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5 unusual facts about Public company


Barron's 400 Index

The Barron’s 400 Index is an equal-weighted stock market index that tracks the performance of certain public companies in the United States, based on the strength of financial characteristics related to growth, market value, profitability and cash flow.

Public corporation

Public company, i.e. a limited liability company that offers its securities for sale to the general public.

Publicly owned

Public company, a company which is permitted to offer its securities (stock, bonds, etc.) for sale to the general public, typically through a stock exchange

Scott Foresman

Scott, Foresman became a public corporation and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange, but the company was taken private in a leveraged buyout in 1985.

Value Line Composite Index

All companies in the Value Line Composite Index are publicly listed 1 on one of the major exchanges listed below.


CompX International

In March 1998, CompX International Inc. completed its Initial Public Offering, making it a public company with stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol of ‘’’CIX’’’.

James William Gilbart

His work and frequently updated books such as his Practical Treatise on Banking (1827) were eventually widely adopted to improve the British banking systems and laid the foundations of the modern publicly owned retail bank and Building Society movement.

Julphar

Julphar (Gulf Pharmaceutical Industries) is a public shareholding pharmaceutical company based in Diqdaqah, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates.

Peiraiki-Patraiki

During the same year, the company went public (being the first public company in Patras), raising capital in order to found a cotton-processing plant.


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Atlantis Plastics

In 1987 it was acquired by the equity firm Trivest, which soon spun Atlantis off as a public company but retained an ownership stake.

Australian Olympic Foundation

In February 1996, the Foundation was constituted by Deed of Settlement between Julius L Patching as Settlor and the Australian Olympic Foundation Limited (ACN 071 220 025) an Australian Public Company, Limited By Guarantee.

Blackboard Inc.

Founded by Michael Chasen and Matthew Pittinsky in 1997, Blackboard became a public company in 2004 and continued operating publicly until Providence Equity Partners purchased the company in 2011.

Though previously a public company, following its 2011 buyout by Providence Equity Partners Blackboard now operates as a private company.

Bowflex

Bowflex of America changed its name to Bowflex, Inc, and became a public company on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Bryan Brandenburg

In 1994, Brandenburg started another game company, Software Arts International that was acquired in 1996 by Engineering Animation, Inc., where he was the Executive Producer for the public company's Interactive Division, producing titles for Disney, Mattel, Hasbro Interactive and Sierra On-Line.

CP ALL

CP ALL Public Company Limited, was established in 1988 by the Charoen Pokphand Group to operate the convenience store business in Thailand under the 7-Eleven trademark, The Company was granted a license to use the trademark from 7-Eleven, Inc., USA.

Eddie Stobart

This became Eddie Stobart Ltd in 1970, expanded to a haulage company during the 1970s with the help of his late son Edward Stobart who gradually took over the running of the company during the 1970s and 1980s, and then became a multi-modal logistics public company the Stobart Group in 2007 under the control of another son William Stobart.

Gamevil

Gamevil Inc. (trademarked in capitals as GAMEVIL) ((주)게임빌) is a public company based in Seoul, Republic of Korea, and Torrance, California, which develops and publishes video games for mobile devices.

HT Mostar

In the first phase, (2003) the company was privatized between the government and two outside owners, the public company T-Hrvatski Telekom and foreign government-owned business Hrvatska Pošta, both from Croatia.

InFocus

Formerly a NASDAQ listed public company, InFocus was purchased by Image Holdings Corp., owned by John Hui, in 2009 and is now a wholly owned subsidiary.

Inteliquent

Headquartered in Chicago, Inteliquent is a public company and traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol IQNT.

Invision

InVision Technologies, formerly a public company, a manufacturer and seller of airport security screening devices to detect explosives in baggage.

Jasomi Networks

Ultimately, the company sold to Ditech Communications (now itself acquired by Nuance Communications), a US public company based in Silicon Valley in mid-2005 in a deal valued at $24.55m.

Jason Galanis

The company was resold to an American Stock Exchange listed public company for $54 million a year after acquisition.

Lake of Ledinci

In late 1990s and early 2000s, exploitation rights on the lake were under a multilateral dispute by the local community, City of Novi Sad, the mining company "Alas" registered in Rakovac, which owned the quarry exploitation rights, and the public company guiding the National park of Fruška gora.

Maçanet-Massanes railway station

Maçanet-Massanes (formerly Empalme) is a railway station propierty of adif (Spanish public company) and located in the municipality of Maçanet de la Selva (Selva, Catalonia), far from downtown.

Macy's, Inc.

In 1990, Federated—now under the control of Robert Campeau—went bankrupt after its hostile takeover of Allied Stores; it emerged from bankruptcy after the ouster of Campeau in 1992 as a new public company.

Nightingale Informatix Corporation

Nightingale Informatix Corporation (Nightingale) is a public company headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada with offices in Rancho Cordova, California, Cambridge, Ontario, Kansas City, Missouri, Pembroke, Massachusetts, and Wexford, Pennsylvania.

Payless ShoeSource

Payless ShoeSource is an American discount footwear retailer headquartered in Topeka, Kansas in 1956 by brothers Louis and Shaol Pozez that is owned by Collective Brands, Inc. In 1961, it became a public company as the Volume Shoe Corporation which merged with the May Department Stores Company in 1979.

Peter Linneman

He has served on several public company boards, including serving on the Executive Committee of Equity Office Properties, and was chairman of Rockefeller Center Properties, successfully negotiating the foreclosure of its previous owners and its subsequent sale in the mid 1990s.

Polyplex

With its headquarters in NOIDA, adjoining New Delhi the company has four PET Film manufacturing facilities–one in Khatima and one in Bajpur, in the state of Uttarakhand, India, one in Rayong province, Thailand, and one in Tekirdağ, Turkey (owned and operated by Polyplex (Thailand) Public Company Ltd. and Polyplex Europa Polyester Film Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. respectively, its wholly owned subsidiaries).

R Systems International

It launched its IPO (Initial Public Offering) in March 2006 and is now a public company with shares listed in the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange BSE).

Radware

Radware, which is a member of the Rad Group of companies, is a public company and its shares are traded on NASDAQ.

Richard P. Rubinstein

In 1988, Rubinstein and Aaron Spelling merged Laurel Entertainment and Spelling's own production company, Aaron Spelling Productions as subsidiaries of a new public company, Spelling Entertainment Inc.

Thaicom 6

Thaicom 6 is a Thai television satellite of the Thaicom series, to be operated by Thaicom Public Company Limited (formerly Shin Satellite Public Company Limited), a subsidiary of Shin Corporation headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand.

The Singing Machine Company

The Singing Machine Company is a public company listed on the OTC Bulletin Board under the ticker symbol SMDM.

Thor Industries

In 1984, Thor became a public company and in 1986 was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Transport in Brussels

A car-sharing system is operated by the public company STIB with Cambio.

Zayre

That same year, Zayre Corp. became a public company and began trading on the New York Stock Exchange.