In 2008, after a downturn in the stock market, the decline meant $ 18 billion less in taxable income, with less money available for " apartments, furniture, cars, clothing and services ".

In 2008, he released the adventure modules The Living Room, about a whimsical but dangerous room that housed enormous furniture, and Bottle City, about a bottle found on the second level of the dungeon that contained an entire city.

Other designers of note include Kristian Solmer Vedel ( 1923 – 2003 ) in the area of industrial design, Jens Harald Quistgaard ( 1919 – 2008 ) for kitchen furniture and implements and Ole Wanscher ( 1903 – 1985 ) who had a classical approach to furniture design.

In July 2008, Steuben was sold by Corning Incorporated for an undisclosed price to the Schottenstein Stores Corp., which also owns 51 % of Retail Ventures, a holding company for DSW, Filene's Basement, and formerly Value City Department Stores ; Value City Furniture, which changed its name to American Signature Furniture ; 15 % of American Eagle Outfitters, retail liquidator SB Capital Group, some 50 shopping centers, and 5 factories producing its shoes, furniture and crystal.

Emmaus Colchester opened its Community residence in August 2008, and also runs a furniture store.

Recently, Linnebo & Nicolas ( 2008 ) have suggested that natural languages often contain superplural variables ( and associated quantifiers ) such as " these people, those people, and these other people compete against each other " ( e. g. as teams in an online game ), while Nicolas ( 2008 ) has argued that plural logic should be used to account for the semantics of mass nouns, like " wine " and " furniture ".

On February 29, 2008 Barnard sold his company, B3 Technologies to 3 people, one of whom had previously worked for him, and moved into furniture design with leading designer Terence Woodgate.

Petit Luxury are display furniture for Pullip released by Jun Planning of Japan, starting in January 2008.

In 2008, Muji and Thonet announced they cooperated to produce two lines of minimalist furniture.

In a widely reported article in 2008, Le Journal de Montréal found that school administrators and in particular its Director-General, Jacques Giguère, had expensed a large number of non-school related items, including high-priced furniture, a luxury hotel suite for a Christmas party, and the services of a personal trainer.

On 21 September 2008, Vadivelu's residence in the Saligramam neighbourhood in Chennai was pelted with stones by a gang, leaving several windows and furniture smashed and damaged.

During the summer of 2008, floors 4, 5, and 6 received new furniture in the rooms.

On 21 September 2008, Vadivelu's residence in the Saligramam neighbourhood in Chennai was pelted with stones by a gang, leaving several windows and furniture smashed and damaged.

As of June 2008, the arcade is in the middle of an internal revamp, including new flooring, wall decoration, ceilings, lighting and furniture.

Hoberman founded VC-backed internet startup, mydeco. com, an online furniture and interior design site providing 3D technology for consumers to design their own rooms online in 2007 and the website launched in February 2008 Hoberman is a Governor of the University of the Arts London and a Non-Executive Board Director of Guardian Media Group.

Born Elaine Rita Brimberg in New York City, of Latvian maternal descent, her Polish father, Samuel Brimberg ( see The Daily Telegraph, obit, 6 May 2008 ), was an office furniture manufacturer and a violent bully.

The lounges in these were restored with new furniture and plasma screen TVs in 2008.

The area includes new flats and offices, and has been home to one of the first UK stores of the Danish furniture retailer ILVA ( whose UK business went into administration in June 2008 ).

Atkinson visited The Home and Garden Show at Chester Racecourse on 5 June 2008 to unveil the room she designed with furniture store owner Arighi Bianchi which would be suitable for teenagers in conjunction with the Teenage Cancer Trust charity.

On 4 March 2008, in announcing a partnership with Magna Steyr to outsource manufacture of over 2, 000 cars annually at Graz, Austria, the company stated " The continuing growth and success of the company is based upon Gaydon as the focal point and heart of the business, with the design and engineering of all Aston Martin products continuing to be carried out there.

The company has posted a three phase turn down schedule, which was completed in September 2008.

In 2008, the company was purchased by Diageo Estates.

Also in 2008 the Brazilian company Embraer showcased the Brazilian military transport aircraft, Embraer KC-390, and some countries already have shown interest in the aircraft, with France even placing orders.

In 2008 Anheuser-Busch sold the majority of their stock to Belgian-Brazilian beer giant InBev, to create the largest brewing company in the world.

On 4 November 2008 Cessna's parent company, Textron, indicated that Citation production would be reduced from the original 2009 target of 535 " due to continued softening in the global economic environment " and that this would result in an undetermined number of lay-offs at Cessna.

More recently, on 10 October 2008 Charlton received an indicative offer for the club from a Dubai-based diversified investment company.

After a major rehabilitation program, the company restarted copper production in December 2007 and cobalt production in May 2008.

The government is planning to start the process for licensing a second national operator for voice and transport services by 2008, with a view to this company starting operations in 2009.

On May 13, 2008, Hewlett-Packard Co. confirmed that it had reached a deal with Electronic Data Systems to acquire the company for $ 13. 9 billion.

The German company SkySails has developed ship-pulling kites as a supplemental power source for cargo ships, first tested in January 2008 on the ship MS Beluga Skysails.

The Swiss theatre company, Compagnie Pied de Biche revisits the Grand Guignol genre in contemporary contexts since 2008.

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.

From 2008 to 2012, the company was run through a holding company of NRDC, Hudson's Bay Trading Company, which was dissolved on 23 January 2012.

In July 16, 2008, after Zucker's death, the company was sold to NRDC Equity Partners, a private equity firm of Purchase, New York which already owned Lord & Taylor, the oldest department store chain in the United States.

The Canadian and U. S. holdings were transferred to of NRDC Equity Partners ' portfolio company, Hudson's Bay Trading Company, as of the fall of 2008.

Matti Vanhanen's two cabinets followed suit until autumn 2008, when the state became a major shareholder in the Finnish telecom company Elisa with the intention to secure the Finnish ownership of a strategically important industry.

The company was independent from 1926 to 2008, headquartered for most of that time in Millbank, London, and was a constituent of the FT30 Index and FTSE 100 Index.

Although the original organisation went into administration in 1992, the name was attached to a German company selling cars and accessories in 2008, and an unsuccessful attempt to set up a new Formula One team the following year.

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.

It has been owned by the Indian company Tata Motors since 2008, forming part of their Jaguar Land Rover ( JLR ) group.

The company has ove up to the rank by being 95th in 2008 in terms of revenue and 8th most profitable company in the world and the most profitable in Asia.