The Leningrad Kirov Ballet, which opened a series of performances Friday night at the Opera House, is, I think, the finest `` classical '' ballet company I have ever seen, and the production of the Petipa-Tschaikowsky `` Sleeping Beauty '' with which it began the series is incomparably the finest I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing.

He created the production and distribution company Esperanto Films, which has credits on the films Duck Season and Pan's Labyrinth.

* Alberta Theatre Projects, a Canadian theatre production company

* ASP ( film production company ), Alain Siritzky Productions, owners of the official Emmanuelle movie and TV franchise

The company was badly hit by the economic contraction of the early 1980s as worldwide sales of Aston Martin shrank to three per week and chairman Alan Curtis together with fellow shareholders American Peter Sprague and Canadian George Minden came close to shutting down the production side of the business, to concentrate on service and restoration.

In October 2004, the company set up the dedicated AMEP engine production plant within the Ford Germany Niehl, Cologne plant.

By bringing engine production back to within the company, the promise was that Aston Martin would be able to produce small runs of higher performance variants engines.

Beginning in June 1907, Peter Behrens ' pioneering industrial design work for the German electrical company AEG successfully integrated art and mass production on a large scale.

* Research Casting International-Canadian company specializing in molding and casting for the production of museum exhibits

In 2000, after the U. S. version of the CBS program " Big Brother " premiered, the Estate of George Orwell sued CBS and its production company " Orwell Productions, Inc ." in federal court in Chicago for copyright and trademark infringement.

* Bug AS, a full service production company based in Norway

His production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, was the most successful and innovative star-driven independent production company in Hollywood of the 1950s, making movies such as Marty ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), and Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ).

In 1952, Lancaster co-produced with producer Harold Hecht ( who had previously produced three Lancaster films under his own production company Norma Productions ; Kiss the Blood Off My Hands ( 1948 ), The Flame and the Arrow ( 1950 ), and Ten Tall Men ( 1951 )).

The trio started a production company, originally with Hill as a silent partner, under the name " Hecht-Lancaster ".

Gibson's production company, Icon Productions had difficulty raising enough money even if he were to star in the film.

* BBS Productions, highly influential film production company of early 1970s New Hollywood

Chaplin founded a new production company, Attica, for the film and rented a studio from Shepperton Studios for the shooting.

The production of games, budgets, and platforms supported are decided upon in development approval meetings, attended by the company management and the marketing, sales, and quality control departments.

* The Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air radio drama production company

The name of Ciby 2000, the French film production and distribution company founded in 1990, is a play on words on DeMille's name, since " 2000 " in French is " Deux Milles ".

Rod Serling named his production company Cayuga Productions during the years of his TV series, The Twilight Zone.

On 27 November 2007, Textron announced that Cessna had purchased the bankrupt Columbia Aircraft company for US $ 26. 4M and would continue production of the Columbia 350 and 400 as the Cessna 350 and Cessna 400 at the Columbia factory in Bend, Oregon.

By manufacturing the aircraft in China, Cessna reports it saved USD $ 71, 000 in production costs per aircraft, or about 40 % of the cost.

Part of the crop was destroyed by hurricanes in 1979 and 1980, and 1979 – 80 production was only 670, 000 bags ( 40, 200 tons ).

This would be more than the estimated production budget of $ 40 million but a disappointment compared to previous films adapted from a Grisham novel.

In September 1979, the civilian government of Hilla Limann inherited declining per capita income ; stagnant industrial and agricultural production due to inadequate imported supplies ; shortages of imported and locally produced goods ; a sizable budget deficit ( almost 40 % of expenditures in 1979 ); high inflation, " moderating " to 54 % in 1979 ; an increasingly overvalued cedi ; flourishing smuggling and other black-market activities ; unemployment and underemployment, particularly among urban youth ; deterioration in the transport network ; and continued foreign exchange constraints.

An estimated 40 % of the world's offshore oil production comes from the Indian Ocean.

Legal disputes caused production delays for several years, but AMD's 40 MHz part eventually became very popular with computer enthusiasts as a low cost and low power alternative to the 25 MHz 486SX.

In terms of fighter aircraft production, the British exceeded their production plans by 43 percent, while the Germans remained 40 percent behind target by the summer 1940.

The production of textiles and clothing is part of a growing manufacturing sector that accounted for approximately 34 % of total exports in 2002, employing 40 % of the industrial workforce.

Doolittle had a much cleaner sound, largely due to Norton and the production budget of US $ 40, 000, which was quadruple that of Surfer Rosa.

Coffee production of 14, 578, 560 tons in 2000 compares to a pre-civil war variation between 35, 000 and 40, 000 tons.

Shoe manufacturers in the People's Republic of China account for 63 % of production, 40. 5 % of global exports and 55 % of industry revenue.

The film had a production budget of approximately $ 40 million ( plus $ 25 million for prints and advertising ).

A good crop, coupled with decreased demand caused by the production of imitation vanilla, pushed the market price down to the $ 40 per kilogram range in the middle of 2005.

The production is seen by millions, but this 1957 version is not to be telecast again for more than 40 years, when a kinescope of it is shown.

** The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line, reducing chassis assembly time from 12½ hours in October to 2 hours, 40 minutes ( although Ford is not the first to use an assembly line, his successful adoption of one sparks an era of mass production ).

If India and Russia could adopt the farming knowledge and technology of France, the world production of wheat would be 40 % higher with a farming area same as the area farmed for wheat in 2009.

According to Hyundai Motor Company, the total investment to developed the BlueOn, its first production electric car, was around 40 billion won ().

Although the system imposed a heavy tax on hired civilian farmers ( 40 % to 60 % of agricultural production ), the farmers were more than pleased to be able to work with relative stability and professional military protection in a time of chaos.

The Ambatovy nickel mine ( Sherrit International 40 %, Sumitomo 27. 5 %, Korea Resources 27. 5 %, SNC Lavelin 5 %) is a huge operation having cost $ 4. 76m to date and is due to start production in 2011.

The resulting German-occupied territory held 64 % of France's pig-iron production, 24 % of its steel manufacturing and 40 % of the total coal mining capacity, dealing a serious, but not crippling setback to French industry.

It is estimated that 40 % of the country's water supply goes towards irrigating it, with production increasing by about 10 % to 15 % every year.

After lengthy negotiations, on February 1, 2005, the Nigerian and Sao Tomé governments entered into an exploration and production sharing agreement over the first of six different exploration blocs with a US dominated consortium led by ChevronTexaco with 51 % of the equity, ExxonMobil with 40 % and Dangote Energy Equity Resources, a small Nigerian and Norwegian company with the remaining 9 %.

The Times stayed with Times New Roman for 40 years, but new production techniques and the format change from broadsheet to tabloid in 2004 have caused the newspaper to switch font five times since 1972.