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

The operation of the mine to recover the ore begins and continues as long as the company operating the mine finds it economical to do so.

Today Mobil continues as a major brand name within the combined company, as well as still being a gas station sometimes paired with their own store or On the Run.

In 1932, the company became the world's first to produce electric guitars and continues to produce a range of electric and bass guitars to this day.

Symbolics refers to two companies: now-defunct computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc., and a privately held company that acquired the assets of the former company and continues to sell and maintain the Open Genera Lisp system and the Macsyma computer algebra system.

The Microsoft Trackball Explorer continues to be extremely popular ( it has no analogous design in production by another company ), with used models selling for ~$ 300 on ebay.

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.

The company continues to design and market products that are manufactured overseas.

But in 2004, a Luxembourg-based company called MPG ( which stands for Magic Production Group ) took over toy production, although Ferrero continues to make Kinder Surprise chocolate.

Most telephone companies now also function as internet service providers ( ISPs ), and the distinction between a telephone company and an ISP may disappear completely over time, as the current trend for supplier convergence in the industry continues.

The French government, both directly and through its holding company ERAP, continues to hold a stake of almost 27 % in the firm.

Ceridian continues as a successful outsourced IT company focusing on human resources.

* 1987 – Texaco files for bankruptcy ; company continues trading under protection of U. S. bankruptcy laws.

As of 2010, the company continues to thrive with artists like Lisa Mitchell, Evermore ( the New Zealand band ), Kylie Minogue, and newly signed Brisbane act Dead Letter Circus.

Ehinger's company, EBA Maschinenfabrik, manufactured the first cross-cut paper shredders in 1959 and continues to do so to this day as EBA Krug & Priester GmbH & Co. in Balingen.

He and his company Warehouse Hobbies Inc. continues to produce gasoline powered model boats and components at the time this article was written.

As a result of the expenses incurred by this legal battle as well as other financial pressures, the Duncan family sold the company name and associated trademarks in 1968 to Flambeau, Inc, who had manufactured Duncan's plastic models since 1955., Flambeau Plastics continues to run the company.

DSI continues to operate the boat for regular summer cruises from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day and to allow chartered events such as weddings, retirement home outings, and company and community gatherings.

Effective November 2, 2009, the company was renamed Hostess Brands, Inc. after the cake division that featured Twinkies and Cupcakes although it continues its bread line including Wonder Bread.

The company continues to deny that hydraulic fracturing was involved.

The newly-renamed Dublin Bottling Works has become an independent company and continues to hold the birthday celebration every June.

The company continues its presence in the area with a paper mill that houses two paper machines and a kraft pulp mill.

The remains of the company were bought by Märklin and production of certain items continues.

Stuart had been laid off at the produce company and had to go back to sitting in his father's office, taking what salary his father could hand out to him.

By bringing engine production back to within the company, the promise was that Aston Martin would be able to produce small runs of higher performance variants engines.

Hall stayed to invent the first successful mineral-fiber insulation and built a company to produce it.

The company dissolved in 1960, but Hecht would produce two more films in which Lancaster acted, under Norma Productions, ( 1961 ) and Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 ).

It bears mention because its eventual failure brought the company to hard times that affected its ability to produce material for Call of Cthulhu.

The bottlers, who hold territorially exclusive contracts with the company, produce finished product in cans and bottles from the concentrate in combination with filtered water and sweeteners.

Because of company resistance to his goals, and his cost overruns on the film ( it cost US $ 30, 000 dollars to produce ), Griffith left Biograph.

Exploiting La Dolce Vita ’ s success, financier Angelo Rizzoli set up Federiz in 1960, an independent film company, for Fellini and production manager Clemente Fracassi to discover and produce new talent.

More of a " boy's club " than a production company, the four men gradually drifted apart and went their separate ways by 1923, at which time Hawks decided that he wanted to direct instead of produce.

The company began to produce complete motorcycle sidecar bodies in 1913, and Edward experimented with fitting bodies to different types of carriages.

In 1998, Lars von Trier also made history by having his company Zentropa be the world's first mainstream film company to produce hardcore pornographic films.

Lucas wanted his company to branch out into other areas of entertainment, so he cooperated with Atari to produce video games.

When she retired from acting in 1933, Pickford continued to produce films for United Artists, and she and Chaplin remained partners in the company for decades.

If for example the industry is large enough to support one company of minimum efficient scale then other companies entering the industry will operate at a size that is less than MES, meaning that these companies cannot produce at an average cost that is competitive with the dominant company.

One large company can sometimes produce goods cheaper than several small companies.

Property rights may give a company exclusive control of the materials necessary to produce a good.

Wisely, the company had not totally turned its back on piston engines, as it continued to produce a variety of four-cylinder models throughout the 1970s.

Extensive testing settled the issue – ablative shields proved to be reliable ( so much so that the initial shield thickness was safely reduced, allowing a lower total spacecraft weight ), and were easier to produce — at that time, beryllium was only produced in sufficient quantities by a single company in the U. S. — and cheaper.

At the time there was no such thing as a " design-only " firm ( known as a fabless semiconductor company today ), so they had to join a chip-building company to produce their new CPU.

Companies that take advantage of economies of scale often run into problems of bureaucracy ; these factors interact to produce an " ideal " size for a company, at which the company's average cost of production is minimized.

* 1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio.

After the Federal criminal investigation ended in 1996, Zimmermann and his team started a company to produce new versions of PGP encryption.