Previously in the United Kingdom, under the Companies Act 1985, protections for non-member stakeholders were considerably more limited ( see for example, s. 309 which permitted directors to take into account the interests of employees but which could only be enforced by the shareholders and not by the employees themselves ).

Companies like Parker Brothers, Activision, and Micro Fun bypassed this loop, which necessitated embedding portions of the BIOS outside the delay loop, further reducing storage available to actual game programming.

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.

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

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 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.

: 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.

In the City of London, the ancient guilds survive as Livery Companies, most of which play a ceremonial role.

Companies promoting MPEG-4 compatibility do not always clearly state which " part " level compatibility they are referring to.

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.

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.

There is an annual document-processing fee of £ 30 ( or £ 15 for users of the Electronic Filing or WebFiling services ), which must be sent to Companies House with the annual return.

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.

* 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 ).

* On June 8, 2009, General Motors and Citigroup were replaced by The Travelers Companies and Cisco Systems, which became the third company traded on the NASDAQ to be part of the Dow.

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

The Mitsubishi Group ( 三菱グループ, Mitsubishi Gurūpu ) ( also known as the Mitsubishi Group of Companies or Mitsubishi Companies ) is a Japanese multinational conglomerate comprising a range of autonomous businesses which share the Mitsubishi brand, trademark and legacy.

In 1984, American Stores Company, which consisted of Alpha Beta food stores in the west, Acme Markets in the east and Skaggs Drug Centers in the Rocky Mountain, southwestern, and northwestern states, acquired The Jewel Companies Inc.

Companies sending out promotional newsletters have the option of working with whitelist mail distributors, which agree to standards and high fines from ISPs should any of the opt-in subscribers complain.

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.

During 2010, the armoured and mechanized infantry battalions were restructured as Combined Arms Battalions ; as from 1 January 2011, each had a Staff Company, a Logistics Company, 2 Tank Companies and 2 Mechanized Infantry Companies equipped with infantry fighting vehicles ..

The government had been increasingly worried that AT & T and the other Bell Companies were monopolizing the industry.

Since 1914 much of the drainage had been destroyed, although some parts had been restored by Land Drainage Companies brought from England.

In November 1980, The Jewel Companies Inc. purchased Sav-on Drugs, Inc. Sav-on Drugs was headquartered in Anaheim, California and had 150 stores in California, Nevada and Texas.

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

Companies that had pioneered these advances, like Radio Corporation of America ( RCA ) and General Motors, saw their stocks soar.

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.

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 have had to conduct numerous trials to get two that show a positive result, which is the Food and Drug Administration's minimum for approval.

From the 1960s through the early 1980s, a typical maneuver ( infantry or tank ) battalion had five companies: Headquarters and Headquarters Company ( HHC ) and A, B, and C Companies, plus a Combat Support Company, CSC, with a scout platoon, 4. 2 inch " heavy " mortar platoon, along with other elements that varied between organizations.

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.

Fleming had reinforced his knowledge of gold by sending a questionnaire to an expert at the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, one of the Livery Companies of the City of London with a list of queries about gold, its properties and the background of the industry, including smuggling.

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.

By the time of the downfall of the French Empire in 1814 the battalions in Dutch service had disappeared, but Waldeck now supplied three Infantry and one Jäger Companies to the newly formed German Confederation.

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

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

In the U. S., the Bell Operating Companies and their cellular divisions had been prohibited by the FCC from offering voice-mail and other enhanced services such as paging and telephone answering services ( no such prohibition existed in foreign countries ).

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

* Survey companies for measures and practices: Companies target specific business processes using detailed surveys of measures and practices used to identify business process alternatives and leading companies.

Consequently, registration and incorporation of companies without specific legislation was introduced by the Joint Stock Companies Act 1844.

* Omens-Released in April 2005, Omens introduced two new rules mechanics: Adventuring Companies, which allowed an army to have a universal ability, and could be made cheaper by choosing specific characters ; and Champions, figures with a removable base that allowed the player to choose from a set of 5 increasingly powerful combat dials, depending on the number of points the player wished to spend on it.

Companies like OMS and Zeagle, through the special requirements of public safety diving, have developed products specific for the task such as the OMS chemically resistant BCs, for diving in polluted water or HAZMAT conditions and Zeagle ’ s SAR and 911 variation of their Ranger model BCD that have features like harness for helicopter lifts and swift-water work.

All forms of companies ( as permitted by the United Kingdom Companies Act ) are incorporated and registered with Companies House and file specific details as required by the current Companies Act 2006.