The new owners pushed the company into modernising its line, producing the V8 Vantage in 1977, the convertible Volante in 1978, and the one-off William Towns-styled Bulldog in 1980.

Arianespace SA is a French company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial space transportation company.

In 1980, at the invitation of the French Minister of Culture, she founded the baroque dance company " Ris et Danceries ".

In September 1978, the company demonstrated an optical digital audio disc with a 150 minute playing time, 44, 056 Hz sampling rate, 16-bit linear resolution, and cross-interleaved error correction code — specifications similar to those later settled upon for the standard Compact Disc format in 1980.

For example, in 1980, a company called " Don't Ask Software ", founded by Randy Simon, created a version called " Abuse " for the Apple II, Atari, and Commodore PCs, which verbally abused the user based on the user's input.

* 1980 – Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst, founded the ACNielsen company ( b. 1897 )

In 1980, Lawhead became the manager of the successful Christian rock act Degarmo and Key and formed his own record company, Ariel Records.

Steve Jackson Games ( SJG ) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and the gaming magazine Pyramid.

Nelson co-founded Itty bitty machine company, or " ibm ", which was a small computer retail store operating from 1977 to 1980 in Evanston, Illinois.

In 1980, the company started delivering Wankel-powered VAZ-2106s ( VAZ-411 engine with two-rotors ) and Ladas, mostly to security services, of which about 200 were made.

The company had its head office redomiciled to Bermuda in 1984 under the tenure of Simon Keswick to maintain control after nearly being taken over by Chinese tycoon Li Ka-shing of Cheung Kong after a hostile raid in 1980.

In 1980, the ITV company ATV picked up the series and produced a solo show starring Alf-titled The Thoughts of Chairman Alf at Christmas-transmitted on 26 December.

Formed in 1980, Psion achieved its first successes as a consumer hardware company that developed the revolutionary Psion Organiser as well as a whole range of more advanced, clamshell-design Personal Digital Assistants.

In accordance with the provisions of the British Aerospace Act 1980 the statutory corporation was changed to a Public limited company ( plc ), British Aerospace Public Limited Company, on 1 January 1981.

In 1978, Harley-Davidson sold its Italian operations to the Castiglioni brothers, founders of the Cagiva motorcycle company, which continued to produce bikes branded " HD Cagiva " until 1980.

On March 26, 1980, the European Space Agency and the Centre National d ' Etudes Spatiales ( CNES ) created Arianespace, the world's first commercial space transportation company.

Similarly, if concentrated industries take longer time to react to demand changes, then, all else equal, good economic news should raise the value of a company more in a concentrated industry than in an non-concentrated industry ( Lustgarten and Thomadakis 1980 ).

In 1958, the company introduced the first diet cola, Diet Rite, and in 1980, a caffeine-free cola, RC 100.

Pressured by their record company for a new record and a prompt return to touring, the Police released their third album, Zenyatta Mondatta, in October 1980.

The company became a subsidiary of Exxon in 1980, but the management and employees bought it back in 1989 led by Dr. Edgar Sack.

It was first published in 1980 by Gorgonstar, a small company created by the designers.

Bank of America was " bewildered " by BCCI and reduced its holding in 1980, and the company came to be held by a number of groups, with ICIC owning 70 %.

Abbott was a researcher and reporter at Thames Television from 1980 to 1983 and then a researcher and reporter at the breakfast television company TV-am from 1983 to 1985.

The first company to do so was photocopier manufacturer Rank Xerox who sponsored the club for three years from 1980.

The peak and statue can be accessed via a narrow road or by the 3. 8 kilometre ( 2. 4 mi ) Corcovado Rack Railway which was opened in 1884 and refurbished in 1980.

Through the Fondation Claude Monet, the house and gardens were opened for visits in 1980, following restoration.

McLean had a series of conflicts with Saturday Night Live writer Andy Breckman, starting when Breckman opened for McLean on tour in 1980.

The war opened Sartre's eyes to a political reality he had not yet understood until forced into continual engagement with it: " the world itself destroyed Sartre's illusions about isolated self-determining individuals and made clear his own personal stake in the events of the time " ( Aronson 1980: 108 ).

The West Stand was opened in 1977 and the new East Terrace was completed by March 1980.

She starred in Whose Life Is It Anyway with James Naughton, which opened on Broadway at the Royale Theatre on February 24, 1980, and ran for 96 performances, and in Sweet Sue, which opened at the Music Box Theatre ( transferred to the Royale Theatre ) on Jan. 8, 1988, and ran for 164 performances.

The last section opened in late 1980.

He had opened for them in the 1970s as a member of The Vibrators, filled in for Cornwell during his time in prison for drug possession in 1980, worked with Burnel and Greenfield in their side-project Purple Helmets, and been added to the Stranglers ' line-up as a touring guitarist a short time before Cornwell's departure.

A Broadway revival opened at the Minskoff Theatre on February 14, 1980 and closed on November 30, 1980, after 333 performances.

In addition to works in North America, the Singer Corporation also had the honour of creating the largest clock face in the world, the Singer's clock at its Clydebank, Scotland factory which opened in 1885 and closed in 1980.

It was opened in 1980 with 15 experimental areas ( today there are 42 ).

* The Arts and Handicrafts Center-Located at Jalan Residency it was opened in 1980.

On 4 February 1980, the £ 4. 7m single carriage way bypass road was opened by Kenneth Clarke, which had been built to the east of the town, diverting the A49.

It opened in stages, the west tunnel in 1963, the east tunnel in 1980, and the bridge in 1991.

After rapid increases in traffic, a second tunnel was initiated, and opened in 1980, allowing each tunnel to handle one direction of traffic.

The next Broadway revival, directed by Vivian Matalon and choreographed by De Mille, opened on October 16, 1980, at the Majestic Theatre, where it ran for 133 performances and eight previews.

In 1980, the groundbreaking show Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art and visited London, Düsseldorf, and Amsterdam, as well as San Francisco and Chicago.

Additionally the Tate also manages the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, which opened in 1980.

The film opened in February 1980 to mixed reviews but strong box office, further cementing Curtis as a horror film starlet.

* Shear Madness, a long-running play that opened in 1980.

In 1980 a Yiddish school was opened in the settlement.

A motorway tunnel, the Gotthard Road Tunnel, opened in 1980.

Mountain View opened in July 1975, Crain opened in August 1980, Hilltop opened in November 1981, Hughes opened in January 1990.