AMI continued to expand after it bought Joe Weider's Weider Publications in 2002.

Alfred Henry ( Freddy ) Heineken ( November 4, 1923, Amsterdam, Netherlands – January 3, 2002, Noordwijk, Netherlands ) was a Dutch major stock holder and president of Heineken International, the brewing company bought in 1864 by his grandfather Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam.

In November 2002, mobile phones were introduced to North Korea and by November 2003, 20, 000 North Koreans had bought mobile phones.

In August 2002, several ex-PGP team members formed a new company, PGP Corporation, and bought the PGP assets ( except for the command line version ) from NAI.

However, with limited availability of financial data on Railtrack, the political implications of owning the company and the very obvious preference of the government that the national railway network should go to Network Rail, no bidders apart from Network Rail were forthcoming, and Network Rail bought Railtrack plc on 3 October 2002.

Big Briar acquired the rights to use the Moog Music name in 2002 after a legal battle with Don Martin who had previously bought the rights to the name Moog Music.

In 2002, Robertson bought all other former members ' financial interests in the group, with the exception of Helm, giving him major control of the presentation of the group's material, including latter-day compilations.

Many of the AABC firms were bought out by other consulting companies in 2002, most notably, Deloitte ( especially in Europe ), Hitachi Consulting, PwC Consulting, which was later acquired by IBM, and KPMG Consulting, which later changed its name to BearingPoint.

The team was bought by Renault for US $ 120m in and was rebranded Renault F1 in 2002.

In July 2002, Pharmacia was bought by Pfizer ; control of celecoxib was often mentioned as a key reason for Pfizer's acquisition of Pharmacia.

In 1997, Canwest bought majority control of the CBC affiliate in Quebec City, CKMI-TV, from TVA, which retained a 49 % interest until 2002.

Following bankruptcy of Daewoo Motors in 2001, UkrAVTO corporation bought out AvtoZAZ holding in 2002.

India has bought more than $ 5 billion worth of Israeli equipment since 2002.

Sunset was bought out by Americana Publishing in 2002.

However, the airline was wholly owned by Hesperia Inversiones Aéreas, which bought the airline in July 2002.

SCP was acquired by Regional Independent Media in 2000, which was in turn bought by Johnston Press in 2002.

Many properties in Toomsboro are owned by David Bumgardner, a developer who bought some properties at auction and others from preservationist Bill Lucado circa 2002.

In August 2002, Lake Arthur Butane bought Gas Appliance, a butane company also owned by family and friends, giving them the opportunity to serve the Lake Charles area.

In 2002 the Durst Organization, largely known for its high-rise developments in Manhattan, bought that straddles the town of Milan and Pine Plains with plans to create a second home and recreational community.

By 2002 Red Wing Sand and Gravel of East Fishkill, New York had bought two large parcels in the northern part of the Milan ( on Turkey Hill Road and on Academy Hill Road ) with a view to operating two large-scale mines.

In April 2002 Knightsbridge Properties Corp. bought the building for $ 4. 9 million.

In February 2002, the company purchased IBazar, a similar European auction web site founded in 1993 and then bought PayPal on October 14, 2002.

After a series of owners, businessman Jim Pliska bought the golf course in 2002.

In 2002 British Waterways bought the lock at Inglesham and the adjacent round house, to safeguard the route of the canal.

On February 5, 2002, George W. Bush visited the RODS laboratory and used it as a model for a $ 300 million spending proposal to equip all 50 states with biosurveillance systems.

The prize money awarded with the Booker Prize was originally £ 21, 000, and was subsequently raised to £ 50, 000 in 2002 under the sponsorship of the Man Group, making it one of the world's richest literary prizes.

In 2002, Cheers was ranked No. 18 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

As of 2002, 50 % of Parties lacked one or more of the four major requirements for a Party: designation of Management and Scientific Authorities ; laws prohibiting the trade in violation of CITES ; penalties for such trade ; laws providing for the confiscation of specimens.

The census in 2002 involved some 50, 000 enumerators and supervisors.

Internet users: 50, 000 ( 2002 )

The share of Federally managed roads in good quality improved from 14 % in 1995 to 31 % in 2002 as a result of this program, and to 89 % in 2009 the road density increased from 21 km per 1000 km < sup > 2 </ sup > ( in 1995 ) to 889 km ; per 1000 km < sup > 2 </ sup > ( in 2009 ) however, this is much greater than the average of 50 km per 1000 km < sup > 2 </ sup > for Africa.

From 1951 to 2002, Ackerman entertained some 50, 000 fans at open houses-including, on one such evening, a group of 186 fans and professionals including astronaut Buzz Aldrin.

This particular fact was reinforced when TV Guide ranked the series number 10 on its 50 Worst Shows of All Time List in 2002 ... a full 10 years after the last first-run episode aired on May 30, 1992 ( although the entry specifically refers to the Hee Haw Honeys spinoff, not the main show itself ).

From 25 users in July 1994, the number of users grew to 1, 000 by November 1995, 5, 000 by June 1996, 10, 000 by December 1996, 50, 000 by October 1999, 100, 000 in November 2001, and peaked around 142, 000 in April 2002.

That year, and again in 2002, she was named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People.

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In 2002, Q featured New Order on their list of the " 50 Bands to See Before You Die ", although this was as part of a sub-list of " 5 Bands That Could Go Either Way ".

* 2002 – Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.

In 2002 he became the first Italian player in over 50 years to score more than 300 career goals.

The Scientific American 50 award was started in 2002 to recognize contributions to science and technology during the magazine's previous year.

In 2002 Q magazine named The Pogues as one of the " 50 Bands To See Before You Die ".

In 2002, Ono inaugurated her own peace award, The LennonOno Grant for Peace, by giving $ 50, 000 (£ 31, 900 ) prize money to artists living " in regions of conflict.

In 2002, 60 Minutes was ranked No. 6 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

GM cotton acreage in India grew at a rapid rate, increasing from 50, 000 hectares in 2002 to 10. 6 million hectares in 2011.

In 2000, there were 50. 4 million tons of eggs produced in the world ( Executive guide to world poultry trends, 2001 ) and an estimated 53. 4 million tons of table eggs were produced during 2002.

He was voted No 19 in Empire magazine's Greatest Living Movie Stars over the age of 50 and was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actor ( Play ): in 1987 for Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and in 2002 for a revival of Noel Coward's Private Lives.

By 2002, Daley had appinted more than a third of the 50 aldermen of the Chicago City Council.

The city has hosted international events such as the 2002 United Nations Conference on Financing for Development with the participation of more than 50 heads of state and government, as well as other ministers and senior delegates from over 150 countries.

Mühlegg finished first in the 50 km classical race held on the final Saturday of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games on 23 February 2002 but was disqualified from that race and was expelled from the Games the next day, after testing positive for darbepoetin¹ ( a medicine which boosts red blood cell count ; the substance was not banned at the time since it had only recently been developed ).