After the firm's first plan was discarded due to a need for more office space, Cobb developed a new plan around a towering parallelogram, slanted away from the Trinity Church and accented by a wedge cut into each narrow side.

After the firm's flotation in 1961, the landmark Mandarin Oriental Hotel opened in Hong Kong in 1963 as the city's first five star hotel.

The erection of the engine and its shakedown was supervised by Watt, at first, and then by men in the firm's employ.

Despite the firm's name, Burnham was the nominal survivor ; the Drexel name only came first at the insistence of the more powerful investment banks, whose blessing was necessary for the merged firm to inherit Drexel's position as a " major " firm.

Sugar beet seed from France was listed in the annual catalogues of Gartons Agricultural Plant Breeders from that firm's inception in 1898 until the first of their own varieties was introduced in 1909.

Cadillac is the first American car to win the prestigious Dewar Trophy from the Royal Automobile Club of England, having successfully demonstrated the interchangeability of its component parts during a reliability test in 1908 ; this spawned the firm's slogan " Standard of the World.

Under Cunard's new chairman, John Burns ( 1839 – 1900 ), son of one of the firm's original founders, Cunard commissioned four steel-hulled express liners beginning with Servia of 1881, the first passenger liner with electric lighting throughout.

Babycham, the first mass-produced branded perry, was developed by Showering from application of the Long Ashton Institute's research, and was formerly produced from authentic perry pears, though is today produced from concentrate, the firm's pear orchards having now been dug up.

His firm's first railway work was to build two stations in Curzon Street, Birmingham.

The first known radial-configuration engine to ever use a twin-row design was the 160 hp Gnôme " Double Lambda " rotary engine of 1912, designed as a 14-cylinder twin-row version of the firm's 80 hp Lambda single-row seven-cylinder rotary, with only the German Oberursel U. III clone of the Double Lambda reproducing the Gnome Double Lambda's twin-row design before the end of World War I.

Delius's first job was as the firm's representative in Stroud in Gloucestershire, where he did moderately well.

The firm's first vehicle was a tipping trailer made from war-surplus materials, which J. C. Bamford built in a rented lock-up garage in Uttoxeter.

One of the American firm's best early results came in the Isle of Man TT in 1911, when Indian riders Oliver Cyril Godfrey, Franklin and Moorehouse finished first, second and third.

Tobin is also a Senior Business Advisor with Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP in Toronto and is a member of the firm's Public Policy Group. Through his involvement in policy decisions first entered as ideals at the Fraser Institute, Tobin has influenced the sale of energy interests in Alberta including the sale of two billion dollars worth of Alberta oil and gas interests to Abu Dhaby a Middle Eastern company through their Houston affiliate as shown on the Fraser Milner Casgrain website.

His firm's first military production design in 1916-17 was the armored-fuselage two seat all metal sesquiplane, the Junkers J. I, considered the best German ground attack aircraft of the war.

The first Madison Woolen Mill was constructed in 1881 near the bridge between Madison and Anson, with the firm's second mill built nearby in 1887.

The facility was designed by Norwegian architectural firm Snøhetta, the firm's first American project.

Aftermarket suppliers included the " Mooneyes " brand ( named after the firm's founder Dean Moon ) hubcaps and wheel covers that were some of the first independently offered for hot rods and custom cars.

Charles then assisted Patrick on the firm's first venture into Wales, a massive commission to construct docks and a railway at Port Talbot, followed by an equally ambitious scheme to expand the port of Seaham, officially opened in 1905.

Elizabeth Head, the firm's first female attorney, was hired.

The firm's first two advisory clients were Mohawk Airlines and Texas International Airlines in 1971.

The firm's first international office was established in Paris in 1963.

The concept of absorptive capacity was first defined as a firm's " ability to recognize the value of new information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends " by Cohen and Levinthal.

Prestatyn was the home of the first ever UK Kwik Save supermarket in 1965, Prestatyn was also the home of the firm's business headquarters.

These last two, first published in the 1960s, represented the firm's growing commitment to modern drama.

The firm's successor, Merz und Mahler, made a telescope for the New Berlin Observatory, which confirmed the existence of the major planet Neptune.

One of Brownlee's firm's major clients was a new agricultural lobby organization called the United Farmers of Alberta, and it was with this group that Brownlee began to work most closely.

He is now chairman of the firm's financial services division and is regarded as a major figure in the world of insurance and financial services.

One of the firm's major investors was Boeing, who invested $ 20 million.

This theory has undergone major refinement, and today a firm's absorptive capacity is mostly conceptualized as a dynamic capability.

Prominent in labor law, Richberg gave Lilienthal a major role in writing his firm's brief for the appellants in Michaelson v. United States, 266 U. S. 42 ( 1924 ), a landmark case in which the Supreme Court upheld the right of striking railroad workers to jury trials on criminal contempt charges.

The high interest rates were a major cause for the increase in the firm's borrowing costs as well as its debts.

His daughter Abigail, is President of Fidelity Financial Services, and oversees all of the firm's major businesses including asset management, retail and institutional brokers and retirement and benefit services.

Fraser convinced the former premier of Ontario, John Robarts, to join the law firm's small Toronto office instead of joining one of several major firms that were wooing him.

Buckeye pipelines supply aviation fuel to major airports in New York City, and the firm's property is alleged as of 2007 by United States federal prosecutors to have been the target, along with the John F. Kennedy International Airport, for explosion by terrorists.

The firm's first major commission came from a parishioner of Rev.

In collaboration with Hastings, he was largely responsible for carrying out the firm's major public commissions: the New York Public Library ( 1897 – 1912 ), the House and Senate Office Buildings in Washington ( 1908 – 09 ), the planning of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo ( 1901 ), the McKinley Memorial ( also in Buffalo ), Richmond Borough Hall on Staten Island ( 1904 – 06 ), and the Paterson ( New Jersey ) City Hall ( 1896 ).

Publicly traded companies on major stock markets have an easily calculated " market capitalization " that is a direct estimate of the market value of the firm's equity.

Several sources familiar with JPMorgan Chase's talks with state and Port Authority officials said the firm's bid to develop the proposed 57-story tower for major corporate tenants is being taken seriously by the bistate agency.

Nomad was the flagship NCSS product during the firm's years of rapid growth, going through a series of releases and receiving a major share of this ( publicly-traded ) company's R & D, sales, support, and other resources.

A major investor in Allison's magazine was an insurance company, the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, which viewed the magazine as a prestigious publication and an asset to the firm's reputation.