Since the company's beginnings, Ferrari has been involved in motorsport, competing in a range of categories including Formula One and sports car racing through its Scuderia Ferrari sporting division as well as supplying cars and engines to other teams and for one make series.

Many years of development and prototyping led to the company's first street-legal production car delivery in 2002.

Originally intended to replace the company's iconic 911, the 928 combined the power, poise, and handling of a sports car with the refinement, comfort, and equipment of a luxury sedan to create what some Porsche executives thought would be a vehicle with wider appeal than the compact, quirky and sometimes difficult 911.

The car has the distinction of being the company's only coupe powered by a front-mounted V8 engine, and the company's first mass-produced V8 powered model.

140 special " 50th Jubilee " 928 S models were available outside the U. S. and Canada to celebrate the company's 50 year existence as a car manufacturer.

This decision was influenced by the Cable Car company's offer of a donation of £ 1000 if Victoria were located in Kelburn so students would patronise the car between the city and the University.

Munitions, aircraft engines and other components, compressors and generators based on the company's existing car engines were produced in a vastly enlarged factory during the war.

A convertible Tucker, alleged to be a partially completed prototype developed in the company's waning days, was completed by car collector Justin Cole of Benchmark Classics in Madison, Wisconsin.

Ford built the Ford River Rouge Complex with the idea of making the company's own iron and steel in the same factory as parts and car assembly took place.

Other notable guest stars included: Cesar Romero as Chico's absentee father ; Tony Orlando as Chico's look-alike, the ex-fiance of a hostile woman he wants to date ; José Feliciano, who wrote the theme song, as Chico's womanizing famous-singer cousin Pepe Fernando ; Sammy Davis Jr. as himself ; Herbie Faye appeared as Bernie in the 1975 episode " Louie's Retirement "; Shelley Winters ( reuniting with Albertson, with whom she'd costarred in The Poseidon Adventure ) as the owner of the local bakery, Shirley Schrift ( her real name ); Jim Backus as Ed's friend who uses him as a " beard "— pretending to be playing cards with him when cheating on his wife ( Audra Lindley ); silent-film actress Carmel Myers as a former star who has fallen on hard times, brings in her car for repairs, and stays in the garage while looking for work ; George Takei as Ed's supposed long-lost son from his time in Japan during World War II ; Cesare Danova as Aunt Connie's Spanish aristocrat boyfriend, the Count de Catalan, in the second episode in which she appeared ; comedian Joey Bishop as an inept robber ; Bernie Kopell as a plastic surgeon ; Rose Marie as a CB radio enthusiast with whom a lonely Ed connects on New Year's Eve ; Penny Marshall, as a waitress ; football star Rosey Grier as himself, Della's date for a charity benefit dance ; Larry Hovis as a customer in the second episode of the first season ; and Jim Jordan ( of radio's Fibber McGee and Molly ) as a mechanic who used to be a big businessman, until he was victimized by his own company's retirement-age mandate ).

Commercial vehicles based on the car chassis were also built from 1922 and became an increasingly important part of the company's output.

The company's Hilton HHonors guest loyalty program is one of the largest of its kind and has numerous partnerships with airlines and car rental companies.

The company's road car designs were revolutionary also – the Renault Espace was one of the first minivans and was to remain the most well-known minivan in Europe for at least the next two decades.

By 1941, the Chrysler Town and Country was the most expensive car in the company's lineup.

Between 1965 and 1982 Seneffe was the location of a car plant belonging to British Leyland, which in its later years assembled models including the Mini and the Austin Allegro from crated kits shipped from the company's Cowley facility.

The company also introduced exciting entries for the decade's muscle car boom, most notably the AMX ; while the Javelin served as the company's entrant into the sporty " pony car " market created by the Ford Mustang.

In October, the company's car sales surged 37 %, while they sank 21 % for the industry as a whole.

In 1952 a four-seat car version was launched, initially with an aluminium body, but panel by panel the company substituted glassfibre, as the company's understanding of the material improved and the price of aluminium increased.

An electric version of the company's Fellow Max kei car also followed, the beginning of a series of prototypes.

To promote the A40 Sports, Leonard Lord, Chairman of Austin, bet Alan Hess of the company's publicity department that he could not drive round the world in 30 days in the car.

Although most Vivas were produced at Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port plant in northern England, the company's production lines were by the standards of the time flexible, and the millionth car was a product of the Luton factory.

Furthermore, any marketing boosts Ford could have gained through Group A touring car racing were over with the Escort Cosworth becoming the company's standard-bearer in competition ( and the Escort, meanwhile, was absent from the New Zealand market ).

In September 2011 it was announced that production of the Rapide would be moved to the company's factory in Gaydon, production will begin in the second half of 2012 and will see all of the current Aston Martin range produced from the Gaydon facility.

The company's production lines typically reversed the numbers others were achieving ; even the early runs of a new CPU design — what would become the 6502 — were achieving a success rate of 70 percent or better.

Moore married Grant Tinker, a CBS executive ( later chairman of NBC ), in 1962, and in 1970 they formed the television production company MTM Enterprises, which created and produced the company's first television series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Companies that take advantage of economies of scale often run into problems of bureaucracy ; these factors interact to produce an " ideal " size for a company, at which the company's average cost of production is minimized.

The company's Rüsselsheim factory has been transformed to one of the most modern plants in the world for € 750 million and started production in 2002.

The Porsche 356 was the company's first production automobile.

Problems within National's management as well as pressure from the deepening Great Depression led to a production slowdown at National, and this ultimately resulted in part of the company's fractured management structure organizing support for George Beauchamp's newest project: the development of a fully electric guitar.

It also provides the customer with real-time information on scheduling and product availability through interfaces with the company's production and distribution operations.

The document says no, but quotes his son and then IBM President Thomas J. Watson, Jr., at the annual IBM stockholders meeting, April 28, 1953, as speaking about the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine, which it identifies as " the company's first production computer designed for scientific calculations ".

Most of the company's legal files, scripts, and production materials were donated to the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

In March 2006, original producer Celador announced that it was seeking to sell the worldwide rights to the show, together with the UK programme library, as the first phase of a sell-off of the company's format and production divisions.

In modern cost accounting, the concept of recording historical costs was taken further, by allocating the company's fixed costs over a given period of time to the items produced during that period, and recording the result as the total cost of production.

In certain markets, a Fox affiliate may outsource news programming to an NBC, ABC or CBS station in the market ( either due to insufficient funds for production of their own newscasts or the station being operated under a duopoly or some form of an operational agreement with a major network affiliate ); while this is less common in the 50 largest television markets, the largest station in regards to market size using this arrangement is WPGH-TV / Pittsburgh ( in the 23rd largest U. S. media market ), which has broadcast a 10 p. m. newscast that is produced by Cox Media-owned NBC affiliate WPXI since the 2006 shutdown of WPGH's in-house news department by owner Sinclair Broadcast Group after the company's News Central division folded.

On 1 July 2008 the MillerCoors company was formed as a joint venture with rival Molson Coors to consolidate the production and distribution of its products in the United States, with each parent company's corporate operations and international operations remaining separate and independent of the joint venture.

Ilion in Herkimer County has one of two production sites of the Remington Arms Company, where many of the company's firearms are produced.

The company's 50th anniversary was celebrated in 2006 with a Gala Concert in which tributes were paid to Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge, the principal artists, the chorus, production staff and the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra ( the AOBO ) for their ' artistry and talent ' and the ' ensemble nature ' of the company.

The company's facilities in Strängnäs Sweden are presently being expanded for the production of Genotropin, a growth hormone.

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.

The implementation of a company's business model into organisational structures ( e. g. organigrams, workflows, human resources ) and systems ( e. g. information technology architecture, production lines ) is part of a company's business operations.

Much of his company's production was in making stained glass windows and Tiffany lamps, but his company designed a complete range of interior decorations.

Diaghilev planned a production with his Ballets Russes but the production did not take place ; the company's choreographer Fokine staged L ' apprenti sorcier as a ballet in 1916.