Concord is also home to Windshear, Inc., a firm that owns a state-of-the-art wind tunnel facility used to test the aerodynamics of vehicles ( mostly motorsports vehicles ).

A holding company is a company or firm that owns other companies ' outstanding stock.

A parent company is a company that owns enough voting stock in another firm ( subsidiary ) to control management and operations by influencing or electing its board of directors.

GMG has various divisions and joint venture businesses: Guardian News & Media ( the Guardian, the Observer, guardian. co. uk ); GMG Radio ( regional radio stations under the Smooth, Real, and Rock Radio brands ); Trader Media Group ( the Auto Trader magazine and website ), which it owns jointly with private equity firm Apax ); GMG Property Services ( estate agency software providers Vebra and Core, lettings software provider CFP Software, graphic design consultancy The Media Design House and consumer portal ThinkProperty. com ); and Emap, the B2B events, data and publishing company, also jointly owned with Apax.

Vertical integration is the degree to which a firm owns its upstream suppliers and its downstream buyers.

In Israel, Arnon Mozes owns the most widespread Hebrew newspaper, Yediot Aharonot, the most widespread Russian newspaper Vesty, the most popular Hebrew news website Ynet, and 17 % of the cable TV firm HOT.

Moreover, Mozes owns the Reshet TV firm, which is one of the two operators of the most popular channel in Israel, Channel 2.

New Zealand Post also owns 35 % of IT firm Datacom Group.

On 16 July 2008, it was announced that Hudson's Bay Company ( the parent company of the Bay ) had been purchased by the US firm NRDC Equity Partners, which owns Lord & Taylor.

* Causal ambiguity .. it can be hard to work out, even for the firm who owns a resource, why exactly it accumulates and depletes at the rate it does.

For instance, a firm's balance sheet will usually show the value of land it owns at what the firm paid for it rather than at its current market value.

Metcalf now owns a government relations firm in North Carolina called the Policy Group.

In 2001, the Chicago Park District, which owns the structure, faced substantial criticism when it announced plans to alter the stadium by architect Dirk Lohan, the grandson of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, of the Chicago-based architecture firm of Lohan Associates in a joint venture with architect Benjamin T. Wood of the Boston-based architecture firm Wood & Zapata ; it was announced that the stadium's interior would be demolished and reconstructed while the exterior would be preserved.

LexCorp's main subsidiaries are Luthor Technologies ( Research and development into weapons, pharmaceuticals, robotics, computer hardware and software ( LexComp ), bio-engineering, fertiliser, preservatives, hydroponics, air conditioning, and probably other things ), Luthor Industries ( Operates most of Metropolis ' utilities, including electricity, gas, water, sewage treatment and waste disposal ), Luthor Communications ( Phone company ( LexCom ), television stations ( LexTel and Luthor News Network ) and briefly the Daily Planet newspaper ), Luthor Enterprises ( Cash businesses, including hotels ( Lexor ), rented accommodation, restaurants and public transportation ), Luthor Financial ( Banks, investment firm ( LexEl Investments ), brokerage houses ), Luthor Agricultural ( Large commercial fields and orchards ), Luthor Foundation ( Philanthropic enterprises including Luthor Hospital, Luthor Home for Children, Luthor Foundation for the Arts and LexMet Square Garden ), and Property Holdings ( LexCorp also owns considerable property in Metropolis, such as the Lexor hotel ).

An immigrant from Hong Kong, her father owns a profitable restaurant and a Chinese food wholesale firm.

If the principal owns the firm as part of a diversified portfolio this may be a price worth paying for the greater chance of success through innovation elsewhere in the portfolio.

The group's main business is State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, a mutual insurance firm that also owns the other State Farm companies.

It owns one of the nation's largest cable television businesses, Cox Communications, which provides Internet and telephone ; publishes newspapers including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Palm Beach Post ; owns and operates broadcast television and radio stations ; and owns Manheim, an automobile auction firm.

It owns one of the nation's largest cable television businesses, which provides internet and telephone, publishes newspapers including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Palm Beach Post, owns and operates broadcast television and radio stations and owns Manheim, an automobile auction firm.

Gibbs currently owns The Gardenia Company, a marketing firm in Barcelona, Spain.

What is simply an opinion formed in defiance of the laws of human probability, whether or not it is later confirmed, has become by September of the election year `` a firm conviction ''.

Starting with small stations not members of the National Association of Broadcasters, the firm apparently is seeking to break down the anti-liquor barriers in major-market stations.

But the firm has recognized the tight dollar and the tourist's desire to visit the `` smaller, less-traveled and relatively inexpensive countries '', and is now prepared to teach modern Greek and Portuguese through recordings.

When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, and when we realize that concessions to Communists do not insure peace or freedom, then, and only then will we no longer be `` soft ''.

These problems frequently arise where a firm is making items for the Government not directly along the lines of its normal civilian business or where the Government specifications require operations that the firm did not understand when it undertook the contract.

The fruit is allowed to mature on the tree, but it is still firm at this point.

Yet you feel the orchestra is near at hand, and the individual instruments have the same firm presence associated with listening from a good seat in an acoustically perfect hall.

Without losing the distinctive undertow of Brahmsian rhythm, the pacing is firm and the over-all performance has a tightly knit quality that makes for maximum cumulative effect.

Its president is Otis M. Waters, partner in the law firm of Timen & Waters, 540-K Chrysler Bldg., New York City.

But there is also a firm aspect to lexicostatistics: the aspect of learning the internal organization of obvious natural genetic groups of languages as well as their more remote and elusive external links ; ;

My answer is in the negative because I believe that total capital demands during the Sixties will continue to press against available supplies, and interest rates will generally tend to be firm at high levels.

We assume that average total unit cost in the relevant region of operation is constant with respect to quantity produced ( the average cost curve is horizontal, and therefore is identical with the marginal cost curve ), and is the same for every firm ( and therefore for the industry ).

Finally, there is the question of how strongly an expressed opinion is held -- whether it is a firm opinion or one that the respondent favors only slightly over the alternatives.

Pimen is an old man, weak in body -- his voice rarely rises to a full forte -- but firm and clear of mind.

Today Sukarno's government is heavily besieged by avowed Communists, and for all of its `` neutralist '' pretensions, it is a firm ally of Soviet policy.

The government has recognized the dilemma and is beginning to devise some moral education for the schools -- but the teachers often have no firm conviction and are confused.

Once a trade has been made the details are reported on the " tape " and sent back to the brokerage firm, which then notifies the investor who placed the order.

Hedge funds that do fundamental analysis " are far more likely than other investors to try to identify a firm ’ s off-balance-sheet exposures ", including " environmental or social liabilities present in a market or company but not explicitly accounted for in traditional numeric valuation or mainstream investor analysis ", and hence make the prices better reflect the true quality of operation of the firms.

This came just two years after the firm had wrapped up a difficult fundraising for Doughty Hanson IV, in 2004 which had only generated € 1. 6 billion of investor commitments compared with the firm's original € 3. 0 billion target.

In a 2011 investor poll conducted by equity research firm Equitymaster, TATA Group was voted as the most trustworthy among the Indian corporate houses.

Some people refer to a Black Knight as an investor who acquires a firm opposing the will of its management, as in a hostile takeover.

On April 2, 2007, Chicago investor Sam Zell announced plans to purchase the Tribune Company, with intentions to take the publicly-traded firm private.

A private equity investment will generally be made by a private equity firm, a venture capital firm or an angel investor.

Typically an investor will invest in a specific fund managed by a firm, becoming a limited partner in the fund, rather than an investor in the firm itself.

As a result, an investor will only benefit from investments made by a firm where the investment is made from the specific fund in which it has invested.

Murdoch sold the paper in 1986 ( to buy its former sister television station WFLD to launch the Fox network ) for $ 145 million in cash in a leveraged buyout to an investor group led by the paper's publisher, Robert E. Page, and the New York investment firm Adler & Shaykin.

Equitable sold the building in 1946 to the Flatiron Associates, an investor group headed by Harry Helmsley, whose firm, Dwight-Helmsley, which would later become Helmsley-Spear, managing the property.

To see why this should be true, suppose an investor is considering buying one of the two firms U or L. Instead of purchasing the shares of the levered firm L, he could purchase the shares of firm U and borrow the same amount of money B that firm L does.

We have implicitly assumed that the investor's cost of borrowing money is the same as that of the firm, which need not be true in the presence of asymmetric information, in the absence of efficient markets, or if the investor has a different risk profile to the firm.

After the 1885 collapse of the financial house John J. Cisco & Son, in which Hetty was the largest investor, investigation revealed that Edward had not only been the firm's greatest debtor, but that management of the firm had surreptitiously used Hetty's wealth as the basis for their loans to Edward.

Otherwise, no investor is likely to buy that bond and, therefore, the firm will be unable to raise capital.

The firm worked increasingly closely with its principal investor Matra.

In 2005 the company received seed funding from venture capital firm WI Harper Group and Morten Lund, the first Skype investor, and Chen moved the company to Beijing.

Headed by McKagan and British investor Andy Bottomley, the firm aims to educate musicians about their finances.