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Caproni was an Italian aircraft manufacturer founded in 1908 by Giovanni Battista Gianni Caproni. It was initially named, from 1911, Societ de Agostini e Caproni, then Societ Caproni e Comitti. Caproni made the first aircraft of Italian construction in 1911. The manufacturing facilities were based in Taliedo, a peripheral district of Milan, close to Linate Airport, and for the Caproni Vizzola division, in Vizzola Ticino, close to MilanMalpensa Airport. During World War I, Caproni developed a series of successful heavy bombers, used by the Italian, French, British and US air forces. Between the world wars, Caproni evolved into a large syndicate named Societ Italiana Caproni, Milano, which bought some smaller manufacturers. The main subdivisions were Caproni Bergamasca, Caproni Vizzola, Reggiane and engine manufacturer Isotta Fraschini. Between the world wars, Caproni produced mostly bombers and light transport planes.
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Narec, since 2014 known as the National Renewable Energy Centre, is a part of the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, a UK technology innovation and research centre for offshore wind power, wave energy, tidal energy and low carbon technologies. ORE Catapults head office is based in Glasgow, Scotland. The centre operates multi-purpose offshore renewable energy test and demonstration facilities. It is very similar to other centres, such as NREL in the US and National Centre for Renewable Energies in Spain. The National Renewable Energy Centre is based in Blyth, Northumberland.
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Santee Cooper, also known officially from the 1930s as the South Carolina Public Service Authority, is South Carolinas state-owned electric and water utility that came into being during the New Deal as both a rural electrification and public works project that created two lakes and cleared large tracts of land while building hydro-electric dams and power plants. Its headquarters are located in Moncks Corner, South Carolina. As one of the largest power providers in South Carolina, Santee Cooper directly serves more than 165,000 residential and commercial customers in Berkeley, Georgetown, and Horry counties. With a diverse fuel and energy supply of coal, nuclear, oil, gas, hydro and some renewable energy, Santee Cooper supplies power to the cities of Bamberg and Georgetown, 30 large industrial customers, and Charleston Air Force Base. Santee Cooper generates the power distributed by some of South Carolinas electric cooperatives.
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Mobile Gas, headquartered in Mobile, Alabama, is the largest natural gas utility in coastal Alabama that provides energy to 89,000 homes and businesses. Its operations date back to 1836 when it began providing gas lighting for the city of Mobile. It has distribution territory in the cities of Mobile, Prichard, Saraland, Satsuma, Semmes, Bayou La Batre, Creola, Mt. Vernon, Spanish Fort, and Loxley. Within those cities, Mobile Gas operates 2,250 miles of pipeline and about 46 miles of transmission lines. their current revenue is $50- $100 million per year. Mobile Gas was one of two operating units of Sempra U.S. Gas & Power. In 2016 Sempra sold EnergySouth Inc, the parent company of Mobile Gas, to Spire Inc of St. Louis, Missouri. Spire Inc bought Mobile gas in 2016 as well as Willmut Gas for $334 million. Spire Inc is a publicly traded company and is the modern iteration of The Laclede Group, one of the first companies to have made up the Dow Jones.
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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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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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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.
Media, Marketing & Sales
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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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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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Amrutanjan Healthcare Limited is an Indian pharmaceutical company established by Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao in Mumbai in 1893.
Healthcare
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764
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.
Industrials
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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.
Transportation & Logistics
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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.
Media, Marketing & Sales
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
Healthcare
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809
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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Sunlabob Renewable Energy is a Lao commercial company that provides sustainable renewable solutions to areas that are off the electrical grid. It was licensed in 2001 and its headquarters and base are in Vientiane, the capital of the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic. The company operates as a profitable, full-service renewable energy provider selling hardware and providing commercially viable energy services. Besides Laos, Sunlabob also has operations in other parts of the world. In January 2008, Sunlabob extended its activities to the Kingdom of Thailand through their franchise partner Samui Service Solarpower Ltd. While the focus in the Lao PDR is more on rural electrification, the market in Thailand is more focused on promoting solar water heating and energy efficiency consulting, both for homes and businesses. In May 2009 after being approached by United States Agency for International Development.
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Northern Gas Networks Limited is the British company responsible for distributing gas to homes and businesses across Yorkshire, the North East and northern Cumbria, England. Northern Gas Networks Limited is one of eight gas distribution networks in the United Kingdom. The consortium which owns Northern Gas Networks Limited was successful in acquiring the North of England Distribution Network from National Grid and took over the control of the assets on 1 June 2005. Currently, the company supplies gas to approximately 2.6 million customers through a network of 37,000 kilometres of gas pipeline in Yorkshire, North East England and parts of Cumbria. The company performed the best in terms of total cost efficiency benchmarked by Ofgem, which regulates the companys contracts and charges. The company ranks 14 out of 12062 in which that is in the top 0.12% of Energy companies ranked in the index.
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Orlen KolTrans is a Polish rail company operating as a part of PKN Orlen. Orlen KolTrans is responsible for transporting PKN Orlen products and delivering crude oil to refineries.
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Mode Media, Inc. was a digital lifestyle media company where content was produced by anyone but reviewed by professional editors prior to publishing. In 2013, Mode Media had a valuation of about $1 billion as the company prepped for an IPO. In 2015, Mode Media had grown to over $100 million in revenue, primarily from providing native content, branded video and digital advertising to large brands but had over $100 million in expenses. On 15 September 2016, Mode Media abruptly shut down its operations.
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Creative Impulse Entertainment is a transmedia production company founded by Jan Lucanus in 2003. With the company mantra Intrigue, Entertain, Inspire Social Change, CIE bills itself as a home for artists that create content across multiple forms of media. CIEs production portfolio encompasses comic books , film, video, animation, music, and games, with subsidiaries dedicated to each craft .
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Montenegro Shipping Lines, Inc. is a domestic shipping line with headquarters at the port of Batangas City in the Philippines. It operates passenger, cargo and roll-on/roll off for vehicular traffic traveling between islands of the Philippines.
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Winco Incorporated is a power generator manufacturing company based in Le Center, Minnesota with its sister company Winpower.
Energy & Utilities
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Torresol Energy is a company dedicated to developing renewable energy and alternative energies, focusing on concentrated solar energy. It is based in the city of Getxo in Biscay Province , in the Basque Country of northern Spain. The companys goal is the technological development, construction, operation and maintenance of concentrated solar power plants.
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909
Ignite Media Group is a media company of online, out-of-home, and print enterprises, promoting Macau as an entertainment destination. The group has expanded to include Hong Kong and Guangzhou. The company is headquartered in Macau, China.
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United Country Real Estate is a franchise-based real estate marketing company. The company provides leads, marketing programs, advanced training and technology solutions to affiliated realtors that pay a franchise fee. It operates more than 3,000 websites targeting local markets. The websites collectively obtain 2.9 million monthly unique visitors. The franchise system provides vast support in terms of marketing, technology and training. From a marketing standpoint, United Country publishes catalogs and listings, pays for advertising, develops marketing programs, creates brochures, postcards and email content, provides office space and computer systems and support. The company differentiates itself from other brokerages by offering comprehensive services, from advanced technology solutions to personal consultative services and innovative marketing solutions. The company also offers an in-house real estate advertising agency, Enhanced Marketing Solutions.
Media, Marketing & Sales
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920
KAvZ is a bus manufacturer in Kurgan, KGN, Russia. The factory started producing buses in 1958, based on trucks from GAZ. During the 1990s, it assembled Ikarus buses for the Russian market. Now a subsidiary of GAZ, it specialises in producing small buses, in particular school buses. KAvZ is a subsidiary of Russian Buses which is a subsidiary of GAZ Group. Starting in 2015, the GAZ Group has introduced a single brand for all its bus manufacturing subsidiaries, and newly manufactured vehicles now feature the deer badge of the GAZ company.
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Orionette is a historic German motorcycle brand. The Orionette AG fr Motorfahrzeuge was a German motorcycle manufacturer. The company was founded in 1921. The companys headquarters was the Industriehof Oranienstrae 6 in Berlin-Kreuzberg. There was also the serial production of the Orionette. It was one of the most important companies in the automotive and motorcycle industry in Berlin. The company built a range of 129 cc , 137 cc , 148 cc and 346 cc two-stroke machines with mainly unitdesign engines and two or three-speed gearboxes. The design department, headed by Engelbert Zaschka, also produced some interesting unorthodox designs. Unfortunately the very desmodromic lay-out of this interesting two-stroke engine still remains secret. It is called system Zaschka. At last later sales declined and in 1925 the company went bankrupt and closed.
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Action for Economic Reforms is a Philippine non-government organization engaged in research and advocacy. It was founded in 1996 by a group of progressive scholars and activists as an independent, reform-oriented and activist policy group. AER works on macroeconomic issues, with an emphasis on fiscal policy and tax policy and administration, and looks at their impact on equity, poverty reduction, and sustainability. As part of its macroeconomic intervention, AER also addresses exchange rate, monetary, and trade issues. AER likewise concerns itself with creating the conditions for long-term growth. In this context, AER gives attention to the role of institutions. It has pursued advocacy on building state capacity that will enable markets and correct both market and government failures. A key aspect of the work on institutions is the promotion of transparency, especially pushing for a Freedom of Information law in the Philippines.
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Home Instead Senior Care is a multinational network of franchises specializing in non-medical in-home care for the elderly, in support of aging in place. Headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, it is the largest senior care franchise in the world, with 1000+ independently owned and operated offices worldwide.
Healthcare
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949
Stobart Rail Freight Ltd is a railway freight service operator in the United Kingdom. Stobart Rail comes under the Rail division of Eddie Stobart Logistics, and carries intermodal freight for the group. The service is operated by rail partner, Direct Rail Services.
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Drammens Is is a former ice cream manufacturer based in Drammen, Norway. Drammens Is was founded in 1937. Among the brands made by Drammens Is were Gullkrone, Kjempe-Yes, Hip, Hawaii, Mr. Yankee, Break, Luksuspinne, Kjempe-Nuggi, Sjokoladepinne, Banansplit, Twin, Kokosboller and P Minuttet. On 4 June 1997, a car bomb exploded outside a Bandidos MC clubhouse in Drammen as a part of the Great Nordic Biker War. The Drammen factory was completely destroyed after a fire due to the bombing. Soon afterwards the company was bought by Nestl who took over the rights to the brands, and made an agreement with Diplom-Is, a Norwegian ice cream manufacturer regarding production and distribution of Drammens Is products. After large losses in the Norwegian ice cream market, Nestl closed down its Norwegian ice cream division in 2005.
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Gauldal Billag is a Norwegian bus operator operating in the municipalities of Rros, Holtlen and Midtre Gauldal in Sr-Trndelag. The company also operates express buses to Trondheim and Oppdal and cooperates with sterdal Billag on a NOR-WAY express bus between Trondheim and Oslo. The company has its headquarters in Rros. The company also has 25 trucks that are operated for Schenker. It also operates a workshop in Rros and offers charter tours. The company was founded in 1966 and is owned by the municipalities of Holtlen, Midtre Gauldal and Rros, and TrnderBilene .
Transportation & Logistics
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kio Bankas was a Lithuanian commercial bank based in Kaunas. More than 50% of shares are owned by Lithuanian businessman Vladimir Romanov who therefore is in the control of the bank. It was the fifth largest and oldest private bank in Lithuania. In October 2006 during internet conference on the news portal Delfi.lt Vladimir Romanov announced his plans of selling his shares to the strategic investor. GE Money, a branch of General Electric, as one of the possible buyers was mentioned by Romanov. In common with other banks kio Bankas suffered from the effects of credit crunch and on 26 August 2008 rating agency Standard & Poor downgraded the banks status from stable to negative. The organisation sponsored Lithuanian football club FBK Kaunas and Scottish team Hearts. Romanov was the owner of Hearts and a board member of FBK Kaunas. In February 2013 the bank was revealed to have poor asset quality, weak risk management and lack of proper operating data.
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Kremikovtzi AD was Bulgarias largest metalworking company. The construction of its facilities began on 5 November 1960 and the first production capacities were put into operation in 1963 to produce cast iron and coke, with production extending to cover other areas in the 1960s and 1970s. The company was privatised in 1999, 71% of it was acquired by a Bulgarian owned company Daru Metals . In 2005 Valentin Zahariev and Kiril Zahariev sold 100% of Finmetals Holdings for US$110 million to Global Steel Holdings Limited , owned by Pramod Mittal, brother of the highly successful Lakshmi Mittal. Kremikovtzi is not related to the Arcelor Mittal group. The new management brought by the Global Steel Holdings Limited has embarked on an investment program aiming to increase the product quality, reduce the production costs and widen the product range.
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Ryman Healthcare is a New Zealand retirement village and rest home operator. It is listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange and is one of the largest companies listed on the NZX 50 Index. Ryman Healthcare has 31 operational villages across New Zealand and one in Melbourne is developing another five villages in Victoria, Australia. Its name is a portmanteau of its two founders, John Ryder and Kevin Hickman, who founded the company in 1984.As at December 2017, Ryman Healthcare has a market capitalisation of over $5.2 Billion NZD. It has not had to raise capital since its IPO in 1990, funding all its development from operational cash-flows. Rymans business model is a mixture of property development and healthcare services.
Healthcare
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Eckel Industries is an acoustics noise control company founded 1952 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company engineers and constructs anechoic sound chambers.
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Contemporary Services Corporation, is a crowd management and security company. They operate at concerts, professional sporting events, collegiate athletic events, and conventions.
Corporate Services
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Meghna Group of Industries is one of the largest Bangladeshi industrial conglomerates. The industries under this conglomerate include chemicals, cement, consumer products, real estate, insurance, securities, utilities etc. MGI was established by Mostafa Kamal, a pioneer Industrial leader in the private sector of Bangladesh. It set up the Bangladeshs first private economic zone.
Industrials
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1,051
TV 2 Gruppen is Norways largest commercial media company. TV 2 Gruppen provides services for TV, Teletext, radio, Internet, Web TV, broadband-TV, mobile telephones and other information formats. The company owns TV 2, TV 2 Zebra, TV 2 Nyhetskanalen, TV 2 Filmkanalen, TV 2 Sport, TV 2 Science Fiction, TV2.no, TV 2 Mobil.
Media, Marketing & Sales
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1,060
Berliner-Joyce Aircraft was an American aircraft manufacturer. It was founded on 4 February 1929 when Henry Berliner and his 1922 company, Berliner Aircraft Company of Alexandria, Virginia, joined with Maryland Aviation Commission leader Captain Temple Nach Joyce. Berliner-Joyce hired William H. Miller as chief designer, and opened a 58,000 square foot factory in Dundalk, Maryland, near Logan Field. The facility operated one of the largest private wind tunnel operations of the time. The Great Depression ended the civil aircraft production market, so Berliner-Joyce concentrated on designing aircraft for the USAAC and US Navy. In May 1929 the company received its first order, for the Berliner-Joyce XFJ. Other projects, the P-16 and OJ-2, also received orders, but in 1933 North American Aviation bought controlling interest in the company and appointed its own executives. In January 1934.
Industrials
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General Revenue Corporation is a United States debt-recovery organization that specializes in the recovery of defaulted student loans and consumer loans. GRC is a subsidiary of SLM.
Corporate Services
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1,094
Nine Entertainment Company Holdings Ltd. is an Australian publicly listed media company. Originally a 50/50 joint venture with Consolidated Media Holdings, in June 2007 PBL announced that it would sell a further 25% to CVC Capital Partners for A$515 million. In September 2007, it was announced that the transaction was to go ahead at the increased purchase price of approximately A$526 million.
Media, Marketing & Sales
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1,100
Hearst Shkulev Media / InterMediaGroup - one of the leading Russian media holdings that publishes such famous brands as ELLE, Elle Girl, Elle Decor, MAXIM, Marie Claire, Happy Parents / Parents, Psychologies, DEPARTURES, Antenna-Telesem, StarHit, Va-Bank in Russia and Ukraine. Hearst Shkulev Media has 55 regional branches and representative offices in Russia and Ukraine. The total circulation of publications exceeds 11 million, the total audience is over 16.2 million readers. Hearst Shkulev Digital - a digital media branch of Hearst Shkulev Media, comprising a network of womens Internet portals , project MaximOnline.ru, mobile applications and digital editions. Regional Network of Hearst Shkulev Digital is a network of city portals such as NGS, the city portal of Ekaterinburg E1.RU.
Media, Marketing & Sales
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1,106
Seatrade is an Antwerp-based international transportation and shipping company specialised in the transport of perishables and other sensitive cargoes. Seatrade is the largest specialized refrigerated shipping company in the world, operating a fleet of near 100 specialised reefer vessels. The company was founded in 1951.
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The Myanma Foreign Trade Bank is a state-owned bank specializing in foreign banking. Its provides trade finance and foreign exchange-related banking to the government, state enterprises, and the international community residing in Myanmar. MFTB also manages Burmas official foreign currency reserves. Until recent economic reforms, MFTB had a monopoly on foreign exchange and customer base. The bank was established under the Financial Institutions of Myanmar Law of 1990.
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Grape Solar is a renewable energy company headquartered in Eugene, Oregon, which is dedicated to the manufacturing and marketing of solar photovoltaic modules. They manufacture solar power kits which are available from a number of retailers, including Home Depot, Costco, and Amazon. Grape solar was originally known as Centron Solar, but was forced to change its name after a lawsuit with German solar company Centrosolar.
Energy & Utilities
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Minarelli is an Italian motorcycle engine manufacturer which was founded by Vittorio Minarelli. It is now part of the Yamaha group.
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The Centre for Railway Information Systems { } designs, develops, implements and maintains most of the important information systems of Indian Railways. It is located in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi. CRIS was established in 1986 by the Ministry of Railways of India.
Information Technology
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The Compagnie gnrale transsaharienne was a French company founded in 1923 that provided road and air transport in the French colonial territories that covered most of the Sahara. It was acquired by a rival in June 1950.
Transportation & Logistics
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MMA Creative is an award-winning marketing, advertising and public relations agency headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, with an office in Cookeville as well.
Media, Marketing & Sales
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The Christian Broadcasting Association is a New Zealand non-profit radio production company, set up to produce Christian programmes for secular radio stations and non-Christian audiences. It predominantly produces programmes for Newstalk ZB and Radio Sport. According to the associations website, it aims to communicate the essentials of the Christian faith to people who do not identify as Christians and would never set foot inside a church, and produced 4000 programmes between 2000 and 2015.The associations programmes are presented by a range of announcers with secular broadcasting experience, including parenting advisers Ian Grant and John Cowan, writer John Cooney, documentary maker Rob Harley, TV personality Petra Bagust, pastor Frank Ritchie, media consultant Tim Sisarich, One News reporter Joy Reid, voice talent Julia Bloore and TV personality Dayna Vawdrey.
Media, Marketing & Sales
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JEA , located in Jacksonville, Florida, is the eighth largest community-owned electric utility company in the United States and largest in Florida. As of 2009, JEA serves more than 417,000 electric customers, 305,000 water customers and 230,000 sewer customers. Besides Jacksonville , JEA also has customers in Clay, Nassau and St. Johns counties.
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Banque Raiffeisen is a Luxembourgian banking and financial services company. Founded in 1926, it is one of the oldest banks in Luxembourg. The bank is independent from foreign shareholders. It is a member of the International Raiffeisen Union , which is an association of cooperatives based on the ideas of Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen.
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JAAZ Multimedia is a film production and distribution house in Bangladesh.
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FERROVIENORD S.p.A. is an Italian transport company, part of the FNM Group, that manages the network of regional railway concessions owned by the group in northern Italy.
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General Patent Corporation is an intellectual property firm headquartered in Suffern, New York that provides patent licensing and enforcement on a contingency basis. GPC also provides IP advisory services including strategy, management, patent portfolio mining, patent triage, technology transfer, and other IP-related services. The company has been privately held since it was founded in 1987 by Alexander Poltorak to assist inventors and IP owners in licensing and enforcing their IP rights. The company was incorporated in 1989.Since 1996, GPC has been actively licensing and enforcing a portfolio of smart connector patents. In 1997, GPC filed two patent infringement suits against IBM and U.S. Robotics in the Southern District of New York and Against Hayes and seven modem manufacturers in the Central District of California. In 1998 GPC sued Motorola. All defendants settled by taking a license under the patents.
Corporate Services
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Rakontur is a Miami-based media studio founded by Alfred Spellman and Billy Corben in 2000. The word Rakontur comes from French, which means a person who is skilled in relating stories.
Media, Marketing & Sales
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Loesche is an owner-managed engineering company founded in Berlin in 1906 and currently based in Dsseldorf, Germany that designs, manufactures and services vertical roller mills for grinding of coal, cement raw materials, granulated slag, industrial minerals and ores. At present, more than 400 people are working for Loesche in Germany and around 850 are employed worldwide. In addition to its new subsidiary in Indonesia, Loesche has operations in Brazil, China, India, Russia, South Africa, Nigeria, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States, and its represented by agents in more than 30 countries.
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Valero Energy Corporation is a Fortune 500 international manufacturer and marketer of transportation fuels, other petrochemical products, and power. It is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, United States. The company owns and operates 16 refineries throughout the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom, with a combined throughput capacity of approximately 3 million barrels per day, 11 ethanol plants with a combined production capacity of 1.2 billion US gallons per year, and a 50-megawatt wind farm. Before the 2013 spinoff of CST Brands, Valero was one of the United States largest retail operators with approximately 6,800 retail and branded wholesale outlets in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and the Caribbean under the Valero, Diamond Shamrock, Shamrock, Ultramar, Beacon, and Texaco brands.
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AlterGeo, formerly known as Wi2Geo, is a Russian IT company specializing in the development of a global hybrid positioning system which combines Wi-Fi, WiMAX, GSM, GPS, LTE, IP address and network environment approaches. It also created cross-platform location-based services Gvidi and AlterGeo, and hyperlocal banner ad system Local Hero. According to the Financial Times, AlterGeo is one of four Russias next tech titans. The company was named winner and finalist of multiple domestic and international awards in the field of technology and media, and currently is a Skolkovo Innovation Center resident. It received funding from several prominent investors, including Intel Capital and Esther Dyson.
Information Technology
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4 Digital Group was a media consortium in the United Kingdom. The group won the licence to operate the second national DAB radio multiplex, as advertised by Ofcom in December 2006. The consortium, led by Channel 4 Radio, is a combination of the existing commercial radio operators and brands new to radio. The group said that they wish boost the up-take of digital radio in the United Kingdom in a similar manner to the growth of digital television since the introduction of Freeview. Their strategy for this is the introduction of ten new national stations, including both speech and music services, and advertising for the format.
Media, Marketing & Sales
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Aktien-Gesellschaft Weser was one of the major German shipbuilding companies, located at the Weser River in Bremen. Founded in 1872 it was finally closed in 1983. Altogether, A.G. Weser built about 1,400 ships of different types, including many warships. A.G. Weser was the leading company in the Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG, a cooperation of eight German shipbuilding companies between 1926 and 1945.
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Horizon Power is a commercially focused, State Government-owned, power company that provides power supplies to Western Australia. It is responsible for generating, procuring, distributing and retailing electricity to residential, industrial and commercial customers and resource developments in its service area. Horizon Power was established in 2006 during reforms to Western Australias electricity sector. They operate in the Pilbara, Kimberley, Gascoyne/ Mid-West and the Southern Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. Horizon Powers head office is based in Karratha with regional offices in Broome, Kununurra, Carnarvon, Esperance and Port Hedland, and administrative support delivered from Perth. Horizon Power are responsible for delivering electricity to 47,000 connections, supplying more than 100,000 residents and more than 10,000 businesses in regional towns and remote communities.
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Koleje Mazowieckie is a regional rail operator in the Masovian Voivodeship of Poland.
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Crozer-Keystone Health System is a five-hospital health system based in Delaware County, Pennsylvania and serving Delaware County northern Delaware and parts of western New Jersey.
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BusanGimhae Light Rail Transit Operation Corporation, also known as B&G Metro is a private corporation which was established in 2003 to operate the BusanGimhae Light Rail Transit in Gimhae, South Gyeongsang, South Korea.
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Woodward, Inc. is the worlds oldest and largest independent designer, manufacturer, and service provider of control systems and control system components for aircraft engines, industrial engines and turbines, power generation and mobile industrial equipment. Woodward, Inc. was founded as The Woodward Governor Company by Amos Woodward in 1870. Woodward Governor Company initially made controls for waterwheels and then moved to hydro turbines. In the 1920s and 1930s Woodward began designing controls for diesel and other reciprocating engines and for industrial turbines. Also in the 1930s, Woodward developed a governor for variable-pitch aircraft propellers. And when the United States militarys first turbine-powered aircraft successfully flew, its GE engine had a Woodward control.
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Bre-X was a group of companies in Canada. Bre-X Minerals Ltd., a major part of Bre-X based in Calgary, was involved in a major gold mining scandal when it reported it was sitting on an enormous gold deposit at Busang, Indonesia . Bre-X bought the Busang site in March 1993 and in October 1995 announced significant amounts of gold had been discovered, sending its stock price soaring. Originally a penny stock, its stock price reached a peak at CAD $286.50 in May 1996 on the Toronto Stock Exchange , with a total capitalization of over CAD $6 billion. Bre-X Minerals collapsed in 1997 after the gold samples were found to be a fraud. Busangs gold resource was estimated by Bre-Xs independent consulting company, Kilborn Engineering , to be approximately 71,000,000 troy ounces .
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First Niagara Bank was a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation-insured regional banking corporation headquartered in Buffalo, New York. Its parent company, First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. was the 44th-largest bank in the United States with assets of over $37.1 billion as of June 30, 2013.
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Valpadana is an Italian manufacturer of tractors. The company is headquartered in Fabbrico in the Province of Reggio Emilia, in the region of Emilia-Romagna, in Italy. The company manufactures tractors for agricultural uses. It was purchased by ARGO SpA in 1995, and operates as part of the Argo Tractors Group, a division of Argo SpA. Argo is the owner of Landini, McCormick Tractors and formerly Laverda .
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TEMSA Global is a coach, bus and light truck manufacturer located in Adana, Turkey. The company is part of the Sabanc Group, a large Turkish industrial and commercial conglomerate. TEMSA is a member of the Turkish Automotive Manufacturers Association. Temsas Adana plant has an annual production capacity of 11500 vehicles 4000 buses and coaches and 7500 light trucks. The TEMSA logo was redesigned in October 2009 and presented officially to the media and customers at the fair Busworld Europe in Kortrijk, Belgium. Some of the TEMSA buses were included in Bus Driver which was made by SCS Software in 2007.
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Pico Technology is a UK-based manufacturer of high-precision PC-based oscilloscopes and automotive diagnostics equipment, founded in 1991. Their product range includes the PicoScope line of PC-based oscilloscopes, data loggers, automotive equipment, and most recently, handheld USB-based oscilloscopes. Since their inception in 1991, Pico Tech has been researching and developing PC-based oscilloscopes, when the market standard was analogue storage oscilloscopes. Pico Technology is one of two European scope manufacturers, and competes in the low to middle end of the instrumentation market. Pico Technology won The Queens Award for Enterprise in 2014 , and was named a Key player in the Global Electronic Test & Measurement Instruments Market by Global Industry Analysts.
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Oregon Iron Works, Inc. is a United States-based manufacturer of complex structural components and systems and specialized vehicles, located in the Clackamas area in the southeastern suburbs of Portland, Oregon . Established in 1944, it is involved in a number of different industries, supplying products ranging from high-speed boats for military use to purpose-built girders for roadway bridges. It has production facilities in Clackamas and in Vancouver, Washington, and currently employs about 400 people. In May 2014, the company announced that it was merging with Portland-based Vigor Industrial.
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Srlandsruta AS is a Norwegian bus company that operates in Western Vest-Agder. It was founded in 1951 in a merger of 13 companies. The company has about 100 employees and operates on contract with Vest-Agder Kollektivtrafikk with base in Mandal. The most important route is Kristiansand - Mandal - Farsund - Flekkefjord that operates on a half-hour headway. The company is owned by the holding company Torghatten ASA who also owns Widere, Bast Fosen, Norgesbuss, Trnderbilene and many more companies.
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Pengrowth Energy Corporation is a Canadian oil and natural gas company based in Calgary, Alberta. Established in 1988 by Calgary entrepreneur James S Kinnear, it was one of the largest of the Canadian royalty trusts , with a market capitalization of US$4.12 billion at the end of 2007. Its assets are approximately evenly distributed between oil and natural gas. Pengrowths assets are in the Western Canada sedimentary basin, a geologic region which has a long history of productivity in crude oil and natural gas. In addition to the properties in western Canada, the company has assets in the Atlantic Ocean off of Nova Scotia. Pengrowth produces petroleum ranging from heavy crude oil to light oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas. Proved reserves as of 2006 were reported to be 200 million barrels of oil equivalent with an additional 160 million barrels of probable reserves.
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The Jersey Electricity Company or Jersey Electricity is a public limited company, and the sole provider for electricity in Jersey. The JEC has two sites around the island, Queens Road, St Helier, the site of 2 Rolls Royce Olympus gas turbines and La Collette Power Station where there are 4 Sulzer Diesels, 1 Rolls Royce Olympus, and 3 Parsons steam turbines.
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BOC International Holdings Limited, shortly BOCI, is the wholly owned subsidiary of Bank of China, which offers investment banking and securities brokerage services. It was established in 1998 and headquartered in Hong Kong. It has subsidiaries in New York, London, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing.
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Sandvika Fjordturer is a passenger ferry operator in Oslofjord in Akershus, Norway. The company operates from Kadettangen outside of Sandvika to the islands of Borya, Brnnya, Ostya and Langra on contract with Ruter, serving route 711. The company operates the ferries M/S Rigmor and M/S Rigfar, the first being the oldest wooden ferry in regular scheduled traffic in Norway. The company has 40,000 passengers annually. Kadettangen is served by the lines 705 and 706 of the Ruter bus network. The nearest railway station is Sandvika.
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Trustwave Holdings is an information security company that provides threat, vulnerability and compliance management services and technologies for more than 3 million business customers in 96 countries. The companys international headquarters is located in downtown Chicago, and regional offices are located in London, So Paulo, and Sydney. The company also operates Security Operations Centers in Chicago, Denver, Manila, Minneapolis, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Warsaw, and Waterloo in Canada. Trustwave is currently the only company that is an authorized PCI Forensic Investigator in all geographic regions. Trustwave is a standalone business unit and cyber security brand of Singaporean telecommunications company Singtel Group Enterprise.
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The Zentralbahn is a Swiss railway company that owns and operates two connecting railway lines in Central Switzerland and the Bernese Oberland. It was created on January 1, 2005, with the acquisition of the independently owned LuzernStansEngelberg line, and the Brnig line of the Swiss Federal Railways. The company has its headquarters in Stansstad. The railway owns the infrastructure of the 74 km long inter-regional Brnig line, which links Lucerne and Interlaken over the Brnig Pass, and the 25 km long LuzernStansEngelberg line from Hergiswil, on the Brnig line some 9 km out of Lucerne, to Engelberg. Both lines are built to the 1,000 mm metre gauge, and use rack railway technology to climb their steepest gradients, although most of both lines uses conventional adhesion. The railway operates two hourly InterRegio express services, one between Lucerne and Interlaken, and one between Lucerne and Engelberg.
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Elektromrea Srbije is a Serbian national transmission system operator company with the headquarters in Belgrade, Serbia. It was founded in 2005 after being split from Elektroprivreda Srbije and it is specialized in the transmission of electrical power. It is a member of the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity.
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Valley National Bank of Arizona was a bank based in Phoenix, Arizona, founded in 1900 and acquired by Bank One in 1992. The bank was one of Arizonas leading financial institutions during the 20th century and the last major independent bank in Arizona at the time of its acquisition.
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Chemische Werke Kluthe GmbH is a German-based chemical company headquartered in Heidelberg. The Kluthe group has 23 German and 39 international marketing bases and produces a total of 160,000 tons of goods to supply in 51 countries.
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Bryan Health is a not-for-profit healthcare organization located in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. The system operates an acute-care hospital, several outpatient clinics and a College of Health Sciences, as well as a physician network and a heart institute.
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Spire Inc. is a public utility holding company based in St. Louis, Missouri, providing natural gas service through its regulated core utility operations while engaging in non-regulated activities that provide business opportunities. Its primary subsidiary Laclede Gas Company is the largest natural gas distribution utility in Missouri, serving approximately 631,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in the City of St. Louis and ten counties in eastern Missouri. Its corporate headquarters is located in the 700 Market building in downtown St. Louis. On April 29, 2016, the company began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SR. It had previously been known as the Laclede Group, trading under the symbol LG.
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In 2017 OIL rebranded as Vistra, becoming part of the Company Formation division. Vistra provides a broad range of services and solutions. Vistra employs over 3000 employees in 73 offices across 44 jurisdictions.
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KP Media is a Ukrainian publishing company who publishes several magazines, including Korrespondent, an English language newspaper, Kyiv Post, and owns several internet websites.
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GRNlive represents over 1000 journalists who report on-demand for major news organisations, including CBC News, France 24, RT News, CBS News, BBC News, Al Jazeera and Fox News. GRNlive correspondents are available for live radio or in-vision interviews and reports. GRNlive has provided coverage for every major news event in the past decade, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the tsunamis in East-Asia , the post-elections protest in Iran, the red-shirt revolt in Thailand, the Chilean Mine crisis, the floods in Australia, the Arab Spring and the death of Osama bin Laden. GRNlive also represents photographers, artists, commentators, videographers and fixers for bespoke assignments. GRNlive also provides the link between news and information gathering in the field with risk analysis and corporate clients worldwide.
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Sivensa is the second largest Venezuelan steel producer. Sidor, which was nationalized in 2008, is the largest. However, Sivensa, founded in 1948, has been Venezuelas largest steel producer in the private-sector as of 2008.
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The Crown Coach Corporation is a defunct American bus manufacturer. Established in 1904, Crown was headquartered in Los Angeles, California until the mid-1980s, moving to Chino, California until its closure. Best known for its Supercoach school buses, the company also produced motorcoaches and various fire apparatus. Crown closed in March 1991 due to declining demand for school buses at the time. At the time of its closure, Crown Coach was a subsidiary of GE Railcar.
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Perusahaan Umum Pengangkutan Penumpang Djakarta or simplified as Perum PPD is an Indonesian state-owned company that moves in the transportation sector, specifically land transportation in Jakarta and areas around it.
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Abacus Federal Savings Bank () is a bank in the United States founded in December 1984 by a group of business leaders from the Chinese American community in New York City.
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Bollor Logistics, previously known as SDV and rebranded as of January 1, 2016, is the transport and logistics business unit of Bollor Transport & Logistics, a fully owned subsidiary of the Bollor Group. The company offers five types of services including multimodal transport, customs and regulatory compliance, logistics, global supply chain, and industrial projects. With its headquarters in Puteaux, on the western outskirts of Paris, France, the company runs a global network of 602 offices and employs 21,400 professionals worldwide in 105 countries.
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