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South Jersey Industries

Marina Energy - Marina Energy and its subsidiary, Energenic, a joint business venture with a long-time business partner, specialize in the comprehensive design, development, construction and operation of large-scale energy projects.


1994 World Series

The 1994 season marked the first year of what would have been a six-year-long joint venture with Major League Baseball, ABC and NBC called "The Baseball Network."

Alain Dassas

In 1997 he was named Vice President, Financial Operations of Renault and participated in several key agreements for the future of the company, such as negotiations with Volvo AB, the joint venture with AvtoVAZ, the acquisition of a majority stake in Dacia and Renault Samsung Motors and the alliance with Nissan.

Bookish

Bookish was founded in 2011 in a joint venture backed by three of the "big six" publishing companies - Hachette Book Group, Penguin Group (USA), and Simon & Schuster - with the goal of increasing the presence of book publishers in the book-buying industry (which was becoming increasingly dominated by Amazon.com due to the increased popularity of online bookstores), as well as to expand the overall book-buying market.

Electric Transit, Inc.

(ETI) was a joint venture between the Škoda group in the Czech Republic and AAI Corporation in the United States which made trolleybuses for the Dayton and San Francisco trolleybus systems, constructing a total of 330 trolleybuses.

Göktürk-1

The agreement to build Göktürk-1 was signed on July 13, 2009 between the Ministry of National Defence and Telespazio, a Finmeccanica/Thales Group joint venture company, taking effect on July 19, 2009.

INSAT-4A

Tata Sky, a joint venture between the TATA Group and STAR uses INSAT-4A for distributing their DTH service.

Intelligent Transit

Intelligent Transit (iT) is a joint venture bus service of the Tri-State Transit Authority and the Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority system, which operates a twice per day bus link between downtown Huntington, West Virginia and downtown Charleston, West Virginia, with stops at the Marshall University main campus, the Teays Valley suburbs, and at the West Virginia State Capitol Building.

Komputer 2086

Komputer 2086 was a Polish version of the home computer Timex Sinclair 2068, produced by a joint venture of the Polish Unimor and Timex Computer of Portugal.

Korea Sogyong Trading

Its cigarette manufacturing business began in September 2001 when it formed a 40%-60% joint venture with British American Tobacco called Taesong-BAT.

KTXH

Channel 20 became an owned-and-operated station of the United Paramount Network (owned by Chris-Craft Industries in a programming partnership with Viacom, and later co-owned in a joint venture with Chris-Craft when it bought a 50% share in the network in 1996) upon the network's January 16, 1995 launch.

KUNP

On August 21, 2012, Fisher Communications signed an affiliation agreement with MundoFox, a Spanish-language competitor to Univision that is owned as a joint venture between Fox International Channels and Colombian broadcaster RCN TV, for KUNP and Seattle sister station KUNS to be carried on both stations as digital subchannels starting in late September.

Larut Rail Tunnel

Construction of the tunnel was started in 2008 by a joint venture of MMC Corporation Berhad and Gamuda Berhad as part of their electrified double tracking project between Ipoh and Padang Besar and is expected to complete by 2013.

Major League Baseball on SportsChannel

In 1996, Wayne Huizenga purchased a 70% controlling interest in SportsChannel Florida from Rainbow Media (by that time, a joint venture between Cablevision and NBC).

MIC Tanzania Limited

This corporation was a joint venture between Millicom International Cellular based in Luxembourg, Ultimate Communications Limited of Tanzania and Tanzania Posts and Telecommunications Corporation.

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc.

It and Mitsubishi Motors, a joint venture of Chrysler and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, incorporated in Geneva, Switzerland, concluded two separate agreements to this effect: a distributor agreement with Chrysler and separate sales procedure agreements with Chrysler and Mitsubishi.

Moa, Cuba

Large nickel and cobalt deposits located in the Moa area are exploited in part by joint ventures with the Canadian company Sherritt International.

Qantas Freight

Qantas Freight was also a partner in two joint ventures with Australia Post: Australian air Express, specialising in door-to-door package delivery, and Star Track Express, a road freight company.

Revolo

This technology has been designed and engineered by KPIT Technologies Ltd. and the product will be manufactured through a joint venture (JV) of Rs. 100 crore (initial) between Bharat Forge Ltd and KPIT.

Shanghai Volkswagen

Shanghai Volkswagen (officially Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive Co., Ltd.) is an automobile manufacturing company headquartered in Anting, China and a joint venture between Volkswagen Group and SAIC Motor.

Society of the Plastics Industry

The six founding member companies of the new group are Arkema, BASF Corporation, Cereplast Inc., DuPont, NatureWorks LLC and Telles (a Metabolix/ADM joint venture).

TAP Pharmaceutical Products

TAP Pharmaceutical Products was formed in 1977 as a joint venture between the two global pharmaceutical companies, Abbott Laboratories and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. The company markets Prevacid (lansoprazole) and Lupron Depot (leuprolide acetate for depot suspension), both leaders in their classes.

Trans-Arabian Pipeline

It was founded as a joint venture between the Standard Oil company of New Jersey (now ExxonMobil), Standard Oil of California (Chevron), The Texas Company (better known as Texaco, now a part of Chevron), and Socony-Vacuum Oil Company (ExxonMobil), however, it eventually became a fully owned subsidiary of Aramco.

Vodafone Hutchison Australia

The joint venture entity is owned by Hutchison Telecommunications Australia (a subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa) and by Vodafone Group plc on a 50-50 basis.

Volkswagen Group China

In 1984, a joint venture (JV) was established between Volkswagen Group and Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (now SAIC Motor), creating Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive Co., Ltd. (SVW).

Volkswagen LT

In 1996, the joint venture of Volkswagen and Daimler's Mercedes-Benz Commercial introduced the second generation LT. The Volkswagen version shared the body shell with the new Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, however the engine and transmission were Volkswagen Group sourced.


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Alternative Investment Market

On 29 January 2009 it was announced that AIM is to form the basis of an Asian-orientated growth or incubator market called 'Tokyo AIM', which will be run as a joint venture between the Tokyo Stock Exchange and LSE.

Alusuisse

In 1969 the company invested in a large aluminium smelter in the Gove Peninsula, Australia, through the joint venture Nabalco, The development which included the creation of a sea harbour, housing for 5000 people, and was worth over 1billion swiss francs.

Badgerline

Badger Vectis operated in Bournemouth and Poole as a joint venture with Southern Vectis uisng 7 Iveco minibuses and 16 single deck buses, mostly Bristol REs.

Bank of Scotland

A controversial period in the Bank's history was the attempt in 1999 to enter the United States retail banking market via a joint venture with evangelist Pat Robertson.

Brantly B-2

Ltd., a joint venture between Brantly International Inc, Qingdao Wenquan International Aviation Investment Co., Ltd, and Qingdao Brantly Investment Consultation Co., Ltd.

Cambodian Television Network

Cambodian Television Network (CTN) was launched in March 2003 as a joint venture between local conglomerate the The Royal Group and Stockholm-based Modern Times Group, this free-to-air terrestrial television channel Cambodian Television Network (CTN) is now part of Mobitel.

Cameron Toll

When the centre originally opened it had just thirty five shop units as well as two major retail outlets – the SavaCentre hypermarket, a joint venture between British Home Stores and Sainsbury's, and a smaller Safeway (UK) supermarket.

Carole Stone

In April 2007 Carole became Managing Director of YouGovStone Ltd, a joint venture with the online market research agency YouGov plc, where she established the YouGovStone ThinkTank – a global panel of over 4,000 people who are leaders in their field – the ‘influentials’.

Cinema International Corporation

CIC Video survived until the late 1990s/early 2000s, when Universal purchased PolyGram and reorganized its video division (which was a joint venture with what is now Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, and remains so to this day) under the Universal name, while Paramount took over full ownership of CIC Video and merged it under its own video division.

Cobasys

On July 14, 2009, the sale of Cobasys to SB LiMotive Co. Ltd., an electric vehicle battery joint venture between Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. and Robert Bosch GmbH, was announced.

Commonwealth Bank

In 1981 the bank transferred its operations in the Solomon Islands to the National Bank of Solomon Islands, which operated as a joint venture (51-49, Commonwealth and Government of the Solomon Islands).

Doman LZ-5

Doman continued with development, building another LZ-5 aircraft in a joint venture with Fleet in Canada.

Economy of Equatorial Guinea

Parastatal Getesa, a joint venture with a minority ownership stake held by a French subsidiary of Orange, provides telephone service in the major cities.

Ellis Cousens

Previously Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Bookspan, a Bertelsmann AG and Time Warner Inc. joint venture, from March 2000; Vice President, Finance and Strategic Planning, of Bertelsmann AG from March 1999; Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of BOL.com, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG, from August 1998).

Emilio Romano

Romano was a member of the Board of Directors for Univision Communications between 1995 and 1998, where he was responsible for leading numerous high profile transactions, including the sale of PanAmSat to Hughes Electronics; the formation of Via Digital DTH venture for the Iberian Peninsula; and the Sky Latin America joint venture with The News Corporation, Organizacoes Globo and TCI.

Flyer Enterprises

::::::::::*Flyer Spirit - A joint venture with the UD Bookstore opened in 2007 to sell Dayton Flyers apparel and memorabilia

Ford Duratorq engine

This engine was developed in Trémery by Peugeot, as described in the joint-venture agreement with Ford.

Fremont Assembly

Partially demolished (south end and water tower), the remaining plant was refurbished as the NUMMI joint-venture with Toyota and later became the Tesla Factory, Tesla Motors' automobile plant.

GeoPlace

This is a joint venture between the Local Government Group and Ordnance Survey, which involved the acquisition of Intelligent Addressing.

Golden Star Resources

In Suriname there is a projects in Saramacca, a joint venture with Newmont Overseas Exploration Limited 100 km south of Paramaribo, next to the Rosebel Gold Mine project from IAMGOLD and the Benzdorp Gold Project at the eastern border of Suriname.

GoldLinQ

Services will be operated by KDR Gold Coast, a joint venture between Keolis and Downer Rail.

Havells

Later in 80's they Acquired a manufacturing plant at Alwar, Rajasthan for Power Cables & Wires.In that same year they Entered into a Joint Venture with Electrium, UK for manufacturing Dorman Smith MCCBs and Crabtree Modular Plate Switches.

Holden Special Vehicles

HSV was created in 1987 as a joint venture between Holden and Tom Walkinshaw Racing – an operation owned by Scottish racing car driver and entrepreneur Tom Walkinshaw.

ING Vysya Bank

As of January 2013, ING Group plans to divest itself of its Indian insurance and investment management businesses through the sale of its 26% interest in ING Vysya Life Insurance Company Ltd. to its joint venture partner Exide Industries Ltd.

Jazz at Lincoln Center

The complex was designed by acclaimed architect Rafael Viñoly and constructed by Turner-Santa Fe, a joint venture between Turner Construction and Santa Fe Construction.

Kantar Worldpanel

In 2000, IBOPE, NPD and TNS created the LatinPanel joint venture, representing the existing Brazil, Argentina and Chile operations.

Kolmoskanava

Kolmoskanava (also known as TV3 and informally as Kolmonen) was a Finnish television station owned and operated by Oy Kolmostelevisio Ab, a joint venture between MTV Oy, YLE and Nokia.

Major League Baseball on SportsChannel

The network began in April 1982 as Sportsvision, a joint venture between then-new owner Chicago Bulls and White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, his fellow White Sox co-owner, television sports producer and promoter Eddie Einhorn, and Fred Eychaner, then-owner of local UHF station WPWR (then on Channel 60, now Channel 50).

MAX Light Rail

The Type 1 cars were manufactured by a joint venture between La Brugeoise et Nivelles and Bombardier Corporation before the latter acquired the former, and featured a raised floor with steps at the doors.

MillerCoors

The joint venture has the responsibility of selling brands such as Miller Lite, Miller High Life, Miller Genuine Draft, Coors, Coors Light, Molson Canadian, Crispin Hard Cider Company, and Blue Moon in the United States, with the purpose of combining all of their US brewing operations to better compete against Anheuser-Busch InBev.

Mining industry of Ghana

In the gold sector, Gold Fields Limited of South Africa held a 71.1% interest in the Tarkwa and the Damang gold mines in a joint venture with Toronto-based IAMGOLD Corp.

North Luzon West Expressway

The first leg of the expressway will begin in Hermosa in Bataan and from there it is called as "Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway" and was developed by the joint-venture of First Philippine Infrastructure Development Corporation, Tollways Management Corporation and Egis Projects.

Organica Technologies

In December 2006, Organica signed a joint venture agreement with Veolia Water Solutions and Technologies.

Perspective Records

Perspective Records was an American record label, launched in 1991 by the producing team Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, through a joint venture with A&M Records—which Jam/Lewis had had a prosperous working relationship with throughout the 1980s, with several of its major acts including Janet Jackson, The Human League, and label founder Herb Alpert.

Phil Graham

The following year the Post/CBS joint venture bought the CBS-affiliated television station in Washington, and changed the call letters to WTOP-TV, and in 1953 the company bought WMBR radio and WMBR-TV in Jacksonville, Florida.

Pittsburgh Playhouse

The joint venture between Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh Playhouse, and William Ball was dissolved when Ball moved the ACT to San Francisco.

PNG Gas

Engineering, Construction and Procurement (EPC) company Clough Curtain Joint Venture (CCJV) was awarded the contract for liquefaction plant and upstream infrastructure work in June 2009 and September 2010 respectively.

Ramsay Health Care

Paul Ramsay signed a joint venture in March 2013 with Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby to combine Ramsay’s three Indonesian hospitals with Sime’s three in Malaysia, with plans to expand throughout Southeast Asia.

Roberto Rocca

A further joint venture was entered into with Tamsa, in Mexico, and a controlling stake was purchased in Sidor (the leading steelmaker in Venezuela) in 1998, Confab (Brazil), in 1999, and in NKK (Japan), in 2000, making it the first Japanese steel company in foreign majority ownership.

Sault Symphony Orchestra

The Sault Symphony School of Music was established by the Symphony in 1997, when a joint venture with Lake Superior State University allowed the Symphony to relocate world renowned violinist, Oleg Pokhanovski, and his brother, Mikhail, an accomplished violist, to Sault Ste.

SKY México

The Mexican company was founded on 25 July 1996, a joint venture between British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), News Corporation, Liberty Media and Grupo Televisa and was lated launched on 15 December 1996.

Space industry of Russia

On 15 April 1993 Khrunichev created the Lockheed-Khrunichev-Energia joint venture with the American company Lockheed.

Steven Handel

Handel is the director of the Center for Urban Restoration Ecology (CURE), a joint venture between Rutgers and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York.

Te Mihi Power Station

The project was designed and constructed by a joint venture of McConnell Dowell, SNC-Lavalin and Parsons Brinckerhoff.

Techint

Companies owned by the Techint group through Tenaris include: Siderca and Siat (Argentina), Confab (Brazil), Tamsa (Mexico), Algoma (Canada), Dalmine (Italy), Silcotub (Romania) and has production facilities in the US and a joint venture with NKK (Japan), holding 51% of NKK shares since 1999, making it the first Japanese steel company in foreign majority ownership.

Tofaş Şahin

In 2006 the Tofaş Şahin was put into production in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by the Holland Car Company, a joint venture between a firm from the Netherlands called Trento Engineering and the local firm of Ethio-Holland.

Tractors in India

In 2000, John Deere set up production in a joint venture with Larsen & Toubro Ltd in Sanaswadi, in a rural area near Pune, Maharashtra.

W Vision

Developed by a joint venture between the Impress Group and the Watanabe Productions Group, the Web site provided videos from various content provider and producers, using software including RealPlayer, VDOlive Player, and FutureSplash (now Adobe Flash.) The service started in the end of the 1990s, hence the low-quality streaming videos to accommodate the Internet users mostly connecting via dial-up service.

Wellington Cable Car

Initially both contracts were won by Harbour City Cable Car Ltd, a joint venture between the Stagecoach Group, which had purchased the buses, and East by West, a Wellington ferry operator.

Yotaro Kobayashi

Yotaro Kobayashi, born April 1933 in England, is former chairman of the Fuji Xerox company, a joint venture between Fujifilm (75%) and Xerox (25%).