Many of the company's proofs were rushed out the door and then much of the company's effort had to be spent on maintenance.

In 1946, in an effort to continue the company's post war recovery, the name of the stores was changed to 7-Eleven to reflect their hours of operation — 7 am to 11 pm, which at the time was unprecedented.

Hormel joined the World War I effort, George's son Jay C. went into military service and by the end of the war, exports accounted for 33 % of the company's yearly volume.

Those costs include the cost of protecting against such disasters, the cost of the cleanup effort, and the hard-to-calculate cost of damage to the company's image.

Meanwhile, in an effort to increase production at its U. S. facility, new export markets for the Eclipse and Galant are being explored in Ukraine, the Middle East, and Russia, where the company's bestselling dealership is located.

Beginning on December 30, 2006, as part of the company's effort to build revenues and attract new audiences, the Met ( along with NCM Fathom ) broadcast a series of six performances live via satellite into movie theaters called " Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD ".

SPI's staff freely discussed future plans, down to details of marketing and distribution, in the pages of the magazine ; its subscribers began to feel a personal stake in the company's survival, going so far as to write long letters of advice and volunteering time and effort to help the company survive.

The move was seen as a strategic effort to expand the company's portfolio of non-carbonated beverages, and specifically to compete with PepsiCo's SoBe line of fruit juice blends and enhanced waters.

In 2004, Six Flags began to close and sell properties in an effort to help alleviate the company's growing debt.

One example of an active effort to prevent the genericization of a trademark was that of the LEGO Company, which printed in manuals in the 1970s and 1980s a request to customers that they call the company's interlocking plastic building blocks "' LEGO bricks ', ' blocks ' or ' toys ', and not ' LEGOs '.

While Messier and another former Vivendi executive were found not liable, the jury found that Paris-based Vivendi SA misled investors 57 times by making upbeat statements about the company's financial condition in a supposed effort to conceal the company's liquidity risks.

This effort had been underway for years and was already consuming many of the resources in the company's Glendale, Torrance, Walnut Creek and Los Gatos ( Northern California Product Center ) offices.

The plan for a € 300M fundraising effort was dropped in September 2003 and the company's shares depreciated significantly as a result of the publicised concerns raised over transactions with mutual fund Epicurum, another Cayman-based company linked to Parmalat by November.

During World War II, Wilson directed the company's huge defense production effort, which earned him a U. S. Medal of Merit in 1946.

The subsequent refocusing on the IT services business ( which grew to nearly 50 % of the IBM's revenues ), the embrace of the Internet as a business phenomenon, and a broad effort to revive the company's culture are widely seen as having resulted in one of the most remarkable turnarounds in business history.

Administrative receivership is a procedure in the United Kingdom whereby a creditor can enforce security against a company's assets in an effort to obtain repayment of the secured debt.

In 1990, G. P. U. paid about $ 600, 000 to Fleishman-Hillard, G. P. U. 's only outside public relations agency, largely to supplement the company's lobbying effort.

Production of the Mosquito, nicknamed the " Mossie ," was the company's greatest contribution to the war effort.

* If a company other than a limited partnership cannot obtain audited financial statements without unreasonable effort or expense, only the company's balance sheet, to be dated within 120 days of the start of the offering, must be audited ; and

To develop new products, a company's research-and-development ( R & D ) effort must be both efficient and effective.

The lawsuit alleged that the officers and directors “ knowingly or recklessly ” made false statements about the company's subscriber line count, growth and financial condition in an effort to inflate its stock price.

Gabriel Torrelles continued to lead the effort after the company's buy out to 2006.

The UK's Financial Services Authority stated that the fine related to the company's inadequate bribery and corruption controls, claiming that between January 14, 2005 and September 30, 2007 Aon had failed to properly assess the risks involved in its dealings with overseas firms and individuals.

They justified this relatively low ranking ( though higher than every other Atari console save the 2600 ) with the summary statement: " Its delayed release, its cancelled peripherals, and a lack of financial backing from the company's new owners all combined to ensure that Atari 7800 would never see any success beyond being a sexier way of playing Atari 2600 titles.

The consequent severe operational disruption to the national network and the company's spiralling costs set in motion the series of events which resulted in the ultimate collapse of the company and its replacement with Network Rail, a state-regulated, not-for-dividend company.

Bunge remained a privately held company of 180 shareholders ( including the longtime controlling family interests ) and divested itself in 1998 of almost all its retail foods interests in favor of a greater role in international agribusiness and commodity markets ; by then the company's gross annual turnover had reached US $ 13 billion.

If a company's purpose is to maximize shareholder returns, then sacrificing profits to other concerns is a violation of its fiduciary responsibility.

The word capsule alludes to how Capcom likened its game software to " a capsule packed to the brim with gaming fun ", as well as to the company's desire to protect its intellectual property with a hard outer shell, preventing illegal copies and inferior imitations.

However, following bad sales of Dark Void and Bionic Commando, the company's management has decided to limit outsourcing to sequels and newer versions of installments in existing franchises, reserving the development of original titles for its in-house teams.

Cultural conflicts occurred most notably the company's inherent individualistic policies, such as promoting competition among workers rather than cooperation, and in its strong opposition to what the company owners claimed was bribery.

The company's business suffered notably during the late-2000s recession, laying off more than half its workforce between January 2009 and September 2010.

In the late 1990s, Chaosium effectively split up into various successor companies, each maintaining its focus on a few of the company's products.

If the business ' debts exceed its assets, the bankruptcy restructuring results in the company's owners being left with nothing ; instead, the owners ' rights and interests are ended and the company's creditors are left with ownership of the newly reorganized company.

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.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, the computer press had often sought Commodore, one of the industry's leading players, and its colorful management for information, despite the company's notorious reputation.

The company's computer systems, especially the C64 and Amiga series, retain a cult-following among their users decades after its demise.

Although the Alpha processor family met both of these goals, and, for most of its lifetime, was the fastest processor family on the market, it did little to affect the bottom line or repair the company's status.

According to dot-com theory, an Internet company's survival depended on expanding its customer base as rapidly as possible, even if it produced large annual losses.

In such a situation, a company's lifespan was measured by its burn rate: that is, the rate at which a non-profitable company lacking a viable business model ran through its capital served as the metric.

In 1996, the Britannica was bought by Jacqui Safra at well below its estimated value, owing to the company's financial difficulties.

The SE must draw up annual accounts comprising the balance sheet, the profit and loss account and the notes to the accounts, and an annual report giving a fair view of the company's business and of its position ; consolidated accounts may also be required.

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.

Secondly, Ford officials admitted later, the company's contentious relationship with Miles, its top contract driver, placed executives in a difficult position.