Companies, private groups and social clubs may hire buses or coaches as a cost effective method of transporting a group to an event or site, such as a group meeting, racing event, or organised recreational activity such as a summer camp.

Companies such as Green Knight and Pagan Publishing earliest works were built to support Chaosium's games.

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 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 such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, PayPal, Yahoo !, Facebook, Twitter and Pfizer now have European headquarters and / or operational bases in the city.

Companies such as MAN B & W Diesel, ( formerly Burmeister & Wain ) and Wärtsilä ( which acquired Sulzer Diesel ) design such large low-speed engines.

Companies that produced network equipment like Nortel Networks were irrevocably damaged by such over-extension ; Nortel declared bankruptcy in early 2009.

: Post-production Supervisors are responsible for the post-production process, during which they maintain clarity of information and good channels of communication between the Producer, Editor, Supervising Sound Editor, the Facilities Companies ( such as film labs, CGI studios and Negative Cutters ) and the Production Accountant.

As the guild system of the City of London declined during the 17th century, the Livery Companies transformed into mutual assistance fraternities along such lines.

Companies take different attitudes towards such practices, ranging from open acceptance ( such as Texas Instruments for its graphing calculators and Lego for its Lego Mindstorms robotics gear ) to outright hostility ( such as Microsoft's attempts to lock out Xbox hackers or the DRM routines on Blu-ray Disc players designed to sabotage compromised players ).

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.

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 such as EFI and Xitron specialize in such RIP software.

Companies offering such automatic 401 ( k ) s must choose a default investment fund and savings rate.

Companies in the United States are growing, harvesting and distributing species such as Henon and Moso.

Companies like TalkingSigns and TextSpeak Systems have pioneered solutions such as TTS for Digital Signage for the Blind, that work via standard speakers and also radio receivers ( ex: BART in the SF Bay area ).

Companies such as AMD and Cyrix developed alternative CPUs that were functionally compatible with Intel's.

Shipping lines and Container Leasing Companies have become expert at repositioning empty containers from areas of low or no demand, such as the US West Coast, to areas of high demand such as China.

Companies that are completely independent, such as Lionsgate, also produce mainstream films, from a cultural standpoint, but independent of the studio system.

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

This process was invented in Chicago in 1925 by Erwin O. Freund, founder of Visking which would later become Viskase Companies.

Companies currently associated with the Mitsui family include Mitsui & Co., Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Japan Steel Works, Mitsui Chemicals, Mitsui Construction Co., Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding, Mitsui Fudosan, Mitsui-gold, Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd., Mitsui Oil Exploration Co. ( MOECO ), Mitsui O. S. K.

The current members of the Board of Directors of Loblaw Companies Limited are: Galen G. Weston ( Executive Chairman ), Stephen E. Bachand, Paul M. Beeston, Gordon A. M. Currie, Anthony S. Fell, Christiane Germain, Anthony R. Graham, John S. Lacey, Nancy H. O. Lockhart, Thomas C. O ' Neil, and John D. Wetmore.

The use of " Derry " rather than " Londonderry " in their names was proposed by Frank Hugh O ' Donnell, who said he thought that " at the time when the London Companies were despairing of retaining their hold upon Derry this Amendment would be accepted by the House.

In 1985, APS auto parts, Kayser-Roth clothing and Simmons Bedding were sold to the Wickes Companies.

Companies like Jesse G. James ' West Coast Choppers have been successful in producing expensive traditional chopper-style bikes and a wide range of chopper-themed brands of merchandise such as clothing, automobile accessories and stickers.

Collins Pine ( a division of The Collins Companies ) has been in operation since the 1940s under a truly " sustained yield " management plan using selective harvesting.

It is a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks and bonds.

In 1966, the company was acquired by The McGraw-Hill Companies, and now encompasses the Financial Services division.

Loblaws is a division of Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada's largest food distributor.

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.

* 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.

It is owned by George Weston Limited through Loblaw Companies Limited, and operates under the Atlantic Wholesalers division of Loblaws.

Plamondon Companies is run by Jim Plamondon and Peter Plamondon Jr., the two sons of Peter Plamondon Sr., head of the restaurant division at Marriott when the Roy Rogers brand was created.

WilTel Communications ( formerly known as Williams Communications, which was formerly part of The Williams Companies, Inc ) is a telco and Tier 2 Internet Service Provider with its own MPLS-enabled OC-192 optical wave division multiplexing backbone network.

Smaller than the standard infantry division, at about 9, 000 personnel, it had as its primary means of transport hundreds of mules controlled by several Quartermaster Pack Companies of African-American muleteers, and for artillery several battalions of 75mm pack howitzers, which could be broken down and carried by mule train.

* ABC Circle Films ( 1960s – 1980s, a division of American Broadcasting Companies )

Loblaw Companies Limited ( through its Westfair Foods division ) supplies Super Valu stores and owns the Super Valu name.

The Infantry Branch was by far the largest and was formed initially by the transfer of battalion machine gun sections to the MGC, these being grouped into Brigade Machine Gun Companies, three per division.

In 1980 Armitage Shanks was purchased by Blue Circle Industries, and in February 1999 Blue Circle sold its bathroom division ( consisting of Armitage Shanks and the Italian Ceramica Dolomite ) to U. S. based American Standard Companies for US $ 430 million.

In return for divesting the local Bell Operating Companies ( Baby Bells ), AT & T was allowed to have an unregulated division to sell computer hardware and software.

* CTB / McGraw-Hill, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies

* California Testing Bureau, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies

In November 1993, Loblaw Companies Limited announced that Dave Nichol was leaving as president of Loblaw International Merchant, the company ’ s control label division, to establish his own business as a consultant.

Capital Group is organized into tiers of subsidiaries, one of which is the wholly owned Capital Guardian Trust Company, which in turn manages the division, Personal Investment Management, founded in 1974 to manage the assets of employees and retirees of The Capital Group Companies.

Companies today often use the word segmentation or division when referring to SBUs or an aggregation of SBUs that share such commonalities.

In 1966, Gerbes merged with the Dillon Companies, and has been a division ever since.

CRISIL ’ s majority shareholder is Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies and the world's foremost provider of financial market intelligence.

The Zomba Group of Companies ( sometimes referred to as Zomba Music Group or just Zomba Group ) was a music group and division which was owned by and operated under Sony Music Entertainment.

* Dominion Stores ( Newfoundland ), a division of the Loblaw Companies, which continues to operate in Newfoundland and Labrador.