The most important MTAs cover: BBC TV Drama ; BBC Radio Drama ; ITV Companies ; PACT ( independent TV and film producers ); TAC ( Welsh language independent TV producers ); Theatrical Management Association ; Independent Theatre Council ; and an agreement covering the Royal National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal Court Theatre.

New York Times reporter Melody Petersen, who wrote the book Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs ( Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 ), said that " the most outrageous thing " she saw covering the pharmaceutical industry was a PowerPoint presentaton on " Creating a Disease ," which created a disease called " overactive bladder " for the purpose of marketing Detrol.

Companies of all types have made great advances in production capabilities and efficiencies -- in modern equipment and new processes, enlarged R & D facilities, faster new product development.

Companies such as Hawick Cashmere, Hawick Knitwear, Johnstons of Elgin, Lyle & Scott, Peter Scott, Pringle of Scotland, and Scott and Charters, all have had and in many cases still have manufacturing plants in Hawick, producing some of the most luxurious cashmere and merino wool knitwear in the world today.

The 2000 guidelines said: ' It has not been designed as a brand or identity, but to explain to rail travellers that there is a National Railway network and material carrying this descriptor covers all passenger Train Companies.

The Lord Mayor is elected by Common Hall, all Liverymen of the City's Livery Companies.

* The " venality " of the VOC's personnel ( in the sense of corruption and non-performance of duties ), though a problem for all East-India Companies at the time, seems to have plagued the VOC on a larger scale than its competitors.

When The Jewel Companies Inc. acquired Buttrey Food Stores in 1966, many of the stores were converted to a combination store format and bannered as " Buttrey-Osco " with common checkout stands but separate store management, all under one roof.

The formal name of the operation is American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., and that name appears on copyright notices for its in-house network productions and on all official documents of the company, including paychecks and contracts.

In 1968, the parent company changed its name from American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc. to American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., formally dropping the Paramount name from the company and all subsidiaries which bore that name.

Companies such as Volcom, Quiksilver, O ' Neill clothing division, No Fear, Sector 9, RVCA, Body Glove and Surfline are all headquartered in Southern California.

Emergency services are provided by the Douglass Township Police Department, Friendship Hook and Ladder and Keystone Fire Companies of Boyertown ( North Sector ), Amity Fire Company and West End Fire Company ( South Sector ), and Boyertown Ambulance ( North Sector ) and Goodwill of Pottstown ( South Sector ), all of which are dispatched by the Berks County Communications Center.

96, of the Companies Law ( 1994 ) of Guernsey for a " compulsory winding up proceeding " to permit all its remaining assets to be liquidated by a court appointed liquidator.

Companies need to control the types and quantities of materials they purchase, plan which products are to be produced and in what quantities and ensure that they are able to meet current and future customer demand, all at the lowest possible cost.

The PC was organized on similar lines to the army, and consisted of a General Staff located at its General Headquarters at Camp Crame, Manila, and 12 Regional Commands ( under a Regional Director ) consisting of 104 Provincial Commands ( under a Provincial Commander ); these controlled the 450 PC Companies which performed all the day-to-day military police work.

However, elements of Troop C, 26th Cavalry, and Companies C and E, 43d Infantry, all isolated in Northern Luzon, became the core of guerrilla units which continued to resist until the end of the war.

Companies sprang up all over the USA and Britain to supply the growing demand.

Companies like Futuremark ( 3DMark ), Remedy ( Death Rally, Max Payne, Alan Wake ), Bugbear Entertainment ( FlatOut, Glimmerati, Rally Trophy ), Bitboys ( a graphics hardware company ) and Recoil Games ( Rochard ) were all started in whole or in part by members of Future Crew.

Companies holding large freight accounts with the LMS received reduced price season tickets for nominated employees, while commercial travellers, anglers and conveyors of racing pigeons were all tempted with special offers.

* Visit the " best practice " companies to identify leading edge practices: Companies typically agree to mutually exchange information beneficial to all parties in a benchmarking group and share the results within the group.

In the 3rd Armored Division in Germany in the 1960s many Davy Crockett Sections ( all of which were in the Heavy Mortar Platoons, in Headquarters Companies of Infantry or Armor Maneuver Battalions ) received what became a mix of M28 & M29 launchers one of each per D / C section.

It is all very well for the Midland Railway Company now to plead that they are busily employed in fitting up their passenger trains with continuous breaks, but the necessity for providing the passenger trains with a larger proportion of break power was pointed out by the Board of Trade to all Railway Companies more than 20 years since ; and with the exception of a very few railway companies that recognised that necessity and acted upon it, it may be truly stated that the principal Railway Companies throughout the Kingdom have resisted the efforts of the Board of Trade to cause them to do what was right, which the latter had no legal power to enforce, and even now it will be seen by the latest returns laid before Parliament that some of those Companies are still doing nothing to supply this now generally acknowledged necessity

Companies that already had these types of formats in place began to revamp their existing models during this time.

Companies outsource to avoid certain types of costs.

In 2000 Philip Morris Companies ( now called the Altria Group ) acquired Nabisco ; that acquisition was approved by the Federal Trade Commission subject to the divestiture of products in five areas: three Jell-O and Royal brands types of products ( dry-mix gelatin dessert, dry-mix pudding, no-bake desserts ), intense mints ( such as Altoids ), and baking powder.

Companies specializing in biological pest control sell many types of beneficial insects, particularly for use in enclosed areas, like greenhouses.

Companies employed these types of welfare policies to encourage worker loyalty, productivity and dedication.

Companies and individuals who make certain types of payments to foreign persons must withhold Federal income tax on those payments.

Companies who offer these types of work-life perqs seek to raise employee satisfaction, corporate loyalty, and worker retention by providing valuable benefits that go beyond a base salary figure.

Companies that make products that selectively block Web sites do not refer to these products as censorware, and prefer terms such as " Internet filter " or " URL Filter "; in the specialized case of software specifically designed to allow parents to monitor and restrict the access of their children, " parental control software " is also used.

Companies like Cisco, which did not have any production facilities, but bought from other manufacturers, were able to leave quickly and actually do well from the situation as the bubble burst and products were sold cheaply.

Companies may also distribute branded stationery, refrigerator magnet, or similar items free to promote their brand instead of any specific line of products.

These other products and services are joint partnerships with other corporations, similar to what President's Choice Financial brands are to Loblaw Companies Limited.

Companies such as DuPont, US Steel, and General Electric that merged during the Great Merger Movement were able to keep their dominance in their respective sectors through 1929, and in some cases today, due to growing technological advances of their products, patents, and brand recognition by their customers.

Companies which had specific fine products, like fine writing paper, earned their profits on high margin rather than volume and took no part in Great Merger Movement.

Companies like Groupon, that specialize in digital consumerism, have begun to utilize their ideas in order to enhance the consumer experience when they have reached a ' dead-end ' while searching through products.

Companies also use OEM labels to track the products they manufacture.

Companies like Concurrent Technologies Corporation, DRS Laurel Technologies, ITSI Biosciences, Kongsberg Defense and more throughout the region are embracing cutting edge technology and scientific progress to create products that make life easier, better and greener.

Companies which produce products for sale will frequently increase inventories prior to a strike.

In a press release, Dr. Michael Murray, the Director of Education for Factors Group of Nutritional Companies, a manufacturer of Echinacea-related products, calls the study " faulty and inaccurate.

Companies derive competitive advantage from how an organization produces its products, how it acts within a market relative to its competitors, or other aspects of the business.

Companies can focus on brand advocates, the people who proactively recommend their favorite brands and products online and offline without being paid to do so.

Companies that have succeeded with mass-customization business models tend to supply purely electronic products.

* President's Choice Financial: A joint venture between CIBC and Loblaw Companies Limited ; PC Financial's banking services such as deposit accounts, investments and credit products ( excluding Mastercard ) are provided by a division of CIBC Retail Markets, formerly Amicus Bank.

Scott Fetzer Companies – The Scott Fetzer Companies are a diversified group of 21 businesses that manufacture and distribute a wide variety of products for residential, industrial and institutional use.

Companies such as Telstra's call centre, Simplot Australia's ( more recognisable as brands such as Edgells, BirdsEye, Chiko Roll, and I & J Seafood products ) food processing and canning plant, Downer EDi's locomotive workshops, and Burkes Transport a local trucking and distribution company.

Advertising and Marketing Companies sponsor celebrities to tweet and influence thousands ( sometimes millions ) of their followers to buy brand products.

Along with the products of many other Livery Companies, girdles have become of less importance than in mediæval times.