Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission, it became an independent statutory corporation in 1962: the British Railways Board.

However, by the late 90s, it became clear that DES could be cracked in a few days ' time-frame with custom-built hardware such as could be purchased by a large corporation.

In 1968, the company became a corporation.

However, the municipal corporation remained in existence and in 1976 became a metropolitan corporation, followed by the creation of zonal municipal committees, which lasted until 1994.

The term think tank itself, however, originally referred to organizations that offered military advice — most notably the RAND Corporation, founded originally in 1946 as an offshoot of Douglas Aircraft, and which became an independent corporation in 1948.

The favored form for large businesses became the corporation because the corporation provided a mechanism to raise the large amounts of investment capital large business required, especially for capital intensive yet risky projects such as railroads.

The space division became more and more independent until, just before Fokker's bankruptcy in 1996, it became a fully stand-alone corporation, known successively as Fokker Space and Systems, Fokker Space, and Dutch Space.

Failing to secure recharter, the Second Bank of the United States became a private corporation in 1836, and underwent liquidation in 1841.

In February 1836, the Bank became a private corporation under Pennsylvania commonwealth law.

It became an autonomous corporation in 1999, following the enactment of the Municipal Act of 1999.

Kuensel, which was initially government owned, became an autonomous corporation incorporating the Royal Government Press, in 1992.

On March 1, 2006 The Israel Postal Authority became a Government-owned corporation, the Israel Postal Company, as a preceding stage to the opening of the mail market to competition.

In 1980, B & W became MAN B & W Diesel A / S, part of MAN B & W Diesel Group, a subsidiary of the German corporation MAN AG, with operations worldwide.

In 1872 the company became A / S B & W ( Aktieselskabet Burmeister & Wain ), a limited liability corporation.

Radio Ceylon became a public corporation in 1967 and was known as the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation when the island turned into a republic in 1972.

In young adulthood, his father discouraged him from show business, and he attended business college and became successful in a Los Angeles appliance corporation.

After his father's death, Carrion became the leader of that banking corporation.

The borough corporation was reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 and became a municipal borough of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974.

" Landon Ronald brought Reith and Beecham together in April 1928 ; negotiations and preliminary arrangements continued for more than 18 months until it became clear that the corporation and the conductor had irreconcilable priorities for the proposed new ensemble.

The corporation became a borough council in 1835.

The corporation bought in 1926, and what used to be farmland became one of the largest housing estates in Europe.

Council – manager government is much like a publicly-traded corporation.

In May 1995 Coors became the 21st publicly-traded corporation in the United States to extend employee benefits to same-sex partners.

In 1998, Hoechst combined most of its industrial chemical operations in a new company, Celanese AG, and, in 1999, Hoechst spun off Celanese AG as a publicly-traded, German corporation, traded on both the Frankfurt and New York stock exchanges.

On 21, January 2005, Celanese Corporation conducted an initial public offering and became a publicly-traded corporation traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol " CE ".

DKNY became a publicly-traded venture in 1996, and 2001, was purchased by French corporation Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey.

On May 3, 1999, Western Wireless spun off its VoiceStream Wireless division to Western Wireless shareholders, creating an independent, publicly-traded Delaware corporation called VoiceStream Wireless Corporation.

In 1995, Red Lobster ( along with Olive Garden and other sister chains ), became part of Darden Restaurants, Inc .. During that time, General Mills decided to release Darden into an independent, publicly-traded corporation.

The Shoen family currently owns about 70 % of the publicly-traded stock corporation.

At the height of the Cold War, when the US Atomic Energy Commission was desperately seeking sources of uranium for the production of atomic weapons, John Roosevelt became an officer and director of the Standard Uranium Company, reportedly the first and most successful publicly-traded uranium corporation, which registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission in early 1954 and soon attracted heavy investments by industrialist Floyd Odlum, one of the wealthiest men in America.

* Macquarie Bank Limited, name of the Macquarie Group ( a publicly-traded Australian financial-services corporation ) prior to its restructuring in 2007

In my own company, in effect a partnership, although legally a corporation, I have been able to do many things for my employees which `` normal '' corporations of comparable size and nature would have been unable to do.

Lincoln successfully argued that the railroad company was not bound by its original charter in existence at the time of Barret's pledge ; the charter was amended in the public interest to provide a newer, superior, and less expensive route, and the corporation retained the right to demand Barret's payment.

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

There are numerous types of business entities available throughout the world such as a corporation, limited liability company, cooperative, business trust, partnership, private limited company, and public limited company.

* Chief Architecture Officer or CAO ; a relatively new executive-level position at a corporation, company, organization, or agency, typically reporting directly to the CEO or board of directors.

* Chief Brand Officer or CBO – a relatively new executive-level position at a corporation, company, organization, or agency, typically reporting directly to the CEO or board of directors.

* Director or Member of the Board of Directors – high-level official with a fiduciary responsibility of overseeing the operation of a corporation and elects or removes officers of a corporation ; nominally, Directors, other than the Chairman are usually not considered to be employees of the company per se, although they may receive compensation, often including benefits ; in publicly held companies.

* Canon ( company ), a Japanese imaging and optical products corporation ; produces Canon cameras

The most prominent kind of company, usually referred to as a " corporation ", is a " juristic person ", i. e. it has separate legal personality, and those who invest money into the business have limited liability for any losses the company makes, governed by corporate law.

During the time of colonial expansion in the 17th century, the true progenitors of the modern corporation emerged as the " chartered company ".

Ten years later, limited liability, the key provision of modern corporate law, passed into English law: in response to increasing pressure from newly emerging capital interests, Parliament passed the Limited Liability Act 1855, which established the principle that any corporation could enjoy limited legal liability on both contract and tort claims simply by registering as a " limited " company with the appropriate government agency.

In a joint-stock company the members are known as shareholders and their share in the ownership, control and profits of the corporation is determined by the portion of shares in the company that they own.

" Due care are steps that are taken to show that a company has taken responsibility for the activities that take place within the corporation and has taken the necessary steps to help protect the company, its resources, and employees.

However, the term is frequently used to refer to a practice in which an insider or a related party trades based on material non-public information obtained during the performance of the insider's duties at the corporation, or otherwise in breach of a fiduciary or other relationship of trust and confidence or where the non-public information was misappropriated from the company.

Even though in general, ordinary relations between directors and shareholders in a business corporation are not of such a fiduciary nature as to make it the duty of a director to disclose to a shareholder the general knowledge which he may possess regarding the value of the shares of the company before he purchases any from a shareholder, yet there are cases where, by reason of the special facts, such duty exists.

* Kenya Broadcasting Corporation-government corporation and leading media company

It was not until they started cooperating with Henrik Tore Cedergren in 1883 that the company would start to grow into the Ericsson corporation as we know it today.

Corruption ( or principal-agent issues ) in a state-run corporation affects the ongoing asset stream and company performance, whereas any corruption that may occur during the privatization process is a one-time event and does not affect ongoing cash flow or performance of the company.