1880 saw the Great North Western Telegraph Company established to connect Ontario and Manitoba but within a year it was taken over by Western Union, leading briefly to that company's control of almost all telegraphy in Canada.

Other key executives responsible for the company's meteoric growth in the late 80s and early 90s were Ross A. Cooley, another former IBM associate, who served for many years as SVP of GM North America ; Michael Swavely, who was the company's chief marketing officer in the early years, and eventually ran the North America organization, later passing along that responsibility to Mr. Cooley, when Swavely retired.

In 1930 this company merged with General Motors Corporation and the company's new name would be General Aviation Manufacturing Corporation ( which in turn merged with North American Aviation and was divested by GM in 1948 ).

With the company's primary product, the Linotype machine (), it became the world's leading manufacturer of book and newspaper typesetting equipment ; outside North America, its only serious challenger for book production was the Anglo-American Monotype Corporation.

In June 2009 the Mercury and WNBA announced a sponsorship agreement with identity theft protection service LifeLock to place that company's logo on their jerseys through the 2011 season, making the Mercury among the first non-soccer franchises in the major leagues of North America to place a company logo on their uniforms.

On May 8, 2008, eBay announced the opening of its newest building on the company's North Campus in San Jose, which is the first structure in the city to be built from the ground up to LEED Gold standards.

In 1910, the company established a base camp at what is now known as Calderwood, but was initially known as " Alcoa ," and would be known as such until the name was reapplied to the company's operations in North Maryville a few years later.

Reynolds Co .' s success during this period can also be measured by the concurrent success of many Winston-Salem companies which received large amounts of business from Reynolds: Wachovia National Bank became one of the largest banks in the Southeast, and the company's law firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice became the largest law firm in North Carolina.

In 1901 Ballin built the Emigration Halls ( now the Museum " BallinStadt ") on the Hamburg island of Veddel to accommodate the many thousands of people from all over Europe who arrived at the Port of Hamburg every week to emigrate to North and South America on his company's ships.

In April 2005, however, the publishers announced that the editorial offices would be moved from its long-time home at 77 North Washington Street in Boston to join the company's advertising and circulation divisions in Washington, D. C. Later in August, Bradley told the New York Observer, cost cutting from the move would amount to a minor $ 200, 000 –$ 300, 000 and those savings would be swallowed by severance-related spending.

Reportedly, when United Artists, its North American distributor, told producer Jules Buck that it would be cutting the film extensively for US release, Buck punched the company's London representative and bought the film back.

Against these detractions, Renault's chairman, Georges Besse, continued to champion the French firm's future in the North American market ; pointing to the company's completion of the newest and most-advanced automotive assembly plant in North America, then known as Bramalea Assembly, as well as the recent introduction of the thoroughly modern, fuel-injected 4. 0 L and 2. 5 L engines.

Bernstein bid for the North of England franchise, which he believed would not affect the company's largely southern-based cinema chain.

The early history of the LMS was dominated by infighting between its two largest constituents and previously rivals, the Midland and the North Western, each of which believed their company's way was the right – and only – way of doing business.

In the 1870s a dispute with the London and North Western Railway ( LNWR ) over access rights to the LNWR line to Scotland caused the MR to construct the Settle and Carlisle line, the highest main line in England, in order to secure the company's access to Scotland.

describing intimidation of Dr John Buse ( University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ) by GlaxoSmithKline over his concerns about the cardiovascular risks associated with the company's anti-diabetes drug rosiglitazone ( Avandia ).

His idea was to gain control of the area to take control of the West from the company's rivals, the Montreal-based North West Company.

SNK signed up to become a third-party licensee for Nintendo's Family Computer ( Famicom ) system in 1985 and opened a second branch in the United States, based in Torrance, California and called SNK Home Entertainment that would handle the North American distribution and marketing of the company's products for home consoles.

A deal between the Court Line group and the Wilson Government to sell the former's shipyards in North Devon and on Tyneside to the latter for £ 60 million turned out to be " too little too late " to stave off the company's impending collapse.

The company's position in the North American direct market diminished in the first decade of the 2000s, challenged by Dark Horse Comics and IDW Publishing for the position of " third largest publisher " after Marvel and DC.

The rights to Squier ’ s patents were acquired by the North American Company utility conglomerate, which created a company named Wired Radio Inc. with the intent to use the technique to deliver music subscriptions to private customers of the utility company's power service.

However, response to the company's products at the CP / M-82 show in San Francisco showed that a U. S. company would be needed to reach the American market.

Although Holly had already begun to become disillusioned with Norman Petty before meeting Maria Elena, it was through her and her aunt Provi, the head of Latin American music at Peer-Southern, that he began to fully realize what was going on with his manager, who was paying the band's royalties into his own company's account.

If the company's stock is publicly traded, a Chapter 11 filing generally causes it to be delisted from its primary stock exchange if listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, or the NASDAQ.

The U. S. companies created very large plantations worked by labor that flooded into the region from the densely settled Pacific side, other Central American countries, and thanks to the company's policies favoring English speaking people, from the English-speaking Caribbean.

In addition, " Squaresoft, Inc " was the name of the company's American arm before the merger, after which it was renamed to " Square Enix, Inc ".

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. ( though the name was occasionally given in full form as Warner Brothers during the company's early years ), is an American producer of film, television, and music entertainment.

Andrew Stuart Fastow ( born December 22, 1961 ) is an American businessman who served as the chief financial officer of Enron Corporation that was based in Houston, Texas until the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission opened an investigation into his and the company's conduct in 2001.

In 2010, a spokesman for Robertson said that the company's arrangements — in which the Liberian government got a 10 percent equity interest in the company and Liberians could purchase at least 15 percent of the shares after the exploration period — were similar to many American companies doing business in Africa at the time.

For two weeks, Jewel's management refused all comment on the offer, maintaining its silence even at a stormy shareholder's meeting before which Jewel shareholder groups controlling 20 percent of the company's stock had come out in favor of negotiating with American Stores.

One of the first official recognitions was a gold medal won in 1855 at the American Institute Fair at the New York Crystal Palace just two years after the company's foundation.

Finally, in the 1990s the overall price of the American stock market increased, which reduced the number of situations in which a company's share price was low with respect to the assets that it controlled.

Trippe became operational head of Pan American Airways, the new company's principal operating subsidiary.

Charles Hook was the President of the American Rolling Mill Company ( ARMCO )-which in the early 1990s merged to become AK Steel Corporation-and son-in-law of the company's founder, George M. Verity.

* The city and county were named for William Alexander Aitkin, a partner of the American Fur Company and chief factor of the company's regional operations in the early 19th century.

The next year, Matchbox, with a new team in charge based in El Segundo, California, started the return to the company's roots of selling realistic looking, well-detailed models, most of which were based on real prototypes ( now however mostly of American cars or brands well-known on the American market ).

Roone Pickney Arledge, Jr. ( July 8, 1931 – December 5, 2002 ) was an American sports and news broadcasting pioneer who was president of ABC Sports from 1968 until 1986 and ABC News from 1977 until 1998, and a key part of the company's rise to competition with the two other main television networks, NBC and CBS, in the 1960s, ' 70s, ' 80s and ' 90s.

Tyrrell had almost adopted Stoddart and European Aviation as a technical partner, and were planning a team wind tunnel at the company's headquarters, when in early 1998, British American Tobacco bought out the Tyrrell family and established its own team, British American Racing.

Representative Steve Chabot, an Ohio Republican who sponsored the amendment, said " I am not opposed to logging when it's done on the timber company's dime ... But in this case, they are using the American taxpayer to subsidize these 200 jobs at the tune of $ 200, 000 per job.

The branding issue was further complicated when the company's Eagle all-wheel drive passenger cars were marketed as the " American Eagle " in the 1980s.

The company's website specifically claimed no affiliation to the previous American Motors, but used the previous company's logos on its website.