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RUNNet was established in 1994 on the initiative of the State University of Fine Mechanics and Optics by the State Committee of Higher Education as a very important branch of the Russian Universities program. In the same year, an Agreement on Cooperation between RUNNet and NORDUnet was signed. The purpose of RUNNet is to provide a single common informational space to make available Russian and foreign research and educational resources while also integrating Russian information into the world community.
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MIPS Technologies, Inc., formerly MIPS Computer Systems, Inc., is an American fabless semiconductor design company that is most widely known for developing the MIPS architecture and a series of RISC CPU chips based on it. MIPS provides processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking, embedded, Internet of things and mobile applications. MIPS Technologies, Inc. is currently owned by Tallwood MIPS Inc., a company indirectly owned by Tallwood Venture Capital, who bought it on 25 October 2017 from Imagination Technologies, a UK-based company best known for their PowerVR graphics processor family. In turn, Imagination Technologies had bought MIPS after CEVA, Inc. pulled out of the bidding on 8 February 2013.
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ipad is the largest Bosnian producer and manufacturer of wood and lumber products and furniture. The conglomerate was founded in 1892 by German industrialist Otto von Steinbeis in the Bosnian town of Drvar. The company was known as the Bosnia Company until 1893, when von Steinbeis expanded and renamed it. After the First World War, with the formation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, it grew into one of the largest Bosnian industrial organizations. Between 1927 and 1937 ipad exported 150,000 m3 of lumber annually. After the Second World War, with the formation of socialist Yugoslavia, the local Bosnian authorities once again reformed ipad into a publicly owned conglomerate in 1948. During the 1960s business was expanded into the fields of furniture and joinery production. By the mid-1980s ipad owned over 195 manufacturing and sales companies, 11 research institutions, with over 35 representative offices across Europe and the Middle East.
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NS Solutions Corp. is a Japanese company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, that offers IT services.
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Indraprastha Power Generation Co Ltd is the electricity generation company of the Government of Delhi state in India.
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The Mount Sinai Health System is a hospital network in New York City. It was formed in September 2013 by merging the operations of Continuum Health Partners and the Mount Sinai Medical Center. The Health System is structured around seven hospital campuses and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The seven hospitals are: Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Brooklyn, Mount Sinai Hospital , Mount Sinai Queens, Mount Sinai St. Lukes, Mount Sinai West , and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai. The Health System includes more than 7,000 primary and specialty care physicians and 12 ambulatory surgical centers. It also encompasses more than 140 ambulatory practices throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester County, and Long Island, along with more than 30 affiliated community health centers. The Health System has 38,000 employees 29 multidisciplinary research, educational, and clinical institutes and 3,535 beds.
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Enel Amricas SA, formerly Enersis, is one of the main privately owned multinational electric power corporations in South America, with operations in four countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. It currently holds direct and indirect participation in electric power generation, transmission, and distribution businesses. The Enersis Group generating companies had an installed capacity of 14,832 MW, and through the distribution companies they supplied electricity to near 13.7 million customers, or approximately 45 million inhabitants. The controlling shareholder of Enel Amricas is Enel Energy Europe, which holds 60.62% ownership.
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Nexter Systems is a French government-owned weapons manufacturer, based in Roanne, Loire.
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Archaeology South-East is a large contracts division in southern England which provides professional archaeological services for public and private sector clients. Clients include commercial developers and environment agencies and private house owners who require historic building recording services. ASE is based in offices in Portslade, near Brighton with additional offices in London and Braintree and specialises in work in Southeast England including Greater London. Archaeology South-East is part of UCL Centre for Applied Archaeology , itself part of UCL Institute of Archaeology which is a global research and teaching institution. In conjunction with the CAA, staff at ASE have been involved in archaeological work and heritage consultancy in over 87 countries.
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Troublemaker Studios is a film production company founded and owned by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and producer Elizabeth Avellan. The company is based in Austin, Texas and is located at the former site of the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport. It also shares space with Austin Studios, which is managed by the Austin Film Society, and houses production offices, sound stages and the largest green screen in Texas. The companys visual effects division, Troublemaker Digital, is also located at the site, and uses six-core AMD Opteron processors and FirePro graphics accelerators on many of its productions. A second facility, Troublemaker Sound, is located in the hill country outside Austin. It provides post-production sound and editing facilities, including a mixing and dubbing sound stage powered by a large Pro Tools installation, and a full Avid Unity-based editing system.
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Empresas Pblicas de Medelln was established on 18 November 1955 as a residential public utilities company which, initially, only served the inhabitants of Medellin, its hometown. EPM is the head of a group that consists of 12 companies and has equity participation in eight others in the electricity and water sectors. Its affiliate EPM Telecomunicaciones, which operates under the name UNE, controls seven other companies in various cities around the country. Organized as a state-owned, industrial and commercial enterprise, owned by the municipality of Medellin, EPM provides electricity, gas, water, sanitation, and telecommunications. EPM in Colombia: Antioquia, Bogot, Manizales, Armenia, Pereira, Bucaramanga, Ccuta, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Cali, and Quibd. EPM international: in Panama, the company is implementing the Bonyic hydroelectric project through its affiliate Hidroecolgica del Teribe.
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Concrete Marketing is an independent marketing company based in New York, USA, founded by Bob Chiappardi and Walter OBrien in 1984.
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Banif Financial Group was a state-owned Portuguese international financial services group associated with the Banco Internacional do Funchal. In December 2015 Banco Santander Totta, a subsidiary of Santander Group agreed to buy lending operations of Portugals Banif-Banco Internacional do Funchal SA for 150 million euros. The company had a presence in Europe, South America, North America, Africa and Asia.
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GardaWorld Corporation is a Canadian private security firm, based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with 62,000 employees .GardaWorld International Protective Services, now the international division of the company, began operations in 1984. GardaWorld Security Corporation was established by its owner Stphan Crtier in 1995, who initially invested $25,000 in the company, then named Trans-Quebec Security Inc. The company runs physical security guard services and armoured car services globally, with over 200 offices worldwide.
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TogliattiAzot is a Russian chemical company, that has been described as the worlds largest ammonia producer. It is headquartered in Tolyatti, Russia. The main ammonia plant in Tolyatti was constructed as a joint project of the Soviet government and Armand Hammer and started operation in 1979. The Tolyatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline, the longest ammonia pipeline in the world, is operated by Transammiak. A marine ammonia terminal is under construction at Port Taman near Taman, Russia. Following the severe financial difficulties experienced during the past 10 years by the citys other major employer, AvtoVAZ TogliattiAzot has been responsible for providing most of the services and social programs to Tolyatti, a city of 720,000 inhabitants. In 2011, TogliattiAzot contributed more than 3 billion rubles in taxes to the economy and according to Russian newspaper RBC Daily, was awarded the Best Taxpayer award.
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General Motors Egypt S.A.E. is a car and motor vehicle manufacturer based in Maadi, Cairo, Egypt. The companys car factory is located in the 6th of October City and is one of the direct neighbors of the Egyptian German Automotive Company. Despite its name, the company is not a part of the General Motors Company, but only a joint venture with the local importer and car dealer Al-Monsour Automotive Company. Al-Monsour is the largest shareholder and with more than 1,000 workers the official owner and operator of the plant. After eight years of successful cooperation with the American General Motors starting in 1975, the dealer made a proposal to build a production plant in Egypt. So the company was founded in the same year. One year later, the plant was opened in an internal opening ceremony. At the official plant opening in 1985 the first cars rolled off the companys production line. The opening speech was given by the former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak.
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Penzadieselmash is a Russian industrial enterprise, manufacturing diesel engines and related products. It was founded in 1948 and is now part of the Transmashholding group.
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Now called The Great Journeys of New Zealand, KiwiRail Scenic Journeys is the former long-distance passenger train brand of KiwiRail, previously Tranz Scenic and InterCity Rail .
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The Alfa Romeo Avio was an Italian aviation company producing aircraft engines active since 1941. It was founded as a division of Alfa Romeo but was sold to Aeritalia in 1986 and then to Fiat in 1996. It was merged with Fiat Avio in 2003 as Avio S.p.A..
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Farmers Bank of Delaware was the second bank chartered by Delaware. It operated from 1807 until 1981, when it was on the verge of bank failure and was acquired by Girard Bank. At that time, the bank had 28 branches. For most of its existence, the bank was 49% owned by the state government, although it was privately managed.
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Kuehne + Nagel International AG is a global transport and logistics company based in Schindellegi, Switzerland. It was founded in 1890, in Bremen, Germany, by August Khne and Friedrich Nagel. It provides sea freight and airfreight forwarding, contract logistics, and overland businesses with a focus on providing IT-based logistics solutions. In 2010, Kuehne + Nagel was the leading global freight forwarder, accounting for nearly 15% of the worlds air and sea freight business by revenue, ahead of DHL Global Forwarding, DB Schenker Logistics, and Panalpina. As of 2017, it has more than 1,300 offices in 108 countries, with around 76,000 employees.
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Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG, also known as Schaeffler Group , is a manufacturer of rolling element bearings for automotive, aerospace and industrial uses before October 9, 2015 IPO in Germany. It was founded in 1946 by brothers Dr. Wilhelm and Dr.-Ing. E. h. Georg Schaeffler. In August 2008 the firm agreed to a staggered 12 billion acquisition of larger rival Continental AG, whereby Schaeffler would defer taking a majority stake until at least 2012. However, in 2011 Schaeffler sold off 1.8 billion worth of shares of Continental, reducing its stake from 75.1% to 60.3%. Currently, the company owns 46% of Continental shares. Schaeffler Group also owns the brands INA, FAG and LuK.During the merger, the company revealed that in World War II it had exploited thousands of slave labourers in its plants in German-occupied Poland.
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The Society of Hospital Medicine is an American membership society for hospitalists, that is, physicians and other caregivers who practice the specialty of hospital medicine. SHM is focused on supporting the hospital medicine industry and individual hospitalists. SHM provides continuing education and industry updates for hospitalists in its monthly publication, The Hospitalist, and peer-reviewed journal for hospital medicine, the Journal of Hospital Medicine. In addition to its publications, SHM conducts surveys, prepares written analyses and offers discussion forums that aid in the overall development of the specialty of hospital medicine. SHM is focused on providing resources, programs and mentoring for quality improvement program for reducing readmissions and hospital acquired diseases while optimizing transitions of care, glycemic control and overall patient care.
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Ion Media is an American broadcasting company that owns and operates over 60 television stations in most major American markets , as well as a digital sub-channel through that group & a major commercial television network. Its been a privately owned company since its founding.
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Playism is a digital distribution platform for PC games operated by Active Gaming Media, which was launched in May 2011. It focuses on attracting independent indie developers to its platform by offering services like localization, debugging, marketing and publishing for indie developers interested in releasing their games to foreign markets.
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Intalink is the organisation responsible for organising the management of public transport services, such as buses and trains, in Hertfordshire on behalf of Hertfordshire County Council. They design, create and promote cross-operator multi-journey tickets and occasionally run competitions. They manage Quality Bus Partnerships maintaining good standards along routes that need it. Along with this, they provide printed timetables, maps and leaflets promoting the above services.
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Arch Coal is an American coal mining and processing company. The company mines, processes, and markets bituminous and sub-bituminous coal with low sulfur content in the United States. Arch Coal is the second largest supplier of coal in the U.S. behind Peabody Energy. The company supplies 15% of the domestic market. Demand comes mainly from generators of electricity. Arch Coal operates 32 active mines and controls approximately 5.5 billion tons of proven and probable coal reserves, located in Central Appalachia, the Powder River Basin, Illinois basin and the Western Bituminous regions. The company operates mines in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming, and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. The company sells a substantial amount of its coal to producers of electric power, steel producers and industrial facilities.
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New Life Lodge is a substance abuse treatment center in Burns, Tennessee, owned and operated by Acadia Healthcare. New Life Lodge was established in 1983 as a nonprofit operation. Its site had previously been a Girl Scout camp. CRC Health bought the facility in 2006 and expanded and renovated it at a reported cost of $10 million. Its 228-bed capacity made it the largest drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility in the state of Tennessee. Three patients at the facility died in the 15-month period from July 2010 to October 2011. In July 2011, following reports of patient deaths attributed to negligence, the Tennessee Department of Childrens Services suspended new placements at New Life. In November, the Tennessee Department of Mental Health suspended the facilitys authorization to admit patients. A subsequent review by the Department of Mental Health identified several aspects of the facilitys operation that did not meet state standards.
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WEC Energy Group Inc., based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, provides electricity and natural gas to 4.4 million customers across four states through its brands We Energies, Wisconsin Public Service, Peoples Gas, North Shore Gas, Michigan Gas Utilities and Minnesota Energy Resources. WEC Energy Groups headquarters is located at 231 W. Michigan Street in Milwaukee. On 29 July 2015, the company completed its acquisition of Integrys Energy Group in a deal worth $9.1 billion.
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lectricit du Laos is the state corporation of Laos that owns and operates the countrys electricity generation, electricity transmission and electricity distribution assets. The company also manages the import and export of electricity from the national electricity grid of the country. EDL was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Vientiane. In July, 2010, the International Finance Corporation loaned $15 million to Electricite du Laos for the expansion of electricity networks and substations in rural areas of Laos. The company has also received debt financing from the Asian Development Bank. By 2020, the government expects to provide electricity to 90 percent of Lao households.
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Rogers Media, Inc. is a subsidiary of Rogers Communications, which owns Canadas largest publishing company, Rogers Publishing Limited, which has more than 70 consumer and business publications. Rogers Media Inc. also owns 52 radio stations, and several television properties including terrestrial television stations and cable television channels.
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Kongsberg Automotive Holding ASA is an automotive parts manufacturer based in Kongsberg, Norway. The company produces a broad range of parts with production plants throughout the world. The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange with the ticker symbol KOA.
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Providence Service Corporation is a Stamford-based American social services corporation listed on the NASDAQ. One of its subsidiaries, Providence Community Corrections, has been sued for racketeering and extortion.
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National Bank of Oman Founded in 1973, National Bank of Oman was the countrys first local bank, forging a rich history with Omans local businesses and its economy at large. Today, it is one of the largest banks in Oman, with a paid up capital of OMR 110.8 million and a regulatory capital of OMR 377.8 million NBO serves its customers through over 60 branches and 173 ATMs and Cash Deposit Machines across Oman, in addition to two international branches one in Dubai and, one in Abu Dhabi. The Bank has had an international presence in the UAE and in Egypt for over 10 years. In 2013, it secured a full banking license to offer conventional and Islamic finance services in Dubai, and is the only Omani bank licensed to operate in Dubai. The Bank has grown its UAE loan portfolio by over 134 per cent to OMR 92.6 million as at 30 June 2014, compared to OMR 39.4 million as at 31 December 2013.
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The Wiener Werksttte , established in 1903 by Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann, was a production community of visual artists in Vienna, Austria bringing together architects, artists and designers working in ceramics, fashion, silver, furniture and the graphic arts. It is regarded as a pioneer of modern design, and its influence can be seen in later styles such as Bauhaus and Art Deco. Following World War I, the workshop was beset by financial troubles and material shortages. Attempts to expand the workshops base were unsuccessful, and ultimately it was forced to close in 1932.
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Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an American content delivery network and cloud service provider headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. Akamais content delivery network is one of the worlds largest distributed computing platforms, responsible for serving between 15% and 30% of all web traffic. The company operates a network of servers around the world and rents out capacity on these servers to customers who want their websites to work faster by distributing content from locations close to the user. When a user navigates to the URL of an Akamai customer, his or her browser is redirected to one of Akamais copies of the website. The company was founded in 1998 by Daniel M. Lewin and MIT applied mathematics professor Tom Leighton. Lewin was killed aboard American Airlines Flight 11, which crashed in the September 11 attacks of 2001. Leighton currently serves as Akamais CEO.Akamai is a Hawaiian word meaning intelligent or clever.
Information Technology
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DB AutoZug GmbH was a German rail transport company that provided automobile and night passenger train services for Deutsche Bahn AG. It was based in Dortmund and was a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG. On 30 September 2013 the company was merged into DB AGs long distance division DB Fernverkehr. Night trains were operated with the sister company CityNightLine AG until CityNightLine AG merged with DB NachtZug. DB AutoZug GmbH and CityNightLine were subsidiaries of DB Fernverkehr AG which in turn was a wholly owned subsidiary of DB Mobility Logistics AG. DB AutoZug GmbH was also responsible for the car transporter trains from Niebll - Westerland, known as the SyltShuttle, as well as the Schifffahrt und Inselbahn Wangeroogeshipping .
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Ijevan Wine-Brandy Factory ), is a leading enterprise of Armenia for the production of wine, fruit wine and cognac. The factory was opened in 1951 in Ijevan during the Soviet period. The factory is located on Yerevan Street 9, Ijevan, Tavush Province.
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Tirana Logistic Park offers logistic services in Albania. Tirana Logistic Park is a project of 3 Class A warehouses and industrial premises in the biggest industrial area of Albania, along the Tirana-Durrs highway. It is the first logistic park in Albania intended to help this country to attract more foreign investment. With its 80000 m of buildings on 200000 m of land, TLP is the first logistic and industrial Park in Albania, able to meet European standards in storage and manufacturing that combine different logistic modes and solutions. It is one of the most important investments in Albania and one of the biggest logistic parks in South East Europe. This logistic park was open on October this year. The design and the construction of this park created a lot of buzz because it involved students from the Faculty of Architecture. The construction company wanted to share the experience with the students, since it is the first time that this kind of construction in Albania.
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New Holland Construction is a global full-line manufacturer of construction machinery. Along with New Holland Agriculture, New Holland Construction is a brand of CNH.
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GMM Grammy Public Company Limited is the largest media conglomerate entertainment company in Thailand. It claims a 70 percent share of the Thai entertainment industry. Grammy artists include Thongchai McIntyre, Silly Fools, and Loso. In addition to its music business, the company is involved in concert production, artist management, film and television production and publishing.
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BlueFire Renewables is a biofuel company that produces a cellulose-to-ethanol solution using wood waste, agricultural residue and municipal waste. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California and is publicly traded in the U.S. on the OTC Bulletin Board under the ticker symbol BFRE.On August 17, 2010, BlueFire Ethanol Fuels rebranded itself as BlueFire Renewables.
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DB Schenker Rail Rybnik S.A., till 2009 PCC RAIL RYBNIK S.A., formerly Przedsibiorstwo Transportu Kolejowego i Gospodarki Kamieniem w Rybniku, PTKiGK Rybnik , is a Polish rail company operating mainly in freight transport. The company owns 110 locomotives and 1577 freight cars. In 2005, it transported over 52,700,000 tons of cargo. Locomotives are painted red and light yellow , but the colours are to be changed to the blue-orange PCC Rail livery.
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Visayan Electric Company, Inc., also known as VECO, is the second largest electric utility in the Philippines and serves the cities of Cebu, Mandaue, Talisay and Naga and four municipalities of the greater part of Metro Cebu - Liloan, Consolacion, Minglanillla and San Fernando. Its franchise service covers an area of about 672 square kilometers with an estimated population of 1.73 million.
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ON Power , is an Icelandic power company, headquartered in Reykjavk, that produces and sells electricity to industry and households by harnessing renewable, mainly geothermal, resources. ON Power also provides water for space heating in Reykjavk and surrounding areas. Traditionally, ON Powers main service area is Reykjavk and surrounding areas in the south-west part of Iceland, although households and businesses can buy electricity from any supplier in Iceland, regardless of location.
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Novo Banco is a Portuguese bank introduced on 4 August 2014 by the Bank of Portugal to rescue assets and liabilities of Banco Esprito Santo . BES was the second largest private financial institution in Portugal in terms of net assets, as well as one of the oldest and most reputed Portuguese banks. The rescue of Banco Espirito Santo came after weeks of increasingly bad news about the financial state of the lender, particularly its exposure to a cascade of companies headed by its founding Espirito Santo family headed by Ricardo Salgado. BES was to be split into a good bank, renamed Novo Banco, and a bad bank, which will house BESs exposures to the troubled Espirito Santo business empire as well as its Angolan subsidiary BESA. Novo Banco was recapitalised to the tune of 4.9 billion euros by a special bank Resolution Fund. The Portuguese state lends the fund 4.4 billion euros. The bank had a board for the 2014-2017 mandate presided by Vtor Bento.
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Triodos Bank N.V. is a bank based in the Netherlands with branches in Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom and Spain. It claims to be a pioneer in ethical banking. Triodos Bank finances companies which it thinks add cultural value and benefit both people and the environment. That includes companies in the fields of solar energy, organic farming or culture. The name Triodos is derived from the Greek - tri hodos, meaning three-way approach . Triodos Banks balance sheet was worth EUR 5.3 billion by the end of 2012. The bank was founded as an anthroposophical initiative and continues to honor the work of Rudolf Steiner as the inspiration for its approach to banking. Savers can open conventional savings accounts, as well as ethical funds and venture capital. Triodos also has an active international department, supporting microfinance initiatives across the developing world.
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Bibby Financial Services is a multinational corporation that provides financial services to small and medium sized enterprises .The company is a subsidiary of the Liverpool-based Bibby Line Group, which was founded in 1807 by businessman, John Bibby . Bibby Line Group operates across a range of industries including shipping, retail, marine, offshore and distribution.
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Thyrocare Technologies Limited, based in Navi Mumbai, is a chain of diagnostic and preventive care laboratories offering preventive and health wellness tests on human blood samples. The company has 1,122 outlets and collection centers across India and parts of Nepal, Bangladesh and the Middle East.
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Ryder System, Inc., or Ryder, is an American provider of transportation and supply chain management products, and is especially known for its fleet of rental trucks. Ryder specializes in fleet management, supply chain management, and dedicated contracted carriage. Ryder operates in North America, the United Kingdom and Asia. It has its headquarters in suburban Miami, Florida within Miami-Dade County.
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The InfoSec Institute is an Elmwood Park, Illinois based company founded in 1998. It offers information technology and information security training for technology professionals, government officials, individuals and groups throughout the world. InfoSec Institute also conducts interviews with hacker groups.
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FremantleMedia Group Limited () is a British international television content and production/distribution subsidiary of Bertelsmanns RTL Group, founded in 2001, and evolved as Europes largest TV, radio, and production company. Its world headquarters are located in London. The company originated in a merger of Luxembourgish-German joint venture CLT-UFA, which consisted of Germanys largest television production company and held a variety of European TV and radio broadcasters on the Luxembourgish side, with their British rival Pearson TV, the television branch sold off by Pearson PLC. The merger led to the replacement of CLT-UFA with the RTL Group in July 2000, while the structures of Pearson were transfered into the new FrementleMedia a year later.
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Radio IP Software is a privately held software company specializing in mobile data connectivity and Mobile Virtual Private Network solutions. Established in 1998, Radio IP Software is headquartered in Montreal, Canada and has offices in Florida, USA and London, England. In 2009, Radio IP Software completed the acquisition of ipUnplugged AB, a Stockholm, Sweden based developer of the ipUnplugged Mobile VPN software, which was designed using the Mobile IP standard communications protocol and including the IPSec security standards.
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Putnam Investments is a privately owned investment management firm founded in 1937 by George Putnam, who established one of the first balanced mutual funds, The George Putnam Fund of Boston. As one of the oldest mutual fund complexes in the United States, Putnam has over $183 billion in assets under management, 79 individual mutual fund offerings, 96 institutional clients, and over seven million shareholders and retirement plan participants.
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Natsionalna Elektricheska Kompania EAD is a single-owned joint-stock electric company headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria. Bulgarian Energy Holding is the holder of the capital of NEK.The main companys activities are the generation of electrical energy, purchase and sale of electrical energy, import and export of electrical energy. NEK is the owner of 30 hydro and pumped storage power plants with a total installed capacity of 2713 MW. Most of the hydropower is generated within four hydropower cascades: Belmeken-Sestrimo-Chaira Batak, Vacha, and Dolna Arda. All are used to cover peak loads, and to regulate the grid system.
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Interactive Intelligence was a telecommunications software and cloud computing development company that provided unified business communications solutions for call centers, Voice over IP companies, and business process automation. In December 2016, the company was acquired by Genesys for $1.4 billion and its products were integrated into the PureCloud, PureConnect and PureEngage customer engagement platforms.
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Toll Global Logistics is a division of the Toll Group. It provides what it calls integrated logistics solutions across the Asia Pacific region. The division offers a range of transport, warehousing and value-added services.
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Mississippi Power is an investor-owned electric utility and a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlanta-based Southern Company. Mississippi Power Company is headquartered in Gulfport, Mississippi. Mississippi Power has 1,253 employees and serves most of the cities, towns, and communities within the 23 counties of southeast Mississippi. The utility also serves six Rural Electrification Administration-financed electric cooperatives: Coast EPA , Singing River EPA, Southern Pine EPA, Dixie EPA, Pearl River EPA, and East Mississippi EPA - and one municipality, City of Collins, with wholesale electric power which, in turn, they resell to customers in southeast Mississippi. At .20 cents per KwH they are one of the highest priced power companies in the United States.
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TAV Airports Holding was established as a joint venture between Tepe and Akfen groups and Airport Consulting Vienna in 1997. TAV Airports is the leading airport operator in Turkey as per the DHMI 2010 passenger statistics including transfer passengers.
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RTB Bor is a copper mining and smelting complex located in Bor, Serbia.
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Queensland Energy Resources Limited is an Australian oil shale mining and shale oil extraction company with the headquarters in Brisbane. It is the developer of the Stuart and McFarlane oil shale projects.
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TAL Technologies, Inc. is a privately owned software development company which develops and sells applications that automate data collection. Their main product lines include WinWedge, TCP-Com, TAL Barcode ActiveX Control and B -Coder Professional Barcode software.
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The Kniglich Wrttembergische Gewehrfabrik was a state owned firearms manufacturer from 1812 to 1874 and the predecessor of the Mauser arms manufacturer.
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The Compagnie Marocaine de Navigation or Comanav is a Moroccan shipping company and wholly owned subsidiary of the CMA CGM Group. Currently, it is the leader in the Moroccan market for maritime transport of passengers and freight, as well as port operations. In 2009, the company sold its ferries and passenger transport subdivision to Comarit which has since gone bankrupt.
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The Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation was formed in 2006 to give a unified voice to over 43 groups working for a better cycling and pedestrian environment in Toronto. The TCAT plan for active transportation emerged from consultation with environmental, health and transportation groups from across Toronto.
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UK Financial Investments was a limited company set up in November 2008 and mandated by the UK Government to manage HM Treasurys shareholdings in the Royal Bank of Scotland Group and in UK Asset Resolution which the residual assets of NRAM plc and Bradford & Bingley. UKFI formerly managed the Governments shares in Lloyds Banking Group, until the British Government confirmed all their shares had been sold on 17 May 2017. It also previously owned Northern Rock until that company was taken over by Virgin Money on 1 January 2012. UKFI ceased trading on 31 March 2018 and its business and assets were transferred to UK Government Investments, a limited company wholly owned by HM Treasury.
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Glitre Energi is a power company based in Drammen, Norway. The company operates electricity retailing, operates the power grid in Drammen, Nedre Eiker and Kongsberg and provides services within broadband. The company is owned by the City of Drammen and Buskerud County Municipality . Power production has been spun off in the partially owned subsidiary EB Kraftproduksjon, where EB owns 70% and E-CO Energi owns 30%.
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Trondheim Trafikkselskap or TT was the city public transport company for Trondheim, Norway between 1974 and 2001. It operated both the city buses, and the Trondheim Tramway until 1988. The company was owned by the city council. TT was founded in 1972 as a merged between the municipal owned tramway companies Trondheim Sporvei and Graakalbanen, and the bus company Bynesruten. In 1974, the company was reorganized as a municipal agency, and also took over the private bus operator Trondheim Bilruter, along with the city bus lines of Klburuten and NSB Bilruter. In 2001, the company merged with Hemne og Orkladal Billag to create Team Trafikk, that was later sold to Nettbuss.
Transportation & Logistics
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2,663
Aon Hewitt is a provider of human capital and management consulting services headquartered in the United States in Lincolnshire, Illinois. From 500 offices in 120 countries, it provided consulting, outsourcing, and reinsurance brokerage services. Hewitt Associates was founded in 1940 and ceased to exist as an independent entity at the completion of its purchase by Aon in October 2010. Hewitts operations were merged at that time with some elements of Aons consulting arm to become a new subsidiary of the Aon Group called Aon Hewitt. In 2017, the outsourcing department of Aon Hewitt was acquired by Blackstone and rebranded as Alight Solutions.
Corporate Services
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2,695
Fiat Industrial S.p.A. was an Italian company into which Fiat S.p.A. demerged most of its activities not directly related to automobiles at the start of 2011. Fiat Industrial served as a holding company for the activities of truck manufacturer Iveco an 89.3% stake in the agricultural and construction equipment producer CNH Global and FPT Industrial, which consists of the industrial and marine activities formerly part of Fiat Powertrain Technologies. The companys Chairman was Sergio Marchionne, who also served as CEO of Fiat S.p.A. and Chairman/CEO of Chrysler Group LLC, now merged as Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. On 1 January 2011, each existing share of Fiat S.p.A. was converted into one Fiat share and one Fiat Industrial share. This resulted in Exor , the largest shareholder of Fiat with a stake of around 30%, holding an equivalent stake in Fiat Industrial.
Industrials
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2,706
The Bank of Montreal, operating as BMO Financial Group, is a Canadian multinational banking and financial services corporation. One of the Big Five banks in Canada, it is the fourth-largest bank in Canada by market capitalization and assets, as well as one of the ten largest banks in North America. It is commonly known by its acronym BMO, which is also its stock symbol on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. On June 23, 1817, John Richardson and eight merchants signed the Articles of Association to establish the Bank of Montreal in a rented house in Montreal, Quebec. The bank officially began conducting business on November 3, 1817, making it Canadas oldest bank. BMOs Institution Number is 001. In Canada, the bank operates as BMO Bank of Montreal and has more than 900 branches, serving over seven million customers.
Financials
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2,708
XLAB d.o.o. is a software development company, founded in 2001 and based in Slovenia. XLAB focuses on cloud computing technologies, HPC, data analytics, IoT and cyber security. Its research department has participated in several European ICT research projects, most notably in XtreemOS, SLA@SOI and Contrail.
Information Technology
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2,719
Gulf Power Company is a U.S. investor-owned electric utility with all of its common stock owned by Atlanta-based Southern Company. Gulf Power Company is headquartered in Pensacola, Florida, and has a service territory that spans 7,550 square miles in 10 counties and 71 towns in northwest Florida. Gulf Power has approximately 428,000 customers in Florida. Gulf Power Company owns 1,600 miles of transmission lines and 7,636 miles of distribution lines that stretch from the western Alabama border to the Apalachicola River and from the northern Alabama border to the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf Power serves 394,772 retail customers directly and another 14,128 customers through the wholesale delivery of electricity to one investor-owned electric utility and one municipality.
Energy & Utilities
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2,721
The Ludwig Wagner Type Foundry was established in 1902 in Leipzig after the veteran punch cutter Ludwig Wagner took over the small foundry Gundelach & Ebersbach in 1901. The beginning of his modern type production and the extension of his business happened before 1914. The large manufacturing facilities in East Leipzig suffered extensive bomb damage during World War II. In 1949, the company was given new facilities in the Southwestern part of Leipzig. Ludwig Wagner AG was incorporated into Typoart by the East German government in 1960 and Wagner himself moved to the German Federal Republic.
Industrials
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2,724
Saia is an American trucking company, or a less than truckload trucking company, that originated in Houma, Louisiana in 1924. With original operation occurring in Louisiana and Texas for the first fifty years, expansion came after 1980 when coverage began reaching into more states within the South. Further expansion happened through mergers with other companies, which allowed Saia to provide service for thirty six states. Saia ranks within the top ten of LTL carriers in the United States, yielding $1.3 billion in 2014.
Transportation & Logistics
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2,731
Captive Minds Communications Group is an independent company managing productions, communities and original content creation for brands, broadcasters and talent in sport and adventure.
Media, Marketing & Sales
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2,741
Confederation Life Insurance Company, also known as Confederation Life, was a major Canadian insurance company and financial services provider. Its global head office was located in Toronto in what is now the Rogers Building. The company had operations in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Bermuda, and an inactive office in Cuba.
Corporate Services
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2,750
Autolink AS is a Norwegian distributor of automobiles. With port facilities in Drammen, Oslo and Malm, Autolink prepares and redistributes to dealerships three quarters of all automobiles in Norway. The company has outsourcing agreements with many of the largest automotive importers in the country. It also owns the railway company Cargolink and the shipping company Motorships.
Transportation & Logistics
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2,754
The Bulgarian State Railways are Bulgarias state railway company and the largest railway carrier in the country, established as an entity in 1885. The companys headquarters are located in the capital Sofia. Since the 1990s the BD has met serious competition from automotive transport. For the period 1994 to 2010 there is significant drop in the market share in the passenger and freight services and the lack of competent management worsens the situation. Up to 2002 the company owned/managed the railway infrastructure in the country, when according to EU regulations a new state company, the National Railway Infrastructure Company, was founded and became the owner of the infrastructure. Bulgaria is a member of the International Union of Railways . The UIC Country Code for Bulgaria is 52.
Transportation & Logistics
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2,763
Illusive Networks is a cybersecurity firm headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company produces technology that deceives cyber attackers by planting false information about given networks resources. Network administrators are alerted when cyber attackers use security deceptions in an attempt to exploit the network. Illusive Networks is the first company launched by the Tel Aviv-based incubator, Team8. In June 2015, Illusive Networks received $5 million in Series A funding from Team8.
Information Technology
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2,786
Haas Type Foundry was a Swiss manufacturer of foundry type. First the factory was located in Basel, in the 1920s they relocated to Mnchenstein.
Industrials
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2,790
Zimbabwe United Passenger Company is a parastatal company in Zimbabwe, which operates for urban and long-distance bus routes.
Transportation & Logistics
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2,806
ITM Power manufactures integrated hydrogen energy solutions to enhance the utilisation of renewable energy that would otherwise be wasted and specializes in electrolysers, and hydrogen for fuel cell products. On the 22nd February 2017 Royal Dutch Shell opened its first Hydrogen Refuelling station in the UK and the first in the UK to be sited on a forecourt. The station was supplied by ITM Power.
Energy & Utilities
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2,825
Ubiquity Global Services is a multinational services organization offering customer management solutions, risk management operations and interactive voice response solutions. Founded in 2012, Ubiquity provides outsourcing services including call centers, digital correspondence services, knowledge process outsourcing and information technology development. The company is privately held. Ubiquity operates in the United States, Portugal, El Salvador and the Philippines.
Corporate Services
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2,832
United Finance is a Bangladeshi non-bank finance company formerly known as United Leasing Company and changed into United Finance in 2014. It is listed in DSE. It provides financial services, such as investment, lease, loan, term finance, channel financing. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh. United Finance collect around 80 percent of their funds directly from individual depositors. The company has branch office in Dhaka, Chittagong, Jessore, Bogra, Gazipur, Sylhet, Rangpur, Chuadanga, Barisal, Noakhali, Rajshahi, Khulna and Mymensingh districts. It has booth office in Sirajgong and Rangamati districts.
Financials
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2,834
Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A. is the monopoly full telecommunications service provider for Cuba. It is owned by the Cuban government.
Corporate Services
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2,838
Astonfield Renewables Resources is a renewable energy company that builds, owns, and operates utility-scale solar power plants in emerging markets. Headquartered in Mumbai, its operational focus on India is supported by additional offices in New Delhi and Kolkata.
Energy & Utilities
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2,862
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore is the biggest publishing company in Italy. In the trade books market the competitors of Mondadori in Italy are Gems, Giunti and Feltrinelli, while in the magazine publishing market are Cairo Communication, Universo and RCS MediaGroup. The companys mission is to encourage the dissemination of culture and ideas, through products, activities and services aimed at satisfying the needs and tastes of the broadest possible range of people, bringing together a love of culture and editorial quality with a capacity to identify and anticipate changes in the world of media and communications.
Media, Marketing & Sales
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2,874
Dougall Media is a Canadian media company, which has several television, radio and publishing holdings in Northwestern Ontario.
Media, Marketing & Sales
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2,886
Hughes Tool Company was an American manufacturer of drill bits. Founded in 1908, it was merged into Baker Hughes Incorporated in 1987.
Industrials
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2,891
Pet Supplies Plus, founded in 1988 in Redford, Michigan in the United States, is a privately held pet supply retailing corporation with a major presence in the US. As of 2005, it was the third largest specialty pet food retailer in the US. The company began adding franchise locations in the Midwest, expanding into the northeastern and southern states during the late 1990s. In 2015, Pet Supplies Plus store locations consisted of over 325 stores in 25 states. The chains founders, Harry Shallop and Jack Berry, sought to bring grocery store convenience into the pet supply world. The chains stores are owned by independent franchisees and company stores. Measuring about 10,000 square feet , the stores are focused on being neighborhood pet supply supermarkets, stocking a very wide selection of pet food and supplies. The stores also have limited livestock departments, and some have also recently added grooming services and self-serve dog washes.
Commercial Services & Supplies
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2,898
The Addiko Bank is an Austrian banking group with numerous cross-border activities in the Alps-Adriatic region. The group is active in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro. However, the bank itself did not have a banking license in Austria, which now owned by Austrian Anadi Bank, another bank that was spun off Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank International AG.
Financials
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2,902
Lompoc Valley Medical Center is a community created, government entity authorized by California state law to deliver healthcare services to the residents of the Lompoc Valley. The District is a political agency and receives operating property taxes annually based upon the assessed value of taxable real property located within the District. Lompoc Healthcare District owns and operates the following locations:Lompoc Valley Medical Center: a 60-bed, general acute care hospital. Champion Center: a multi-program chemical dependency rehabilitation hospital and addiction treatment center. Lompoc Valley Medical Center Comprehensive Care Center: a 110-bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility. Lompoc Valley Medical Center Physician Services Lompoc Valley Medical Center Sleep Disorder.
Healthcare
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2,903
Vetro Energy is a Singapore and Houston, TX based operating and management company with Rezart Tai as its majority shareholder. Vetro Energy targets upstream oil & gas investments worldwide. In October, 2012, Vetro Energy bid to privatize the Albania state-owned oil company Albpetrol.
Energy & Utilities
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2,905
Chargemaster Plc is a supplier of charging infrastructure for electric vehicles, based in Luton, England. It provides charging units for home, business and public use, and operates its own electric vehicle public charging network, called POLAR. In 2017, the company acquired the electric vehicle charging point supplier, Elektromotive, including its subsidiary, electric vehicle charging network Charge Your Car, to establish the UKs largest electric vehicle infrastructure provider. Chargemaster manufacturers its wall-mounted and floor-standing charging points in its manufacturing plant in Luton, England. It is the only company to manufacture electric vehicle rapid chargers in the UK.The company has supplied more than 30,000 charging points for electric vehicle drivers homes and more than 10,000 public and commercially-operated charging points. It is a public limited company, with shareholders including the venture capital arm of BMW, BMW i Ventures and technology company, Qualcomm.
Energy & Utilities
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2,908
Abrazo Community Health Network is one of the largest health care delivery system in Arizona, United States. Abrazo Community Health Network is located in Phoenix, Arizona and was established in 2003. The Abrazo system comprises five acute care hospitals including one cardiovascular-specialty hospital. The health care system offers a broad range of medical services, including cardiology, internal medicine, general surgery, orthopedics, neurology, obstetrics, bariatric, oncology, womens health, diagnostic imaging, acute inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient rehabilitation, outpatient services, Level 1 Trauma Center and emergency care. In addition to the hospitals, Abrazo Community Health Network includes primary and specialty care physician offices, urgent care offices and emergency centers.
Healthcare
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2,916
GigaMedia Limited is a major provider of online entertainment software and services. GigaMedia develops software for online entertainment services, including the global online gaming market. GigaMedias FunTown game portal is a leading Asian casual games portal and the worlds largest online MahJong game site in terms of revenue. GigaMedia operates the EverestPoker.com poker site.
Media, Marketing & Sales
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2,932
American Industries is a large real estate development company based in Chihuahua, Mexico. They also have offices in Monterrey, Ciudad Jurez, and El Paso. It provides various industrial real estate services, including built-to-suit, sale-lease-back, shared leases programs, and warehousing.
Industrials
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The Bhilai Steel Plant , located in Bhilai, in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, is Indias first and main producer of steel rails, as well as a major producer of wide steel plates and other steel products. The plant also produces Bobby Sista and markets various chemical by-products from its coke ovens and coal chemical plant. It was set up with the help of the USSR in 1955.The eleven-time winner of the Prime Ministers Trophy for best integrated steel plant in the country, Bhilai Steel Plant , has been Indias sole producer of rails and heavy steel plates and major producer of structural steel. The plant is the sole supplier of the countrys longest rail tracks, which measure 260 metres .The 130 - meter rail, which would be the worlds longest rail line in a single piece, was rolled at URM, Bhilai Steel Plant on 29 November 2016. The plant also produces products such as wire rods and merchant products.
Industrials
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Ingenu, formerly known as On-Ramp Wireless, is a provider of wireless networks. The company focuses on machine to machine communication by enabling devices to become Internet of Things devices.
Information Technology
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2,975