Following Mobil's merger with Exxon, at the start of 2000 BP acquired all the petrol retailing assets as well as the Coryton refinery ( but sold it to Petroplus in 2007 ).

Following a merger, the vertically integrated firm can collect one deadweight loss by setting the downstream firm's output to the competitive level.

Following the merger, the rivalry waned in intensity as meetings between both teams were less frequent.

Following the merger, the Jets and Colts became division rivals in the AFC East.

Following the sale of 50 % of the car division Saab Automobile AB to General Motors, the main reason behind the merger with lorry manufacturer Scania-Vabis in 1968 had disappeared.

Following the announcement of the merger between Square and former competitor Enix in 2003, Square purchased back Electronic Arts ' stake in Square EA, and folded it back into Square Soft, Inc., its North American subsidiary, which was subsequently renamed Square Enix U. S. A., Inc. ( now Square Enix, Inc .) and continues to publish Square Enix's titles in North America.

Following extensive merger and acquisition activity in the 1990s and 2000s, international markets are dominated by five firms, in alphabetical order: Altria, British American Tobacco ( represented in the U. S. market by a 42 % stake in Reynolds American, Inc .), Imperial Tobacco, Japan Tobacco, and Philip Morris International.

Following the merger, the university was named Sunday Times University of the Year in 2006 after winning the inaugural Times Higher Education Supplement University of the Year prize in 2005 .< ref >

Following the merger of the two tribes, the individual who wins immunity cannot have votes cast against him or her.

Following the merger, Pixar's John Lasseter was placed in charge of greenlighting all new animated films for the combined company under his new role of Chief Creative Officer.

Following the vote with a majority of its members supporting this merger, the IET was established on March 31, 2006.

Following the announcement of the UPN / WB merger creating The CW network, News Corporation announced the creation of MyNetworkTV to provide an alternative network for its O & O UPN affiliates on February 22, 2006.

Following the merger of the two channels northwest of the city centre the Oker runs north of the district of Watenbüttel in a culvert under the Mittelland Canal before it is joined by the Schunter from the east near Groß Schwülper.

Following the forced merger of the North West Company with the HBC in 1821, British Parliament applied the laws of Upper Canada to Rupert's Land and the Columbia District and gave enforcement power to the HBC.

Following the merger, the company started the PLoS Hub for Clinical Trials to collect journal articles published in any PLoS journal and relating to clinical trials.

Following the merger of BCTel with Telus of Alberta, GTE sold its interests in Québec Téléphone to Telus in August 2000, which renamed it Telus Québec on April 2, 2001.

Following the merger with London Guildhall University, London Metropolitan University became the largest unitary university in Greater London.

Following the forced merger of the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company in 1821 ; the British Parliament imposed the laws of Upper Canada on British subjects in the Columbia District and Rupert's Land and gave the authority to enforce the laws to the Hudson's Bay Company.

Following the merger of East Germany and West Germany, the company was privatised in 1990.

Following the merger, Ramblers were badged as both Nashes and Hudsons, with no visible difference between the two.

Following the merger the studios were leased to Yorkshire Television in 1967 for recording pre-launch programming whilst their own studios were being constructed and in 1970 was sold to Manchester Polytechic and was the base for their theatre and television school.

Following Finsterwald's merger with the district of Elbe-Elster, twinning with the new district was reconfirmed in 1996.

Following the merger in January 2010, the newly expanded city of Lucerne had an area ( excluding lakes ) of.

Following the merger, Swiss Bank managers were surprised to discover the massive exposure to LTCM at UBS.

Following the primary show, Dr. Friedman would engage in discussion with a number of selected debaters drawn from trade unions, academy and the business community, such as Donald Rumsfeld ( then of G. D. Searle & Company ) and Frances Fox Piven of City University of New York.

Following Youlou's 6 August 1960 announcement of the formation of a one-party state with only one legal trade union, trade unions started their revolt on the 13th of August.

Following the conclusion of the Expedition, Zhou was appointed special commissioner for the East River District, which placed him in temporary administrative control of several counties ; he apparently used this opportunity to establish a Communist party branch in Shantou and strengthen the CPC's control of local unions.

Following Mrs Thatcher's election win, she brought the post-war consensus to an end and made drastic changes to trade union laws ( most notably the regulation that unions had to hold a ballot among members before calling strikes ) and as a result strikes were at their lowest level for 30 years by the time of the 1983 general election, which the Tories won by a landslide.

Following his graduation from Monash University with degrees in economics and law, Simon Crean worked in a number of trade unions before becoming an official with the Storeman and Packers Union, of which he became General Secretary in 1979.

In 1993 it published a study on the Michigan Education Special Services Association ( MESSA ), a school health insurance administrator created by the MEA, characterizing the entity as the “ MEA ’ s money machine .” Following publication of the study a state statute was adopted prohibiting unions from making the selection of health insurance providers a bargaining issue.

Following the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, parishes were grouped into " unions ": Pwllheli Poor Law Union was created in 1837.

Following his defeat he became a consultant on trade unions for First Group.

Following the end of the provisional presidency, the reactionary nature Vargas ' regime between 1934 and 1945 — characterized by the co-optation of Brazilian unions through state-run, sham syndicates, suppression of opposition ( particularly ) leftist opposition thus was strongly becoming evident.

Following the Prussian Union and other Evangelical unions in Germany, the Evangelical Church in Germany is an umbrella organisations of Lutheran, Union and Reformed church bodies.

Following the social unrest of November – December 1995, Bruno Mégret developed a strategy of creating new unions ( FN-RATP, FN-TCL, FN-Poste, Mouvement pour un Education Nationale, FN-Police ) and professional organisations tied to the Front National to increase the audience of the party.

Following his service he became a prominent attorney in Portland, Oregon, where he often defended labor unions and " radicals " including birth control activist Margaret Sanger.

Following the results of the inquiry, James Hardie entered into negotiations with governments and trade unions in an effort to establish some sort of compensation system for eligible victims of James Hardie's products.

Following the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, a national scheme for dealing with the relief of the poor, Stretford joined the Chorlton Poor Law Union in 1837, one of three such unions in Manchester, before transferring to the Barton-upon-Irwell Poor Law Union in 1849.

Following a national furor over the recognition of same-sex marriages in San Francisco and Massachusetts, Bush announced his opposition to same-sex marriages, but supported allowing states to make provision for civil unions.

Following retirement, Cook lived in Cincinnati, and worked with United Parcel Service and with Worksite Information Network as a motivational speaker for labor unions.

Following the death of Dr Maurice Cure in 1955, Emmanuel Anquetille became leader of the party until he was imprisoned and sent to the island of Rodrigues for making strikes and encouraging workers to form trade unions for better rights and working conditions.

Following the scandal-prone Yukon Gold Rush era administration of Thomas J. Humes, Ballinger was elected as Seattle mayor in 1904 and, with the support of the downtown business elite, he cracked down somewhat ( but not heavily ) on vice, opposed labor unions, and was a roadblock to the city's strong municipal ownership movement.

Following the outbreak of World War II, UE joined with other unions in the CIO in urging a no-strike pledge and higher productivity for the duration of the war, which UE viewed as a struggle against world fascism and therefore worthy of labor's support.

) Following his election, Courtemanche said that he would seek a non-confrontational civil service and better relations with unions and management.

Following the failure of a 120 days strike at the Fabril Financiera, and the reconciliation between Augusto Vandor, leader of the " participationists ", with Juan Perón, the CGTA witnessed many of its unions joining the " 62 Organizations ," the Peronist political front of the CGT.

Following are some student bodies and unions in Allama Iqbal Medical College.

Following the fact that economic unions most often include more than 2 states, attempts have been made to increase the number of the states ( 3 + world ), but not so successfully, as they did not have as clear conclusions as Viner's.

Following the successful Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and the emergence of labor unions in Japan, the Nihon Shakai Shugi Domei ( 1920 ), Japan Communist Party ( 1922 ), and other left-wing parties emerged.