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6 unusual facts about privately held company


Chancellor House Holdings

Chancellor House Holdings is a South African privately held investment company linked to the ruling African National Congress.

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KPMG, the UK accounting firms Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers, IKEA, Trafigura, J C Bamford Excavators (JCB), Lidl, Aldi, LEGO, Bosch, Rolex and Victorinox are some examples of Europe's largest privately held companies.

Koch Industries, Bechtel, Cargill, Publix, Pilot Corp., Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (one of the members of the Big Four accounting firms), Hearst Corporation, S. C. Johnson, and Mars are among the largest privately held companies in the United States.

) is used after a name of a company which is privately held unlike public companies which use the word limited or PLC only.

Roll Global

Roll Global is a private corporation based in Los Angeles, California.

Tiger Athletic Foundation

The Tiger Athletic Foundation or TAF is a private, non-profit corporation dedicated to supporting Louisiana State University (LSU) and its athletics program.


Aerostar Airport Holdings

Aerostar Airport Holdings, LLC is the public-private partnership, privately held company, and limited liability company that operates and manages the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport on behalf of the Puerto Rico Ports Authority.

Garanti Bank

Garanti provides services in all business lines including payment systems, retail, commercial, corporate, SME, private and investment banking.

Glen Taylor

This purchase (which he paid off early) formed the basis for the Taylor Corporation, a privately held multinational printing and electronics company with more than 15,000 employees and based in North Mankato, Minnesota.


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Aircom International

A privately held company, AIRCOM works with many wireless carriers to upgrade and optimize networks as they migrate from 2G to 3G to 4G.

Alain Wertheimer

The privately held company is run by Alain who has presided over the acquisition of several non-Chanel brands, including Eres Lingerie and beachwear, Tanner Krolle saddles and leather goods, and Holland & Holland, a British gunsmith.

Ayas Shilpa

Ayas Shilpa is a privately held company based in Sullia, Karnataka, India, specializing in the construction of low-cost suspension bridges.

Babelgum

Babelgum is an independent, privately held company that is wholly owned and funded by Silvio Scaglia.

Burly Bear Network

The station was initially a privately held company, under CEO Howard Handler, with Ted Jessup as the head of programming, but in September 2002, the station was bought by National Lampoon for an undisclosed amount.

Cortes Wesley Randell

He then was involved in the Federal News Service which is a privately held company based in Washington, DC with bureaus in Moscow and Jerusalem, providing timely verbatim English-language transcription of U.S., Russian and Middle East government press briefings, speeches, and conferences.

Eldon Group

Eldon is a privately held company headquartered in Madrid, Spain, and a global manufacturer of standard and customised enclosure solutions for the industrial and building markets.

Federal Computer Week

FCW is currently owned by California-based 1105 Government Information Group, a privately held company backed by two private equity firms: Nautic Partners and Alta Communications.

Groove Networks

Founded by Ray Ozzie, the creator of IBM's Lotus Notes application, the privately held company specialized in productivity software that allows multiple users to work collaboratively on computer files simultaneously.

Joe's Crab Shack

On November 17, 2006, Joe's was sold to J.H. Whitney & Company, a privately held company, operating as JCS Holdings, LLC.

Kingsley Uyi Idehen

Kingsley Uyi Idehen is Founder, President, and CEO of OpenLink Software, a privately held company founded in 1992.

Lionhead Studios

Lionhead was a privately held company until October 2004 (shortly before the suspension of BC) when a consortium of investors, including Ingenious Ventures, IDG Ventures Europe, and technology firm Add Partners, made a significant investment into the developer.

Netbox Blue

It is privately held company with its head office in Spring Hill, Queensland, Australia, and branch offices in Sydney, Melbourne, and London.

North Pacific Yachts

North Pacific Yachts is a privately held company based in Surrey, British Columbia which builds 28 to 43 foot recreational trawler motoryachts, which it produces in Ningbo, China.

R:Base

In June 1998, R:BASE Technologies, Inc. (a privately held company in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, USA) acquired the R:BASE products from Abacus Software Group.

Rising Sun Research

The privately held company was founded in April 2000 and is headquartered in Adelaide, Australia.

Riverfront Broadcasting LLC

Riverfront Broadcasting LLC is a privately held company in Yankton, South Dakota, United States.

Seventh Generation Inc.

Established in 1988, the Burlington, Vermont based company remains an independent, privately held company distributing products to natural food stores, supermarkets, mass merchants, and online retailers.

Stratus Technologies

Stratus Technologies, Inc. is a privately held company, owned primarily by Intel Capital, NEC, MidOcean Partners and Investcorp.

The NY Quickbooks Group

The NY QuickBooks Group is a privately held company that provides training solutions as well as design and implementation of ERM systems.

Vidoop

Vidoop LLC was a privately held company based in Portland, Oregon.