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.

When the most recent competition was held to mark the Golden Jubilee of 2002, Croydon made a sixth application, again unsuccessful.

Important members of the party have included Minneapolis mayor Hubert H. Humphrey and Minnesota Attorney General Walter Mondale, who each went on to be United States Senators, Vice Presidents of the United States, and unsuccessful Democratic nominees for president, Humphrey in 1968 and Mondale in 1984 ; Eugene McCarthy, a Senator who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968 as an anti-Vietnam War candidate ; and Paul Wellstone, a Senator from 1991 – 2002 who became an icon of populist progressivism.

1969, unsuccessful candidate for governor of Texas, 2002 gubernatorial election

During the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis an unsuccessful attempt to use an unknown gas — thought to be fentanyl, or 3-methylfentanyl, for inducing sleep in the terrorists and hostages — caused the deaths of many hostages, some from choking on their vomit, others from an overdose, while many of the Chechen terrorists survived using gas masks and were able to fight the Russian forces ( still, the suicide bombers among the hostages lost consciousness, as projected ).

In 2002 he had a speaking role in the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful Hostile Waters as the Narrator.

After resigning as a cabinet minister in 1991, Kibaki served as an opposition Member of Parliament from 1991 up to his election as Kenya's third president in 2002 after two unsuccessful bids for the Kenyan presidency in 1992 and 1997.

Barker, a member of the Liberal Democrats, was an unsuccessful Queen's Park ward candidate in May 2002 and an unsuccessful Kenton ward candidate in May 2006.

Applications for city status in competitions in 2000 and 2002 were unsuccessful.

After two decades of fighting and four failed tries at peace talks, including the unsuccessful deployment of the Indian Army, the Indian Peace Keeping Force from 1987 to 1990, a lasting negotiated settlement to the conflict appeared possible when a cease-fire was declared in December 2001, and a ceasefire agreement signed with international mediation in 2002.

In 2002, Wendy's acquired the rights to the brand for franchises in Australia, and later, New Zealand, but were unsuccessful in launching the chain in either country.

This operation was unsuccessful, however, and Sears converted the eatons stores to the Sears brand in 2002.

He left the House in 2003 after an unsuccessful 2002 run for Governor of Guam against Republican Felix Perez Camacho.

Ultimately unsuccessful in preventing the buyout, Rodamco's ownership interest and management operation of the mall was acquired by Simon Property Group in early 2002.

Critics blamed Houllier's unsuccessful summer signings in 2002, namely El Hadji Diouf ( Lens, £ 10 million ), Salif Diao ( Sedan, £ 5 million ) and Bruno Cheyrou ( Lille, £ 4 million ), and his failure to make Nicolas Anelka's loan move permanent in favour of signing the ineffective Diouf.

Subsequently he was Prime Minister of Ukraine from 21 November 2002, to 31 December 2004, under President Leonid Kuchma, and he was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2004 presidential election, ultimately losing to Viktor Yushchenko.

In 2002, Turkey and Greece made an unsuccessful attempt to jointly host the 2008 UEFA European Football Championship.

Midway through his second term in the State Senate, in 2002, Davis ran for the Democratic nomination in the 4th District when four-term Republican incumbent Van Hilleary gave up the seat to make what would ultimately be an unsuccessful run for governor.

In June 2002 KDU – ČSL went into the elections on a joint ballot with the Freedom Union – Democratic Union ) ( US – DEU ) as the " Two-Coalition ", which was the last remnant of an unsuccessful attempt to unite them with three smaller parties into the " Four-Coalition " which would provide an alternative to the practices of the " opposition agreement " of ODS and Czech Social Democratic Party ( ČSSD ).

Penny's unsuccessful 2002 run for governor of Minnesota as the Independence Party candidate received 16 % of the vote, despite polls indicating a dead heat between him, DFL candidate Roger Moe, and Republican candidate Tim Pawlenty less than a month before the election.

It applied for city status in 2000 and 2002, but was unsuccessful.

Van Loan was a key figure in the unsuccessful attempt to convince Premier of New Brunswick Bernard Lord to run for the leadership of the federal Progressive Conservatives in late 2002.

He was soon the subject of media criticism after an unsuccessful stint for county side Durham and for taking off his shirt in the final of the 2002 Natwest Trophy.

The group went on hiatus from 2002 until 2007, releasing only three unsuccessful singles, “ Can ’ t Get It Back ”, “ Ugly ”, and the international single from the film Honey, “ I ’ m Good ”.