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Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij

The Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij ˈhɔlɑntsə ˈɛizərə(n) ˈspʊːrʋɛxmaːtsxɑˌpɛi or HSM (Hollands Iron Railway-Company) was the first railway company in the Netherlands founded on 8 August 1837 as a private company, starting operation in 1839 with a line between Amsterdam and Haarlem.

Nick Leslau

After Knutsford; in February 2001 Leslau set up private company Prestbury Investment Holdings, funded by HBOS and Sir Tom Hunter, with whom he has since done a number of Scottish based joint ventures with Hunter's West Coast Capital.

Sandefjords Blad

Sandefjords Blad is a private company, owned by Mecom with a circulation of 14,780 copies (2004) and 50 employees (2004).


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Air cell

Aircell, a private company developing broadband for both private and commercial aviation

Airship Ventures

was a private company that offered sight-seeing rides (which the company called "flightseeing") in a 12-passenger Zeppelin NT out of a World War II United States Navy hangar at Moffett Federal Airfield near Mountain View, California.

Blackboard Inc.

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

Bob Gullo

Robert Gullo (born March 16, 1965) is the president and founder of Electronics Design Group (EDG) a private company that specializes in the design, integration and installation of home theaters and home automation systems for private residences and businesses.

Florence McClure Women's Correctional Center

State Senator Bob Coffin objected to the idea of another private company receiving a contract to operate the prison.

Georg Tintner

In 1954, he went to Australia and became resident conductor of the National Opera of Australia (a private company) before joining the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust Opera in 1957.

Gerl

Gerl Manufactur was established in 1992 as a private company in Landshut in Bavaria, Germany.

Gillardeau oysters

Gillardeau oysters are a brand of edible oysters that are produced by the Gillardeau family and their small private company, which was founded in 1898 in Bourcefranc-le-Chapus near La Rochelle and the Île d'Oléron in western France.

GlassPoint Solar

GlassPoint Solar is a private company founded in 2009 that designs and manufactures solar steam generators that use solar thermal technology to generate steam for enhanced oil recovery (EOR).

Helge Stormorken

Then, from 1980 to 1990, he was an assistant professor at Rikshospitalet, and from 1990 to 1995 he worked for the private company Nycomed2, mainly within contrast media development.

Jeita Grotto

In December 2003, on behalf of the Beirut-based private company MAPAS, Jeita received a prestigious award from the fifth Tourism Summits in Chamonix, France.

KEVN-TV

KEVN is owned by Mission TV, an independent private company led by California attorney William Reyner (unrelated to the holding company of the same name that is controlled by Nexstar Broadcasting Group), and has a co-located studio/office and transmitter facility in Rapid City.

Lou Naumovski

He is also a non-executive member of the Board of Directors of the Center of Financial Technologies (CFT), a leading Russian private company in the financial services software and payment industry.

MacBrayne

David MacBrayne Ltd, 1851 private company (re-formed 1928) operating freight and passenger vessels in the Hebrides of Scotland

Mail2web

Mail2web.com is an e-mail retrieval service started in 1997 by SoftCom Technology Consulting Inc., a private company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

McGregor Lake

It was administered as a private company until 1950, when the federal Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration assumed control and modified the dam into a zoned earthfill structure from its previously homogeneous state.

Michael Cherney

Cherney, together with his brother Lev Cherney and UK metals traders David and Simon Reuben, founded Trans-World Group (TWG) – the first and largest private company in Russia which produced aluminum and sold it on Western markets.

National Positions

In November 2011, the Los Angeles Business Journal named National Positions the 15th fastest growing private company in LA County.

Nepal Government Railway

The first bus service began operating on it in 1959, conducted by a private company named Nepal Transport Service.

NGA Pro Golf Tour

The NGA Pro Golf Tour is a private company founded by T. C. "Rick" Jordan in 1988 and later sold to Hooters restaurant chain owner Robert H. Brooks in 1994.

Nochex

It is a private company with twenty four employees based in the United Kingdom .

Odyssey Space Research

This start-up in the space industry founded in November 2003 has already won major contracts and is the only private company working on the 5 next human-rated spacecraft (ATV, HTV, CEV, and both COTS spacecraft with SpaceX and Orbital Sciences Corporation).

Paradigm Partners

Brian has negotiated several national alliances and formed relationships with many of the Top 100 CPA firms which has propelled Paradigm Partners to be recognized as a 2011 Inc. 500 company, and the 9th fastest growing private company in Houston, TX.

Paranur

The Paranur railway station is the first of its kind in the public-private partnership between a private company and the Indian railways.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

During her tenure as Minister of Minerals and Energy the parastatal company PetroSA made an advance payment of ZAR15 million (approx. $1.5m) to a private company Imvume, which in turn made a ZAR11 million donation to the ANC ahead of the 2004 elections.

Plasma propulsion engine

The VASIMR is currently being developed by the private company Ad Astra Rocket Company, headquartered in Houston, TX with of help from a NS Canada based company Nautel, producing the 200 kW RF generators for ionizing propellant.

Platt Music

Platt Music Corporation, where Herman Platt, (1909–2005), son of Benjamin Platt served as president and CEO from 1956 until 1984, was a private company that leased space in department stores such as The May Department Stores Company, otherwise known as Robinsons-May, and sold consumer electronic products.

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.

Princes Bridge

Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe favoured an Elizabeth Street crossing, but despite such official pressure the private company favoured the construction conditions at Swanston Street, which had become regarded as the growing town's main street.

Puente Alsina railway station

As part of the privatization of the Argentine railways in 1990’s the private company Metropolitano was granted a concession to operate the service, part of the Linea Belgrano Sur, as far as General Belgrano, from 1 May 1994.

Radeberger Brewery

In 2004 Oetker Gruppe, purchased the company and removed them from the stock market, thus making Radeberger a private company.

Rail transport in Sweden

A private company Tågkompaniet operates in central Sweden, and there are a number of regional companies.

Research Institute of Molecular Pathology

The foundation of the institute was promoted by the private company Boehringer Ingelheim, intending to branch into biotechnology, and the American partner Genentech, a biotechnology firm.

Return of the Flying Tigers

At the end of World War Two, the General purchased several surplus military aircraft to create the Civil Air Transport (later Air America), an officially private company which in fact worked for the CIA and with other Western and allied governments throughout the Chinese Civil War, Korean War, First Indochina War, and Vietnam War.

Sensis

Sensis Corporation, a private company specializing in air traffic control and defense systems

TerraGo

TerraGo is a private company based in Atlanta, Georgia with offices in Manhattan Beach, California, and Arlington, Virginia that develops location intelligence, geospatial collaboration and field data collection software and solutions.

Thái Bình Province

Some Thái Bình people are among the richest in Vietnam, including Vũ Quang Hội who is the founder of Bitexco group (who owns Bitexco Financial Tower in Ho Chi Minh City, The Manor luxury building in Hanoi, etc.), Vu Van Tien, founder of Geleximco - the largest private company in Hanoi and AB Bank, a large private bank.

The Dark Report

It is produced by the DARK Intelligence Group, Inc., a private company that was founded in 1995 with headquarters in Spicewood, Texas, USA.

University Health Network

Parking is provided through a private company Standard Parking Corporation (NASDAQ: STAN) that provides parking facility management for more than one million parking spaces in hundreds of cities across the United States and Canada.

Water privatization in Morocco

At the time of the French protectorate of Morocco beginning in 1912 the water supply of Casablanca, Rabat, Salé, Tangiers and Meknes was provided by the French private company Société Marocaine de Distribution d'eau, de gaz et d'électricité (SMD), a subsidiary of Lyonnaise des Eaux, under concession contracts.

William Dunavant

Dunavant Enterprises is on the Forbes 400 list of largest private companies and according to the Memphis Business Journal, it is the largest private company in Memphis.

Yunnan–Burma Railway

:A railway, starting from Mandalay, goes north-east to the bank of the Salwin which is to be crossed at Kunlong Ferry in latitude 23 degrees 20', whence, if ever built, it is to be taken north in Chinese territory and run parallel with the prevailing strike of the mountains, due north to Tali-fu; but this line will pass through a wild thinly-peopled country and it is doubtful if a private company will be found to build it.

ZNS-TV

ZNS-TV's two transmitters - serving Nassau and Freeport - are the only over-the-air TV stations in the Bahamas; the rest of the country gets these channels (and a privately owned station) via Cable Bahamas, a private company which has an exclusive license to operate cable TV services until 2009.