In February 1999 the company launched a bond issue which caused a significant fall in Railtrack's share price.

It was the Hatfield crash on 17 October 2000 that proved to be the defining moment in Railtrack's collapse.

The attitude of Railtrack's customers-the passenger and freight train operators-was much more cautious, especially as they were wary of a corporate structure under which shareholders ' equity was not at risk if the company's new management mis-managed its affairs.

Railtrack's poor project management abilities were exemplified with the West Coast Route Modernisation project, which was intended to deliver a 140 mph ( 225 km / h ) route in 2005 at a cost of £ 2 bn, but which finally delivered a 125 mph ( 200 km / h ) route in December 2008 at a cost of £ 9 bn, which was a major factor in the company's financial collapse.

Both locomotives were repainted into Railtrack's blue and lime green livery.

930004 at London Victoria on 18th March 2003, seen painted in Railtrack's blue and lime green livery.

Gerald Corbett, Railtrack's chief executive at the time, and Winsor clearly saw things very differently to each other.

31190 and 31601, were repainted in Railtrack's blue and lime green livery.

Network Rail ( Railtrack's successor ) now has its own fleet of 31s, so no longer requires the Fragonset locomotives.

In relation to powers to hold Railtrack-the national railway infrastructure company-to account, Morton's jurisdictional skirmishes with the Rail Regulator became public after the Ladbroke Grove rail crash and Morton would never accept that the Rail Regulator and not the SRA had the right to determine what Railtrack's financial framework and settlement should be.

Units are painted in various liveries including Network SouthEast ( NSE ), South West Trains blue / red, Railtrack's brown livery, Railtrack's blue / green livery, and Network Rail's new all-over yellow livery.

55019, and is painted in Railtrack's old brown livery.

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.

The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but on 3 October 2002, the main operating arm-the owner and operator of the national railway network, Railtrack plc-was sold by its parent company Railtrack Group plc to " not for dividend " company Network Rail ( a company limited by guarantee ) and was later renamed Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd.

The parent company, Railtrack Group plc, was not put into administration and continued operating its other subsidiaries, which included property and telecommunications interests.

It lasted for a year ; on 2 October 2002 the administration order was discharged and a new organisation, Network Rail, bought Railtrack PLC from its parent Railtrack Group PLC.

In 1990, General Foods was merged into Kraft Foods by parent company Philip Morris ( now the Altria Group ).

John W. Henry of Fenway Sports Group, the parent company of Liverpool

Sony Corporation is the electronics business unit and the parent company of the Sony Group, which is engaged in business through its four operating segments – Electronics ( including video games, network services and medical business ), Motion pictures, Music and Financial Services.

During the 1960s and 1970s Alfa Romeo produced a number of sporty cars, though the Italian government parent company, Finmeccanica, struggled to make a profit so sold the marque to the Fiat Group in 1986.

Hyundai's parent company, Hyundai Motor Group, invested heavily in the quality, design, manufacturing, and long-term research of its vehicles.

The Wakegi onion is also known to be a hybrid between A. cepa and A. fistulosum, with the A. cepa parent believed to be from the Aggregatum Group of cultivars.

Altria Group, Inc. ( previously named Philip Morris Companies Inc .) is based in Henrico County, Virginia, and is the parent company of Philip Morris USA, John Middleton, Inc., U. S. Smokeless Tobacco Company, Inc., Philip Morris Capital Corporation, and Chateau Ste.

In October 2010, the Dillas were evicted from Potter County Memorial Stadium, as Reunion Sports Group, the parent company of the Dillas, could not pay the $ 75, 000 lease on the stadium.

When the Chrysler Group was subsequently sold off to Cerberus Capital Management and renamed Chrysler LLC in August 2007, the name of the parent company was changed to simply Daimler AG within two months.

Similarly, Ingram Industries, parent company of Ingram Book Group ( a leading US book wholesaler ), now includes its own print-on-demand division called Lightning Source.

On May 26, 2010 Disney-ABC Television Group announced the launch of a new 24-hour preschool-targeted digital cable and satellite channel called Disney Junior, which made its debut on March 23, 2012 ; the Disney Junior channel ( which is commercial-free, like parent network Disney Channel but unlike SOAPnet, which it replaced, and Disney XD ) will compete with other preschooler-skewing cable channels such as Nick Jr., qubo and PBS Kids Sprout.

It started on 24 January 1986 when some 6, 000 newspaper workers went on strike after protracted negotiation with their employer, News International ( parent of Times Newspapers and News Group Newspapers, and chaired by Rupert Murdoch ).

Cendant Corporation moved its headquarters to Parsippany-Troy Hills in 2001 ; in 2006 Cendant separated into several different companies, including Avis Budget Group, parent company of Avis Rent a Car System and Budget Rent a Car.

Currently, the airport hosts a comparatively smaller MRO ( Maintenance Repair and Overhaul ) venture, along with Airborne Maintenance and Engineering Services, employing several hundred employees under the auspices of the ABX Air parent company, ATSG ( Air Transport Services Group ).

The Decca label is currently in use by Universal Music Group worldwide ; this is possible because Universal Studios ( which officially dropped the MCA name after the Seagram buyout in 1997 ) acquired PolyGram, British Decca's parent company in 1998, thus consolidating Decca trademark ownership.

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

MAN SE ( Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg ), formerly MAN AG, is a German mechanical engineering company and parent company of the MAN Group.

The Sterling nameplate, unused by White as long as the company owned it, went to Freightliner after the companies ' split ; it is currently used by Freightliner's parent company, the Daimler Group.

Within the Volkswagen Group and under the Audi Brand Group, the SEAT brand itself has been developed as a group with subsidiary companies ( SEAT Group ) and ' SEAT, S. A .' as the parent company.