The Washington state supreme court ruled that the state's occupation tax applied to sales, made at cost to an oil company, by a wholly-owned subsidiary set up to purchase certain supplies without divulging the identity of the parent.

In May 2009 Infogrames Entertainment, SA, the parent company of Atari Inc. and Atari Interactive Inc., announced it would be changing Infogrames ' name to Atari, SA.

Digicel commenced separate proceedings against Cable and Wireless ( as bmobile's parent company ) in the English courts, claiming that Cable & Wireless has unfairly stifled competition in several Caribbean jurisdictions.

PolyGram ( London Records ' parent company at that time ) had pressed a number of promo singles and 12 " versions of the song, sending them out to both radio and record stores in the UK.

BSC later arranged an exchange deal with Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd ( GKN ), the parent company of GKN Steel, under which BSC acquired Dowlais Ironworks at Merthyr Tydfil and GKN took over BSC's Brymbo Steelworks near Wrexham.

Notice of closure attached to the door of a computer store the day after its parent company declared " bankruptcy " ( strictly, put into administration — see text ) in the United Kingdom.

O ' Daniel had parlayed the show's popularity into growing power within Light Crust Flour's parent company, Burrus Mill and Elevator Company and wound up as General Manager, though he despised what he considered " hillbilly music.

* Diageo – parent company

Apart from the head office building and the R & D building of Capcom Co., Ltd., both located in Chūō-ku, Osaka, the Japanese parent company also has a branch office in the Shinjuku Mitsui Building in Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo.

Many thousands of the station's fans marched in the streets and on Parliament Hill against the decision, and the parent company of CHOI, Genex Corp., appealed the CRTC decision unsuccessfully to the Federal Court of Canada.

On 4 November 2008 Cessna's parent company, Textron, indicated that Citation production would be reduced from the original 2009 target of 535 " due to continued softening in the global economic environment " and that this would result in an undetermined number of lay-offs at Cessna.

Cessna's parent company Textron posted a loss of US $ 8M in the first quarter of 2010, largely driven by continuing low sales at Cessna, which were down 44 %.

On 7 April 2005 Mandrakesoft announced the decision to change the name of the parent company to Mandriva and their distribution name to Mandriva Linux, although the Brazilian operation would not change its name from Conectiva immediately.

It is the parent company to Ameridance and Eastern Cheer and Dance Association.

Columbus has been home to many manufacturing companies, including Noblitt-Sparks Industries ( which built radios under the Arvin brand in the 1930s ) and Arvin Industries, now Meritor, Inc. After merging with Meritor Automotive on July 10, 2000, the headquarters of the newly created ArvinMeritor Industries was established in Troy, Michigan, the home of parent company, Rockwell International.

Commodore UK was the only subsidiary to survive the bankruptcy and even placed a bid to buy out the rest of the operation, or at least the former parent company.

Casablanca Records had been releasing fewer records in the 1980s, and was shut down in 1986 by parent company PolyGram.

The theater company and Viacom / CBS Corporation parent National Amusements is based in Dedham.

* 2011: Quidsi. com, parent company of Diapers. com, acquired by Amazon. com for $ 500 million in cash plus $ 45 million in debt and other obligations.

The Esso name was a trademark of Jersey Standard Oil, and attracted protests from other Standard Oil spinoffs because of its similarity to the name of the parent company, Standard Oil.

* Enterprise Holdings, the parent company of Enterprise Rent-A-Car and several other car-rental agencies

Other entries during this era included Fanball. com, launched in 1999 by the parent company of Fantasy Football Weekly.

RotoNews. com's parent company, Broadband Sports, went belly up in 2001.

The issue came to a head with the lawsuit of Major League Baseball Advanced Media ( MLBAM ), MLB's Internet company, vs. St. Louis-based CBC Distribution and Marketing Inc., the parent company of CDM Sports.

In February 1994 Flextech shareholders approved a deal in which Flextech absorbs the European programming interests of United Artists European Holdings, In return UAEH's US parent, TeleCommunications Inc ( TCI ), received 60 per cent of the enlarged Flextech.

The parent company of the enlarged group was named Thomas Cook Group plc with its headquarters in the UK and listed in London.

The parent of a group filing consolidated returns might be treated as the same corporation following a reorganization defined in section 368(a)(1), but as a different corporation for this purpose after a tax-free acquisition by another corporation which had not, for example, elected to file consolidated returns with its own subsidiaries.

In mathematics, particularly in the area of abstract algebra known as group theory, a characteristic subgroup is a subgroup that is invariant under all automorphisms of the parent group.

* Clone ( cell biology )— In cell biology, a group of identical cells naturally derived from a common parent cell ; of significance in vertebrate physiology and concepts related to immunology and cancer biology

However, this unusual fission-fusion social structure, " in which portions of the parent group may on a regular basis separate from and then rejoin the rest ," is highly variable in terms of which particular individual chimpanzees congregate at a given time.

As a result, individual chimpanzees often forage for food alone, or in smaller groups ( as opposed to the much larger " parent " group, which encompasses all the chimpanzees which regularly come into contact and congregate into parties in a particular area ).

A hydroxide group attached to a strongly electropositive center may itself dissociate, liberating a hydrogen cation ( H < sup >+</ sup >), making the parent compound an acid.

Captive insurance companies may be defined as limited-purpose insurance companies established with the specific objective of financing risks emanating from their parent group or groups.

This group of epigenetic changes that depend on the chromosome's parent of origin ( including both those that affect gene expression and those that do not ) are called parental origin effects, and include phenomena such as paternal X inactivation in the marsupials, nonrandom parental chromatid distribution in the ferns, and even mating type switching in yeast.

Limestone is a parent material of Mollisol soil group.

However, Microsoft, Bungie's parent company at the time, contacted the group shortly after episode 2, and allowed them to continue without paying licensing fees.

Some debate is still going on if the parent taxon Nektaspida should be included in the Trilobita, or is better placed as a sister group.

Put simply, a quasispecies is a large group or cloud of related genotypes that exist in an environment of high mutation rate, where a large fraction of offspring are expected to contain one or more mutations relative to the parent.

While the Trento group around Curcio had its main roots in the Sociology Department of the Catholic University, the Reggio Emilia group ( around Franceschini ) included mostly former members of the F G C I ( the Communist youth movement ) expelled from the parent party for extremist views.

In 2007, when the Chrysler group was sold off to Cerberus Capital Management ( see below ), the name of the parent company was changed to simply " Daimler AG ".

The joint parent company became the PSA ( Peugeot Société Anonyme ) group, which aimed to keep separate identities for both the Peugeot and Citroën brands, while sharing engineering and technical resources.

A conglomerate is a combination of two or more corporations engaged in entirely different businesses that fall under one corporate structure ( a corporate group ), usually involving a parent company and several ( or many ) subsidiaries.

* Phillip Morris group — the Phillip Morris group which once was the parent company of Altria group, Phillip Morris International and Kraft Foods had annual combined turnover of $ 80 bn.

This group includes the persons who have at least one parent or grandparent who has been a native Finnish citizen.

The group includes persons who have been determined to be of Finnish nationality by Soviet or post-Soviet authorities or who have at least one parent or two grandparents who have been determined to be of Finnish nationality in official documents, e. g., in their internal passports.

A parent led group known as the Aurora Ice Association ( AIA ) has submitted plans for the facility, but is being met with resistance from a group of residents claiming a lack of demand, lack of parking, and the potential for catastrophic train derailments from the adjacent railroad tracks.