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 the year 1789, Tipu Sultan ruler of the Sultanate of Mysore sent an embassy to the Ottoman capitol of Istanbul, to Sultan Abdul Hamid I requesting urgent assistance against the British East India Company and had proposed an offensive and defensive consortium ; Sultan Abdul Hamid I, informed the ambassadors of the Sultanate of Mysore that the Ottoman Empire was still recuperating from the Austro-Ottoman War and the Russo-Turkish Wars.

The construction of the project was awarded to the İçtaş-Astaldi consortium on May 29, 2012.

On September 19, 1974, however, the consortium was shaken by the kidnapping of siblings Jorge and Juan Born by the far-left terrorist group, Montoneros.

On the 15 February 2001, the Human Genome Project consortium published the first Human Genome in the journal Nature, and was followed, one day later, by a Celera publication in Science.

Development of the area started in 1961, and was financed by a consortium of companies led by Prince Karim Aga Khan.

Unfortunately, when Wyn died 1968 the company was sold to a consortium headed by a bank.

It was announced in September 1988 by a consortium of PC clone vendors ( the " Gang of Nine ") as a counter to IBM's use of its proprietary Micro Channel architecture ( MCA ) in its PS / 2 series.

The Gang of Nine was the informal name given to the consortium of personal computer manufacturing companies who came together in 1988 to create the EISA bus.

It was chartered in the state of Michigan and incorporated as a 501 ( c )( 3 ) non-profit organization in 1962, the consortium extended its first offer of membership in 46 years to Allegheny College in 2008.

He led a consortium that invested in his old club Leicester, saving it from bankruptcy, and was appointed honorary vice-president.

Established in 1959 as one of the first Indian Institute of Technology, the institute was created with the assistance of a consortium of nine leading US research universities as part of the Kanpur Indo-American Programme ( KIAP ).

Originally formed as International Telecommunications Satellite Organization ( INTELSAT ), it was — from 1964 to 2001 — an intergovernmental consortium owning and managing a constellation of communications satellites providing international broadcast services.

CDE was an X11-based user environment jointly developed by HP, IBM, and Sun through the X / Open consortium, with an interface and productivity tools based on the Motif graphical widget toolkit.

Funding for this retrocomputing project was provided by Siemens and a consortium of five companies.

He was bailed out with a 30 million Mark loan from a consortium of banks arranged by the Prussian State Bank.

A modified proposal, " Mars for Less ", was developed by Grant Bonin, and has been adopted as the design reference mission for a new umbrella group of advocates, the MarsDrive consortium.

Two years after the web site was launched, the creators sold a majority share to a consortium of investors led by Doug Dohring.

In 1987, Thea Musgrave was commissioned by a consortium of four flutists for a solo work.

The Object Data Management Group was a consortium of object database and object-relational mapping vendors, members of the academic community, and interested parties.

It was announced in July 2009 that the Belgian dredging company Jan De Nul, together with a consortium of contractors consisting of the Spanish Sacyr Vallehermoso, the Italian Impregilo, and the Panamanian company Grupo Cusa, had been awarded the contract to build the six new locks.

In 1995, Shepperton Studios was purchased by a consortium headed by Ridley and Tony Scott, which extensively renovated the studios while also expanding and improving its grounds.

In 1997, Telkom, the South African telecommunications parastatal, was partly privatised and entered into a strategic equity partnership with a consortium of two companies, including SBC, a U. S. telecommunications company.

The pre-existing notion of consortium imperii, the sharing of imperial power, and the notion that an associate to the throne was the designated successor ( possibly conflicting with the notion of hereditary claim by birth or adoption ), was to reappear repeatedly.

Founded by Tim Berners-Lee at MIT and currently headed by him, the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the World Wide Web.

The European Space Agency ( ESA ) in June 1974 named a consortium headed by ERNO-VFW-Fokker GmbH to build pressurized modules for Spacelab.

Esposito eventually recruited a consortium of Japanese businesses headed by Kokusai Green, a golf course and resort operator.

The purchase of Shepperton Studios from a consortium headed by Ridley and Tony Scott gave rise to The Pinewood Studios Group with both UK and international interests including Shepperton Studios, Teddington Studios, Pinewood Toronto Studios, Pinewood Indomina Studios, Pinewood Studio Berlin and Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios, combining three studios steeped in heritage and prestige as well as new and modern state-of-the-art purpose built facilities.

In May 2007, the company behind the movies was sold again, this time to a group headed by Big Brother backers, the Dutch consortium Cyrte Investments, who have announced plans to spend some $ 50m (£ 25m ) on new horror films.

The European Space Agency ESA in June 1974 named a consortium headed by ERNO-VFW Fokker ( Zentralgesellschaft VFW-Fokker GmbH ) to build pressurized modules for Spacelab.

The European Space Agency ESA in June 1974 named a consortium headed by ERNO-VFW Fokker ( Zentralgesellschaft VFW-Fokker GmbH ) to build pressurized modules for Spacelab.

Sir Richard Pease headed a local consortium that included film producer Sydney Box and News Chronicle executives George and Alfred Black.

In 2007, Automaker Ford admitted that it had to exclude from the list of potential bidders " Walter Mitty " types who had dreams but no experience, prior to the sale of their Aston Martin British GT car brand to a consortium of business interests from America and the Middle East, headed by Prodrive founder and world rally championship owner David Richards.

However, the consortium that won the contract, headed by Samuel Cunard, ran into trouble almost immediately and Allan reacted by building more ships on the Clyde using superior technology ( notably the Canadian and the Indian ).

Another application came from a consortium headed by Opportunity Knocks television presenter Hughie Green, who had openly voiced the need for commercial broadcasting, having previously worked for Radio Luxembourg.

Negotiations for a privately run settlement were also started with a consortium of four gentlemen headed by Potter McQueen, a member of Parliament who had already acquired a large tract of land in New South Wales.

In 1996 Desmond backed a consortium headed by Fran Rooney to purchase Baltimore Technologies for £ 300, 000.

After the sale of Eircell, Eircom itself was believed to be undervalued and became the subject of a bidding war between two consortia: the E-Island consortium headed by Denis O ' Brien, and the Valentia Consortium headed by Tony O ' Reilly, the chairman of Independent News and Media.

Supporters were angered, sanctions were threatened by the Football League, and a rival consortium headed by ex-player Mel Nurse sought to buy out the new owners.

The mine is owned 57. 5 % by BHP Billiton, 30 % by Rio Tinto, 10 % by JECO, a Japanese consortium headed by Mitsubishi and 2. 5 % by JECO 2, a consortium with the same owners but different shares.

His appointment was made after businessman Tony Evans headed a consortium proposing taking over the club.

In 1992, Westpac Bank bought Ten out of receivership and later sold the network to a consortium headed by Canadian group CanWest.

On 19 August, Portsmouth announced on their website that a rival consortium headed by current CEO Peter Storrie had also made a bid for the club ; unknown at the time, this was backed by Ali Al-Faraj.

The Ankaray was constructed by a consortium headed by Siemens during a period of four years ( 1992-1996 ).