In April 2006, Scottish & Newcastle plc announced that it had agreed to acquire the Foster ’ s brand in Europe ( including Turkey ), the Russian Federation and other countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States from Foster ’ s Group Limited for approximately £ 309 million.

At the 17th session ( February 1978 ), the related UN / ECE Group of Experts agreed that the three-letter alphabetic codes for International Standard ISO 4217, " Codes for the representation of currencies and funds ", would be suitable for use in international trade.

MPEG-3 is the designation for a group of audio and video coding standards agreed upon by the Moving Picture Experts Group ( MPEG ) designed to handle HDTV signals at 1080p in the range of 20 to 40 megabits per second.

It was introduced in late 1998 and designated a standard for a group of audio and video coding formats and related technology agreed upon by the ISO / IEC Moving Picture Experts Group ( MPEG ) ( ISO / IEC JTC1 / SC29 / WG11 ) under the formal standard ISO / IEC 14496 – Coding of audio-visual objects.

The supervisory board of Porsche finally agreed to a number of arrangements whereby the Qatar Investment Authority would inject a large amount of capital, and Porsche would be merged with Volkswagen Group.

In March 2009, London-based insurance broker Willis Group Holdings agreed to lease a portion of the building, and obtained the building's naming rights.

Escaping only with the help of the Long Range Desert Group ( LRDG ) who were designated to pick up the unit after the attack, Stirling agreed that approaching by land under the cover of night would be safer and more effective than parachuting.

Nevertheless discussions proceeded with UN Commissioner for Namibia N ° 2 Martti Ahtisaari who played a key role in getting the Constitutional Principles agreed in 1982 by the front-line states, SWAPO, and the Western Contact Group.

Finally, in 1997, COMSAT agreed in principle to sell Ascent Entertainment Group, the umbrella corporation for its sporting assets, to Liberty Media.

In 2003, General Electric's NBC agreed to buy 80 % of Vivendi Universal's North American – based filmed entertainment assets, including Universal Pictures and Universal Television Group in a multi-billion dollar purchase, renaming the merged company NBC Universal.

On July 6, 2008, NBC Universal, Bain Capital and Blackstone Group agreed to purchase the Weather Channel from Landmark.

On December 29, 2005, Hilton Hotels Corporation agreed to re-acquire the Hilton International chain from its British owner, Hilton Group plc, for GBP 3. 3 billion ( or $ 5. 71 billion ).

On July 3, 2007, Hilton Hotels Corp. agreed to an all-cash buyout from The Blackstone Group LP in a $ 26 billion ( including debt ) deal that would make Blackstone the world's largest hotel owner.

Labour Party leader Harold Wilson coined the phrase Selsdon Man to describe the free market approach which was agreed, and the Selsdon Group was later formed within the Conservative Party to campaign for its retention.

On 21 May 2009, National Express Group agreed to sell Travel London to NedRailways ( now Abellio ), a subsidiary of NS Dutch Railways, for a price of £ 32 million.

Intel agreed to sell the XScale PXA business to Marvell Technology Group for an estimated $ 600 million in cash and the assumption of unspecified liabilities.

On 12 February 2007, MyTravel Group plc announced that they had agreed terms on a merger with Thomas Cook AG.

The SAS Group and Braathens announced on 21 May 2001that KLM and Braganza had agreed to sell their 69 percent stake in Braathens for NOK 800 million to SAS — valuating Braathens to NOK 1. 1 billion.

With Group Lotus near bankruptcy in 1983, through an introduction from his friend Mark Thatcher, English accountant and entrepreneur David Wickins, the founder of the worlds largest vehicle remarketing business British Car Auctions, agreed to become the new company chairman.

Ultimately French bank Crédit Lyonnais agreed to finance the film with Temple at the helm ( if $ 4 million was shaved off of the film's estimated $ 14 million budget ) and the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group agreed to distribute it.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority purchased 14 floors in 2IFC ; the Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation signed a 12-year lease on ; Nomura Group agreed to take at 2 IFC ; the Financial Times, an existing tenant at One IFC, took.

On 9 February 2011, the London Stock Exchange Group announced that they had agreed to merge with the Toronto-based TMX Group, the owners of the Toronto Stock Exchange, creating a combined entity with a market capitalization of listed companies equal to £ 3. 7 trillion.

The Open Group released Motif in 2000 as OpenMotif under a " revenue sharing " license that does not fully meet either the open source or free software definitions.

( The Open Group had wished to make it open source, but did not quite succeed in achieving this.

In 2006 ( with the release of version 3 ), Euphoria became open source and the openEuphoria Group continues to administer and develop the project.

Hongkong Land became a Group subsidiary for the first time following a multi-year programme of steady open market purchases while Jardine Pacific raised its interest in Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited from 25 % to 42 %.

Most of the stars in the Big Dipper are members of a former open cluster, the Ursa Major Moving Group, and have similar proper motions.

Other manufacturers had no production four-wheel drive car on which to base their response, so FISA was persuaded to change the rules, and open the Championship to cars in Group B.

The specifications, as published by the Trusted Computing Group, are open and are available for anyone to review.

The Derby Stakes, popularly known as The Derby, internationally as the Epsom Derby, and under its present sponsor as the Investec Derby, is a Group 1 flat horse race in England open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.

The 2, 000 Guineas Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.

The St. Leger Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.

* RSS 1. 0 is an open format by the RSS-DEV Working Group, again standing for RDF Site Summary.

And in Consumer Research: Postcards from the edge, when discussing behavioral and economic studies, the authors contrasted the " enclosed locations " used with Large Group Awareness Trainings with the " relatively open " environment of a " variety store ".

The factory in Derby Line is still open, but was bought in 1988 by Group Tivoly, a cutting tools company based in France.

Open on limited open days arranged by the Bank Hall Action Group.

He used the money to open his own investment firm, RJM Group, Inc.

It may be a member of the Ursa Major Moving Group of stars that share a similar motion through the Milky Way, implying these stars shared a common origin in an open cluster.

The interface is part of what The Open Group refers to as the Common Application Environment, which is intended to be a wide standard for programming open applications, i. e. applications from different programming teams and different vendors that can interoperate in an efficient manner.

The WAI Interest Group is an open group with a mailing list to which anyone can subscribe.

The MPEG-21 standard, from the Moving Picture Experts Group, aims at defining an open framework for multimedia applications.

* Universal Data Element Framework ( UDEF ) an open standard by The Open Group that provides the foundation for building an enterprise-wide Controlled vocabulary enabling Interoperability.

The Irish Derby is a Group 1 flat horse race in Ireland open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.

The Free Standards Group was an industry non-profit consortium chartered to primarily specify and drive the adoption of open source standards.

All standards developed by the Free Standards Group ( FSG ) were released under open terms ( the GNU Free Documentation License with no cover texts or invariant sections ) and test suites, sample implementations and other software were released as free software.