That same year, 1987, the company introduced its Mega Man series.

Following the band's breakup, Rollins established the record label and publishing company 2. 13. 61 to release his spoken word albums, as well as forming the Rollins Band, which toured with a number of lineups from 1987 until 2003, and during 2006.

Maurice Summerfield of the Charles Summerfield Ltd company contributed some design ideas to Hoshino Gakki and also imported Ibanez and CSL guitars into the UK with Hoshino Gakki cooperation from 1964 – 1987.

During the 1980s ( from 1982 to 1987 ,) the company was led by the charismatic John Harvey Jones.

Maxis is an American company founded as an independent video game developer in 1987.

In 1987, the Virgin director responsible for Viz, John Brown, set up his own publishing company, John Brown Publishing, to handle Viz.

In 1987, corporate raider, Paul Bilzerian, made a " greenmail " run at Singer, and ended up owning the company when no " White Knight " rescuer appeared.

In January 1987, they visited the offices of Playmates Toys Inc, a small California toy company who wished to expand into the action figure market.

Dr. Jeffreys's genetic fingerprinting was made commercially available in 1987, when a chemical company, Imperial Chemical Industries ( ICI ), started a blood-testing centre in England.

In 1987, John Philp Thompson, the CEO of 7-Eleven, completed a $ 5. 2 billion management buyout of the company his father had founded.

The buyout suffered from the 1987 stock market crash and after failing initially to raise high yield debt financing, the company was required to offer a portion of the company's stock as an inducement to invest in the company's bonds.

In 1989, Jorge Born, president of the company from 1987 ( replacing Mario Hirsch ), began working closely with the government of Carlos Menem.

The company re-organised its administration gradually throughout the decade, appointing Moffatt Oxenbould as Artistic Director in 1984, and announcing that Richard Bonynge would become Musical Director Emeritus and Principal Guest Conductor from 1987, after his decade long contract as musical director expired.

* 1987 – Texaco files for bankruptcy ; company continues trading under protection of U. S. bankruptcy laws.

Red Bull is an energy drink sold by Austrian company Red Bull GmbH, created in 1987.

* Ben Sherman ( 1925 – 1987, born Arthur Benjamin Sugarman ), British clothing company founder

* 1937, German whale factory ship Unitas for Jürgens-Van den Bergh company ( whale hunting vessels were built by Bremer Vulkan ); as Japanese Nissan Maru II scrapped in Taiwan 1987

MCA / Universal and the latter company would become the sole owners in 1987 ( each owning 50 %).

After Colonel Oliver North told Congress that he used a Schleicher Intimus 007 S cross-cut model to shred Iran-Contra documents, sales for that company increased nearly 20 percent in 1987.

In August 1987, a unit of Ansett Transport Industries Ltd., an Australian airline company and at the time 50 % owned by News Corporation, purchased a 21. 6 percent stake in America West.

By the early 1980s, the company was practically insolvent, leading to its privatization in 1987.

In 1987 after a corporate putsch, the renamed UAL Corp. sold Hilton International to Ladbroke Group plc, a British leisure and gambling company, which in May 1999 adopted the name Hilton Group plc.

As a biotech company, Monsanto was among the first to genetically modify a plant cell, along with three academic teams, announced in 1983, and was among the first to conduct field trials of genetically modified crops, which it did in 1987.

In 1987 Iberia together with Lufthansa, Air France and SAS founded Amadeus, an IT company ( also known as a GDS ) that would enable travel agencies to sell the founders and other airlines ' products from a single system.

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

He was a pioneer in computer-generated art using Amiga computers that were introduced in 1985, just before his death in 1987.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination was first remixed in 1987 for release on CD, and included narration by Orson Welles which had been recorded in 1975, but arrived too late to be included on the original album.

The outcome was a decision by the 14th International Botanical Congress in 1987 that Amaryllis should be a conserved name ( i. e. correct regardless of priority ) and ultimately based on a specimen of the South African Amaryllis belladonna from the Clifford Herbarium at the British Museum.

The best selling model, the Amiga 500, was introduced in 1987 and became the leading home computer of the late 1980s and early 1990s in much of Western Europe.

By 1987 Ethernet was clearly winning the standards battle over Token Ring, and in the middle of that year Apple introduced EtherTalk 1. 0 for the newly released Macintosh II computer.

By 1987 a comprehensive survey of the phylum was completed: in all, 4516 species and 339 genera had been named.

She is a Privy Councillor and was the Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1987 to 1997 and for Maidstone and The Weald from 1997 to 2010.

She was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1987 general election as member for the constituency of Maidstone ( which became Maidstone and The Weald in 1997 ).

The overall population in 1987 was estimated at about 5, 000.

The common law offence of affray was abolished for England and Wales on 1 April 1987.

* Telecom New Zealand — Operated an AMPS / TDMA network in New Zealand from 1987 until 2007 throughout the whole country and the network was renowned for its superb coverage, In 2000 Telecom announced that they would discontinue the AMPS network within 5 years ( 2005 ) to give customers an opportunity to transition to the CDMA2000 and later 1XRTT technologies that replaced it.

A book of Lerner's lyrics entitled A Hymn To Him, edited by British writer Benny Green, was published in 1987.

The most recent case was in early 1987, which was the most severe winter in Scandinavia since that date.

In 1987, there was media speculation Clinton would enter the race after then-New York Governor Mario Cuomo declined to run and Democratic front-runner Gary Hart withdrew owing to revelations of marital infidelity.

The Amiga Skyline BBS software was the first in 1987 featuring a script markup language communication protocol called Skypix which was capable to give the user a complete graphical interface, featuring rich graphic content, changeable fonts, mouse-controlled actions, animations and sound.

The duo named themselves Gemini, and a second album with more music by Björn and Benny was released in April 1987, containing the big hit " Mio My Mio "; also to be found on the soundtrack to the film Mio in the Land of Faraway, for which Andersson co-produced the music.

DJ Scott La Rock was murdered on August 27, 1987, months after the release of BDP's debut album, Criminal Minded.

The award was renamed the Jackie Robinson Award in July 1987, 40 years after Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color line.

Turbo C was released on May 18, 1987 and an estimated 100, 000 copies were shipped in the first month of its release.

One of the other songs from the project called " European Boy " was recorded in 1987 by disco group Splash.