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In 2006, AB Volvo acquired from Nissan Motor Co Ltd, 13 % of the shares in the Japanese truck manufacturer UD Trucks former Nissan Diesel, and became a major shareholder.
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After the acquisition, an Oracle press release mentioned that the contracts that make the company's software available to MySQL AB would be due for renewal ( and presumably renegotiation ) some time in 2006.
On 8 February 2006, Telenor increased its shareholding in the Swedish residential voice and broadband provider Glocalnet AB by 13. 5 per cent, for a consideration of SEK 136 million ( NOK 118 million ), to secure a 50. 1 per cent ownership interest.
In 2006 Chief Red Blood Anthony Morales, was the leader, inspiration, and catalyst for the historic California legislation AB 2641, which extends existing federal laws to ensure additional protection to Native American sacred sites.
Sentencing occurred in March 2006 for three of the most powerful leaders of the gang, including Barry Byron Mills ( born 1948 ) and AB " lieutenant " Tyler " The Hulk " Bingham, who were indicted for numerous crimes, including murder, conspiracy, drug trafficking, and racketeering and for ordering killings and beatings from their cell.
SVT made their first broadcasts in high definition television during the 2006 FIFA World Cup in a channel operated in co-operation with TV4 AB.
* Tom Carnegie, ( AB 1942 ), longtime voice of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indianapolis 500 car race as track announcer from 1946 to 2006.
In November 2006, it was announced that Bonnier and Proventus would buy the share in the TV4 Group AB that was then held by Schibsted.
The deal was approved in December 2006, making the TV4 Group AB almost entirely owned by Nordic Broadcasting Oy, a company owned jointly by Bonnier and Proventus.
Just over a year after inactivation, Third Air Force was reactivated on 1 December 2006, at Ramstein AB, Germany, as USAFE's Air and Space Operations supporting U. S. European Command.
On 1 December 2006, the Sixteenth Air Force was inactivated at Ramstein AB and simultaneously reconstituted as the Sixteenth Air Expeditionary Task Force at Izmir Air Base, Turkey.
: Núñez authored AB 32 that was signed into law by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on September 27, 2006.
Additional responsibilities were granted to CARB by California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 ( AB 32 ), which includes the mandate to set low-carbon fuel standards.
Whitman said that if elected, on her first day she would have suspended AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, for a year to study its potential economic implications.
This was followed by the purchase of the Lapa gold deposit in 2000, Riddarhyttan Resources AB ( the 100 % owner of the Suurikuusikko gold deposit in northern Finland, which would become the Kittilä mine ) in 2005, the Pinos Altos project in Mexico in 2006, and the purchase of Cumberland Resources in 2007, giving Agnico-Eagle 100 % control of the Meadowbank gold project in Nunavut, Canada.
He was also chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG, the parent company of the Volkswagen Group, from 2002 to 2006, and chairman of Scania AB until 2007.
2006 and Volvo
After suggestions of selling Jaguar Cars, Land Rover or Volvo Cars, Ford appointed UBS AG to sell all or part of Aston Martin by auction and announced the fact in August 2006.
However, Farr's Volvo Ocean Race boats fared less well in 2006 as all four of his designs experienced problems after various failures in their Farr-designed keel canting mechanisms, including an abandonment of the yacht Movistar which was unable to prevent the flow of water through the keel box and, to this day, lies on the ocean floor, unrecovered.
In March 2006, SBS Transit sold all its bendy buses to New Zealand after encountering drivability issues with the Volvo B10MA bus and air-conditioning problems with the Mercedes-Benz bus, and also deciding that double-decker buses could carry more passengers while taking up less road space, as opposed to SMRT's stance that " articulated buses offer greater accessibility and efficiency ".
The first demonstrator, with Wright Eclipse Gemini body, was delivered to London General ( part of the Go-Ahead Group ) in July 2006 for evaluation, it is used on route 11 along with the current Wright-bodied Volvo B7TL.
The Volvo C70 is a convertible manufactured by Volvo Cars in two generations: the first from model years 1997-2002 as coupé and from 1999 to 2006 as a softtop convertible.
The waterfront overlooks the Gunwharf Quays Marina which has hosted many national and international sailing events such as the Volvo Ocean Race in Summer 2006.
The C70 model — the first car built by the joint venture — was launched on 13 April 2006, sharing the Volvo P1 platform used in the S40.
Other systems like the Volvo CWAB ( see below ) are also available such as the Mercedes-Benz Brake Assist Plus ( BAS Plus ) was first made standard equipment on the W221 ( 2006 onwards ) S-Class Mercedes-Benz.
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