In 2009, Nando's UK was awarded Three Stars ( highest accolade ) in the Best Companies Annual Accreditation Awards – the only entrant in the large companies ' category to achieve the three star rating.

U. S. Bancorp is ranked # 1 by Institutional Investor magazine in its 2009 " America's Most Shareholder-Friendly Companies " for the Financial Institutions / Large-Cap category.

Juniper ranked 4 in Fortune Magazine's World's Most Admired Companies list in Networking Communications category in 2009.

* 2011: ICICI Bank was ranked 1st in the Banking and Finance category and 9th in the " 2010 Best Companies To Work For " by Business Today

The Market has already received an " Honor Award " in the design category and has been recognized as a National Finalist by the American Counsel of Engineering Companies of Metropolitan Washington.

In UK legal usage any registered company, created under the Companies Act 2006 and previous equivalent legislation, is, strictly, a particular subcategory of the wider category, " corporation ".

It has earned the No. 1 ranking in the Healthcare: Pharmacy and Other Services category on Fortune magazine ’ s World ’ s Most Admired Companies list for five consecutive years ( 2008-2012 ).

Companies in this category are further categorized by the level and timeliness of information they provide to investors and may have current, limited or no public disclosure.

Companies in this category do not make current information available via OTC Markets disclosure and news service, or if they do, the available information is older than six months.

It ranked No. 1 in Fortune's annual survey of World's Most Admired Companies in the " Engineering, Construction " industry category in 2012.

Other initiatives include the enactment of the Foundations Act in 2004 and the planned introduction of legislation to regulate Private Trust Companies.

Companies based in Roppongi include:

Companies present include Blue Ribbon Resources Ltd, Cambior, Canarc Resource Corporation, IAMGOLD, Golden Star Resources Ltd.

Participants include the Livery Companies, bands and members of the military, charities and schools.

* Companies which developed speech synthesis systems but which are no longer in this business include BeST Speech ( bought by L & H ), Eloquent Technology ( bought by SpeechWorks ), Lernout & Hauspie ( bought by Nuance ), SpeechWorks ( bought by Nuance ), Rhetorical Systems ( bought by Nuance ).

Companies which have had research facilities in the area include W. R. Grace and Company and Westvaco.

Companies based in Columbia include W. R. Grace and Company, Sourcefire, PetMeds, MICROS Systems, Martek Biosciences, Integral Systems, Corporate Office Properties Trust and the consumer research company Arbitron.

Companies that are current or former ARM licensees include Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Alcatel-Lucent, Apple Inc., AppliedMicro, Atmel, Broadcom, Cirrus Logic, CSR_plc, Digital Equipment Corporation, Ember, Energy Micro, Freescale, Intel ( through DEC ), LG, Marvell Technology Group, Microsemi, Microsoft, NEC, Nintendo, Nuvoton, Nvidia, Sony, NXP ( formerly Philips Semiconductor ), Oki, ON Semiconductor, Psion, Qualcomm, Renesas, Research In Motion, Samsung, Sharp, Silicon Labs, ST-Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Symbios Logic, Texas Instruments, VLSI Technology, Yamaha, Fuzhou Rockchip, and ZiiLABS.

Companies based in Hove include Palmer and Harvey, the UK's largest distributor of snack foods and owner of the UK Mace convenience store brand.

Companies from abroad include Eurolines and Agence Phoceens.

Companies operating from Calais include SeaFrance ( currently in liquidation ) and P & O Ferries.

Companies, corporations, and societies in Canada founded under or augmented by a Royal Charter include:

Companies that have set up maquiladoras in Tijuana include Lanix, Hyundai, Sony, Vortec, BMW, Vizio, Toyota, Dell, Samsung, Kodak, Matsushita / Panasonic, Bimbo, GE, Nabisco, Ford, Microsoft, Cemex, Zonda, Philips, Pioneer, Airbus, Plantronics, Siemens, Jaguar, Pall Medical, Tara, Sanyo, Volkswagen and vimay.

Companies utilizing the Port include Del Monte Foods, Chiquita, BMW, Land Rover, and Jaguar.

Companies headquartered in Columbus include Aflac, Carmike Cinemas, TSYS, Realtree, Synovus, and the W. C. Bradley Co.

Major facilities include a Solo Cup Company plant, CareFirst, T. Rowe Price, Lion Brothers, The Baltimore Life Companies, Black & Decker, and the Baltimore Ravens team headquarters facility.

Companies based in the larger Rivium include Rockwell Automation, Pfizer Nederland, Sodexho Nederland, Royal Dutch Shell, Van Oord and many more.

Companies based in Roseland include Automatic Data Processing, law firms Lowenstein Sandler and Connell Foley, Curtiss-Wright, and pharmaceutical company Organon International, which opened its worldwide headquarters here in 2003.

Companies based in Cranbury Township include Blacklight Power, an alternative energy firm.

Companies with offices and facilities in Morris Township include the Louis Berger Group, The Seeing Eye, a guide dog school,

Companies that once inhabited Shortsville include Empire Drill Works, founded by Hiram and Calvin Brown in 1850 and operated until 1900, Shortsville Wheel Company, a manufacturer of carriage and automobile wheels, founded in 1889 and closed in the early 20th century, and Papec Machine Company, a manufacturer of farming implements, which ceased operation in the 1980s.

Companies headquartered in West Jordan include Mountain America Credit Union, Lynco Sales & Service, SME Steel, and Cyprus Credit Union.

Companies in the area include MAN / BW Alpha, Martin and the Navy Base Frederikshavn ( Flådestation Frederikshavn ), which is the home location for the training ship Danmark, the national icebreakers, and the royal yacht Dannebrog.

Companies headquartered in Chigasaki include:

Companies based in Morrisville include Lenovo ( U. S. A. headquarters ), Lulu, Tekelec and QBE First.

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.

For example, in the United Kingdom, the Companies Act 2006 requires directors of companies " to promote the success of the company for the benefit of its members as a whole " and sets out the following six factors regarding a director's duty to promote success:

NLCC Final Destination: Nation's Leading Cheer Companies is a multi brand company, partnered with other companies such as: Americheer / Ameridance, American Cheer & Dance Academy, Eastern Cheer & Dance Association, and Spirit Unlimited.

Companies law ( or the law of business associations ) is the field of law concerning companies and other business organizations.

In a wider sense, most companies in the UK are created under statute since the Companies Act 1985 specifies how a company may be created by a member of the public, but these companies are not called ' statutory corporations '.

In 1844 the British Parliament passed the Joint Stock Companies Act, which allowed companies to incorporate without a royal charter or an Act of Parliament.

The control of medium and big companies must be made by one or several independent auditors of companies, appointed by the general assembly among the members of the Institute of Independent Auditors of Companies.

Drexel financed notable buyouts of companies previously thought invulnerable, including Beatrice Companies and the cosmetics firm Revlon.

For whole companies, outcome-based evaluations are the basis of stock exchange prices: Companies which produce higher profit growth are more valuable than companies which perform poorly.

In Northern Ireland, although prior to October 2009, companies in that jurisdiction were registered with the Northern Ireland Executive's Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, companies registrations are now handled by the Companies House like the rest of the United Kingdom.

Because the electronic process requires compatible software that works with Companies House eFiling service, companies are usually formed through a Company Formation Agent.

Companies abandoned vertical integration, sold off non-core operations, and outsourced those functions to other companies.

In 1984 the British Virgin Islands, trying to recapture some of the lost offshore business, enacted a new form of companies legislation, the International Business Companies Act, under which an offshore company which was exempt from local taxes could be formed.

In that position he introduced legislation on many topics, from Merchant Shipping and Companies to Railway regulation, but his main achievement was in stopping a proposed national strike of the railway unions by brokering an agreement between the unions and the railway companies.

Gen. Alfred Terry's column, including twelve companies ( A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, and M ) of the 7th Cavalry under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer's immediate command, Companies C and G of the 17th U. S. Infantry, and the Gatling gun detachment of the 20th Infantry departed westward from Fort Abraham Lincoln in the Dakota Territory on May 17.

Companies such as Patek Philippe, Blancpain and Jaeger-LeCoultre specialize in simple and complicated mechanical dress watches ; companies such as Omega SA, Ball Watch Company, TAG Heuer, Sinn, Breitling, Panerai and Rolex specialize in rugged, reliable mechanical watches for sport and aviation use.

Companies had to submit a Bill to Parliament to gain the right to acquire land for the line, which required the route of the proposed railway to be approved, but there were no limits on the number of companies and no real checks on the financial viability of a line.

Companies that allegedly made deals with Aristide included IDT, Fusion Telecommunications, and Skytel ; critics claim the two first companies had political links.

Companies from badly regulated countries see benefits that are higher than the costs from better credit ratings by complying to regulations in a highly regulated country ( USA ), but companies from developed countries only incur the costs, since transparency is adequate in their home countries as well.

During the later Middle Ages, Free Companies ( or Free Lances ) were formed, consisting of companies of mercenary troops.

The Companies Act sets out certain minimum reporting requirements for companies and, for example, requires limited companies to file their accounts with the Registrar of Companies who makes them available to the general public.