It may also work in one other way -- by licensing its system patents and supplying the meters, letting the oil company or even the builder install the facilities.

The concessionaires also had to pay a tax of one-tenth on the goods they traded, and all pelts were to be taken to company stores and shipped to France in company ships.

Locke also noted that the conscience is influenced by " education, company, and customs of the country ", a criticism mounted by J. L. Mackie, who argued that the conscience should be seen as an " introjection " of other people into an agent's mind.

One common replacement for LocalTalk was PhoneNet, a 3rd party solution ( from a company called Farallon, now called Netopia ) that also used the RS-422 port and was indistinguishable from LocalTalk as far as Apple's LocalTalk port drivers were concerned, but ran over the two unused wires in standard four-wire phone cabling.

Because the original designer had left the company another employee completely redesigned most of the system, ( adding a display snow remover circuit, true 80 / 64 column text mode support, ( with different size letters for TRS-80 and CP / M mode, so that in TRS-80 mode the full screen was also used, not just a 64x16 portion of the 80x25 screen ) with an improved font set ( adding " gray scale " version of the TRS-80 mozaik graphics and many special PETSCII like characters ), and a more flexible and reliable floppy disk controller and keyboard interface plus many other small improvements ), also an enclosure was developed for the main computer system, ( in the form of a 19-inch rack for the Eurocards ) and for two floppy disk drives and the power supply.

To enhance and modernize the Aster CT-80 the company also designed three alternative video display adapters to supplement or replace the TRS-80 compatible video card, ( due to the modular nature of the Aster it was simply a matter of changing the video card, and / or CPU card to upgrade the system ).

American Media also owns Distribution Services, an in-store magazine merchandising company.

As Aston Martin required greater investment, he also agreed to sell his share holding to American importer and Greek shipping tycoon Peter Livanos, who invested via his joint venture company with Nick and John Papanicalou, ALL Inc. Gauntlett remained chairman of the AML company 55 % owned by ALL, with Tickford a 50 / 50 venture between ALL and CHI.

The purpose of advertising may also be to reassure employees or shareholders that a company is viable or successful.

There are also superefficient electric refrigerators, such as those produced by the Sun Frost company, some of which use only about half as much electricity as a mass-market energy star-rated refrigerator.

Each Blackadder and Baldrick is also saddled with the company of a dim-witted aristocrat whose presence Blackadder must somehow tolerate.

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

The company also exerted control on inland territories that were inhabited by numerous tribes.

Managements promoting demutualization also thereby met managerial objectives because the end of mutuality brought joint stock company ( Plc ) style remuneration committee pay standards and share options.

However, in instances an individual director may still bind the company by his acts by virtue of his ostensible authority ( see also: the rule in Turquand's Case ).

bin Laden () is an Arabic language surname synonymous with Osama bin Laden ( 1957 – 2011 ), it may also pertain to the Saudi Binladin Group, a holding company for the assets of the bin Laden family, and other notable members of Osama's family.

Fulcher also established an association with Justin de Blank, a director at Conran, which blossomed when de Blank left to launch his own upmarket provisions company and restaurant business in 1968.

Karno selected his new star to join a fraction of the company that toured North America's vaudeville circuit ; he also signed Chaplin to a new contract, which doubled his pay.

Cross ownership also refers to a type of media ownership in which one type of communications ( say a newspaper ) owns or is the sister company of another type of medium ( such as a radio or TV station ).

Apart from the head office building and the R & D building of Capcom Co., Ltd., both located in Chūō-ku, Osaka, the Japanese parent company also has a branch office in the Shinjuku Mitsui Building in Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo.

This natural disaster also led to the bankruptcy of a heavily invested insurance company called Doyle.

** Executive chairman – the chairman's post may also exist as an office separate from that of CEO, and it is considered an executive chairman if that titleholder wields influence over company operations, such as Steve Case of AOL Time Warner and Douglas Flint of HSBC.

In addition to the development and publishing of home, online, mobile, arcade, pachinko, and pachislo games, the company publishes strategy guides, maintains its own arcade centers, and licenses its franchise and character properties for use in tie-in products, movies, television series, and stage performances.

The state owned company that owns and maintains Greece's railway network is called OSE, while TrainOSE is the company responsible for operating all passenger and freight trains.

* Emergent BioSolutions is an international biopharmaceutical company that maintains significant operations in Lansing.

( born 1 June 1935 ) is a British architect whose company maintains an international design practice, Foster + Partners.

* Schlumberger, the world's largest oilservice company maintains a principal office there ( along with Houston and Paris )

The company maintains several Network Emergency Response Vehicles ( NERV ) s which are staffed by Cisco employees during natural disasters and other public crises.

In Russia and much of Eastern Europe repertory theatre is based on the idea that each company maintains a number of productions which are performed on a rotating basis.

The company still maintains operations at three main sites in Denmark for manufacturing, servicing, and licensing of its two-stroke engines and complete propulsion systems.

The department maintains 50 + employees and officers, and the city has recently constructed a modern 3 story police station in 2007 to replace the aging old station, with highly advanced security and multimedia systems provided by ACNS, a local Manassas Park telecommunications and security company.

One example is Telvista, a Texas-based telemarketing company which maintains three call centers along Blvd.

There have been questions raised about the lead and arsenic content of the fertilizer, but the company maintains its product is harmless.

Elk Corporation Roofing company maintains a manufacturing plant in Shafter and Target maintains a distribution center set upon of concrete.

The town produces its own electricity and maintains an electric company with rates well below the state's average.

In addition, Kerry Flavours and Ingredients, a subsidiary of the global Irish company called Kerry Group, maintains a production plant in Rochester that specializes in fermented ingredients, found in breads, meats and other processed foods.

The records storage management company Iron Mountain currently maintains at least one mine for storing anything from microfiche to data backup tapes.

Volvo Cars of North America, Customer Relations, a Swedish company that manufactures safety-oriented automobiles, maintains an American headquarters in Rockleigh.

Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protection of sound recordings and music videos ; conducts talent scouting and development of new artists (" artists and repertoire " or " A & R "); and maintains contracts with recording artists and their managers.

Often the company maintains a special interest in the trust which is called an " interest only strip " or " first loss piece ".

Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials. Argonne builds and maintains scientific facilities that would be too expensive for a single company or university to construct and operate.

Nevertheless the company maintains an enthusiastic and loyal clientele.

Organized in two wings, A ( Imphal ) Wing and B ( Meiktila ) Wing, the company currently maintains 72 permanent staff of all ranks and 230 recruits.

SAS also maintains six aircraft for use in company operations including Bell 407 helicopter, a Boeing 737 Business Jet, an 8 passenger Cessna Citation X, a pair of 12pax Dassault Falcon 900's and fractional ownership in a six-passenger Hawker 400.

The company also maintains sales offices worldwide.