Aluminium production
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Heineken Malaysia Berhad is a major producer of beer and stout in Malaysia and has been listed on the Main Board of Bursa Malaysia since 1965. Among the brands they produce and market are Tiger Beer, Guinness, Heineken, Anchor Smooth, Anchor Strong, Kilkenny, Anglia Shandy, Malta, Paulaner, Strongbow, and Sol.
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Alcoholic drink
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Twinkl Educational Publishing is an online educational publishing house, producing teaching and educational materials. Headquartered in Sheffield, United Kingdom, Twinkl was founded by Jonathan Seaton and Susie Seaton. The company provides online teaching resources that are used in the majority of UK primary schools and by educators in more than 150 countries.
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Education
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Alabama National BanCorporation based in Birmingham, Alabama, was a bank holding company which was purchased by RBC Bank in 2008 for $1.6 billion. Prior to the RBC deal, the bank was the no. 3 banking company in Alabama with over $7 billion assets.
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Finance and Insurance
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