Founded in 1996 in Lucca, the Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini embraces a wide range of approaches to the study of Puccini's work.

* Haunted Ontario – Founded in 1996 by Bob Milne, Haunted Ontario chronicles the ghosts, spirits, spooks, and poltergeists said to haunt Canada's most populated province.

Founded under Conservative legislation that privatised the railways, Railtrack took control of the railway infrastructure on 1 April 1994 and was floated on the Stock Exchange in May 1996.

Founded in 1996 and awarded University status in 2002, it consists of the Lagos Business School and of Enterprise Development Services.

Founded in May 1996, the University of Pikeville Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine is one of three medical schools in the state of Kentucky.

Founded by Hal Philipp in 1996, QRG focused on using standard microcontrollers pre-programmed as touch sensors, including devices sourced from several companies including Atmel.

Founded in late 1996, by Matt Skiba, bassist Rob Doran and drummer Glenn Porter, Alkaline Trio released its debut single, " Sundials ", in 1997.

Founded in 1994 by Ross Smith, Gary Tarolli and Scott Sellers ( all SGI alumni ) with backing from Gordie Campbell's TechFarm, 3dfx released its Voodoo Graphics chip in 1996.

Founded in 1965 and based in Carson City, Nevada, the firm came under scrutiny by state safety officials after a fatal accident in 1985, and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July bankrupt in July 1996.

* Tetsu-ryu-Ha Shito-Ryu: Founded by Ted A. Hines, student of Richard Baillargeon and Shogo Kuniba, in Ohio in 1996.

Founded in 1996, Stamps. com is the brainchild of Jim McDermott, Ari Engelberg and Jeff Green.

Founded in 1996 after Clyde Smoll moved the Elmira Pioneers to Lowell, Massachusetts, the Spinners play in the New York-Penn League, which has a Short-Season A classification with 76 games a year.

Founded in 1961, it was run by the Mathematical Association from 1975 until its adoption by the UKMT in 1996.

Founded in 1996 in South Korea, Game Park entered the industry using government money.

Founded in 1996, it made it into the top three for the first time in 2005.

:: Founded in 1996, divided in 6 chapters around the country.

Founded in 1996, it moved to Seattle in 1999.

Founded in 1996, the team plays in the USL Professional Division, the third tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, having self-relegated from the USSF D2 Pro League at the end of the 2010 season.

Founded by students Onur Günday, Emir Kısagün and Mustafa Yazıcı in 1996, the club's goal was to create real-life activities for students to practice English.

Founded in 1996, Wildplum specializes in acoustic music, from singer / songwriters to string bands through chamber orchestras.

Founded in 1996, with the amalgamation of the Curragh RFC, Kilcullen RFC and Athgarvan RFC, Newbridge RFC compete in the J1 Division 1 Leinster League.

Founded in 1996, the award-winning Flea Theater was originally formed out of the purely artistic impulse to create “ a joyful hell in a small space ”.

Founded as an ASIC design center in 1996 by SINTEF SI researchers Geir Førre, Sverre D. Moen, and Svein A. Tunheim.

Founded in 1996 by David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg as a subsidiary of DreamWorks SKG, the label operated until 2005 when it was shut down as well.

Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929, as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles as Ferrari S. p. A. in 1947.

Founded in 1981, Interleaf was a company that created computer software products for the technical publishing creation and distribution process.

Founded by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett in 1968 to produce Sesame Street, the company, currently run by President and CEO H. Melvin Ming, has since produced many other shows and a variety of multimedia content.

Founded in 1919 by French industrialist André-Gustave Citroën ( 1878 – 1935 ), Citroën was the first mass-production car company outside the USA and pioneered the modern concept of creating a sales and services network that complements the motor car.

Founded in 1981 by Matthew Carter and Mike Parker among others, it claims to be the oldest such company.

Founded in 1872, Rangers were one of the ten founder members of the Scottish Football League, remaining in the top division until the end of the 2011 – 12 season, during which the company became insolvent and entered administration.

Founded by Karl Baedeker in 1827, the company relocated in 1872 to Leipzig under his third son Fritz Baedeker, who took over control of the company following the death and disablement of his older brothers.

Founded in 1979 by Bob and Harvey Weinstein and headquartered in New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Miramax was a leading independent film motion picture distribution and production company before it was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 1993.

Founded by the brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein in Buffalo, New York in 1979, the company was named by combining the first names of their parents Max and Miriam, and was originally created to distribute independent films deemed commercially unfeasible by the major studios.

Founded in 1927 as a scheduled air mail and passenger service operating between Key West, Florida, and Havana, Cuba, the airline became a major company credited with many innovations that shaped the international airline industry, including the widespread use of jet aircraft, jumbo jets, and computerized reservation systems.

Founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company, the brand name Parlophon was initially used for gramophones before the company began making records.

Founded in 2001 by Olav Bergheim, Richard Hill and Mory Gharib, the company has raised $ 126 million in venture funding from Versant Ventures, OrbiMed Advisors, Frazier Healthcare Ventures, InterWest Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Domain Associates, Fjord Capital Management and Montreux Equity Partners.

Founded in early 2006 by Michael Robertson ( CEO ) and Hisham El-Emam ( CTO ), Ajax 13 Inc. is a software development company that provides web-based applications written using XUL.

Founded by Captain John York and Charles Eckhardt and named in honor of Captain John York, a famous Indian fighter and was in command of a company of citizens who, under Ben Milam, defeated General Cos in 1835 at the Siege of Béxar.

Founded in 1986 by Christopher Weaver in Bethesda, Maryland, and moved to Rockville, Maryland, in 1990, the company has a long history of PC and console games.

Founded in 1927, the company is best known for introducing Japan's first televisions, and for developing the Video Home System ( VHS ) video recorder.

Founded as a private company under the name Business Flyers Basle by Moritz Suter, it changed to Crossair on 18 November 1978, before the beginning of scheduled services on 2 July 1979 with flights from Zürich to Nuremberg, Innsbruck and Klagenfurt.

Founded as the General Cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green, the cemetery was incorporated in 1832 ( the year that profit-making cemeteries became legal ) as a private company.

Founded in 1867 as a Bielefeld sewing machine repair company, AG Dürkoppwerke employed 1, 665 people in 1892 ; it used Waffenamt code " WaA547 " from 1938 to 1939 as the Dürkopp-Werke, and merged with other Bielefeld companies to form Dürkopp Adler AG in 1990.

Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic " Hammer Horror " films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s.

Founded in 1852 and incorporated in 1868 under the name of the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company, the company was originally a producer of wagons for farmers, miners, and the military.

Founded in 1986, the company has performed in over 20 countries across the globe.

Founded in 1993 by Erik Gloersen, Ian Neil, Andre Backen, Gaute Godager and Olav Mørkrid, the company is one of the leading European independent game developers and publishers.

Founded in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright as an imprint of their publishing company Boni & Liveright, it was purchased in 1925 by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer.