Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett's company, also owns such companies as Fruit of the Loom and GEICO.

The Government Employees Insurance Company ( GEICO ) is an auto insurance company.

In 1937, the Goodwins relocated GEICO to Washington, D. C. and reincorporated the company as a D. C. corporation after realizing that their business model would work best in the place with the highest concentration of federal employees.

It took five years ( during which the company shrank significantly ) and a massive reorganization to set GEICO on the path to recovery.

GEICO has also offered other types of insurance besides auto: homeowner's insurance from 1962 to 1996, a sister company, the Government Employees Life Insurance Company ( GELICO ), offered life insurance from 1975 to 1985.

There are also GEICO ads that feature stories from GEICO customers about situations in which the company assisted them, but are narrated by celebrities like Little Richard.

Giving away such a large part of his company holding could prove problematic in that much of the business of Berkshire Hathaway consists of stock-issuing insurance companies, such as GEICO and General Re.

* The GEICO insurance company ran a series of television commercials in which a victim in a disadvantaged situation hears their fate from the antagonist, that they have good news, only the good news is for the antagonist ( The antagonist will usually say as the punchline, " I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO ").

In later years, she did other acting work, appearing in a 2002 commercial for the insurance company GEICO and as " Bruiser's Mom " in the 2003 movie " Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde ".

The Energizer Bunny series has itself been imitated by others, via a Coors Light Beer advertisement, in motion pictures, and even by current advertisements by GEICO Insurance.

Despite the presence of the word " government " in its name, GEICO has always been a private corporation not affiliated with any government organization.

Although GEICO has since focused on its core auto insurance competency ( selling GELICO to Legal & General ), it uses its established direct sales infrastructure to market homeowner's and other types of insurance underwritten by other companies.

GEICO has many well-known ad campaigns.

More recently, GEICO launched a series of television commercials and attempts at viral marketing, collectively known as the GEICO Cavemen advertising campaign, where GEICO announcers are repeatedly denounced by modern cavemen for perpetuating a stereotype of unintelligent, backward cavemen.

The GEICO advertisements spawned a short-lived TV series called Cavemen.

* The Mysto & Pizzi cover version was featured in a series of commercials for GEICO that began airing in December 2008 and throughout 2009.

* GEICO Cavemen, a series of GEICO commercials beginning 2004 featuring offended cavemen with perfectly normal intelligence but primitive looks, which eventually spawned its own Cavemen ( TV series )

* Jerry Lambert – film and television actor, best known for his work on the ABC sitcom, Sons and Daughters, as well landmark commercials for companies including GEICO, Holiday Inn, and playing a fictional Sony Executive named Kevin Butler

Daniels is currently featured playing fiddle in a television commercial for GEICO auto insurance.

Rather than relying on agents to sell policies, GEICO uses a direct-to-consumer sales model and puts funds saved from not paying agent commissions toward the purchase of television advertising, with several campaigns running simultaneously in national markets.

The group initially gained notoriety when GEICO used their track " CB Song " on their " Sunglasses " television ad.

Hennesy recently appeared in a GEICO television advertisement featuring the character known as " Cash ".

GEICO ads have featured several well-known mascots, including:

* The GEICO Cavemen ( from ads claiming using their website is " so easy, a caveman could do it ") who then became the stars of the short-lived sitcom ( unrelated to GEICO ) Cavemen.

Many large firms are based in the county, including Discovery Communications, Coventry Health Care, Lockheed Martin, Marriott International, Host Hotels & Resorts, Travel Channel, Ritz-Carlton, Robert Louis Johnson Companies ( RLJ Cos ), Choice Hotels, MedImmune, TV One, BAE Systems Inc, Hughes Network Systems and GEICO.

Its primary competitors are other direct personal auto writers such as GEICO and Progressive.

" It turns out saving money with GEICO really is so easy even a caveman can do it.

In the late 1970s, Berkshire acquired an equity stake in the Government Employees Insurance Company ( GEICO ), which forms the core of its insurance operations today ( and is a major source of capital for Berkshire Hathaway's other investments ).

GEICO is headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and its principal insurance subsidiaries include: Government Employees Insurance Company, GEICO General Insurance Company, GEICO Indemnity Company, and GEICO Casualty Company.

GEICO is well known in popular culture for its advertising, having made a large number of commercials intended to amuse viewers.

The GEICO gecko performed an impersonation of the Superfans in a March 2012 commercial ( complete with " Da Bears "), in which the gecko, who is in Chicago, demonstrates his efforts to make his cockney accent more understandable to the populace.

Casey James Mears ( born March 12, 1978 ) is the driver of the # 13 GEICO Ford for Germain Racing in the Sprint Cup Series.

The GEICO 400 is a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held annually at the Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois.

The race is now sponsored by the insurance giant GEICO after USG Corporation and LifeLock served as sponsors.

GEICO announced on January 6th, 2012 that they signed a two year deal with Mears and Germain.

The October 2010 issue of Consumer Reports ranks GEICO 13th out of 22 automobile insurers based on a survey of more than 28, 000 readers.

In the last few years the telephone company has managed to automate many areas of their service.

In one sense it can be said that one of the most important Brown & Sharpe products over the years has been the men who began work with the company and subsequently came to places of industrial eminence throughout the nation and even abroad.

How much fundamental thinking and research has your company done on its advertising program??

The new promotion manager has been employed by the company since January, 1946, as a commercial artist in the advertising department.

The company has billed the United States Government for $7,500,000 of these expenses under the Defense Department regulation allowing costs of a type generally recognized as ordinary and necessary for the conduct of the contractor's business.

The Polish song and dance company called Mazowsze, after the region of Poland, where it has its headquarters, opened a three-week engagement at the City Center last night.

He created the production and distribution company Esperanto Films, which has credits on the films Duck Season and Pan's Labyrinth.

These interpretations have been denied by company officials, and no evidence linking the company to any occult organization has ever been presented.

In the company of Edwin and his loves are a dramatic array of thinly veiled representations of theatrical personages of the time, amongst them Daniel Mendoza, an exacting and powerful impresario, who controls the lives of his leading ladies ; the goatish, démodé manager, Matthew Lewis, who promotes Julia Scarlet as “ the American Sarah Bernhardt ”; the worldly-wise veteran of the stage, Ottilie Potter, who has gotten where she is because, “ Men had what I wanted, and I had what they wanted ”; and the huge, manlike Helen Sampson, chief among theatrical agents.

Global pharmaceuticals company GSK has a significant presence in Montrose in the north of the county.

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

In the US, the government has initiated legal action against the pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson for allegedly paying kickbacks to Omnicare to promote its antipsychotic Risperidone ( Risperdal ) in nursing homes.

The source code to AMOS has since been released under a BSD style license by Clickteam-a company that includes the original programmer.

Postal service in Belgium is in many cases performed by Belgian Post Group, a semi-privat public company which has as a monopoly on letters until 50g weight.

Digicel commenced separate proceedings against Cable and Wireless ( as bmobile's parent company ) in the English courts, claiming that Cable & Wireless has unfairly stifled competition in several Caribbean jurisdictions.

The company so far has produced two films, The Women Knight of Mirror ( 竞雄女侠秋瑾 ) and The Years of Qi Xiao Fu ( 七小福之燃情岁月 ), which will be released later this year.

It has gone through a radical transition in products, financing, and staff, now a very different company from the one which challenged Microsoft and Lotus in the early 1990s.

In the Netherlands, the company TNO has designed Bioaerosol Single Particle Recognition eQuipment ( BiosparQ ).

She founded The New York Baroque Dance Company ( http :// www. nybaroquedance. org /) in 1976 with Ann Jacoby, and the company has since toured internationally.

Robert " Bob " Young is a serial entrepreneur whose biggest success has been Red Hat Inc, the open source software company.

The development of a separate board of directors to manage the company has occurred incrementally and indefinitely over legal history.

In many legal systems, the director has a right to receive special notice of any resolution to remove him or her ; the company must often supply a copy of the proposal to the director, who is usually entitled to be heard by the meeting.

Anheuser-Busch has placed Budweiser as an official partner and sponsor of Major League Soccer and Los Angeles Galaxy and was the headline sponsor of the British Basketball League in the 1990s, taking over from rival company Carlsberg.

Havana Club is owned by the Cuban government and has a business joint venture with the French company Pernod Ricard.