In 1997 ICI acquired National Starch & Chemical, Quest, Unichema, and Crosfield, the specialty chemicals businesses of Unilever for $ 8bn.

Lever House in New York City, which was the United States headquarters of Unilever from 1952 to 1997

The Hindustan Unilever Research Centre ( HURC ) was set up in 1967 in Mumbai, and Unilever Research India in Bangalore in 1997.

* 1997 buys its biggest-ever acquisition from Unilever four businesses: National Starch, Quest, Unichema, and Crosfield

The MSC was founded in 1997 by the World Wide Fund for Nature and Unilever, and became fully independent in 1999.

The MSC was founded in 1997 by the World Wide Fund for Nature and Unilever, and became fully independent in 1999.

Bestfoods, known as CPC international before 1997, was acquired by Unilever in 2000.

* In 1997, the Anglo-Dutch company Unilever bought Kibon.

In 1997, Borland sold Paradox to Corel, but – importantly – retained all development rights for the core BDE.

* 1999: Business. com sold for US $ 7. 5 million to eCompanies, which was purchased in 1997 for US $ 149, 000.

Twenty-one of the MiG-29s were sold to the United States in October 1997 to prevent their sale on the world market, and for research purposes.

About 55 % of all CPUs sold in the world are 8-bit microcontrollers, over two billion of which were sold in 1997.

In 1997, owner Carl Pohlad almost sold the Twins to North Carolina businessman Don Beaver, who would have moved the team to the Piedmont Triad area.

The MX5's first generation, the NA, sold over 400, 000 units from 1989 to 1997 – with a straight-4 engine to 1993, a engine thereafter ( with a de-tuned 1. 6 as a budget option in some markets ) – recognizable by its pop-up headlights.

** USA Networks ( also including what is now called Syfy ) – Paramount owned a stake starting in 1982, 50 % owner ( with Universal Studios ) from 1987 until 1997, when Paramount / Viacom sold their stake to Universal ( now part of NBCUniversal )

In 1994 DEC sold the PDP-11 system-software rights to Mentec Inc., an Irish producer of LSI-11 based boards for Q-Bus and ISA architecture personal computers, and in 1997 discontinued PDP-11 production.

Deliveries started in December 1997, and involved the buy back of the remaining 11 Mirage F1s by France that were later sold on to Spain., The current commander of the Qatar Emiri Air Force is Brigadier General Mubarak Mohammed Al Kumait Al Khayarin.

In 1997, McLaughlin sold EFM to Jacor Communications, which was ultimately bought up by Clear Channel Communications.

Her 1995 album The Woman in Me brought her fame, and her 1997 album Come On Over became the best-selling studio album of all time by a female act in any genre and the best-selling country album of all time, Come On Over sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.

The Subaru Forester is a crossover manufactured since 1997 by Fuji Heavy Industries and sold under the Subaru brand.

It was later sold to Intel in 1997, who continued to manufacture it before replacing it with the XScale in the early 2000s.

In 1997, Time Warner sold the Six Flags unit.

( except Japan and South Korea ) in the late 1990s through the 2000s, with 8 million VCD players sold in China in 1997 alone,

In 1997, its defense business was sold to Raytheon.

In 1997, the Russian government sold off enough of its share to lose the majority position.

Robertson sold the Family Channel to the News Corporation in 1997, which renamed it Fox Family.

IFE, a publicly held company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, was sold in 1997 to Fox Kids Worldwide, Inc. for $ 1. 9 billion, whereupon it was renamed Fox Family Channel.

SoftICE was originally produced by a company called NuMega, and was subsequently acquired by Compuware in 1997, which in turn sold the property to Micro Focus in 2009.

Autodesk purchased this, renamed it Visual LISP, and briefly sold it as an add-on to AutoCAD 14 released in May 1997.

In 1997, it was sold at Christie's auction house in London for $ 1. 2 million, setting a price record for a piano sold at auction.

* The world's most expensive grand piano sold at auction was built by Steinway's factory in New York City in 1883 – 87 ; it sold for $ 1. 2 million in 1997 at Christie's in London.

Carla Sacramento has won medals at a variety of distances but her speciality is the 1500 m. She won the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in 1997 in Athens after having won a bronze medal in the 1995 championships.

* Disposals of bulk chemicals businesses at that time included the sale of its Australian subsidiary, ICI Australia, for £ 1bn in 1997, and of its polyester chemicals business to DuPont for $ 3 billion also in 1997.

The chemicals are speculated to concentrate up the food chain, and weaken the Baikal seal's immune systems, making them susceptible to diseases such as canine distemper and the plague, which was the cause of a serious Baikal seal epidemic that resulted in the deaths of thousands of animals in 1997 and 1999.

Part of the merger agreement of 1997 between Ciba Geigy and Sandoz was that the former's industrial chemicals business would be spun off as a separate business, leading to the formation of Ciba Specialty Chemicals plc.

Three days after the hurricane, the American Red Cross sent an initial donation of $ 25, 000 ( 1997 USD ), and also sent plastic sheets for temporary roofing and cleaning supplies such as mops, brooms, buckets, sponges, bleach, and cleaning chemicals.

While several fantasy businesses had migrated to the internet in the mid-1990s, the watershed era for online fantasy sports was in 1997 when two web sites made their debut that forever changed the fantasy sports industry: Commissioner. com and RotoNews. com.

In 1997, it became one of the first profitable internet businesses in the world.

On 1 July 1997, in preparation for privatisation of the Public Transport Corporation, Melbourne's tram network was split into two businesses — Met Tram 1 ( later renamed Swanston Trams ) and Met Tram 2 ( later renamed Yarra Trams ).

The Wurtsmith Renaissance Zone was created in 1997, which exempted businesses and residents of the zone from all state and most local taxes.

The German historian Hans Mommsen in a 1997 interview claimed that a major motive for the pogrom was the desire of the Gauleiters of the NSDAP to seize Jewish property and businesses.

It remained one of the top 10 U. S. chemical companies until it divested most of its chemical businesses between 1997 and 2002, through a process of mergers and spin-offs that focused the company on biotechnology.

The urban development included the opening of the long-awaited Spokane Valley Mall in 1997, the establishment of dozens of other businesses along business corridors, and the development of the Mirabeau Point community complex.

Finally it can serve to reduce trade barriers between registered businesses ( Van der Deldt, 1997 ).

The company spun off many of its better known businesses after the 1997 Asian financial crisis, including Hyundai Automotive Group, Hyundai Department Store Group, and Hyundai Heavy Industries Group.

In an effort to establish leadership in the defense electronics business, Raytheon purchased in quick succession Dallas-based E-Systems ( 1995 ), Chrysler Corporation's defense electronics and aircraft-modification businesses ( 1996 ) ( portions of these businesses were later sold to L-3 Communications ), and the defense unit of Texas Instruments – Defense Systems & Electronics Group ( 1997 ).

Founded in 1997 in New York City, Project Enterprise provides support to entrepreneurs and small businesses in lower income communities through access to business loans, business development services, and networking opportunities.

Many businesses collapsed, and as a consequence, millions of people temporarily fell below the poverty line in 1997 – 1998.

A development and production contract was signed on 11 February 1997, by which time Matra and BAe had completed the merger of their missile businesses to form Matra BAe Dynamics.

Since the opening of the M65 motorway in 1997, many businesses have been attracted to the area, with industrial estates growing to the north of the town at Junction 4 of the motorway.

In 1997 there were 2, 300 businesses in the region, employing a total of 10, 380 full-time

From 1995 through 1997, San Miguel suffered a downturn in its main domestic businesses, while overseas operations were still in the red.

It opened on May 31, 1997, and is a station on the, serving nearby residences and businesses.

It opened on May 31, 1997. and is a station on the, serving nearby residences and businesses, the Dallas VA Medical Center, and the Dallas Urban League.

In December 1997, Channel One's parent company, Primedia, classified its Education Segment, which includes Channel One Network, as a " discontinued operation " and announced that it was " exploring strategic alternatives for " the businesses in that segment.