On August 22, 2008, Aon announced that it had acquired London-based Benfield Group.

MSP Alex Johnstone wrote " Clearly, the Declaration of Arbroath is a literary work of outstanding universal significance by any stretch of the imagination " In 2008, the Campaign Group Chairman, Councillor Jim Millar launched a public petition to reinforce the bid explaining " We're simply asking people to, local people especially, to sign up to the campaign to have the Declaration of Arbroath and Arbroath Abbey recognised by the United Nations.

Major Dutch-language weekly magazines in 2008 are Kerk en Leven ( Drukkerij en Uitgeverij Halewijn ) ( 409, 817 ), Dag Allemaal ( 402, 097 ), HUMO ( 227, 614 ), Libelle ( magazine ) ( Sanoma Belgium ) ( 216, 506 ), TV-Blad ( 158, 283 ), Story ( Belgian magazine ) ( Sanoma Belgium ) ( 159, 833 ), Plus Magazine ( Belgium ) ( 134, 242 ), TV-Familie / Blik ( 129, 328 ), Flair ( magazine ) ( Sanoma Belgium ) ( 126, 831 ), Knack ( magazine ) ( Roularta Media Group ) ( 126, 646 ), Trends ( magazine ) ( Roularta Media Group ),'t Pallieterke, ....

Major French-language weekly magazines in 2008 are Trends / Tendance ( Roularta Media Group ), Le Vif / L ' Express ( Roularta Media Group ), Télé Moustique ( Sanoma Belgium ), Femmes d ' Aujourd ' hui ( Sanoma Belgium ), ....

The China Railway Seventh Group Co. Ltd will be in charge of the contract, under signed by the China Railway Engineering Corporation, with construction to be started from June 2008.

The world's largest derivatives exchanges ( by number of transactions ) are the Korea Exchange ( which lists KOSPI Index Futures & Options ), Eurex ( which lists a wide range of European products such as interest rate & index products ), and CME Group ( made up of the 2007 merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade and the 2008 acquisition of the New York Mercantile Exchange ).

* Development of other content distribution networks on the internet through P2PTV ; EBU Project Group D / P2P, from November 2007 to April 2008, with a trial of selected member channels, thanks to Octoshape's distribution platform.

For example, on September 16, 2008, the Federal Reserve Board authorized an $ 85 billion loan to stave off the bankruptcy of international insurance giant American International Group ( AIG ).

In 2004 development began on HTML5 in the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group ( WHATWG ), which became a joint deliverable with the W3C in 2008.

In 2008 de Garis received a 3 million Chinese yuan grant ( around $ 436, 000 ) to build an artificial brain for China ( the China-Brain Project ), as part of the Brain Builder Group at Wuhan University.

Since 2008 a take-over is in progress: the Schaeffler Group from Herzogenaurach ( Bavaria ) holds the majority of the stock but were required due to the financial crisis to deposit the options as securities at banks.

Japanese investment in Cambodia includes Phnom Penh Commercial Bank, a joint venture of Hyundai Switzerland and Japanese SBI Group, opened in 2008.

Jakarta is listed as a global city in the 2008 Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network ( GaWC ) research.

" On June 17, 2008, Viacom formed the Nickelodeon Kids & Family Virtual Worlds Group to " encompass all paid and subscription gaming initiatives across all relevant platforms ", including Neopets.

According to OHCHR, the Oromia Support Group ( OSG ) recorded 594 extra-judicial killings of Oromos by Ethiopian government security forces and 43 disappearances in custody between 2005 and August 2008.

According to an Environmental Working Group analysis of USDA and FDA pesticide residue tests performed from 2000 through 2008, 84 % of the 2, 216 tested potato samples contained detectable traces of at least one pesticide.

* Tom Cooper, Sudan, Civil War since 1955 Air Combat Information Group, Feb 10, 2008

According to the 2009 Syria Report of the Oxford Business Group, the oil sector accounted for 23 % of government revenues, 20 % of exports, and 22 % of GDP in 2008.

In the fall of 2008, Scientific American was put under the control of Nature Publishing Group, a division of Holtzbrinck.

In December 2008, the Austin Group published a new major revision, known as POSIX: 2008 ( formally: IEEE Std 1003. 1-2008 ).

TiVo was launched in Australia in July 2008 by Hybrid Television Services, a company owned by Australia's Seven Media Group and New Zealand's TVNZ.

The OSP signed four Memorandums of Understanding with leading companies from Europe and Singapore at the Paris Eurosatory 2008 defense exhibition on Junen 20th, Rheinmetall Group and Diehl Defence Holding of Germany, Singapore Technologies Engineering ( ST Engg ), and Thales of France.

In October 2008 the Russian bank Gazprombank, the banking arm of Gazprom, acquired 100 percent of Armenian bank Areximbank after previously buying 80 percent of said bank in November 2007 and 94. 15 percent in July of the same year.

On December 9, 2008, Atari announced that it had acquired Cryptic Studios, an MMORPG developer.

Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.

As of 2008, DreamWorks acquired the rights to produce a live-action film adaptation of the original manga with Steven Spielberg.

In July 2008, the company after a series of change of ownership was eventually acquired by the US private equity firm, NRDC Equity Partners, which also owned American department store chain Lord & Taylor.

The present-day figure of about 4. 6 million foreign residents, that make up some 8 % of the total population, include more than half a million children born in Italy to foreign nationals — second generation immigrants, but exclude foreign nationals who have subsequently acquired Italian nationality ; this applied to 53, 696 people in 2008.

The Fells, a local nonprofit organization that has maintained and managed the John Hay Estate on Lake Sunapee for over a decade, acquired the northern half of the property from the US Fish and Wildlife Service on March 25, 2008.

In turn, that company was partially acquired in 2005 by Pernod Ricard, now the largest spirits distributor in the world since its merger with the Swedish Vin & Sprit in March 2008.

In 2008 2 medium-range radars were acquired for the Air Forces Airspace Surveillance and Control Command.

* Sun Microsystems acquired MySQL AB on 26 February 2008.

In July, they signed three-time Cy Young Award winner Pedro Martinez and acquired 2008 American League Cy Young winner Cliff Lee before the trade deadline.

In October 2008, production company Coolbai acquired the merchandising and distribution rights until 2013 to a number of the Smallfilms productions.

In 2006, 93 Games Studio announced that they have acquired the license to produce the official Twilight 2000 Version 3. 0, with plans for a 2008 release with the title Twilight: 2013.

In 2008, they found a buyer ; imeem acquired Snocap in a fire sale.

* Resolution plc, a defunct major manager of in-force UK life funds acquired by Pearl Group in 2008

After the wide-reaching retreat of the Bayer AG from less popular professional sports in 2008, the club acquired its current name.

: Midnight in the House of Hurt ( 2008 ), Batman acquired a new nemesis, who shadowed him for seven more issues: his name was Pierrot Lunaire.

* Massive Entertainment in Malmö, Sweden, founded in 1987, acquired by Vivendi Games in 2002, sold to Ubisoft on November 10, 2008.

* Swordfish Studios in Birmingham, England, founded in September 2002, acquired by Vivendi Games in June 2005, sold to Codemasters on November 14, 2008.

In 2008, Bunge acquired Walter Rau margarine company from Germany.

In 2008 Dexa Systems spun off from Schlumberger and acquired Enterprise Security Services business, which included the smart card solutions division responsible for deploying the first large scale public key infrastructure ( PKI ) based smart card management systems.

In 2011 market shares were divided between Hughes Christensen, Smith Bits ( recently acquired by Schlumberger ), REEDHycalog ( acquired by NOV in 2008 ), Security-DBS ( now Halliburton Drill Bits and Services ) HDBS, and smaller companies such as Tercel Bits, Drilformance, VIPER BITS, DOWDCO, Varel, TSK, PDC Logis, Focusrocbit, Sam ( AOE ), Walker-Mcdonald et al., Ulterra, Lone Star Drill Bits, OTS, and Shear Bits Ltd. making up the rest.

On 29 February 2008, the three entrepreneurs transferred the brand, acquired in 1999, to the Gustav Gerig AG, an Aargau company, and the product thereby returned to its canton of origin.