In the Industrial Products Division, the company manufactures and markets a wide line of precision gaging and inspection equipment, machinists' tools -- including micrometers, Vernier calipers, and accessories.

Bunge remained a privately held company of 180 shareholders ( including the longtime controlling family interests ) and divested itself in 1998 of almost all its retail foods interests in favor of a greater role in international agribusiness and commodity markets ; by then the company's gross annual turnover had reached US $ 13 billion.

During World War II, the company diverted several resources to support the war effort and relinquished its West Coast markets to conserve rail car space.

CEO and chairman Howard Lutnick, whose brother was among those killed, vowed to keep the company alive, and the company was able to bring its trading markets back online within a week.

First was the suggestion of Harry Kalven, Jr. and Maurice Rosenfeld in 1941 that class action litigation by individual shareholders on behalf of all shareholders of a company could effectively supplement direct government regulation of securities markets and other similar markets.

In 1978 a new company, Calculated Industries, came onto the scene, focusing on specific markets.

The company released these variants to newsstands in certain markets as a marketing test.

Although Holden's involvement in exports has fluctuated since the 1950s, the declining sales of large cars in Australia has led the company to look to international markets to increase profitability.

The financial markets posed problems for established borrowers and even more for Tengzhong, a little-known company from western China, at the same time as the potential value of the Hummer brand continued to decline given high fuel prices and weak consumer demand.

Though single employer market power is unlikely to exist in most labor markets in the sense of the traditional ' company town ,' asymmetric information, imperfect mobility, and the ' personal ' element of the labor transaction give some degree of wage-setting power to most firms.

( Pulse 87 did gain a foothold in the New York City market, and was poised to expand into other major markets, but the format's parent company went bankrupt before that could happen, and the format is now only available via Internet and mobile streaming.

Next, Inc. ( later Next Computer, Inc. and Next Software, Inc. and stylized as NeXT ) was an American computer company headquartered in Redwood City, California, that developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intended for the higher education and business markets.

Lackey operated BlueIraq, a VSAT communications and IT company serving the DoD and domestic markets in Iraq and Afghanistan during the US conflicts.

* January 31 – The 3M company markets Scotch Tape.

This change, only in the UK, was due to market research claiming that the term " ale " was outdated and costing the company sales in the youth drinking markets.

* William “ Bill ” C. Moog ( died 1997 ), founder of Moog Inc, a company that designs and manufacturers motion and fluid controls and control systems for applications in aerospace, defense, industrial and medical device markets.

When a company borrows from the primary capital markets, often the purpose is to invest in additional physical capital goods, which will be used to help increase its income.

In March 2004, the European Commission in the European Union Microsoft antitrust case fined Microsoft € 497 million and ordered the company to provide a version of Windows without Windows Media Player, claiming Microsoft " broke European Union competition law by leveraging its near monopoly in the market for PC operating systems onto the markets for work group server operating systems and for media players ".

7-Eleven branded stores, under parent company Seven & I Holdings Co., are located in 16 countries, with its largest markets being Japan, the United States, Canada, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Thailand.

Although the rationale of diversification was sound ( to shield the company from cyclical aerospace and defence markets ) the struggling company could not afford to continue the position: " We simply could not afford to carry two core businesses, cars and aerospace.

At the same time that the company was making major divestments in the early 1990s, American Stores also looked for opportunities to make strategic minor acquisitions, ones that would enhance its position in the main markets where it needed to strengthen market share.

As the Free City of Danzig and East Prussia were separated from Germany after World War I by the Polish corridor, the Der Lachs company opened in 1922 an additional factory in Berlin to supply the main part of Germany and international markets with their products Danziger Goldwasser and Krambambuli from there.

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.

* Atlantic LNG, a liquefied natural gas producing company based in Trinidad and Tobago

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

In Portugal, the industrial biotechnology company Biotrend is producing natural all-trans-β-carotene from a non genetically modified bacteria of the Sphingomonas genus isolated from soil.

The company partnered up with Drew because " she emulates the iconic image of CoverGirl with her fresh, natural beauty and energetic yet authentic spirit " said Esi Eggleston Bracey, Vice President and General Manager of CoverGirl Cosmetics North America.

* Enterprise Products, natural gas and crude oil pipeline company

Although from a bourgeois family, after his degree in law Lavoisier became wealthy from a company set up to collect taxes for the Crown ; this allowed him to pursue experimental natural science as a hobby.

The French oil company Total S. A. is able to operate the Yadana natural gas pipeline from Burma to Thailand despite the European Union's sanctions on Burma.

In an industry where a natural monopoly does not exist, the vast majority of industries, the marginal cost decreases with economies of scale, then increases as the company has growing pains ( overworking its employees, bureaucracy, inefficiencies, etc .).

In 1921, pharmacists and physicians gathered under Steiner's guidance to create a pharmaceutical company called Weleda which now distributes natural medical products worldwide.

( Note: A trustee may be either a natural person, or an artificial person ( such as a company or a public body ), and there may be a single trustee or multiple co-trustees.

To defend against this criticism ( which would never really enter into the thoughts of a real critic of the day ) Boccaccio tells a story explaining how natural it is for a man to enjoy a woman's company.

Burton, a popular snowboard company has constructed all natural terrain parks with rails made from planed out trees.

Russian state-owned gas company Gazprom cut off natural gas supplies to Ukraine after talks between it and the Ukrainian government fell through.

* Russian natural gas company Gazprom hopes that its market capitalization will reach one trillion dollars by 2017.

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

A Peruvian-based company has announced plans to market a modern version of Vin Mariani, which will be available in both natural and de-cocainized varieties.

Kenneth Lay seized control in 1985 of HNG / Internorth created by the merger of Houston Natural Gas and the much larger and more diversified InterNorth, which combined four natural gas pipeline companies, Northern Natural Gas, Transwestern Pipeline, Florida Gas Transmission, and Houston Pipeline company.

It was restored and reconstructed in 2004-2005 through collaboration between Ege University, a Turkish olive-oil exporter and a German natural building components company, as well as by local artisans, on the basis of the clearly visible millstone with a cylindrical roller and three separation pits.

In some cases, the aliens already look much like Humans-in the Star Trek franchise, in the 133 years before their participation in first contact in 2063, no fewer than six Vulcans spent significant amounts of time on Earth ( though none were " invaders "-three were shipwreck survivors, the other half time travelers, in the company of at least one Human, from a future where their respective worlds were political allies ), and were able to pass themselves as Human simply by using hair or hats to conceal their pointed ears ; likewise the Bajoran Kira Nerys needed only to put a Band-Aid on her ridged nose, while at the same time the Trill Jadzia Dax was able to pass off her natural spots as tattoos.

The next excavation attempt was made in 1861 by a new company called the Oak Island Association which resulted in the collapse of the bottom of the shaft into either a natural cavern or booby trap underneath.

These coal fields have been explored for natural gas since 1938, although CDX Gas, a company based in Texas announced in 2003 that they would be drilling two test wells later that year.

* Chesapeake Utilities, an American energy services company focusing on distribution of natural gas and propane

Bull returned to his Highwater range, and managed to get HARPs assets transferred to a new company by invoking a clause in the original contract with McGill that required them to return the range to its original natural condition.

A number of commercial efforts based on the research were undertaken, e. g., in 1982 Gary Hendrix formed Symantec Corporation originally as a company for developing a natural language interface for database queries on personal computers.