Companies in Europe often use year, week number and day for planning purposes.

Companies, producers, and service providers often provide certain things free of charge as part of a larger business model or pricing strategy.

Companies that take advantage of economies of scale often run into problems of bureaucracy ; these factors interact to produce an " ideal " size for a company, at which the company's average cost of production is minimized.

Prizes for wager races were often offered by the London Guilds and Livery Companies or wealthy owners of riverside houses.

Companies object to being blamed for shark attacks, pointing out that lightning tends to strike humans more often than sharks bite humans.

Companies often license these designs from ARM to manufacture and integrate into their own system on a chip ( SoC ) with other components like RAM, GPUs, or radio basebands ( for mobile phones ).

Free Companies would often specialize in forms of combat that required longer periods of training that was not available in the form of a mobilized militia.

Manufacturers and Industrial Supply Companies often refer to MRO as opposed to Original Equipment Manufacturer ( OEM ).

Companies often do this in order to remove these assets from their balance sheets and monetize an asset.

Companies will often offer discounted software to students and faculty at K-12 and university levels.

Companies have often attempted to profit from the ideas of The Dice Man, and a few such ventures are noted below.

Companies, Universities and investment groups will often fund Hydrographic surveys of public waterways prior to developing areas adjacent those waterways.

Companies using coupon programs often set up coupon printers in grocery stores.

Companies that seek growth capital will often do so in order to finance a transformational event in their life cycle.

Companies involved in structured financing arrangements often consult with credit rating agencies to help them determine how to structure the individual tranches so that each receives a desired credit rating.

Companies must often look beyond the shop-floor to find opportunities for improving overall company cost and performance.

These organisations are often referred to as Large Scale Voluntary Transfer organisations or Local Housing Companies.

In the UK the Modern Classic definition is open to the discretion often by Insurance Brokers and Insurance Companies who regard a Modern Classic as a vehicle that is considered collectible regardless of age.

Post-1926 Companies are often called modern Livery Companies.

The main task of the new Company, all of whose members were previously members of other London Companies, was dominated by retailers – often those working with china, which was then imported from China in large-scale lots for sale to retailers at auction.

Companies often round out their seasons with selections from classic dramas, popular comedies, and musicals.

Companies often release a service pack when the number of individual patches to a given program reaches a certain ( arbitrary ) limit.

Companies often use brand management in an attempt to change a potential customer's perception of the product's value.

The indigenous Loblaw Companies Limited has expanded and multiplied its Real Canadian Superstore ( and Maxi & Cie in Quebec ) branded outlets to try to fill any genuine big-box market and fend off the damaging competition that a large Walmart penetration would inflict on Canadian-based retailers.

Within minutes, Gall and his forces took a position north east of Finley Ridge and poured a withering fire down on Companies C, I and L. When Crazy Horse charged through an opening between Lt Calhoun's Company L and Company I in a sudden surprise right envelopment attack, Company L probably began to pull back off the ridge to try to link up with Company I.

Companies will occasionally implement forced retention policies to try to stem the brain drain.

Companies were seeing their stock prices shoot up if they simply added an " e -" prefix to their name and / or a ". com " to the end, which one author called " prefix investing ".

Aboard are four others: the Director of Companies ( the captain ), the Lawyer (" the best of old fellows "), the Accountant ( toying architecturally with dominoes ), and Marlow ( Charlie Marlow )-all share " the bond of the sea " but Marlow is the only one that still " followed the sea "-they are waiting for the tide waters to turn.

IKEA was named one of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers in 2004 and 2005 by Working Mothers magazine.

It ranked 96 in Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2006 and in October 2008, IKEA Canada LP was named one of " Canada's Top 100 Employers " by Mediacorp Canada Inc., and was featured in Maclean's newsmagazine.

Companies that employ workers with a union generally operate on one of several models:

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.

In 1868 the contingent became one Light Infantry Battalion of 4 Companies.

Notice of the cancellation, on Form 122, must reach Companies House within one month.

* The Stationers ' Guild is founded, originating one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.

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.

Metropolitan Salt Lake was also once the headquarters of American Stores, the Skaggs Companies, and ZCMI, one of the first department stores ; it is currently owned by Macy's, Inc. Former ZCMI stores now operate under the Macy's label.

The firm was named as one of the 10 Best Companies for Working Mothers by Working Mothers magazine in 2006.

* Morgan Stanley was named one of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers in 2004 by Working Mothers magazine.

* Family Digest magazine named Morgan Stanley one of the " Best Companies for African Americans " in June 2004

* Asian Enterprise magazine named Morgan Stanley as one of the " Top Companies for Asian Americans " in April 2004

* Hispanic magazine selected Morgan Stanley as one of the " 100 Companies Providing the Most Opportunities to Hispanics " in February 2004

In 1976, Shaath started Team International as one of the first large Multi Arab Consulting Companies.

Only one Wheatfield Fire company ( Shawnee ) runs an ambulance, the other Town Fire Companies contract with either Tri-Community Ambulance Service Inc., Twin City Ambulance, or Rural / Metro Medical Services of Western New York.

The hospital has been named by OKCBusiness and Best Companies Group as one of the “ Thirty Best Places to Work in Oklahoma ” for three consecutive years: 2006, 2007, and 2008.

For years it was the home to one of Corning Glass Companies leading employers.

Companies that manufacture a product which is compliant to one or more DVB standards have the option of registering a Declaration of Conformity for that product.

In 1891, the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, one of the City of London Livery Companies, founded Goldsmiths ' Technical and Recreative Institute ( more commonly referred to simply as the " Goldsmiths ' Institute ").

In the context of a Stryker Brigade Combat Team ( SBCT )' s Infantry Rifle Companies, one man from each fireteam in a rifle squad is either the Squad Anti-armor Specialist ( RMAT ), armed with the FGM-148 Javelin, or the Squad Designated Marksman, who carries the M4 carbine and M14 rifle.