This definition can sometimes be extended to include some of the risks of the parent company's customers.

A common technique for " spinning off " a company from its parent is to distribute shares in the new company to the old company's shareholders.

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.

In October 2006, PalmSource announced that it would rename itself to ACCESS, to match its parent company's name.

Production of the Supermarine Spitfire at its parent company's base at Woolston, Southampton was vulnerable to enemy attack as a high profile target and was well within range of Luftwaffe bombers.

In 1997, MCA Records adopted a new logo that featured the parent company's former full name.

In this case, the parent company was the Associated British Picture Corporation ( ABPC ), which initially did not wish to become involved with the new broadcasting system, but were persuaded to do so by the Independent Television Authority ( ITA ) and the manager of their Pathé News subsidiary Howard Thomas, who became the new company's managing director.

It can be the station that produces the largest amount of material for the network, or the station in the parent company's home city, or both.

In 1982, she rejoined the staff of parent company Thames Television as Director of Drama, and was given a seat on the company's board.

However, this risk would not lower the parent company's overall credit rating because the SPE would be a legally separate entity.

After Carter's initial three-year signing for Fox had ended, the success of the series allowed him to negotiate a five-year contract with several additional perks, including the guarantee of a feature film adaptation to be produced by the parent company's film studio, and the greenlighting of Carter's next television project.

TLC imports a significant amount of programming material from the United Kingdom ( such as Junkyard Wars ) mostly through its parent company's ties to the BBC.

Both survived the UK parent company's collapse.

One of these factors was the parent company's precariously highly geared investment in the shipping and leisure industry sectors.

However, a proposed management buyout was rejected as its liquidation value was needed to pay off the parent company's debts.

Charles Moeller, president of parent company Grand Sheet Metal Products, was acquitted on arson charges, but in a civil lawsuit, a jury in 1988 ruled the insurer did not have to pay claims on the fire because a preponderance of evidence showed the company's top officials arranged the fire to claim insurance money.

It has been organized under the parent company's Amusement Facility SBU.

This venture was a huge gamble but ultimately the company's saving grace, until, once more in financial difficulties, it signed off increasing percentages of its holdings, to the parent company, finally becoming fully integrated into XEROX in the late 1990s.

Tiendas Kress was never affected by the economic problems that led to their parent company's demise in 1981.

Avro Canada underwent a major expansion through aircraft development and acquisition of aircraft engine, mining, steel, railway rolling stock, computers, electronics, and other businesses to become, by 1958, Canada's third largest company directly employing over 14, 000 people and providing 45 % of the parent company's revenues.

The carrier links Cairo with Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada, Luxor, Aswan, Marsa Alam, Abu Simbel and Alexandria ( Egypt ) in addition to secondary regional destinations to complement the parent company's pattern of service.

Today, the company's products include aircraft components, engine nacelles and aircraft flight control systems for its parent company Bombardier Aerospace, and for Boeing, Rolls-Royce Deutschland, General Electric and Pratt & Whitney.

One may become a freeman, or acquire the " freedom of the company ", upon fulfilling the company's criteria: traditionally, one may be admitted by " patrimony ", if either parent was a liveryman of the company ; by " servitude ", if one has served the requisite number of years as an apprentice to the company ; or by " redemption ", by paying a fee.

The call letters denote the initials of the parent company's founder, Edward Willis Scripps.

Production was moved to Histon in Cambridgeshire in September 2007 following the parent company's acquisition by Premier Foods.

The company's songwriters have written chart-topping hits for Mariah Carey, The Black Eyed Peas, Kenny Chesney, The Game, Mario, Rascal Flatts, No Doubt, Thomas Anders, Jessica Simpson and 50 Cent as well as legends like Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and Roselyn Sánchez.

The motto " You'll enjoy shopping at Simpson's " was conceived by Robert Simpson and remained the company's slogan until its acquisition by the Hudson's Bay Company.

Day promoted Simpson to deputy chief executive of British Aerospace in December 1991 to " toughen up " the company's management.

A devastating flood destroyed Fort Garry in 1826, prompting the company's then governor, George Simpson, to search for a safer location down river.

In the short documentary " The Total War Story ", Mike Simpson, studio director for the company Creative Assembly said that the company's Total War series of games had been influenced by Lords of the Rising Sun.

A view of Ann Arbor toward Liberty and State streets, showing the Burton Memorial Tower, Michigan Theater ( Ann Arbor ) | Michigan Theater, the Borders Group | Borders bookstore No. 1 ( now closed following the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy ), and several buildings of the University of Michigan

From 1994 until 2007, Aston Martin was part of the Ford Motor Company, becoming part of the company's Premier Automotive Group in 2000.

RT Group plc ( in voluntary liquidation ) made a number of payments to shareholders during the winding up of the company's affairs before finally being dissolved on 22 June 2010.

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.

The company's chairman is Serge Dassault, whose Dassault Group has controlled the paper since 2004.

Mike Edwards was confirmed as President of Borders Group and CEO of Borders, Inc., the company's principal subsidiary.

On 13 October 2007, Branson's Virgin Group sought to add Northern Rock to its empire after submitting an offer that would result in Branson personally owning 30 % of the company, changing the company's name from Northern Rock to Virgin Money.

The company's Mobile TV CMS is in use by a wide range of Mobile Network Operators globally to include the Vodafone Group, Vodacom, SFR, Proximus and Mobilkom A1 ; distributing content from a wide range of broadcasters and producers to include Eurosport, MTV, Discovery and Fashion TV.

The farm was built by Wind Capital Group and is by far the company's smallest wind farm developed through January 2009.

After a decline in the American steel industry and other problems leading to the company's bankruptcy in 2001, the company was dissolved and the remaining assets sold to International Steel Group in 2003.

In 2003, the company's remnants, including its six massive plants, were acquired by the International Steel Group.

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 ).

The third division, Dexter Nonwoven Materials, located on the company's original site in Windsor Locks, was sold to the Finnish Ahlstrom Paper Group.

An announcement was made that Constantine and Woodall would be touring New Zealand and Australia where they made a series of public appearances at shopping malls owned by the Westfield Group to perform live styling sessions for the company's customers.

The company's major titles are published by three subsidiary companies, Times Newspapers Ltd, News Group Newspapers and NI Free Newspapers Limited.

The Lancia Martini partnership in the World Rally Championship was one of the company's longest, remaining until the end of the 1992 season, with several cars, including the Group B Delta S4 and Group A Delta Integrale winning events and titles with drivers such as Juha Kankkunen, Bruno Saby, Massimo Biasion and Didier Auriol.

Despite trading as MG Rover Group, the new company's key Rover marque was a property licensed from BMW.

The company's revolutionary graphical user interface opened the door to signing distribution deals with Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Bertelsmann Music Group and Warner Music Group.

In the event, Lord Thomson was forced by the ITA to reduce his stake in the station from 80 % to 25 %, effectively ending the company's standing as a subsidiary of the Thomson Group.

Audience members included the Hinduja Brothers of the Hinduja Group, Lakshmi Narayan Mittal, Europe's richest man and CEO of ArcelorMittal, as well as the company's CFO Aditya Mittal.

In May 2006, Great White Games published a new edition of Deadlands under the company's Pinnacle Entertainment Group label.

AATV was bought out by rival communications company Pearson Television in 1998, which, in turn, was acquired by RTL Group subsidiary FremantleMedia four years later ( at one time, one of the company's predecessors, Fremantle International, was the distributor of Goodson-Todman game shows internationally ).