Before the Civil War, Carnegie arranged a merger between Woodruff's company and that of George M. Pullman, the inventor of a sleeping car for first class travel which facilitated business travel at distances over.

Before its merger with HP, it also sponsored the Williams Formula One team when it was still powered by BMW engines.

Before the merger, Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST counted 23 Nobel Prize winners amongst their former staff and students.

Before its merger, it was the smallest municipality in the Netherlands, covering an area of only 1. 75 km².

Before the merger, the last municipal council of Obdam consisted of 13 seats, which were divided as follows:

Before the merger, the last municipal council of Wester-Koggenland consisted of 15 seats, which were divided as follows:

Before the merger into Medemblik, the municipal council of Wognum consisted of 13 seats, which were divided as follows:

Before its merger with Jacobswoude, the municipality covered an area of 30. 91 km² ( 11. 93 mile² ) of which 3. 94 km² ( 1. 52 mile² ) is water.

Before the merger with Alkemade, the municipality covered an area of 41. 37 km² ( 25. 71 mile² ) of which 4. 88 km² ( 3. 03 mile² ) is water, mainly the lakes Braassemermeer and Wijde Aa.

Before the merger, the I. E. E.

Before the merger it had a population of 3, 426.

Before the merger Lillestrøm municipality had a population of 10, 840.

Before the merger, Littau had an area of.

Before the merger the municipality of Harmelen had about 8000 inhabitants.

Before the merger with Ambev, Interbrew was the third largest brewing company in the world by volume, Anheuser-Busch was the largest, followed by SABMiller in second place.

Before the AFL-NFL merger, the NFL had declared that stadiums smaller than 50, 000 capacity were not adequate for their needs.

Before the 1994 merger, Mong Kok was part of the Mong Kok District.

Before the merger, USU taught courses at the college through Regional Campuses and Distance Education ( RCDE ).

Before the merger, Mirage Resorts ( formerly Golden Nugget Companies, Inc .) had been in operation since the 1970s.

* Before merger: George Busk

Before the merger closed in 1989, Warner purchased Lorimar-Telepictures.

Before the sale and merger of Goldwyn Pictures in April 1924, Goldwyn had established Samuel Goldwyn Productions in 1923 as a production-only operation ( with no distribution arm ).

Before the merger, the Steelers had long been one of the NFL's worst teams, only posting eight winning seasons, and just one playoff appearance, since their first year of existence in 1933.

Before the merger, neighboring oblasts and republics were ( from north clockwise ) Komi Republic, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Republic of Bashkortostan, Udmurt Republic, Kirov Oblast, and Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug.

Before the Cheers pilot, " Give Me a Ring Sometime ", was finalized and then aired in 1982, the series originally consisted of four employees of Cheers, the bar, in the original script.

Before that there had not been any large Frankish catapult in Cathay China, but Talib, a catapult-maker from this land, had gone to Baalbek and Damascus, and his sons Abubakr, Ibrahim, and Muhammad, and his employees made seven large catapults and set out to conquer the city Fu or Hsiang-yang fu = modern Xiangfan.

Before the corporate offices in Lake Geneva were closed, some TSR employees accepted the offer of transferring to Wizards of the Coast's offices in Washington.

Before Landrieu was elected, there were no high-ranking black employees or officials in City Hall ; he worked actively to change this by appointing African Americans to top positions, including Chief Administrative Officer, the number two position in the executive branch of city government.

Before the strike, the number of employees had been about 1200, but after it ended, it was reduced to 694.

Before the strike he ( and the other employees ) felt as if they were " one big family ", but during and after the strike Walt felt betrayed and he was not sure whether he could trust anyone.

Before deregulation, airline oligopolies received returns on capital that were profitable for the company, its executives and its employees, but these returns factored in costs that would not necessarily exist in a competitive market.

Before the revolution, Krupskaya worked five years as an instructor for a factory owner who offered evening classes for his employees.

Before the opening day, a television marketing campaign showed cheery Ames employees working while singing " My Kind of Town ," a song that strongly referred to Chicago.

Before an enterprise agreement will be approved a member of the tribunal must be satisfied that employees employed under the agreement will be ' Better Off Overall ' than if they were employed under the relevant modern award.

Before moving to the Corporation, Dotzler was one of the original employees at the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.

Before this system was sent into full release, some Metro Transit employees and selected area riders were part of a test program, started in the latter half of 2004, using the cards as they go about their daily business.

Before the filing, the chain had sales of $ 1. 05 billion and 7, 400 employees.

Before Prange's death in 1928, the H. C. Prange Company had become a multi-million-dollar business with hundreds of employees that were referred to as " associates ".

Before Scott left AdKnowledge and the company was sold to CMGI, AdKnowledge grew to over 80 employees and more than 100 customers.

Before its liquidation, it had over 100 employees and annual revenue of ¥ 7. 5 billion ($ 70 million ) in 2005 ; it still specialized in building Buddhist temples.

Before 1974, the records of the HBC were kept in the London office headquarters.

Before the ship sank, her crew and supplies were rescued by John Marsh, who had been tasked by the HBC settle in Albany River.