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Mohaka River

Conglomerate, sandstone and limestone begin to dominate the banks and large boulders create the rapids down through the grade III section.


1994 in Singapore

The slogan/motto/tagline/crest of arms "No Sex, No Violence, No News" (Chinese: "無色情、無暴力、無新聞") whose shares are 60% owned by Time Warner (the conglomerate that is owned by Ted Turner who owns Turner) and 40% owned by News Corporation (the conglomerate that is owned by Rupert Murdoch that owns STAR TV) with programming similar to that of STAR TV.

Abed Khan

In January 2010, Abed Khan founded and served as editor of a new daily newspaper, Kaler Kantho, after securing a sponsorship from Bangladeshi business conglomerate Bashundhara Group.

Ad Lib, Inc.

In 1992, a conglomerate from Germany, Binnenalster GmbH, purchased the assets of Ad Lib from the Government of Quebec, who had acquired it to prevent Creative Labs from buying it.

American Film Company

Mutual Film, a motion picture conglomerate that operated as a distributor for four subsidiary movie studios in Southern California, including Flying "A".

Assis Chateaubriand

Chateaubriand was a media mogul in Brazil between the late 1930s and the early 1960s and the owner of Diários Associados, a conglomerate that counted at its peak more than a hundred newspapers, radio and TV stations, magazines and a telegraphic agency.

B. S. Abdur Rahman

His conglomerate built several landmarks, businesses and institutions in coastal Tamil Nadu viz. Chennai Citi Centre, Chepauk Stadium, Anna Nagar Tower, Marina Lighthouse, Valluvar Kottam, Government General Hospital, Gemini Flyover, Raheja Towers, Star Health and Allied Insurance, Crescent Engineering College, etc..

Brunei Investment Agency

Brunei investors bought The Dorchester on Park Lane in London in 1985 for US$50 million and in 1996 BIA formed the Dorchester Collection, a conglomerate of luxury hotels in UK, USA, France and Italy which includes it.

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.

Daewoo Securities

Daewoo Securities was founded in 1970 as part of the Daewoo Corporation, the second largest conglomerate in Korea after Hyundai.

Davie Yards Incorporated

The Canadian engineering conglomerate SNC-Lavalin, Upper Lakes Groups Inc. and South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) will partner in a joint venture.

Dhirubhai Ambani International School

The Dhirubhai Ambani International School (DAIS) is a private co-educational LKG-12 day school in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, built by Reliance Industries, named after the late patriarch of the conglomerate, Dhirubhai Ambani.

DIC Entertainment

It was founded in 1971 as DIC Audiovisuel by Frenchman Jean Chalopin in Paris, as a subsidiary of RTL Group (RTL), Europe's leading entertainment company, which today, is majority-owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.

Festivals in Kolkata

Crowds of people throng the streets of Kolkata all night; the number is purported to be a few million on the climactic eighth and ninth nights, possibly the second largest annual human conglomerate after the Hajj.

Flames of Desire

Yoo Seung-ho as Kim Min-jae - The 2nd generation son of a conglomerate family.

Flower Boy Ramen Shop

She accidentally encounters Cha Chi-soo (Jung Il-woo), the arrogant heir to the biggest food conglomerate in South Korea.

GAC Ireland

CIÉ looked for partners to build these buses in Ireland, eventually finding two: the Canadian conglomerate Bombardier, and the US-based General Automotive Corporation (GAC) from Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra

The Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra is a conglomerate of several musical groups under the leadership of the Georgia Symphony Orchestra.

Global Fleet Group

The Global Fleet Group is a business conglomerate, that is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, with interests across a range of sectors in Africa.

Grupo Cartes

Grupo Cartes is a business conglomerate owned by Paraguay's president-elect Horacio Cartes.

Ike Duffey

Duffey, along with his brother John, was the founder and owner of the meatpacking company Duffey Farms, owners of the Hughes-Curry Packing Co. of Anderson from 1946 to 1949 (Duffey Farms is today part of the Emge Meats conglomerate).

Jean-Jacques Perrey

A 2009 lawsuit by the composers against Mexican multimedia conglomerate Televisa was settled in 2010, as a compensation for the network's non-payment of the use of these melodies.

José Carlos Semenzato

The conglomerate, which has been restructured as a holding named FranHolding has other franchising chains, such as the Instituto Embelleze, in the area of professional education in cosmetics, NumberOne Idiomas, in the area of idioms teaching, and Ricardo Almeida, a clothing fashion school.

Juan José Gutiérrez

Juan José Gutiérrez Mayorga is Co-President and Board Member of Corporación Multi Inversiones (CMI), a large agro-industrial conglomerate which, according to an article in El Diario de Hoy, is one of the largest circulating newspapers in El Salvador, and one of the biggest corporations in Central America.

Kombolcha

It is also home to Kombolcha Steel products, a metalworking factory that is part of MIDROC, a conglomerate owned by businessman Sheikh Mohammed Al Amoudi.

Magnus Mandersson

Preceding his work at Ericsson, he has held management positions within the Swedish conglomerate Kinnevik, as both COO of Millicom SA and CEO of Tele2 Europe.

Manila Water

It is a subsidiary of the country's oldest conglomerate Ayala Corporation in partnership with British and Japanese investors.

Mehmet Sabancı

His father was the son of Hacı Ömer Sabancı (1906–1966), the founder of Sabancı Holding, the second largest industrial and financial conglomerate of Turkey.

Metaconglomerate

The cement matrix of conglomerate is not as durable as the grains, and hence when broken, conglomerate breaks around the grains.

Mitsubishi Debonair

British luxury apparel manufacturer Aquascutum was also commissioned to design an exclusive interior appearance package for the Debonair, soon after the company had been purchased by Japanese textile conglomerate company Renown Incorporated; the supercharger was installed optionally with this particular trim package.

Mochi

In the United States the grocery chains Trader Joe's, H Mart, Lotte, and Mollie Stone's sell mochi ice cream in flavors of chocolate, mango, coconut, green tea, coffee, red bean, vanilla, and strawberry.

New Zealand Post Office

Telecom was sold to two United States Baby Bells, and PostBank was sold to the Pacific banking conglomerate Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, ANZ.

Niger Rapid Intervention Company

Western journalists have also claimed that the NRIC was previously drafted into use as security for the French conglomerate Areva NC's Uranium mines in Arlit, northern Niger.

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.

Société de Microélectronique et d'Horlogerie

Dr. Ernst Thomke, previously CEO of Ebauches SA and ETA SA was appointed to head the newly established conglomerate as it first CEO.

Steyr Tractor

It was part of the Steyr-Daimler-Puch conglomerate from 1934 until 1990 and was purchased by Case Corporation in 1996.

Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited

SCOUL is a subsidiary of the Mehta Group, a diversified industrial and investment conglomerate based in Mumbai, India, employing over 10,000 people in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America.

The Ninth Configuration

With no major film studio prepared to fund The Ninth Configuration, Blatty decided to raise the film's $4 million budget by putting up half the money himself, and persuading the PepsiCo conglomerate to provide the remaining $2 million.

The Radio Network

The company was bought out by a syndicate that included The New Zealand Herald and New Zealand Listener publisher Wilson & Horton and United States radio company Clear Channel Communications; Wilson & Horton was then purchased by Ireland-based media conglomerate Independent News & Media, and onsold to Independent's Australian subsidiary APN.

Trans International Airlines

Kerkorian took the company public in 1965, then sold his interests in 1968 to insurance conglomerate Transamerica Corporation, profiting an estimated $85 million.

Transporter Industry International

Transporter Industry International GmbH is a conglomerate of companies providing heavy load transportation including Scheuerle, Nicolas and KAMAG Transporttechnik GmbH & Company (based in Ulm, Germany).

Trenton, Nova Scotia

As of 2010, the facility is undergoing a $60 million conversion to produce components for wind turbines in a partnership between South Korean industrial conglomerate Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DMSE) and the governments of Nova Scotia and Canada.

Trimline telephone

It was designed by Henry Dreyfuss Associates under the project direction of Donald Genaro, having designed all previous desktop telephone models for the American Telephone & Telegraph conglomerate.

TTK Group

The TTK Group is an Indian business conglomerate with a presence across several segments of industry including consumer durables, pharmaceuticals and supplements, bio-medical devices, maps and atlases, consular visa services, virtual assistant services and health care services.

Vodafone Portugal

The initial group of shareholders was led by Portuguese investment bank Banco Espírito Santo, Portuguese conglomerate Amorim and USA's Pacific Telesis, owner of mobile operator PacTel Cellular.

Volaris

Major initial shareholders of the company were Grupo Televisa (the world's biggest Spanish-language media conglomerate), Inbursa (an insurance company owned by billionaire Carlos Slim), Avianca (then TACA Airlines) and the Discovery Americas Fund.

Werner Rey

Through his companies, Werner Rey held controlling participations in the Metallwerke Selve AG in Thun, the commodity inspection company Inspectorate International, the holding company Omni Holding AG, the Swiss media conglomerate Jean Frey AG, the temporary employment agency Adia Interim (today part of Adecco), and a substantial 30 percent of the established Sulzer group, among others.

Whatcom Middle School

In 1903, North Side High School was built to service the city of Bellingham, the conglomerate of four communities that surrounded Bellingham Bay - Whatcom, Bellingham, Sehome, and Fairhaven.

World Journal

World Journal is owned by the same media conglomerate that runs the United Daily News in Taiwan and is mostly run by Taiwanese Americans.

Yasuda zaibatsu

In January, 1942, Hajime Yasuda, the head of the conglomerate, announced that all Yasuda family members would withdraw from related and subsidiary companies, assuming new leadership positions as board members over all zaibatsu concerns.


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