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 ".

Companies can avoid paying fees to investment banks by using a direct public offering, though this is not common practice as it incurs other legal costs and can take up considerable management time.

Companies can forward any proportion of franking up to a maximum amount that is calculated from the prevailing company tax rate: for each dollar of dividend paid, the maximum level of franking is the company tax rate divided by ( 1-company tax rate ).

Dutch merchants in Copenhagen petitioned King Christian IV for permission to establish a West Indian trading company in 1622 but, by the time an eight-year monopoly on trade with the West Indies, Virginia, Brazil, and Guinea was granted on 25 January 1625, the failure of the Danish East India and Iceland Companies and the beginning of Danish involvement in the Thirty Years ' War dried up any interested capital.

Companies C, D, and I of the 6th U. S. Infantry, moved along the Yellowstone River from Fort Buford on the Missouri River to set up a supply depot, and joined Terry on May 29 at the mouth of the Powder River.

The first battalion would be made up of Able, Baker, Charlie, and Dog Companies, while the second would have Easy, Fox, George, and How Companies.

Oregon County men made up Companies A, D, F, and G. On August 10, 1861 they fought at the Battle of Wilson's Creek near Springfield and were victorious.

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.

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

To foster competition in both the long distance and local markets, the 1996 Act created a process by which the Regional Bell Operating Companies (“ RBOCs ”) would be free to offer long distance service ( which was not permitted under one of the terms of the 1982 Consent Decree settling the government ’ s antitrust case against the former Bell System monopoly ) once they made a showing that their local markets had been opened up to competition.

Companies that sold commodities via the Oil-for-Food Programme were overcharging by up to 10 %, with part of the overcharged amount being diverted into private bank accounts for Saddam Hussein and other regime officials and the other part being kept by the supplier.

Companies that make up the regiment are traditionally numbered – the 1st Battalion contains HQ Coy, plus No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 ( Support ) Coys.

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

This status was again referred to in the presentation by Lord Sainsbury of the second reading leading up to the new United Kingdom Companies Act 2006.

The village of Hempstead is protected by the Hempstead Fire Department ( HFD ), a department made up of 6 Fire Stations, located throughout the village and 10 Fire Companies, including 8 Engines, 2 Trucks, and numerous special, support, and reserve units.

The manual work was done by the Artificer Companies, made up of contracted civilian artisans and labourers.

Three private and wholly owned companies, namely, Hong Kong Cyberport Development Holdings Limited, Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited and Hong Kong Cyberport ( Ancillary Development ) Limited ( collectively referred to as the “ Cyberport Companies ”) have been set up under the Financial Secretary Incorporated ( FSI ) to oversee the implementation of the project.

Companies could add up to 3 lines of complementary information and a " prehistoric " website.

Companies can now own up to eight radio stations and two television stations in a market, provided that they do not receive more than 33 % of its advertising revenues.

The division of British Rail and privatisation has also hurt TOPS, because it was never really designed for that ; some Train Operating Companies do not keep information as up to date as they should.

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.

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 covering all types of products have advertised with the pop duo with the first advertisement with Whisper ( 護舒寶 ) in 2000.

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.

The Livery Companies also ensured that they had jurisdiction over the area.

Today, over 1 billion tires are produced annually in over 400 tire factories, see List of Tire Companies.

Although over half of the refugees had been repatriated to Spain ( or elsewhere ) by the time Pétain proclaimed the Vichy Regime in 1940, the 120, 000 to 150, 000 who remained became political prisoners, and the foreign equivalent to the Service du Travail Obligatoire, the Compagnies de Travailleurs Etrangers ( Companies of Foreign Workers ) or CTE, began to pursue them as slave laborers.

Companies like Allied Signal and Alpha Portland Cement did build in town, but even so the boom days were now over.

Companies like Aerotech, Vulcan, and Kosdon were widely popular at launches during this time as high-power rockets routinely broke Mach 1 and reached heights over 3, 000 m ( 10, 000 ft ).

By August UKSIL had acquired over 90 % of the shares, and exercised its rights under the Companies Act to " squeeze out " the remaining shareholders, and acquire the entire shareholding.

Companies were phased in to EDGAR filing over a three-year period, ending 6 May 1996.

Loblaw Companies Limited () is the largest food retailer in Canada, with over 1, 000 corporate and franchise supermarkets, operating under 22 regional and market segment banners, including namesake Loblaws.

* Companies are becoming larger and more complex, making it more difficult for one person alone to have total oversight over the whole organization

The Company steadily took over a number of companies founded to connect the West Indies and South America, leading to a name change to The Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies.

The status of the Company as a trade association has lessened over the years ; the Company is now, as are most other Livery Companies, a charitable body.

The Company has, over the years, lost its status as an association of traders and businessmen, instead becoming, as have most other Livery Companies, an establishment dedicated primarily to charity.

The Shipwrights ' Company, unlike other Livery Companies, has not received a Royal Charter, because the maritime trade by definition was never confined within the boundaries of the Square Mile ; instead a corporate body of London shipwrights grew over time, their first recorded reference being in the twelfth century ; thus the Company's status is considered as being incorporated " by prescription ".

Laurie has done his motivational speaking in over 500 Companies ( Venues-Canadian Life, Sprint, Agriculture, Food and Rural Revitalization, Novartis, Fidelity Investments, DuPont, etc.

Harris co-authored the second edition of The 100 Best Companies to Work for in Canada, which sold over 50, 000 copies in Canada.

* Creation of a new company, Air Tanzania Company Limited ( ATCL ), which would be incorporated as a limited liability company, under the Companies Act to take over the operating assets, and specified rights and liabilities of ATC.

In total, over 1, 500 exempted or international companies are currently registered with the Registrar of Companies in Bermuda.

*" Companies in Kaesung Delegate Management over to North Korea " Daily NK, May 17, 2007

Gill had been with the newspaper and the Binghams for over two decades, working his way up from reporter to Chief Executive Officer of the Bingham Companies.

At over $ 85mm in sales per store, CarMax used car superstores are among the highest volume retail stores in the U. S. CarMax, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange as KMX, and was named one of Fortune's " 100 Best Companies to Work For " for the sixth consecutive year in 2010.

In recent years however, National Oil Companies ( NOC, as opposed to IOC, International Oil Companies ) have come to control the rights over the largest oil reserves ; by this measure the top ten companies all are NOC.

* Sandringham Players, one of the oldest Amateur Theatrical Companies in Johannesburg, South Africa-active for over 50 years