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.

The company retains no presence today in what is now the United States portion of the Pacific Northwest.

The company retains the home's original name, often along with former owners who are kept on as management.

Each company continues to market products separately and retains ownership and profits from the underlying mines, as well as strategic development of their own mineral resources.

Stoddart retains the right to use the Minardi name for a British-registered company.

The company retains a sizable presence in the Youngstown area today.

Slickville's heyday lasted until 1942 when the mine was closed ; however it still retains most of its original company housing, along with the company store, mine car repair shop, mine office ( with jail in the basement ), grade school ( closed in 1985 ), four churches ( including St. Slyvester's Catholic, Holy Ghost Ukrainian Orthodox, Baptist ), ' boney ' pile and official's houses including the superintendent's house.

Kamprad retains little ownership in the company, having transferred his interest to Stichting INGKA Foundation and INGKA Holding as part of a complex tax sheltering scheme that leaves his actual degree of control vague.

Although it is nearly indistinguishable from the adjacent city of Tacoma, the predominantly residential area still retains its status as a separate municipality long after it ceased to be a company town.

The company retains one shop in the centre of Paris, France.

The official company literature states that founder James Christie conducted the first sale in London, England, on 5 December 1766, and the earliest auction catalogue the company retains is from December 1766.

CBS, not Viacom, retains control of the over-the-air broadcasting, TV production, outdoor advertising, subscription pay television ( Showtime ) and publishing assets ( Simon & Schuster ) formerly owned by the larger company.

The company has its head offices in Bodø, although it retains a large administration in Lysaker.

Another company which retains the name is Hawker Siddeley Power Transformers.

The town had become a centre of industries such as helicopter production, and maintenance at the GKN Westland factory until its closure in 2002, however the company still retains a design office under the name GKN Aerospace Engineering Services at the Winterstoke Road site.

The company, which was incorporated under a Royal Charter in 1665, is no longer an association of tradesmen that retains its ancient powers, but now operates as a charitable institution as do most of the other Livery Companies.

Martin retains an approximately 25 per cent stake in the company.

Eircom retains a virtual monopoly of around 70 %, on fixed-line telephony in the State ( the only exceptions being those operated by UPC Ireland cable company ( formerly NTL Ireland and Chorus ), Digiweb Metro and some fibre offerings from BT, Magnet Networks, Smart and Digiweb ).

The merged company retains the name " Southern Pacific " for all railroad operations.

The merged company retains the name " Union Pacific " for all railroad operations.

Although Gillette has since been acquired by Procter & Gamble, the stadium retains the Gillette name because P & G has continued to use the Gillette brand name and because the Gillette company was founded in the Boston area.

Its first factory in Kidderminster was established in 1820 and as of 2008 the company still has a major manufacturing presence on the Stourport edge of the town, although it retains an administrative presence in the centre.

The current incarnation of the company as Warner Music Group was formed in 2004 when it was spun off and made completely separate from Time Warner ; as a result Time Warner no longer retains any ownership whatsoever in the Warner Music Group, despite its name.

It is now independent of the Royal Ballet in London, although it retains strong links with the company and the Royal Ballet School.