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2 unusual facts about BOC


Jagdish Narain Sapru

Jagdish Narain Sapru (16 November 1933– 8 May 2007), the grandson of eminent lawyer, political, and social leader Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, was the former chairman of ITC Limited, BOC India, DIC India (Formerly Coates of India), Nicco Park, and the Indian Chamber of Commerce.

TI Group

The group also owned TI Creda, a manufacturer of domestic cookers, and owned TI Chesterfield Cylinders, a manufacturer of pressurised gas cylinders for companies such as BOC and Air Products: the business was sold and the factory moved from Chesterfield to Sheffield.


Athletic training

In 1989, became an independent non-profit corporation and soon later changed its name to the Board of Certification (BOC).

Bank of Canton

1939 The government of Siam (Thailand), during an outreak of widespread anti-Chinese feeling, closed the local branch of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation and the branches of BoC, charging the banks with facilitating illegal remittances by Chinese residents.

Bank of Ceylon

Bank of Ceylon (BoC) was founded in 1939, with Sir Ernest de Silva as its first Chairman.

Bomen, New South Wales

Major industries located within Bomen are located within the Bomen Business Park which include Cargill Foods Australia, Heinz-Watties factory, BOC Gas plant and Austrak concrete sleeper plant.

Flint, Michigan auto industry

Buick Motor Division became a marketing and public-relations entity in 1984, when the Buick-Oldsmobile-Cadillac Group (BOC) was created and took over engineering and assembly control from Buick, Oldsmobile, Cadillac and the GM Assembly Division.

Habib Ibrahim Rehmatullah

He also served on the Boards of various multinational and national companies in Pakistan as either a Director or Chairman including: United Bank Ltd, Eastern Federal Insurance, Brooke Bond, Pakistan Oxygen (now BOC Pakistan), Aspro-Nicholas (now Reckitt Benckiser), Organon Pakistan (part of AkzoNobel) and Pakistan Cables (BICC).

Revolution on Ice

It also includes a cover of Blue Öyster Cult's "She's as Beautiful as a Foot" and features original BÖC Drummer Albert Bouchard.

Roxanna Panufnik

Among her most widely performed works are Westminster Mass, commissioned for Westminster Cathedral Choir on the occasion of Cardinal Hume's 75th birthday, The Music Programme, an opera for Polish National Opera's millennium season which received its UK premiere at the BOC Covent Garden Festival, and settings for solo voices and orchestra of Vikram Seth's Beastly Tales - the first of which was commissioned by the BBC for Patricia Rozario and City of London Sinfonia.

Sijo Kuruvilla George

After his engineering, he had brief stints at BOC (British Oxygen Company) and Infosys.

Sirius Corporation Ltd

Sirius have worked with household brands including Pepsico, BOC, Three, Sony Ericsson, Axa and Specsavers.

Tiff Macklem

Macklem was considered a successor to former BOC Governor David Dodge and widely respected in the BOC and worldwide, though being a career civil servant he lacked the private sector experience that Carney and Poloz possessed.


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