Prior to 1965 Kensington formed the Royal Borough of Kensington, and some residents objected to the merger with Chelsea, formerly an inexpensive and bohemian borough compared with the fashionable Royal Borough.

Prior to its merger with Standard Oil of California, Gulf was one of the chief instruments of the legendary Mellon family fortune ; both Gulf and Mellon Financial had their headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Prior to the December 2001 merger of SCI Systems and Sanmina, Dish Network receivers were produced at factories in Huntsville, Alabama and Fountain, Colorado.

Prior to the merger, America West operated two hubs: its base location at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, Arizona and a secondary hub ( now defunct ) at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Prior to the merger of the Municipal Borough of Beddington and Wallington into the London Borough of Sutton, it was part of the county of Surrey.

Prior to this merger, the head of local government was the County Judge / Executive, a post that still exists but now has few powers.

Prior to the 1997 merger, Young America was known as being one of the two cities where correspondences for consumer product contests went to, the other being Blair, Nebraska.

Prior to the 1999 merger with Mobil Oil, Exxon used a phonetic spelling of the company " XON " as its ticker symbol.

Prior to its merger with Sirius, XM was the largest satellite radio company in the United States.

Prior to the merger, Åfjord had 2, 643 residents.

Prior to the merger, Nesset had 2, 360 residents.

Prior to the merger, Hitra had 1, 344 residents.

Prior to the merger, Røros ( town ) had 3, 063 residents.

Prior to the merger, Haltdalen had 778 residents.

Prior to the merger, the town had 1, 669 residents.

Prior to the merger, Levanger had 12, 281 residents, and Ytterøy added 772 to bring the municipality to a population of 13, 053.

Prior to the merger, Mosvik had 811 residents.

Prior to the merger, Inderøy had 3, 194 residents, and after the merger there were 4, 947 residents.

Prior to the merger, Nærøy had 2, 182 residents and after the merger there were 6, 241 residents.

Prior to the merger Sømna had 2, 347 residents.

Prior to the merger, the population of Steigen was 1, 843, and after the merger, the new municipality had 4, 545 residents.

Prior to its takeover the company was headquartered in a facility in Northwest unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States that now serves as HP's United States headquarters.

Prior to the start of the Civil War, Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood declared Davenport to be Iowa's first military headquarters and five camps were set up in the city to aid the Union.

Prior to this — before the Second World War — he was content with the role of an apolitical liberal intellectual: " Now teaching at a lycée in Laon [...] Sartre made his headquarters the Dome café at the crossing of Montparnasse and Raspail boulevards.

Prior to the 1990s there was a wide cooperation between pioneer and similar movements of about 30 countries, coordinated by the international organization, International Committee of Children's and Adolescents ' Movements (, CIMEA ), founded in 1958, with headquarters in Budapest.

Prior to the completion of the current Air France head office in Tremblay-en-France in December 1995, Air France was headquartered in a tower located next to the Gare Montparnasse rail station in Montparnasse and in the 15th arrondissement ; Air France had its headquarters in the tower for about 30 years.

Prior to that, the headquarters was in Philadelphia, within a few miles of three member schools ( Temple, Saint Joseph's, and La Salle ).

Prior to its dissolution, MidAtlantic Airways had its headquarters on the grounds of Pittsburgh International Airport in Findlay.

Prior to its dissolution, Maersk Air had its headquarters in Dragør in the municipality.

Prior to its disestablishment, Republic Airlines ( 1979-1986 ) had its headquarters in Building C. At one time Mesaba Airlines had its headquarters in the Fort Snelling UT.

Prior to its disestablishment, Midway Airlines had its headquarters in Morrisville.

Prior to its dissolution, Phillips Petroleum Company had its headquarters in Bartlesville.

Prior to the moving to its current headquarters in 2002, Burger King had considered moving away from the Miami area ; Miami-Dade County politicians and leaders lobbied against this, and Burger King stayed.

Prior to the choice of New York City, Navy Island near Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada was proposed as an alternative headquarters for the United Nations.

Prior to its dissolution, Pacific Air Lines had its corporate headquarters on the grounds of the airport.

Prior to its dissolution, Hughes Airwest had its headquarters on the grounds of San Francisco International.

Prior to its merger with SBC Communications, Ameritech's corporate headquarters were in a leased space above the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on floors 34 through 39 of 30 S Wacker Dr, Chicago IL.

Prior to the merger with Japan Airlines, Japan Air System had its headquarters by Tokyo International Airport in Ōta.

Prior to its disestablishment, Data East had its headquarters in Suginami.

Prior to the move to the Forest Hills Tower, the airline headquarters were across the street, at 80 – 02 Kew Gardens Rd.

Prior to its disestablishment, Air Aruba had its headquarters in the Brown Invest Building in Oranjestad.

Prior to 2011, the International headquarters were located in Joplin, Missouri where a college and a publishing house operated.

Prior to the September 11 attacks, One World Trade Center served as the headquarters of Cantor Fitzgerald.