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unusual facts about The Business


Will Lyons

Lyons has worked on several national newspapers including The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, The Business and The Wall Street Journal.


Canal Dreams

Hisako is Banks' first female lead character (he uses others in Whit and The Business).

Step into Christmas

"Step into Christmas" was covered by the band The Wedding Present on their 1992 album Hit Parade II, and also covered by The Business for the holiday EP Bollocks to Christmas.


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Amanda Parris

Parris serves as the Business Centre manager, Rotherham Investment and Development Office, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, South Yorkshire.

Aprisma Management Technologies

Aprisma Management Technologies was created after Cabletron Systems was broken up into 4 smaller pieces, as the business unit to continue the highly successful SPECTRUM network management suite.

Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres

These two were a fair distance behind the business end of the race where world indoor 60 m. champion Gevaert, who had burst out the blocks, was run down by Anim (NR) and Arron who both recorded the same time.

Bennett Cerf

Cerf was the subject of Jessica Mitford's exposé, published in the June 1970 issue of Atlantic Monthly, which denounced the business practices of the Famous Writers School, which Cerf had founded.

Bourne House, East Woodhay

A director of Imperial Tobacco, he was the last of his family to be directly involved in the business.

Brandjacking

Colleges and Universities - In 2008, college guidebook company College Prowler created hundreds of Facebook groups purporting to consist of actual incoming first-year students of various universities in order to surreptitiously gather their personal data and promote the business.

Bulthaup

Gerd, in seeking to expand the business, came into contact with the designer Otl Aicher, whose design ideas were largely based on the principles of the Ulm School of Design which favours simplified forms and functionality.

Century Airlines pilots' strike

Several more congressmen vocalized their displeasure with Cord’s conduct including Representative William Larson from Georgia as well as Melvin Maas of Minnesota who asked the Secretaries of War and Navy to discourage military pilots on leave from flying Century planes, while two more representatives contacted the Mayor of Chicago to ask him to investigate the business affairs of Cord in Chicago.

Cesar Virata

He is the eponym of the Cesar Virata School of Business, the business school of the University of the Philippines Diliman.

Chad Myers

Piers Morgan, as well as Wolf Blitzer, called him the best in the business for covering severe weather.

Cinzano

Beginning that year, the Marone family, Turin industrialists, began to sell shares in the business, culminating in 1992 with an agreement to turn Cinzano International S.A. entirely over to International Distillers & Vintners, a wholly owned subsidiary of Grand Metropolitan.

Croydon, Pennsylvania

Several notable mid-size businesses are headquartered in the business district of Croydon, including PAC Industries and Denaq Laptop Batteries.

De Grolsch Veste

It is located in Enschede, Netherlands, at the Business & Science Park, near the University of Twente.

El Torito

By 1976 he had opened 20 locations before selling the business to W. R. Grace and Company, a multinational chemical company looking to diversify, for about $20 million.

Eric Moneypenny

With TMS, Moneypenny has worked with some of the top comedians in the business, such as Fred Willard, Andy Richter, The Whitest Kids U'Know, Steve Agee, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, Drew Carey, Paul F. Tompkins, Jerry Minor, Paul Scheer, Jerry O'Connell, Michaela Watkins, and many more.

Frima Studio

It is from these premises that the production of Flash games for Hollywood brands such as Harry Potter and Looney Tunes allowed the business to develop and make a name for itself.

Gael Linn

On the business side, they run the Gael-Linn Records record label, which is partly funded by the Irish state.

Gary Vandy

In the business over 40 years he co-founded Studio Center in 1973 with Steven Cuiffo, a 24 track automated recording, sweetening and digital mixing facility which produced such hits as "Do You Wanna Get Funky with Me" by Peter Brown and "Get Off" by Foxy and other major artists for TK Records and other record labels.

Giancarlo Giammetti

As detailed in the movie Valentino: The Last Emperor, Giammetti dropped out of architecture school and began looking after the business side of Valentino’s young high-fashion enterprise.

Gloag

Robin Gloag (1943–2007), one of the founders of the business that today trades as Stagecoach Group

Harry Sutcliffe

The late 1990s saw Harry move into the business side of the music industry, initially as an A&R manager for Arista Records working closely with Blondie, Natalie Imbruglia, Kent, Beth Orton, Avril Lavigne, Jennifer Brown and Death in Vegas.

Hendon Brewery

With the growth of the Welsh Harp as a place of entertainment, Robb expanded the business by engaging engineers to build a new brewery in The Hyde by 1855.

Homewood, Illinois

In 1983, Richard Haas painted a mural on the backs of several buildings in the business district, matching their fronts to their backs.

INCAE Business School

Dean Baker sent three professors, George Cabot Lodge, Henry Arthur and Thomas Raymond, to gauge the level of support from the business community and society at large in each of the Central American countries for the project.

Israel's Department Store

Following the takeover of the store, Wilfrid Israel, who had run the business with his brother, emigrated to England, where he took up a research position at Balliol College, Oxford.

J. Barry Griswell

He has been inducted into the Iowa Business Hall of Fame, is a recipient of the United Way of Central Iowa Alexis de Tocqueville Society award, a 2004 recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, a 2004 recipient of the Central Iowa Philanthropic Award for Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser, and a 2006 recipient of the Business Committee for the Arts Leadership Award as well as a 2008 recipient of the American for the Arts Corporate Citizenship in the Arts Award.

J. Veronica Biggins

Biggins entered the business world as a management trainee at Nations Bank (formerly the Citizens Southern Bank and now Bank of America).

Jim Bosnjak

Later that year, the business was bought from National Express and the Bosnjak family for over $100 million by ComfortDelGro Cabcharge.

Marcel Desoutter

41 of this type and the improved Desoutter II were produced, but the business folded in 1932 after its main customer, National Flying Services at London Air Park, Hanworth, went into liquidation.

Mobile device

Enterprise digital assistants can further extend the available functionality for the business user by offering integrated data capture devices like barcode, RFID and smart card readers.

Panorama Developments Ltd v Fidelis Furnishing Fabrics Ltd

Bayne used the Fidelis' paper and represented that he wished to hire a number of Rolls-Royce's and Jaguars for the business while his managing director was away.

Peter Greer

Upon graduation, Greer spent two years in the business sector before World Relief hired him to work as a microfinance adviser in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Peter Squires

He is currently the Business Development Manager for the Caledonian Brewery.

Pitch TV

In the statement, the firm claimed that the situation was due to "unreasonable steps taken from Lloyds bank which ultimately brought the business to a standstill".

Platform Post-production

In 2008 renowned VFX editor and colourist John Cryer also bought a share in the business and now works at the facility in DS Nitris, finishing all range of productions for clients including BBC, The Foundation, RDF Television, Lion TV, Five, Channel Four, Nickelodeon and Disney.

Redline Coaches

In 2009 Redline acquired the business of Smith's City to Surf Coaches servicing the Dodges Ferry region.

Refco

Man Financial kept the majority of the Refco futures businesses after selling Refco Overseas Ltd (Refco's European operation) to Marathon Asset Management who then relaunched the business as Marex Financial Limited.

Russell Trust Association

The business and political network of the Skull and Bones was detailed by Hoover Institution scholar Antony C. Sutton in the exposé, America's Secret Establishment.

Spreadmart

Typically a spreadmart is created by individuals at different times using different data sources and rules for defining metrics in an organization, creating a fractured view of the enterprise.

Swallow Airplane Company

Laird hired several aviators that became prominent in the business later, Buck Weaver who would co-found Waco Aircraft, Walter Beech, and Lloyd Stearman who would develop the Swallow New Swallow.

Techvedic

Techvedic entered into the business partnerships with software vendors like AVG, Intuit, Microsoft, etc., and leading OEMs including Dell and HP to become the authorized reseller of their products.

The Energy Group

The origins of the business date back to 1990 when Hanson plc acquired Peabody Energy, a US coal business.

Tondu

In 1869, John Brogden died and his eldest son Alexander Brogden came to Tondu to take charge of the business and in 1872 formed a new company, the Llynvi, Tondu and Ogmore Coal and Iron Company Limited, for Brogdens’ Glamorgan business interests.

Walter J. Salmon, Sr.

Of importance in the business world, Meinhard v. Salmon, 164 N.E. 545 (N.Y. 1928), is a widely cited case in which the New York Court of Appeals held that partners in a business owe fiduciary duties to one another where a business opportunities arises during the course of the partnership.

William Skelly

After completing the business course, he worked with his father hauling oil well supplies to oil fields in Venango County, Pennsylvania.

Wim Van Grembergen

Van Grembergen authored and co-authored many publications in the Business/IT alignment, Governance and Performance management.

Woodroofe

The business was family owned until it was acquired by Adelaide businessmen Michael Harbison and Tim Hartley.

World Football Insider

It was launched by Around the Rings, the number-one publication in the world covering the business and politics of the Olympic Movement, in June 2009.

Zanussi

The 26-year-old son of a blacksmith in Pordenone in Northeastern Italy began the business by making home stoves and wood-burning ovens.