The acquisition of Westinghouse for $ 5. 4bn was completed on October 17, 2006, with Toshiba obtaining a 77 % share, and partners The Shaw Group a 20 % share and Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. a 3 % share.

With WEAF came a loosely organized system feeding programming to other stations in the northeastern U. S. RCA, before the acquisition of the WEAF group in mid-1926, had previously owned a second such group, with WJZ in Newark as the lead station ( purchased by RCA in 1923 from Westinghouse ).

* 2006: Westinghouse completed acquisition of PaR Nuclear / Ederer Nuclear Cranes, providing fuel and cask handling equipment systems.

* 2007: Westinghouse reached an acquisition agreement for IST Nuclear ( ISTN ) of IST Holdings.

The acquisition included all of the Westinghouse electrical distribution and control product business and also included stipulations that the Westinghouse name cannot be used by anyone else on these types of products for years.

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 station would also gain a television counterpart in 1949, the CBS affiliate KSL-TV ( which switched to NBC in 1995 after KUTV became a CBS O & O, following its acquisition by Westinghouse )/

All five major stations owned by Westinghouse prior to its 1996 acquisition of CBS have used Eyewitness News as their newscast titles at some point in time ; KYW-TV, KPIX, and WJZ-TV continue to do so.

Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems was created by Northrop Grumman's acquisition of Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group in 1996.

It is responsible for the Siemens Competition Siemens Westinghouse Competition, a prestigious science award for U. S. high school students, which Siemens established after its 1997 acquisition of Westinghouse Electric Corporation turned out not to include the rights to the existing Westinghouse Science Talent Search ( now sponsored by Intel ).

Following GEC's acquisition of Marconi as part of English Electric in 1968 the Marconi brand was used for its defence businesses e. g. Marconi Space & Defence Systems ( MSDS ), Marconi Underwater Systems Ltd ( MUSL ).

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.

Enron closes its acquisition of Portland General Electric in a 2 billion dollar stock swap.

The first electric street lamps appeared on May 7, 1910 with the acquisition of a dozen electric street lamps from Illinois Valley Gas and Electric.

Following a corporate break-up in the late 1980s involving the acquisition of RCA by General Electric and disposition of the divisions of RCA to numerous third-parties, RCA's photomultiplier business became an independent company.

The 1986 acquisition of RCA by General Electric resulted in the divestiture of the RCA Lancaster New Products Division.

* Sarnoff Corporation, the eponymous successor organization to RCA Laboratories following the 1986 acquisition of RCA by General Electric.

In the episode, he governed the sale of NBC Universal to a fictional Philadelphia-based cable company, Kabletown, a parody of the actual acquisition of NBC Universal from General Electric by Comcast in November 2009.

In late 2007, it acquired the MGE Office Protection Systems division of Schneider Electric, as a result of Schneider's acquisition of APC.

In the same year, the firm also underwrote the IPO of Microsoft, advised General Electric on its acquisition of RCA and joined the London and Tokyo stock exchanges.

After the acquisition of Universal Studios of Vivendi Universal by NBC's parent company General Electric in 2004, contestants could win vacations in order to promote the theme park division of NBC Universal at Universal Orlando, or win trips to Universal Studios in Hollywood.

On February 21, 2012, CH Energy Group ( a holding company for Central Hudson Gas & Electric, an upstate New York utility ), announced a pending acquisition by Fortis valued at $ 1. 5 billion.

* 1998 was a year of expansion, acquisition and product development for Lincoln Electric.

In addition, Lincoln Electric secured its own aluminum wire capability and brand through acquisition of Canadian company, Indalco, a global leader in manufacture of aluminum wire and rod.

* Lincoln Electric complements its successful line of retail products with the acquisition of the Century and Marquette welding and battery charger brands, which have leading positions in the automotive aftermarket and retail channels.

It also expands its presence in the U. S. with the strategic acquisition of Platt Electric Supply.

* 2010: Schneider Electric strengthens its activity in the development of the Smart Grid, with the acquisition of the distribution activities of Areva T & D.

Laser guided vehicle manufacturer Electric 80, part of the 1999 SASIB acquisition, was sold back to its original Italian owners in 2004.

In the years to come, other acquisitions followed, notably the acquisition of a British distribution utility-South Western Electricity Board later renamed SWEB ; a controlling interest in Hong Kong based Consolidated Electric Power of Asia ( CEPA ), a stake in a German utility BEWAG ; giving it worldwide business interests in the Caribbean, Asian and European energy markets.

Soon afterwards, its biggest domestic acquisition till date came in December 2000 with the purchase of the Morgantown, Chalk Point, Dickerson and Potomac River power generating assets from Potomac Electric Power Company ( PEPCO ).

Schneider Electric announced its acquisition of APC on October 30, 2006 and completed it on February 14, 2007.

In 1984 Davenham was sold to Li Ka-Shing and Simon became the Group Managing Director of Hutchison Whampoa – he stayed for ten years, overseeing Hutchison ’ s acquisition of Hong Kong Electric, and negotiating their entry into the oil business through their acquisition of Husky Oil.

In early 2008, Volcom made its first acquisition, taking ownership of Electric Visual Evolution LLC, for US $ 25. 3 million.

Originally marketed by the Lambert Pharmacal Company ( which later became Warner-Lambert ), it is currently manufactured and distributed by Johnson and Johnson since that company's acquisition of Pfizer's consumer healthcare division in late December 2006.

According to the Slovenian Motorway Company Act valid since December 2010, the construction and building of highways in Slovenia is carried out and financed by private companies, primarily the Motorway Company in the Republic of Slovenia ( Slovene:, acronym DARS ), while the strategic planning and the acquisition of land for their course is carried out and financed by the Government of Slovenia.

Further diversification occurred in 1901 with the acquisition of a proposed business which was incorporated as The Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company and in 1905 the goodwill and patent rights of the Siddeley car.

** News Corporation completes its acquisition of the Metromedia group of companies, thereby launching the Fox Broadcasting Company.

The Government of Canada exerted its power over the people living in Rupert's Land after its acquisition in the mid-19th century from the Hudson's Bay Company.

In 1986, Charles Hurwitz acquired Pacific Lumber Company and doubled its rate of timber harvesting as a means of paying off the acquisition.

Their acquisition of Orkin Exterminating Company in 1964 is among the first significant leveraged buyout transactions.

In 1931, Stanolind completed its acquisition of Sinclair Pipeline and also acquired the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company.

On October 6, 2008, it accepted a $ 6. 5 billion acquisition offer from Eli Lilly and Company, and became a fully owned subsidiary of Eli Lilly and Company on November 24, 2008.

This was followed in 1990 by the acquisition of the bankrupt Learjet Company of Wichita, Kansas, builder of the Learjet business aircraft, and finally the money-losing Boeing subsidiary de Havilland Aircraft of Canada based in Toronto, Ontario in 1992.

These lands, combined with the acquisition of the Cudahy Company Golf Course, comprised for development.

Following Boeing's 1996 acquisition of Rockwell's North American division, McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing in August 1997 in a US $ 13 billion stock-swap to create The Boeing Company.

President Grover Cleveland, in his second term of office ( 1893 – 1897 ), directed the national government to sue the Knight Company under the provisions of the Sherman Antitrust Act to prevent the acquisition.

In 1905 the companies merged to become the Nestlé and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company, retaining that name until 1947 when the name Nestlé Alimentana SA was taken as a result of the acquisition of Fabrique de Produits Maggi SA ( founded 1884 ) and its holding company Alimentana SA of Kempttal, Switzerland.

" We are sensible that, since the acquisition of the dewany, the power formerly belonging to the soubah of those provinces is totally, in fact, vested in the East India Company.

Long after the Gamemaster name was retired, A & A: Classic lives on having been moved to the Avalon Hill lineup following the acquisition of Milton Bradley Company and Avalon Hill by Hasbro.

In January 1954, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation began acquisition of the Hudson Motor Car Company ( in what was called a merger ) to form American Motors.

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 Walt Disney Company acquired Schoolhouse Rock in 1996 along with its acquisition of ABC owner Capital Cities Communications ; Schoolhouse Rock was one of only two children's shows ( The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show being the other ) to continue airing ( albeit in reruns ) after the transition to One Saturday Morning.

Their acquisition of Orkin Exterminating Company in 1964 is among the first significant leveraged buyout transactions.

The other group members are ConocoPhillips Transportation ( shares formerly owned by ARCO and acquired by Phillips during its acquisition of ARCO Alaska as part of the settlement between BP and the FTC ) ( 28. 29 %), Exxon Mobil ( 20. 34 %), Koch Alaska Pipeline Company ( 3. 08 %), and Unocal ( 1. 36 %).

The Matador Land and Cattle Company was founded in 1882 by Scottish investors, whose acquisition included 2. 5 million acres in four Texas counties.