In 1988, having produced some 5, 000 cars in 20 years, a revived economy and successful sales of limited edition Vantage, and 52 Volante Zagato coupes at £ 86, 000 each ; the company finally retired the ancient V8 and introduced the Virage range — the first new Aston launched in 20 years.

The DB7 range was boosted by the addition of V12 Vantage models in 1999, and in 2001 the company introduced the V12-engined Aston Martin Vanquish.

On May 21, 1984, during a press conference at which the Atari 7800 was introduced, company executives revealed that the 5200 had been discontinued after just two years on the market.

The eventual joint company effort, named Borland Office for Windows ( a combination of the WordPerfect word processor, Quattro Pro spreadsheet and Paradox database ) was introduced at the 1993 Comdex computer show.

In 1961, the company introduced the polar bear as its unusual choice of mascot, to imply that the rum could ward off the coldest chill.

When Data General introduced the Data General Nova, a company called Digidyne wanted to use its RDOS operating system on its own hardware clone.

That same year, 1987, the company introduced its Mega Man series.

The company introduced the Bluebird 510 in 1967.

The company quickly introduced such other popular characters as the Sandman and Batman.

In 1989, the networking company Kalpana introduced their EtherSwitch, the first Ethernet switch.

By 1936, the Slingerland company introduced a wooden solid body electric model.

O ' Brien was introduced to producer John Beck who promised to find a studio to make the film ( at this point in time RKO was no longer a production company ).

The first telephones were introduced to Gibraltar in 1886 by a private company which was later taken over by the colonial authorities.

In June 2009, a company PR stunt announced they had introduced the prototype of the world's smallest, portable microwave, the " Beanzawave ".

Several important institutional changes took place in this period, such as free and mandatory schooling introduced 1842 ( as first country in the world ), the abolishment of a previous national monopoly on trade in handicrafts in 1846, and a stock company law in 1848.

It is presented by the company as a reference to the Id, a psychological concept introduced by Sigmund Freud.

Kazaa was introduced by the Dutch company Consumer Empowerment in March 2001, near the end of the first generation of P2P networks typified by the shutdown of Napster in July 2001.

The long-lived LucasArts logo, affectionately known as the " Gold Guy ", was introduced in 1991 and consisted of a crude gold-colored figure resembling a petroglyph, standing on a purple letter " L " inscribed with the company name.

Though the Millenia ( and its Miller-type V6 engine ) were discontinued in 2002, the company has recently introduced a much smaller Miller-cycle four-cylinder engine for use in itsDemio starting in 2008.

During SGI's ownership of MIPS, the company introduced the R8000 in 1994 and the R10000 in 1996 and a follow up the R12000 in 1997.

At the same time, a German pharmaceutical drug company, formulated a similar product as Emmenin that was introduced to German women to treat menopausal symptoms.

The Boxster was Porsche's biggest volume seller from its introduction in 1996 until the company introduced the Cayenne sport utility vehicle in 2003.

In 1935 the company introduced several new models including the Model " B " Electric Spanish guitar which is considered the first solid body electric guitar.

In 2007, a company introduced a glass product they claimed had antibacterial properties by coating the glass with a thin layer of silver.

The company provides over 100 video and over 78 audio channels, and in 2008 introduced its first HD video channel.

Mobile analytics company Flurry reported on July 7, 2011, that based on its research, the revenue from free-to-play games had overtaken revenue from premium games that earn revenue through traditional means in Apple's App Store, for the top 100 grossing games when comparing the results for the months of January and June in 2011.

Major video game company Electronic Arts first introduced the free-to-play concept in one of its games when it released FIFA Online in Korea.

MapleStory () is a free-to-play, 2D, side-scrolling massively multiplayer online role-playing game, developed by the South Korean company Wizet.

Ford was the first company to build large factories around the assembly line concept.

The concept of mixing pathos with comedy was likely learnt from Karno: Stan Laurel, Chaplin's co-performer at the company, remembered that Karno's sketches regularly inserted " a bit of sentiment right in the middle of a funny music hall turn ".

The German company sones implements this concept in its GraphDB.

Kildall was one of the first people to see microprocessors as fully capable computers rather than equipment controllers and to organize a company around this concept.

IKEA contends that it has been a pioneering force in sustainable approaches to mass consumer culture .. Kamprad refers to the concept as " democratic design ," meaning that the company applies an integrated approach to manufacturing and design ( see also environmental design ).

While most IKEA stores operate under the direct purview of Ingka Holding and the Ingka Foundation, the IKEA trademark and concept is owned by an entirely separate Dutch company, Inter IKEA Systems.

Kamprad also created a company called Inter IKEA Systems B. V., which owns IKEA concept and trademark.

An insurance company may inadvertently find that its insureds may not be as risk-averse as they might otherwise be ( since, by definition, the insured has transferred the risk to the insurer ), a concept known as moral hazard.

Jobs was intrigued by Berg's concept of a workstation and contemplated starting a higher education computer company in the fall of 1985, amidst increasing turmoil at Apple.

They are said to be rather violent and pushy, and have a custom to choose a " life-enemy ", which could be anything ; a company, person, or a concept.

They extended the Star desktop concept into an animated graphic and communicating office-automation model and sold the company to IBM.

Around 1952 Norman MacLeod at his company the Explosive Research Corporation began working on the concept of a small directional mine for use by infantry.

When the company was sold in 1989, the Long John Silver's concept had far outgrown the Jerry's chain.

: This article describes the company Airspeed Ltd. For the technical concept, see Airspeed.

Founded in 1919 by French industrialist André-Gustave Citroën ( 1878 – 1935 ), Citroën was the first mass-production car company outside the USA and pioneered the modern concept of creating a sales and services network that complements the motor car.

This point is not relevant to the UK concept of takeovers, which always involve the acquisition of a public company.

The first race car ( in concept only ) fitted with a turbine was in 1955 by a US Air Force group as a hobby project with a turbine loaned them by Boeing and a race car owned by Firestone Tire & Rubber company.

Production of each half-hour episode took ten months to a year, from concept, story, voices, and design ( at MTV's New York offices ), to generating the animation ( at a Korean company ), to post-production.

The British label was renowned for its development of recording methods, while the American company developed the concept of cast albums in the musical genre.

At this time the former director of GHH presented a reclamation concept that envisioned a complete consolidation of the subsidiary with the holding company.

Today's rescue engine differs from the original unit concept Rescue Pumper, designed by Fire Chief S. E. Politano, which was simply to add more initial firefighting capabilities ( onboard water and pumping capacity ) to a heavy rescue squad, not bring heavy rescue squad capabilities to an engine company.

* May 14 – At a press conference, John Lennon and Paul McCartney introduce the Beatles ' new business concept, Apple Corps, Ltd., a disastrously mismanaged entertainment company that included a recording studio, a record label, and clothing store.

The concept is roughly equivalent to that of the public limited company in the UK and some other countries.

The album was the last one which he was contractually obliged to deliver to his major music company, and both the musical approach as well as the lyrics imply that Reiser was about to return to a state of inner independence from the major business not only personally, but also in artistic terms, including a sound and concept which is often seen as more authentic than the previous studio albums.