In 1990 Marshall Field's was sold to Dayton Hudson Corporation ( now Target Corporation ), Ivey's ( another Marshall Field's division ) was sold to Dillard's, Saks Fifth Avenue was sold to Investcorp S. A., and Argos was demerged ( Argos was acquired by previous parent company GUS plc in 1998 ).

Also, in 1998 alone, a total of 94 corporations faced a net liability of less than half the full 35 % corporate tax rate and the corporations Lyondell Chemical, Texaco, Chevron, CSX, Tosco, PepsiCo, Owens & Minor, Pfizer, JP Morgan, Saks, Goodyear, Ryder, Enron, Colgate-Palmolive, Worldcom, Eaton, Weyerhaeuser, General Motors, El Paso Energy, Westpoint Stevens, MedPartners, Phillips Petroleum, McKesson and Northrup Grumman all had net negative tax liabilities.

Competing mainly in the established Southeastern US market through the 1980s against Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus and Gus Mayer, Parisian underwent a series of restructurings and mergers during its 130-year history, and was taken over by Saks Incorporated in 1998.

Proffitt's bought Saks Fifth Avenue for $ 2. 1 billion in 1998, which included 100 Saks stores and 40 discount Off 5th outlet stores, and changed its own name from Proffitt's, Inc. to Saks Incorporated.

Proffitt's would later acquire Carson Pirie Scott, and in 1998 Proffitt's merged with Saks Fifth Avenue to form Saks Incorporated.

Saks Incorporated (), founded in Birmingham, Alabama in 1998, is headquartered in New York City, New York, and is a Fortune 1000 operator of high-end department stores in the United States under the nameplate Saks Fifth Avenue.

Saks evolved from Proffitt's Inc. after Proffitt's changed its name in 1998.

In September 1998, the company acquired the holding company for the luxury retailer Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Holdings, Inc., and subsequently changed its legal name to Saks, Incorporated.

Late 1998 would see the biggest name change when Proffitt's purchased Saks Holdings Inc, the holding company for luxury retailer Saks Fifth Avenue.

After 1998, when Proffitt's merged with Saks Holdings Inc. and changed its corporate name to Saks Incorporated, the chain shared a corporate parent with Saks Fifth Avenue.

By 1998, Carson Pirie Scott & Co. ownership was held by Proffitt's, Inc., ( later renamed Saks Incorporated to reflect the acquisition of Saks Fifth Avenue ).

Eventually, Proffitt's Inc., now Saks Incorporated, bought Carson Pirie Scott in 1998 and its purchase increased the northern presence of the Saks Incorporated company.

The work was so important that Acorn spun off the design team in 1990 into a new company called Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. Advanced RISC Machines became ARM Ltd when its parent company, ARM Holdings plc, floated on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ in 1998.

In 1998, Caddie was acquired by the South African software development company Billcad Holdings.

Its parent company, G-Air Holdings, acquired Paradise International Airlines in August 1998 and continued to operate its de Havilland Canada Dash 7s.

* Metro and Makro Cash and Carry ( Makro stores in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe were acquired from SHV Holdings in 1998 ): This division accounts for nearly half of group sales as of 2004, and is by far the most internationalised division, with stores in almost every country in which the group operates.

Turnbull was also chair of a large Australia Internet Service Provider, OzEmail ( 1994 – 99 ), a director of FTR Holdings Ltd ( 1995 – 2004 ), chair and managing director of Goldman Sachs Australia ( 1997 – 2001 ) and a partner with Goldman Sachs and Co ( 1998 – 2001 ).

On June 19, 1998 the government of Panama turned over control of the Panama Canal Railway to Kansas City Southern Railroad and the privately held Lanigan Holdings, LLC.

In April 1998, ECNG bought Home Counties Newspapers Holdings plc with an agreed bid of approximately £ 58m.

In August 1998 Plessey Corporation was bought by Dimension Data Holdings and World-wide African Investment Holdings for R1. 6 Billion.

The company acquired Montreal-based Sports Holdings, Inc, in 1998, and became the world's top producer of hockey merchandise adding the brands Koho, Titan, Jofa, Canadien, and Heaton.

KKR's activity level would accelerate over the second half of the 1990s making a series of notable investments including Spalding Holdings Corporation and Evenflo ( 1996 ), Newsquest ( 1996 ), KinderCare Learning Centers ( 1997 ), Amphenol Corporation ( 1997 ), Randalls Food Markets ( 1997 ), The Boyds Collection ( 1998 ), MedCath Corporation ( 1998 ), Willis Group Holdings ( 1998 ), Smiths Group ( 1999 ) and Wincor Nixdorf ( 1999 ).

On 12 November 1998 TalkCo Holdings, whose Chairman and Chief Executive was former Sun Editor Kelvin MacKenzie, purchased Talk Radio.

On 6 January 1998, CLP Holdings Limited replaced China Light & Power Company, Limited as the new holding company listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong.

In 1998 it acquired Primac Holdings in Queensland and a share in Killara Feedlot in NSW and then rescued Victoria Producers from collapse in Victoria and established EldersVP in that state.

In December 1998 the Packer-controlled Consolidated Press Holdings purchased FAI's 16 million shares for $ 43 million.

In 1998, AFC Enterprises purchased Seattle Coffee Holdings and began franchising the Seattle's Best Coffee brand.

The National Bus Company was privatised and National Express Holdings Ltd was formed in 1998 following a management buy-out ; National Express Group ( NEG ) was formed in 1991 prior to the company being floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1992.

It was sold to Trinity Holdings ( formed from a management buyout from Hestair Group ) in 1989 and then to Mayflower Corporation in October 1998.

The company was renamed First Group plc following an Extraordinary General Meeting on 23 December 1998, when the company moved into railways with the privatisation of British Rail, gaining the Great Eastern franchise, then purchasing Swindon-based Great Western Holdings, holders of the North Western and Great Western franchises.

Due to Apple's moves and the mounting debt of Be Inc., BeOS was soon ported to the Intel x86 platform with its R3 release in March 1998.

* William S. Root, The ABCs of Bridge ( 1998 ) Crown Publishers Inc, New York, USA ISBN 0-609-80162-7

* Speer Reloading Manual Number 13 ; Book by Speer, Blount, Inc., 1998

The Advisory Board incorporated the Ithaca HOUR system as Ithaca Hours, Inc. in October 1998, and hosted the first elections for Board of Directors in March 1999.

* Walter Aaron Clark, Isaac Albéniz: A Guide to Research, Garland Publishing Inc. New York & London, 1998.

* MKS Inc .′ s MKS Korn shell — a proprietary implementation of the KornShell language from Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX ( SFU ) up to version 2. 0 ; according to David Korn, the MKS Korn shell was not fully compatible with KornShell in 1998 ; in SFU version 3. 0 Microsoft replaced the MKS Korn shell with a new POSIX. 2-compliant shell as part of Interix ;

In 1990, Marmite Limited — which had become a subsidiary of Bovril Limited — was bought by CPC International Inc, which changed its name to Best Foods Inc in 1998.

* Adrian Fisher and Howard Loxton, Secrets of the Maze, Thames & Hudson, London ( 1997 ) / Barron ’ s Educational Series Inc, New York ( 1998 ) ISBN 978-0-500-01811-8

* 1998: Re-IPO as MIPS Technologies, Inc

* Ronald M. Shapiro and Mark A. Jankowski, The Power of Nice: How to Negotiate So Everyone Wins-Especially You !, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998, ISBN 0-471-08072-1

* Williams, George L., Papal Genealogy: The Families And Descendants Of The Popes, McFarland & Company Inc., 1998.

Escape, Inc. was established in 1998.

It was re-released in 1998 as a Toymax, Inc. Mini Classic and was later included as an unlockable extra in Game & Watch Gallery 4, a 2002 compilation for the Game Boy Advance.

In January 1998 exclusive rights to the V-Chip were sold to Tri-Vision Electronics Inc.

New York: Abbeville Publishing Group ( Abbeville Press, Inc .), 1998 ( ISBN 0-7892-0459-2 ).

It was operated by Associated Universities, Inc. ( AUI ), from 1947 until 1998 when Associated lost the contract in the wake of a scandal when tritium leaked into the Long Island Central Pine Barrens groundwater on which it sits.

* Read by George Wilson, produced by Recorded Books, Inc., 1998

In 1998, Brin and Page founded Google, Inc.

On December 2 1998, Bitstream Inc. announced acquisition of all outstanding stock of Type Solutions, Inc.

Clementine was so successful that in 1998 ISL was bought by SPSS Inc who had been selling the statistics and data-mining package SPSS for which they needed a better graphical interface suited to expert and non-expert users.

Carroll and Graf Publishers, Inc., 1998, ISBN 0-7867-0678-3