On October 11, 2008, Infogrames completed its acquisition of Atari Inc., making it a wholly owned subsidiary.

* Gram, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hewlett Packard, based on their acquisition of Palm, Inc.

Upon closing of the acquisition, Proffitt's, Inc. changed its name to Saks Incorporated.

This is a list that Warner Bros. Entertainment owns primarily by Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. itself and by ownership through acquisition of companies such as Turner Entertainment Co., New Line Cinema, and Hanna-Barbera.

In return, Jewel dropped plans for a defensive acquisition of Household International Inc. and accepted American Stores ' offer.

Following extensive merger and acquisition activity in the 1990s and 2000s, international markets are dominated by five firms, in alphabetical order: Altria, British American Tobacco ( represented in the U. S. market by a 42 % stake in Reynolds American, Inc .), Imperial Tobacco, Japan Tobacco, and Philip Morris International.

On January 6, 2009, Altria Group, Inc. completed the acquisition of UST Inc., a moist smokeless tobacco manufacturer ; UST owned Ste Michelle Wine Estates, a wine company.

Iridium Satellite LLC merged with a special purpose acquisition company ( GHQ ) created by the investment bank Greenhill & Co. ( NYSE: GHL ) in September, 2009 to create Iridium Communications, Inc.

It is now distributed with Mac OS X since Apple Inc .' s acquisition of NeXT, and available as a GNUstep application for other Unix-compatible operating systems such as Linux.

In 1968, Commercial Credit Corporation was the target of a hostile takeover by Loews Inc. Loews had acquired nearly 10 % of CCC, which it intended to break up on acquisition.

The acquisition of MFS included UUNET Technologies, Inc., which had been acquired by MFS shortly before the merger with WorldCom.

On December 2 1998, Bitstream Inc. announced acquisition of all outstanding stock of Type Solutions, Inc.

In 2001, Minnesota-based Medtronic Inc. completed the $ 3. 7 billion acquisition of MiniMed.

* August 14, 2003-Airborne shareholders approved the acquisition of Airborne, Inc. by DHL of Brussels, Belgium.

In 1999, after the acquisition of GM Group, Inc., the largest data processing center in the Caribbean, Popular consolidated its leadership role in the technological arena, thus creating EVERTEC, a new leader in information technology.

However, the construction of Interstate 270 facilitated a population boom, spearheaded by the acquisition of major corporate headquarters such as Ashland Inc and Wendy's International.

The U. S. Department of Justice announced that in order to proceed with the first phase of their acquisition of certain patents and patent applications from Novell Inc., CPTN Holdings LLC and its owners altered their original agreements to address the department's antitrust concerns.

In 1980, Sun acquired the U. S. oil and gas properties of Texas Pacific Oil Company, Inc., a subsidiary of The Seagram Company, Ltd., for US $ 2. 3 billion — the second largest acquisition in U. S. history to that date.

The StarFabric product line was added to the Dolphin interconnect portfolio through the acquisition of StarGen Inc. StarFabric provides a low cost, low latency PCI based interconnect running over standard Ethernet CAT 5 wiring.

The acquisition was carried out through a parent company, TSX Group Inc ..

The acquisition was completed on May 1, 2008 and the corporation subsequently renamed to TMX Group Inc.

Neil Henderson, a pioneer in the royalty-free, source provided market space, joined Mentor Graphics in 2002 with the acquisition of Accelerated Technology Inc. Stephen Mellor, a leader in the UML space and co-originator of the Shlaer-Mellor design methodology, joined Mentor Graphics in 2004 following the acquisition of Project Technology.

PNC Financial Services launched a program in 2009 as a direct result of its acquisition of National City Corp., which National City already had, along with a mortgage division — neither of which PNC had had before the deal.

Myers and Davis ( 2007 ) describe the acquisition of fear as when a conditioned stimulus ( e. g., a distinctive place ) is paired with an aversive unconditioned stimulus ( e. g. a electric shock ) to an end result in which the subject exhibits a conditioned feared response to the distinctive place ( CS + UCS = CR ).

In some states in the U. S., pawnshops with firearms licenses sell pistols and rifles to customers who meet state and federal acquisition criteria.

M. E. Graebner describes serendipitous value in the context of the acquisition of a business as " windfalls that were not anticipated by the buyer prior to the deal ": i. e., unexpected advantages or benefits incurred due to positive synergy effects of the merger.

From its 2007 acquisition of 100 percent ownership of H3C Technologies Co., Limited ( H3C ) — initially a joint venture with China-based Huawei Technologies — 3Com achieved a leading market presence in China, and a significant networking market share in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

Instead, IBM now prefers to make key product strides through acquisition ( e. g., the takeovers of Lotus Software and Rational Software ) and to support the development of open standards, particularly Linux.

The deal ultimately earned David Geffen an estimated US $ 800 million in stock ( until the Japanese conglomerate, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd .' s cash acquisition of MCA in 1991, made Geffen a billionaire ) and an employment contract that ran until 1995.

As financial sponsors increase their returns by employing a very high leverage ( i. e., a high ratio of debt to equity ), they have an incentive to employ as much debt as possible to finance an acquisition.

However, in April 2012 Schulze & Burch Biscuit Co., a Chicago-based wholesome snack manufacturer with a plant in Searcy, completed the acquisition of Yarnell ’ s Ice Cream Co.

* Merck KGaA, a German drug and chemicals company unrelated to Merck & Co., in March 2010 " said it plans to move the headquarters of its US chemicals business to Billerica after its acquisition of life sciences toolmaker Millipore Corp ."

The large firm or cartel-which has intentionally leveraged itself to withstand the price decline it engineered-can then acquire the capital of its failing or devalued competitors at a low price as well as capture a greater market share ( e. g., via a merger or acquisition which expands the dominant firm's distribution chain ).

Chevy Chase was unincorporated farmland in the years before 1890, during which time Senator Francis G. Newlands of Nevada and his partners began the aggressive acquisition of land in northwestern Washington, D. C., and southern Montgomery County, Maryland, for the purpose of developing a residential streetcar suburb for Washington, DC.

The consolidation represented the second and final step in the acquisition of Corel by Corel Holdings, L. P., a limited partnership controlled by an affiliate of Vector Capital.

A sensor, which is a type of transducer, is a device that converts a physical property into a corresponding electrical signal ( e. g., a acquisition system to measure differing properties depends on having sensors that are suited to detect the various properties to be measured.

When negative conditions frustrate a group's attempts at successful acquisition of its most essential needs ( e. g., food, shelter ), groups may develop a compelling, shared ideology that-when combined with social and political pressures-may lead to the most extreme form of scapegoating: genocide.

Middle children generally show more investment ' in control over external reality through the acquisition of knowledge and competence ': where they do have worries, these may be more a fear of kidnappings, rapes, and scary media events, as opposed to fantasy things ( e. g., witches, monsters, ghosts ).

( PNC later re-entered the mortgage market in 2009 through its acquisition of National City Corp., with no plans to re-enter subprime lending.

This acquisition instantly gave Compaq a presence in the higher end business computing market.

On top of wrong allocation of finances, large bribes are given to and received by officials ( or their families ) in charge of choosing contractors for the jobs, like in the recent Suvarnabhumi Airport project, where a car park contractor allegedly gave $ 250 million USD to an the prime minister's sister in order to secure acquisition of the job.

Thus his raid upon Dobrzyń, the latest acquisition of the knights on Polish soil, speedily gave them a ready weapon against him.

The acquisition of Star Market also gave Jewel Brigham's Ice Cream.

The midseason acquisition of then-defenseman scoring leader Paul Coffey gave the Flyers a veteran presence.

In his chapter on book acquisition, Naudé gave tips.

The acquisition gave Trek a foothold in the Trekking bicycle market, an important segment in Europe.

This acquisition gave Proquest ownership of a 100 + person publishing operation based in Cambridge, England and became the basis for a substantial overseas expansion.

Completed on July 1, 2004, the $ 1. 3 billion acquisition gave Boyd Gaming four additional Las Vegas properties — Suncoast, Gold Coast, the Orleans and Barbary Coast.

Hull's acquisition, partially financed by the rest of the WHA's teams, gave the league instant credibility and paved the way for several other NHL stars to bolt to the upstart league.

This acquisition brought Delta's brands Holec, MEM, Tabula, Holec, Bill and Elek under the Eaton nameplate with the previous Westinghouse divisions and gave the company manufacturing facilities to meet IEC standards, one of the steps to become a global company and developing a worldwide standard.

The Canada Trust acquisition gave the Bank new momentum, significantly expanded the breadth and depth of the Bank ’ s branch coverage, and enhanced TD's customer service commitment.

This acquisition gave Seagate access to CDC's voice-coil and disk-manufacturing patents.

It expanded through the acquisition of non-metropolitan cable systems in Canada through the 1990s — notably Northern Cable in 1998, which gave the company two of the largest markets, Sudbury and Timmins, that it ever served as an independent company — and changed its corporate name to Persona in 2001.

A partial white heritage also gave light-skinned blacks more economic value and caused them to be viewed as smarter and superior to dark-skinned blacks, allowing more advantages in a white-dominated society, such as broader opportunities for education and the acquisition of land and property

The acquisition of the Province of Quebec as a result of the French and Indian War ( 1754 – 1763 ) gave Great Britain control over the entire eastern seaboard of North America, and brought the former French colony of Canada into a closer relationship with the American colonies.

Preceded by Mutual's 2000 Plus ( 1950 – 52 ), Dimension X was not the first adult science fiction series on radio, but the acquisition of previously published stories immediately gave it a strong standing with the science fiction community, as did the choice of well established, respected writers in the field: Isaac Asimov, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, Robert A. Heinlein, Murray Leinster, H. Beam Piper, Frank M. Robinson, Clifford D. Simak, William Tenn, Jack Vance, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Williamson and Donald A. Wollheim.

RBC's acquisition gave it a strong presence in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

The University of Pittsburgh's acquisition of Forbes Field in 1958 gave the Steelers some options, and they began transferring some of their home games to the much larger Pitt Stadium that year.

The acquisition gave Pep Boys 10 service-and-tire centers in the Orlando market that generate sales of $ 14 million a year.

The acquisition gave Pep Boys service-and-tire centers in Washington state.

The acquisition gave Pep Boys an additional 85 service-and-tire centers in Georgia, Florida and Alabama, including concentrations around Atlanta and Orlando.

The acquisition gave Pep Boys additional locations in the Houston, Texas area.

The acquisition of New Zealand speedster Thomas Pritchard gave Hollies the necessary support and by 1948 they had one of the strongest attacks in county cricket.