They acquired another electronics factory, a specialized ceramics company, an organization that built -- very experimentally -- high-speed research calculators.

The number on the tile indicates how many shares the stock market owns in the company that is being acquired.

AMETEK acquired Cameca in 2007 and Imago Scientific Instruments ( Madison, WI ) in 2010, making the company the sole commercial developer of APTs.

In 1996 Borland acquired Open Environment Corp ( OEC ), a Cambridge based company founded by John J. Donovan.

In November 1997, Borland acquired Visigenic, a middleware company that was focused on implementations of CORBA.

On May 6, 2009, the company announced it was to be acquired by Micro Focus for $ 75 million.

Methodists in Britain acquired their own bishops early in the 19th century, after the Methodist movement in Britain formally parted company with the Church of England.

In 1986, Bombardier acquired Canadair after the Canadian government-owned aircraft manufacturing company had recorded the largest corporate loss in Canadian business history.

In 1970 Bombardier acquired the Viennese company Lohner-Rotax, a manufacturer of snowmobile engines and tramways, and became involved with rail business.

BSC later arranged an exchange deal with Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd ( GKN ), the parent company of GKN Steel, under which BSC acquired Dowlais Ironworks at Merthyr Tydfil and GKN took over BSC's Brymbo Steelworks near Wrexham.

This company was acquired by Oracle Corporation in February 2006, which continues to develop and sell Berkeley DB.

The company was acquired by Palm Inc. and today BeOS is mainly used and developed by a small population of enthusiasts.

In 1998 the company acquired Dewar's scotch and Bombay Sapphire gin from Diageo for $ 2 billion.

Telefónica of Spain acquired a 50 percent share in the company in 2006.

The Tribune company, in financial distress, was acquired by real-estate mogul Sam Zell in December 2007.

This Videocart was shown in a single sales brochure released shortly after Zircon acquired the company.

On March 15, 2004, Amiga, Inc. announced that on April 23, 2003 it had transferred its rights over past and future versions of the Amiga OS ( but not over other intellectual property ) to Itec, LLC, later acquired by KMOS, Inc., a Delaware company.

In 1998, the Editions de l ' Etoile ( the company publishing Cahiers ) was acquired by the press group Le Monde.

The company was acquired in June 1998 by Compaq, in what was at that time the largest merger in the history of the computer industry.

* 2011: Quidsi. com, parent company of Diapers. com, acquired by Amazon. com for $ 500 million in cash plus $ 45 million in debt and other obligations.

GSI Commerce, a company specializing in creating, developing and running online shopping sites for brick and mortar businesses, acquired by eBay for $ 2. 4 billion.

All future Supermarionation ventures were funded by ITC, who later acquired the share capital in the company in 1962.

When Microsoft acquired the FASA Interactive subsidiary, Babcock went with that company.

In July 2008, the company after a series of change of ownership was eventually acquired by the US private equity firm, NRDC Equity Partners, which also owned American department store chain Lord & Taylor.

In 1972, the company acquired the four-store Shop-Rite chain of catalogue stores.

In April 1998, American photographer John S Callahan organized the first surfing project in the Andamans, starting from Phuket in Thailand with the assistance of Southeast Asia Liveaboards ( SEAL ), a UK owned dive charter company.

These numbers are set up by a company offering low charge calls in the UK, these numbers are meant to be used as a sort of operator that you go through in order to qualify for these cheap calls.

PolyGram ( London Records ' parent company at that time ) had pressed a number of promo singles and 12 " versions of the song, sending them out to both radio and record stores in the UK.

BOEN is a vehicle for governments and heads of state to invest in UK companies ( subject to approval from the Secretary of State ), providing they undertake " not to influence the affairs of the company ".

* Ceres Power, a UK company developing small-scale fuel cell CHP systems

The Anchor dairy company ships New Zealand Cheddars to the UK, where it matures for another year or so.

In a wider sense, most companies in the UK are created under statute since the Companies Act 1985 specifies how a company may be created by a member of the public, but these companies are not called ' statutory corporations '.

A number of licensed versions were released in Europe, including the Luxor Video Entertainment System in Scandinavia ( Sweden ), Adman Grandstand in the UK, and the Saba Videoplay, Nordmende Teleplay and ITT Tele-Match Processor, from Germany and also Dumont Videoplay and Barco Challenger from the Barco / Dumont company in Italy and Belgium.

Commodore UK was the only subsidiary to survive the bankruptcy and even placed a bid to buy out the rest of the operation, or at least the former parent company.

* OA-series germanium diodes ( e. g.: OA47 ) a coding sequence developed by Mullard, a UK company

* ESR Technology, a UK company

( It was released in the United States in 1972 as No Answer, the name being chosen because a record company secretary had tried to ring the UK company and get the name of the album — since they were unable to contact them they left a note saying " No Answer ".

width films being made by the Edison company and others in France and the UK.

The company was founded by Sven Väth in the early 1990s as a sublabel of Eye Q Records with the divisions Harthouse Frankfurt, Harthouse UK and Harthouse America.

Apparently his work remained largely unknown to engineers in the UK and US until much later, although at least IBM was aware of it as it financed his post-war startup company in 1946 in return for an option on Zuse's patents.

Lyster signed US patents in 1916 and 1921, securing the international rights to these developments for a UK based company, Minerals Separation, Limited.

After opening its first overseas office in London in 1896, the company opened its first UK factory in Peckham, south London in 1905.

After the campaign appeared in the Metro newspaper London the business news website www. mad. co. uk remarked that the IKEA campaign had amazing similarities with the marketing activity of UK home refurbishment company Onis living who had launched their own Not For Sale advertising campaign two years prior and was awarded the Interbuild 2006 Construction Marketing Award for best campaign under £ 25, 000.

On 4 June 2010 Manx Telecom was sold by Telefónica to UK private equity investor HgCapital ( who were buying the majority stake ), alongside telecoms management company CPS Partners

* ICC Records, a UK charitable-status Christian record production and distribution company

Maurice Summerfield of the Charles Summerfield Ltd company contributed some design ideas to Hoshino Gakki and also imported Ibanez and CSL guitars into the UK with Hoshino Gakki cooperation from 1964 – 1987.

As well as running this new venture, he continued his interest in a range of businesses in the UK and Australia, including a small aviation company and several garages and car dealerships.

* UK company law

In August 2009 the UK and US based company EditShare acquired Gee Broadcast and the Lightworks editing platform from, along with their video server system GeeVS.