The directors sold directly to concessionaires, who had to make their profits above the high prices asked by the company.

After he sold his steel company in 1901, Carnegie was able to get fully involved into the acts for the peace cause, both financially and personally.

The Aster CT-80, an early home / personal computer developed by the small Dutch company MCP ( later renamed to Aster Computers ), was sold in its first incarnation as a kit for hobbyists.

In 1972, the company was sold to another company called Company Developments Ltd., backed by a Birmingham-based consortium, and chaired by chartered accountant and company director William Willson, MBE.

In 1949, the company developed magnetic recording tape and in 1950, sold the first tape recorder in Japan.

In 1995, the company sold its remaining direct life insurance holdings to focus on consulting.

* general assessment: services only fair ; in 2006 the government sold a 51 percent stake in the national telephone company and ultimately plans to retain only a 23 percent stake in the company ; fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons ; mobile-cellular usage, fostered by multiple providers, is increasing rapidly from a low base

In October 1994, Borland sold Quattro Pro and Paradox to Novell for $ 140 million in cash, repositioning the company on its core software development tools and the Interbase database engine and shifting toward client-server scenarios in corporate applications.

In 1937 Bombardier sold 12 snowmobiles — named the B7 and, in 1942, created l ' Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée company.

In 2008 Anheuser-Busch sold the majority of their stock to Belgian-Brazilian beer giant InBev, to create the largest brewing company in the world.

In 2000, the Bundaberg Rum company and distillery were sold to British company Diageo.

He sold the company for £ 100, 000 at the end of 1971 to British businessman Bernie Ecclestone, Jochen Rindt's former manager and erstwhile owner of the Connaught team.

the company has $ 600 which is 40 percent less than before it sold the stock.

The company produces concentrate, which is then sold to licensed Coca-Cola bottlers throughout the world.

The German company Jordan & Timaeus sold the first known chocolate bar made from cocoa, sugar and goat's milk in 1839.

In 1884 Eckert sold the company to John H. Patterson, who renamed the company the National Cash Register Company and improved the cash register by adding a paper roll to record sales transactions, thereby creating the receipt.

Through the 1980s and 1990s, Jones was painting cartoon and parody art, sold through animation galleries by his daughter's company, Linda Jones Enterprises.

Compaq Computer Corporation was a company founded in 1982, that developed, sold and supported computers and related products and services.

The VAX was a best-seller, with over 400, 000 sold, and its sales through the 1980s propelled the company into the second largest in the industry.

Despite the recession of the late 1950s, the company sold $ 94, 000 worth of these modules during 1958 alone, turning a profit at the end of its first year.

* 2009 – Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, Cantor Fitzgerald was formerly based in the World Trade Center and was the company hardest hit by the September 11, 2001 attacks, which killed all 658 of its employees who were in the office at the time ( out of 960 who were based there ).

Sometimes a company will liquidate under chapter 11, in which the pre-existing management may be able to help get a higher price for divisions or other assets than a chapter 7 liquidation would be likely to achieve.

On the NASDAQ the identifying fifth letter " Q " at the end of a stock symbol indicates the company is in bankruptcy ( formerly the " Q " was placed in front of the pre-existing stock symbol ; a celebrated example was Penn Central, whose symbol was originally " PC " and became " QPC " after the company filed Chapter 11 in 1970 ).

In the overwhelming majority of cases, the Chapter 11 plan, when confirmed, terminates the shares of the company, rendering shares valueless.

A company undergoing Chapter 11 reorganization is effectively operating under the " protection " of the court until it emerges.

In 2009, the company emerged from a government backed Chapter 11 reorganization.

Mark Kendall Bingham ( May 22, 1970 – September 11, 2001 ) was an American public relations executive who founded his own company, the Bingham Group.

As part of the 30th Anniversary of the Gundam series, the company officially announced a project on March 11, 2009 called Real-G, a plan to build a 1: 1 real size scale Gundam in Japan.

In the following years, Škoda became the fourth brand of the German group, as the Volkswagen Group raised its equity share first on December 19, 1994 to 60. 3 %, followed on December 11, 1995 to 70 % and finally taking 100 % ownership of the company on May 30, 2000.

Thomas Edward Burnett, Jr. ( May 29, 1963 – September 11, 2001 ) was the vice-president and chief operating officer of Thoratec Corporation, a medical devices company based in Pleasanton, California.

Publicly traded Xybernaut tried forging alliances with companies such as IBM and Sony in order to make wearable computing widely available, but in 2005 their stock was delisted and the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection amid financial scandal and federal investigation.

On May 5, 2009, the Coyotes ' holding company, Dewey Ranch Hockey LLC, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

On Saturday, 11 November 2006, White Wolf and CCP Games, the Icelandic MMO development company responsible for EVE Online, announced a merger between the two companies during the keynote address at the EVE Online Fanfest 2006.

* November 11 – Sperry Rand and Burroughs merge to form Unisys, becoming the second largest computer company.

After struggling for several years, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 2003.

* January 11 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.

The company marched off toward Bennington on August 11.

The joint project GTL Uzbekistan, where Sasol and Uzbekistan ’ s state oil company Uzbekneftgas each hold 44. 5 % interest, and the rest 11 % belonging to Malaysian Petronas, was founded in 2009.

Initially he produced high quality coloring crayons through Wadsworth, Howland & Co. as early as 1906 and then later through his own company Binney & Smith purchased the Munsell Color Company crayon product line in 1926 and inherited 22 new colors, 11 in the maximum and 11 in the middle hue ranges.

On September 11, 1996, Anschutz sold the combined company to the Union Pacific Railroad, partly in response to the earlier merger of Burlington Northern and Santa Fe which formed the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway.

NASA had taken all the original tapes and erased them for use on subsequent missions ; however, the Apollo 11 Tape Search and Restoration Team formed in 2003 tracked down the highest quality footage among the converted recordings of the first broadcast, pieced together the best footage, then contracted a specialist film restoration company to enhance the degraded black-and-white film and convert it into digital format for archival records.

In 1995 – 1996 the company completed 11 acquisitions.