Gorton and company, however, promptly bought land from Miantonomi a few miles south of Pawtuxet, extending from the present Gaspee Point south to Warwick Neck and twenty miles inland.

In 1872, the firm was taken over by Friedrich Schreiber, and in 1876 it merged with the firm of August Cranz, who bought the company in 1879 and ran it under his name.

The company went bankrupt in 1924 and was bought by Lady Charnwood, who put her son John Benson on the board.

In 1947, David Brown Limited bought the company under the leadership of managing director Sir David Brown — its " post-war saviour ".

In 1955, David Brown bought the Tickford coachbuilding company and its site at Tickford Street in Newport Pagnell.

In 1984, Titan the main shipping company of the Papanicolaou ’ s was in trouble, so Livanos's father George bought out the Papanicolaou's shares in ALL, while Gauntlett again became a shareholder with a 25 % holding in AML.

In 1976, the company bought the insurance brokerage units of the Esmark conglomerate.

Despite its troubles, in 2000 Aon bought Reliance Group's accident and health insurance business, as well as Actuarial Sciences Associates, a compensation and employee benefits consulting company.

The standard example is the stock of a company, undervalued in the stock market, which is about to be the object of a takeover bid ; the price of the takeover will more truly reflect the value of the company, giving a large profit to those who bought at the current price — if the merger goes through as predicted.

A couple of years ago it was bought by Droga Kolinska, a Croatian company.

** Commodore International Corporation, a Netherlands-based company that bought all the global rights, patents and assets to the Commodore brand in 2005

CIC's founder, Ben van Wijhe, bought a Hong Kong-based company called Asiarim, and Asiarim purchased the Commodore brand from Reunite.

So, in 1967, Volkswagen bought the company and phased out the DKW-Vemag production.

The lamps also had to be provided by the miners themselves, not the owners, as traditionally the miners bought their own candles from the company store.

In spite of this, however, a few company founders made vast fortunes when their companies were bought out at an early stage in the dot-com stock market bubble.

Eastman shortly thereafter bought the company out and became the leading supplier of film stock.

Alfred Henry ( Freddy ) Heineken ( November 4, 1923, Amsterdam, Netherlands – January 3, 2002, Noordwijk, Netherlands ) was a Dutch major stock holder and president of Heineken International, the brewing company bought in 1864 by his grandfather Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam.

He entered the service of the company ( which by then was no longer owned by the family ) on 1 June 1941 and bought back stock several years later, to ensure the family controlled the company again.

NWFB's owner company later bought Citybus, but the two companies have basically been operating independently.

The company continued to grow, and in 1888 Heinz bought out his other two partners and reorganized the company as the H. J. Heinz Company, the name it carries to the present day.

The company continued to grow, and in 1888 Heinz bought out his other two partners and reorganized the company as the H. J. Heinz Company.

The intentionally small business district includes a few restaurants ( Buck's, Woodside Bakery & Cafe, and The Village Pub ), a grocery store ( Roberts Market ), a saloon ( the historic Pioneer Saloon ), a hardware and horse tack store ( Roberts Hardware and Tack ), an art gallery and picture framing store ( Woodside Gallery ), a home and garden store ( Emily Joubert ), realtors ( Carey Realty, Coldwell Banker, Alain Pinel, Remax ), a few venture capital funds ( including Crosspoint Ventures, Tenaya Capital, and The Photonics Fund ), a cleaner, a post office, and an educational consulting and tutoring company ( Cardinal Education ).

Written by Johnny Hawksworth and entitled " Up to Date ", it was not specially commissioned for the show, rather provided via the Production music company De Wolfe Music and most recently, made available in 1996 by independent record company Studio2Stereo on their CD " The Sound Gallery Volume Two ".

A non-professional acting company from Brazil, named Nós do Morro (' We of the hillside '), in collaboration with a Gallery 37 group from Birmingham, gave a single performance of the play during the RSC's presentation of the Complete Works, directed by Guti Fraga.

Hollywood Video ceased operations in May 2010, when Movie Gallery, its parent company, declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

Henry Tate, founder of the Tate Gallery and the Tate & Lyle sugar company lived at Park Hill by the Common.

Kinkade's company, Media Arts Group Inc., has been accused of unfair dealings with owners of Thomas Kinkade Signature Gallery franchises.

The Huntley & Palmers Gallery explains the history of the biscuit-making industry that was once one of the mainstays of the Reading economy, with special emphasis on the Huntley and Palmers company.

Like Omni Magazine, which it also somewhat resembled, it was published by a company better-known for " skin " magazines, Gallery < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Montcalm Publishing.

James curates art shows at the World of Wonder Gallery for the production company World of Wonder Productions, makers of both Party Monster: The Shockumentary ( 1998 ) and Party Monster ( 2003 ), and blogs regularly on World of Wonder's website, the WOW Report.

Movie Gallery, Inc. ( former NASDAQ ticker symbol MOVI ) was the second largest movie and game rental company in the United States and Canada, behind Blockbuster Video.

Movie Gallery kept some central employees in Dothan, and the company said that it would continue to have a " presence " in Dothan.

After the company filed for Chapter 7, Great American Group Inc. held an auction on Tuesday August 17, 2010 at the Wilsonville, Oregon headquarters of Movie Gallery, auctioning away the company's equipment.

Through Paolo Leonni, Miles met John Dunbar who was planning on opening a gallery, and with John's friend Peter Asher as silent partner, they combined their ideas into a company called Miles, Asher and Dunbar Limited ( MAD ) to start the Indica Books and Gallery in September 1965, as an outlet for art and literature.

He lived and breathed for the mining company.

Houses of settlers who'd treated the company herds as a natural resource, free for the taking, were sitting empty, with weeds growing high in their yards.

The contributors to this testament were all well-known: a former Democratic candidate for President, a New Deal poet, the magazine's chief editorial writer, two newspaper columnists, head of a national broadcasting company, a popular Protestant evangelist, etc..

In my own company, in effect a partnership, although legally a corporation, I have been able to do many things for my employees which `` normal '' corporations of comparable size and nature would have been unable to do.

Also, I am convinced that if my company were a sole proprietorship instead of a partnership, I would have been even abler to solve long-range problems for myself and my fellow-employees.

A lady, you made clear to me both by precept and example, never raised her voice or slumped in her chair, never failed in social tact ( in heaven, for instance, would not mention St. John the Baptist's head ), never pouted or withdrew or scandalized in company, never reminded others of her physical presence by unseemly sound or gesture, never indulged in public scenes or private confidences, never spoke of money save in terms of alleviating suffering, never gossiped or maligned, never stressed but always minimized the hopelessness of anything from sin to death itself.

There was no room for company in the tiny Weaning House ( where the Albright boys always took their brides, till they could get a house and a farm of their own ).

However, it determined that neither this factor, nor `` the fact that all concerned in high executive posts in both companies acted honorably and fairly, each in the honest conviction that his actions were in the best interests of his own company and without any design to overreach anyone, including Du Pont's competitors '', outweighed the Government's claim for relief.

Commencing with the death of Lucian Sharpe in 1899, the name of Henry D. Sharpe was for more than 50 years closely interwoven with the destiny of the company.

Does your company have a program for selecting and developing sales and marketing management personnel for the longer term??

Are you utilizing cafeteria space for company meetings or discussions??

Too many plant officials are all too eager to buy a package program from an insurance company simply because it works for another plant.

Keep the retirement age flexible so skilled craftsmen such as tool and die makers can be kept on the job for the convenience of the company.

What can be done for the `` individual contributor '' who is extremely important -- and likely to be more so -- in the operation of the technically oriented company??

The company expects to extend upward both compensation and status for non-supervisory engineers, but probably not into executive levels.

`` Above these jobs we have chief engineer for the company and vice-president of Engrg, R & Aj.

We have two media for publicizing individual technical activity, a magazine widely distributed both within and without the company, and an information bulletin for engineering personnel distributed to the homes of all engineers.

The amount paid by the oil company to Tri-State for the use of its oil distribution system and the privilege of supplying all the homes, is subject to negotiation but naturally must be profitable to both parties.

For this first development the supplier signing the lease is a major oil company but in turn the deal is being transferred for operation to its local fueloil distributor.

It wants to interest builders and oil companies in the idea of including its facility in their new home projects, by financing and installing the storage, piping and meters, and leasing these for 15 years, with renewal options, to a strong oil company.

Letch had made it abundantly clear that he did not care for the company of my own precious daughter.

or allowing survival of a dividend carryover to a personal holding company ( section 381(c)(14) ), but not carryover of excess tax credits for foreign taxes??

Each questionnaire was audited for obvious mistakes and for comments, and was identified by a serial number, by the source list from which the company name was selected, and by the geographical location of the company as determined by the postmark on the return envelope.