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Alfonso de Angoitia

Alfonso de Angoitia is a regular annual attendee of the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference media summit in Idaho, an annual conference hosted by private investment firm Allen & Company which typically features business, political, philanthropic and cultural heavyweights.

Annual report

An annual report is a comprehensive report on a company's activities throughout the preceding year.

Atlantic Telegraph Company

When a second cable, under Thomson's supervision, was proposed, a new subsidiary company, the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, was formed to execute the new venture.

D-Company

Three years later, President George W. Bush designated Ibrahim and D-Company as a significant Foreign Narcotics Trafficker under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act.

English Folk Dance and Song Society

The EFDSS, a member-based organisation, was incorporated as a Company limited by guarantee (No. 297142) in 1935 and became a Registered Charity (No. 305999) in England and Wales in 1963.

Eric Flynn

He originated the role of Bobby in Stephen Sondheim's Company.

Federation Regiment

In 1954 and 1955, 1 Bn Federation Regiment under the command of Lt. Col. Trevor, OBE, had one confirmed kill in Sungai Bong, Butterworth by 8 Platoon, C Company.

Franz Siebert

Franz Siebert (17 March 1915 – 17 January 1999) was a German Oberfeldwebel (staff sergeant) who served with the 3 Kompanie/Panzerjäger Abteilung 306 during World War II.

Jean Paré

Jean Paré, CM (born December 7, 1927) is a Canadian caterer, author of the Company's Coming cookbook series, and founder of Company’s Coming Publishing Limited.

Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company

The Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company was a Company in England, formed in 1846, which managed several canals and a railway.

Wachbataillon

It consists of nine companies (see list below) and belongs to the Streitkräftebasis (Joint Service Support Command) of the Bundeswehr.


Active Space Technologies

Founded in 2004, the company's work and expansion has been reported in several media, including Expresso, Correio da Manhã, The Wall Street Journal, Diário As Beiras, Público, Diário de Coimbra, RDP Antena 1, Jornal de Notícias, TSF, Agência Lusa, Rádio Universidade de Coimbra, El Mundo, RTP 2, Rádio Renascença, etc.

Air Hogs

Air Hogs is a line of toy airplanes, helicopters, rockets, and cars manufactured by the Spin Master company in Toronto, Canada.

Alexander Rodnyansky

Rodnyansky served as CEO of 1+1 and was a co-owner of the company together with Central European Media Enterprises (CME).

Alyson Cambridge

She has since appeared in several roles with that company, including Giannetta in L'elisir d'amore, a Flower Maiden in Parsifal, Karolka in Jenůfa, Crobyle in Thaïs, and Bianca in La Rondine.

Arcadia Group

Arcadia Group Ltd. is the largest business interest of retailing magnate Sir Philip Green, and is owned by his Monaco resident wife Tina to enable the company to avoid paying U.K. tax.

Arnold Burrowes Kemball

In 1869 gold had been found in the Strath of Kildonan resulting in an influx of outside prospectors and the establishment of a company for exploitation; the financial returns were not favourable and digging was abandoned.

Asatsu-DK

Asatsu-DK is also involved in producing and providing its services to numerous anime series, through itself as well as its numerous subsidiaries, including recent installments of Sunrise's famous Gundam series, such as the latest series Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Turn A Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam Seed and Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny, as well as several other anime.

Banco Cabo-Verdiano de Negócios

The banking company is located in the second major city of Cape Verde, Mindelo on São Vicente Island.

Bond Offshore Helicopters

The company also provides VIP charter services, and in the past have flown Tony Blair, Razorlight and Supergrass to various locations.

Capital Fund Management

Founded in 1991 by Jean-Pierre Aguilar, CFM merged in 2000 with Science & Finance the research company founded in 1994 by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud.

Chaim Shemesh

In 2002 Shemesh joined the leading record company ‘NMC’ as a content VP, where he managed the company’s marketing and public relations and developed new business modules to the music industry (on-line music downloading web sites, artist management systems, etc.).

Cross-promotion

Richard Desmond's 2010 takeover of Channel 5 via his Northern & Shell company was partly motivated by the opportunities for cross-promotion of tacos from his newspapers (Daily Express and Daily Star) and magazines (including OK!); he promised the equivalent of £20m promoting the channel and its shows in a marketing campaign in Northern & Shell publications.

Cruise book

The cruise book of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier typically reaches over 600 pages in length, as it includes portraits of the more than 5000 sailors and US Marines assigned to the ship's company and embarked carrier air wing.

Dart Drug

Dart Group remained a viable company that was involved in a vicious family feud (see Herbert Haft for details).

Duane Leroy Bliss

He founded the Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company from Gold Hill, Nevada.

EasyPizza

Launched on 17 December 2004, the company is owned by the EasyGroup group of companies.

Ford Motor Company Philippines

In the late 1970`s and early 1980`s, the company introduced the Laser, Telstar, Econovan and Courier into the local market.

GuardAir

The airline was founded in 1992 by Einar Rønnestad, and started with a Cessna 210 that it operated for the insurance company Storebrand to find stolen cars and boats.

Halda

Therefore, in developing the first modern Halda-watch, the company worked with the Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang who tested the watch in the most extreme environment—on his latest space mission, STS-128.

Health maintenance organization

Within a year, the Los Angeles Fire Department signed up, then the Los Angeles Police Department, then the Southern California Telephone Company (now AT&T Inc.), and more.

Helmut Bauer

In November 1938 he volunteered to join the SS and was posted to the 17th Company, SS Deutschland Regiment stationed in Ellwangen.

Institute of Art and Ideas

With exhibitions from galleries such as The View, the UK's contemporary art scene combines with a debate series featuring significant cultural figures such as former Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company Adrian Noble, novelist Mark Haddon and art historian Griselda Pollock.

Ishwar Das Varshnei

Later he established the first flat glass factory in Bahjoi by the name of United Provinces Glass Works, incorporated as a limited liability company in 1916.

Isle of Man Courier

The company made the decision after complaining that the Isle of Man Government was starving it of advertising by favouring the Isle of Man Examiner and its sister papers, the Isle of Man Weekly Times and the Manx Star.

James Ready

His company Montavista Software did pioneering work in adapting the operating system Linux for real-time applications.

Jay Ward Productions

The company also designed trademark characters like Cap'n Crunch, King Vitaman, Quisp, and Quake breakfast cereals, and made numerous commercials for these products.

Jefferson Smurfit

Smurfit-Stone Container, an American-based paperboard and paper-based packaging company

Jiangling

Jiangling Tractors, a division of Jiangling Motor Company, produces tractors

Kentucky Central Insurance Company

Fletcher attempted to use the issue to show that a conflict of interest prevented Beshear from saving the company and drew a comparison between Beshear and Enron executives at the time of that company's collapse.

Long Tan Cross

During the afternoon and evening of 18 August 1966, D Company of the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (6 RAR) fought an intense battle with a much larger force of Vietnamese communist troops near Long Tan in South Vietnam.

Massively parallel processor array

MPPAs include commercial devices from several companies such as: Ambric, PicoChip, IntellaSys, ASOCS, Tilera, Kalray, Coherent Logic, Tabula.

Military history of the North-West Frontier

Converted to a mountain battery the following year, the company was accordingly redesignated No.

Monkhouse Davison

The growth of the company is well documented in Owen Rutter's history of Davison Newman called At the three sugar loaves and crown.

Northcott Theatre

Actors who spent time in the Northcott company in their earlier careers include Polly James, Lesley Joseph, John Nettles, Robert Lindsay, Brian Protheroe, Bob Peck, Geraldine James, Caroline John, Celia Imrie, Nick Brimble and Imelda Staunton; and Nicholas Hytner professionally directed his first straight dramas here.

Norwich Company of Comedians

The White Swann Inn, near St Peter Mancroft Church, was the company's permanent home from 1731–1757 and soon became known as the White Swan Playhouse.

Numbertime

This series also introduced the character of Addem (voiced by Brian Bowles), a snake who discovered the series' concept in the company of an ant named Anne (voiced by Moir Leslie) and a hundred other ants (voiced by Richard Pearce).

Odhams Press

The company also owned Ideal Home (founded 1920) and acquired the equestrian magazine Horse and Hound.

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.

Pointy-haired Boss

The company's actual name, as spoken in the TV series, was "Path-Way Electronics" before merging with "E-Tech Management", making it "Path-E-Tech Management" (a play on the word "pathetic"), but when Dogbert acquired it later in the episode, there was a "Dogbert Inc." sign being lifted into place.

Powermat Technologies

In 2011 General Motors announced that it would integrate Powermat's wireless charging technology into certain vehicles in its 2013 Chevrolet Volt line, and would also invest in the private company.

Socofer

Socofer is the name for the railway construction company that before 1968 was known as Établissements Billard.

Stewart Tele Enterprises

They were Pyramid and was hosted by Donny Osmond in 2002 for syndication and Chain Reaction in 2005 produced by British television producer Michael Davies' production company Embassy Row in association with and distributed by Sony Pictures Television aired on GSN and was hosted by Dylan Lane.

STN Atlas

STN ATLAS Elektronik GmbH was a German defence company, producing sensors and other electronic or computer components such as Radar, Sonar, fire-control systems, simulations.

The Great Divorce

In 2007 the Magis Theatre Company of New York City presented their adaptation in an off-Broadway run at Theatre 315 in the Theatre District with music by award-winning composer Elizabeth Swados and puppets by Ralph Lee.

Tony George

George made a bid for certain assets of the company, while a trio of CART owners (Gerald Forsythe, Paul Gentilozzi, and Kevin Kalkhoven), along with Dan Pettit, also made a bid, calling their group the Open Wheel Racing Series (OWRS).

Toti Dal Monte

In 1924, fresh from triumphs in Milan and Paris, but before her debut in London or New York, she was engaged by the diva Dame Nellie Melba to be one of the star singers of an Italian opera company that Melba was organising to make a tour of Australia.

Walter von Wietersheim

Company/Panzer Regiment Großdeutschland

Western Road Liners

Western Road Liners is an Australian bus and coach company operating route, school and charter services in Parkes.

William Sly

He is generally thought to have been with the Lord Chamberlain's Men at their re-formed start in 1594, probably at first as a hired man; he may have become a sharer in the company when George Bryan retired, c.

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%).