" 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.

In 2003 GDP was estimated to have grown by 2 percent, a slight improvement over 2002, the last year for which firm figures are available, when GDP expanded by 1. 8 percent in real terms to about US $ 600 million.

However, the theory was revived and expanded by Elisabeth Sears in Shakespeare and the Tudor Rose ( 2002 ), and Hank Whittemore in The Monument ( 2005 ), an analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnets which interprets the poems as a poetic history of Queen Elizabeth, Oxford, and Southampton.

Kool Moe Dee states that Biggie introduced a newer flow which “ dominated from 1994 to 2002 ”, and also says that Method Man was “ one of the emcees from the early to mid -’ 90s that ushered in the era of flow ... Rakim invented it, Big Daddy Kane, KRS-One, and Kool G Rap expanded it, but Biggie and Method Man made flow the single most important aspect of an emcee ’ s game ”.

* 2002: Time ( expanded version of R. I. P.

* Note: version established at White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd in 2007 and was expanded from the 2002 edition.

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.

* Chi Nguyen ; Judy Monroe, ( 2002 ) Cooking the Vietnamese way: revised and expanded to include new low-fat and vegetarian recipes Twenty-First Century Books, ISBN 0-8225-4125-4

The programme was expanded from four events in 1992 to eight in 2002.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 expanded on the Decoder Circuity Act to place the same requirements on digital television receivers by July 1, 2002.

2002 – Quest opened an office in Japan and expanded their application management offerings to custom web applications written in Java with the acquisition of Sitraka.

On 25 February 2002, The Register expanded its business to United States under The Register USA, using domain name www. theregus. com, through a joint venture with Tom's Hardware Guide.

Besides a brief appearance of the brothers in Japan around 1994, and George making a guest-appearance in the 1990s on a concert in Japan ( including a released double-CD ) of the Graham Central Station, the duo launched an expanded US tour in 2002 which got positive, wide exposure.

The competition started as the Top Dawg Business Plan Competition in 2002 and expanded six years later to include the Idea Pitch Competition.

" The initial start of the program was to be August 2002 and would have included one million workers in ten US cities and then to be expanded .< ref > Chang, Nancy.

In 2002 Tours lost all connection with its historic province, all its previous suffragans depending henceforth on an expanded province of Rennes ( corresponding to the Brittany and Pays de la Loire administrative regions ).

In the 2002 – 03 season, the first-round series were expanded from best-of-5 to best-of-7 ; all other series have always been best-of-7.

The Zoog Disney brand later expanded from September 2001 to August 2002, when the entire weekend lineup outside of the Vault Disney and Playhouse Disney blocks was branded as " Zoog Weekendz " at that point.

In a series of speeches in late 2001 and 2002, Bush expanded on his view of American foreign policy and global intervention, declaring that the United States should actively support democratic governments around the world, especially in the Middle East, as a strategy for combating the threat of terrorism, and that the United States had the right to act unilaterally in its own security interests, without the approval of international bodies such as the United Nations.

In 1996, Dell began selling computers through its website, and in 2002, it expanded its product line to include televisions, handhelds, digital audio players, and printers.

The airport terminal was expanded and renovated in 2002, when the extension of concourse A and B was built, allowing the terminal to double its capacity.

It was expanded in 2002.

Voters approved a measure in 2000 that expanded the Township Committee from three to five members starting in 2002.

* An indoor ice rink and event arena, Löfbergs Lila Arena, expanded in 2002 to host the Ice Hockey World Championships

It has also expanded its borders several times, the most significant expansion of which was in 2002.

The temple was subsequently expanded and rededicated on November 17, 2002.