" When administration of the prize was transferred to the Booker Prize Foundation in 2002, the title sponsor became the investment company Man Group, which opted to retain " Booker " as part of the official title of the prize.

The company subsequently merged with Hewlett-Packard in May 2002. some of DEC's product lines were still produced under the HP name.

* 2002 – The company Clonaid announces that it has successfully cloned a human being, although it has never presented any verifiable evidence.

He is also known for appearing in more than 800 commercial advertisements for the chain from 1989 to 2002, more than any other company founder in television history.

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.

The name Gibtelecom begun to be used in July 2002, and as of 1 October 2003 this name was formally adopted by the company ( which up until then was still Gibraltar Nynex Communications ).

GNC Networks was renamed Gibconnect and the parent company became Gibraltar Telecommunications International Limited, which is referred to as Gibtelecom, in 2002.

This overall downturn affected Holden's profits ; the company recorded a combined gain of A $ 842. 9 million between 2002 and 2004, and a combined loss of A $ 290 million between 2005 and 2006.

To increase profitability, Holden looked to the South Korean Daewoo brand for replacements after acquiring a 44. 6 percent stake — worth US $ 251 million — in the company in 2002 as a representative of GM.

In 2002 the renamed BAE Systems resold HK to a group of private investors, who created the German group holding company ( HK Beteiligungs-GmbH ).

Though the Millenia ( and its Miller-type V6 engine ) were discontinued in 2002, the company has recently introduced a much smaller Miller-cycle four-cylinder engine for use in itsDemio starting in 2008.

A key sponsorship relationship is with sportswear company Nike, who manage the club's merchandising operation as part of a £ 303 million 13-year partnership established in 2002.

* In 2002, Macrovision acquired Israeli company Midbar Technologies, developers of the Cactus Data Shield music copy protection solution for $ 17 million.

* 2002: Acquires Algorithmics Ltd, a UK-based MIPS development hardware / software and consultancy company.

North Korea's first Internet café opened in 2002 as a joint venture with South Korean internet company Hoonnet.

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.

NAI decided to drop the product line and in 2002, PGP was acquired from NAI by a new company called PGP Corporation.

In 2002, the Qatari government launched Mowasalat, a company 100 % owned by the Royal family, managed and operated by the state authorities to ensure the smooth provision of " integrated ground transport services " for the entire country with a growing population of more than 1, 400, 000 people.

In 2002 the company claimed that an American woman underwent a standard cloning procedure that led to the birth of a daughter, Eve ( b. 26 December 2002 ).

The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but on 3 October 2002, the main operating arm-the owner and operator of the national railway network, Railtrack plc-was sold by its parent company Railtrack Group plc to " not for dividend " company Network Rail ( a company limited by guarantee ) and was later renamed Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd.

The High Court accepted that the company was not therefore insolvent, and the railway administration order was discharged on 2 October 2002.

The second president was another member of the Union of Demicratic Forces-Petar Stoyanov and served until 2002, when the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party-Georgi Parvanov began to replace him, he won two mandates and served until 2011, when Rosen Plevneliev of the right-oriented GERB was elected for a five-year mandate.

A succession of military coups followed, which gave rise to an rebellion which began on 19 September 2002.

In 2002, Love began composing an album with Linda Perry ; the record, America's Sweetheart, was released on Virgin Records in February 2004, was embraced by critics with mixed reviews.

The number of attacks against pipelines began declining substantially in 2002.

In November 2002, the EPA began fining companies that disposed of CRTs through landfills or incineration.

However, as attendance began to dwindle — the Rockies fell to just sixth in the National League in attendance in 2002, and ninth in 2003 and 2004 — the club could no longer afford to build through big-name free agents.

Modern cross-country ski competition is experiencing a revolution that is resulting in greater compatibility with audiences which began with the addition of the Sprint event to the World Cup and Olympic competitions in 2002.

In 2002, one of Coronation Street's best-known storylines began, which culminated in 2003.

In 2002, Barrymore began dating The Strokes ' drummer Fabrizio Moretti, soon after they met at a concert.

In 2002, United States units began operations from Djibouti with the aim of countering the possible threat of Islamic terrorism in the Horn of Africa.

As the first part of a 10-year Road Sector Development Program, between 1997 and 2002 the Ethiopian government began a sustained effort to improve its infrastructure of roads.

However, red hair is a known Spencer-family trait, and Hewitt stated to the press in 2002 that Harry had already been born by the time his affair with Diana began, a statement corroborated by Diana's police bodyguard.

The Council of the Authority began work, in August 2002, on another set of regulations, covering polymetallic sulphides and cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts, which are rich sources of such minerals as copper, iron, zinc, silver and gold, as well as cobalt.

In early 2002, a NATO-led International Security Assistance Force ( ISAF ) was deployed in Kabul and from there they began taking over other parts of the country.

Aerobraking ended in January, and Odyssey began its science mapping mission on February 19, 2002.

After managing to evade U. S. forces throughout the summer of 2002, the remnants of the Taliban gradually began to regain their confidence.

With entry into force of the treaty, formal observation flights began in August 2002.

The requirement began on September 1, 2001, when the State of Texas passed a law to require all law enforcement agencies in the State to begin collecting certain data in connection to traffic or pedestrian stops beginning on January 1, 2002.

Currently Coronation Street ( which began screening two episodes on Monday nights in 2002 ) and Hollyoaks both produce five episodes a week, while EastEnders screens four.

" Both the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Special Court began operating in the summer of 2002.

The processing of arrivals as part of their customs screening began in October 2002.

Another Space Quest began development by Escape Factory for the Microsoft Xbox video game console in 2002, entitled simply Space Quest.

An annual festival, the Lebowski Fest, began in Louisville, Kentucky, United States in 2002 with 150 fans showing up, and has since expanded to several other cities.

In the UK The Hobbit has not retreated from the top 5, 000 books of Nielsen BookScan since 1995, when the index began, achieving a three-year sales peak rising from 33, 084 ( 2000 ) to 142, 541 ( 2001 ), 126, 771 ( 2002 ) and 61, 229 ( 2003 ), ranking it at the 3rd position in Nielsens ' " Evergreen " book list.

Chough began breeding on Lizard in 2002 following a concerted effort by the Cornish Chough Project in conjunction with DEFRA and the RSPB.