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ABB Group

In 2006, ABB returned to financial health by settling its asbestos liability regarding claims that were filed against ABB's U.S. subsidiaries, Combustion Engineering and Lummus Global.

Airbus Helicopters

Today, Airbus Helicopters has six plants in the Europe (Marignane and La Courneuve in France, Donauwörth, Ottobrunn and Kassel in Germany, and Albacete in Spain), plus 30 subsidiaries and participants around the world.

Alessandro Martini

During this early period the Distilleria Nazionale di Spirito di Vino kept on growing and a several subsidiaries were created in Genoa, Cagliari and Narbonne thanks to the protection of the King of Piedmont.

Andrew Wiederhorn

Fatburger has struggled through the 2008-10 recession, with subsidiaries in California and Nevada entering Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2009.

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.

Bergner's

Maus Frères SA, based in Geneva, Switzerland, acquired the company at that point and gave the store its unique red logo of six hexagons, an emblem Bergner's now shares with five corporate siblings as well as two current Maus subsidiaries.

Bis vs. the D.I.Y. Corps

"This is Fake D.I.Y." is an attack on the then popular practice of major labels using subsidiaries such as Indolent and Food to promote artists as independent or alternative.

Bitzer SE

In the following years, Peter Schaufler founded over 35 subsidiaries on all five continents, including production locations in Germany, Portugal, China, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, Indonesia and the USA.

Capital lending

In the cases of companies like GM and General Electric the financial subsidiaries have become very large businesses in their own right.

Cartamundi

Cartamundi, also called Carta Mundi, is a Belgian company, based in Turnhout, that produces and sells board games, card games, collectible card games, packages and playing cards through its manufacturing and sales subsidiaries.

CDU/CSU

The CSU is only organised in the German state of Bavaria and only fields candidates in elections within Bavaria (in German Bundestag and European Parliament elections, it only runs for Bavarian mandates), while the CDU correspondingly has only subsidiaries outside of Bavaria and only runs in the other 15 states.

Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom also holds substantial shares in other telecom companies, including Central European subsidiaries Slovak Telekom (Slovakia), Magyar Telekom (Hungary), and T-Hrvatski Telekom (Croatia), which are now fully consolidated into T-Com/T-Home.

DSPACE GmbH

The company has Project Centers in Pfaffenhofen (near Munich) and Böblingen (near Stuttgart) and subsidiaries in the USA, UK, France, Japan and China.

First Transit

Class Action Lawsuit – Members of the Amalgamated Transit Union filed a class action lawsuit against First Group subsidiaries First Student and First Transit for violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act in October 2009.

Free-range eggs

Many retailers in the Netherlands, including Albert Heijn and Schuitema (subsidiaries of Ahold), Laurus (including Edah, Konmar and Super de Boer), Dirk van den Broek (including Bas van der Heijden and Digros), Aldi and Lidl sell only free-range shell eggs.

Gerald Lyda

The company and its subsidiaries were ranked among the Top 400 Contractors by Engineering News-Record and was consistently ranked among the Top 3 commercial building contractors based on billings in San Antonio by San Antonio Business Journal.

Gérard Soisson

Whereas Soisson had refused numerous requests to open non-published accounts from such institutions as Chase Manhattan in New York, Chemical Bank of London and numerous subsidiaries of Citibank, Cedel opened hundreds of non-published accounts — all of them irregular — especially after the arrival of CEO André Lussi in 1990.

Giad Auto

Founded in March 1997, Giad Auto is a joint venture of the SMT Engineering Co., Ltd. arms companies with the state Military Industry Corporation and operates as a holding company for seven subsidiaries.

Glacio

Through a Management buyout, the management takes over the company and its subsidiaries from Nestlé in 2003.

GYS

Although GYS is headquartered in Laval, Mayenne - about 280 km west of Paris - the industrial group has R&D centers, factories and commercial subsidiaries in France, Germany, UK and China.

Health Care Service Corporation

HCSC offers a wide variety of health and life insurance products and related services, through its operating divisions and subsidiaries; including Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas and Dearborn National.

Henrik Lund-Nielsen

Based on a world record of 80% recycling rate for gypsum waste in Denmark, he grew the company from an initially marginal Danish presence to the world leader in recycling of gypsum plasterboard (drywall) waste with several European subsidiaries and business in the US and Asia.

Ingram Micro

In 1989 Ingram Micro, then "Ingram Micro-D" a subsidiary of the privately owned Ingram Industries group, took over the Belgian Softinvest and its three Softeurop subsidiaries active on the Belgian, the French and the Dutch markets from Brussels, Lille and Utrecht.

Istobal

Headquartered in L'Alcúdia (Valencia), the company has 8 subsidiaries and assembly plants in Spain, France, USA and Brasil.

Juan Mauricio Wurmser

His years as a corporate marketing executive include early assignments with the Guatemala subsidiaries of Warner Lambert, Avon, and Colgate-Palmolive, before joining British American Tobacco in 1978, a company that he served for 15 years in Guatemala, Panama, Spain, Mexico, and Argentina before returning to Guatemala as President and General Manager of its local subsidiary.

Kapro

Kapro is headquartered at Kibbutz Kadarim, with subsidiaries in the USA (Kapro Tools Inc.) and in China (Kapro China Ltd.) – all wholly owned and operated by Kapro Industries.

Keimfarben

Keimfarben has two German sites in Diedorf (headquarters) and Alteno/Luckau and altogether eleven foreign subsidiaries in Europe (Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Poland, the Czech Republic) and the United States.

Krzysztof Obłój

Obłój acts as consultant and supervisory board member (partly as chairman) in Polsh companies or local subsidiaries of corporations like Asea Brown Boveri, LG Group, Reckitt Benckiser, Alior Bank SA, Prochem SA, Agora SA, Ambra SA, Eurobank S.A., Impel SA, NFI Foksal SA, PGF SA, PKN Orlen SA, Polmos Lublin SA or PZU SA.

Larvex Corporation

On this date Zonite Products Corporation informed the New York Stock Exchange that it was dissolving its six subsidiaries.

Laško Brewery

The Group has also some other subsidiaries, but owns less than 50% of the companies: Mercator, Delo, Slovita, Jadranska pivovara, RA&LA and Firma Del.

Mahmoud Kaabour

His commercial work includes directing tailor-made documentaries, including multiple films for The Ministry of Presidential Affairs and The Executive Affairs Authority in Abu Dhabi, the Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council, Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, Dubai Holding and Dubai Investments subsidiaries.

MAL Hungarian Aluminium

The company set up subsidiaries in Germany and Romania, and acquired majority holdings in the SILKEM, producing zeolites and ground alumina in Kidričevo, Slovenia, and Rudnici Boksita Jajce, which operates a high-grade bauxite mine near Jajce, central Bosnia.

Manfred Eicher

Manfred Eicher (born 9 July 1943 in Lindau, Germany) is a German record producer and the founder of ECM Records and its subsidiaries.

Paramount Resources

In addition to its own name, Paramount has several subsidiaries with names resembling those of Hollywood companies, including Fox Drilling, Summit Resources, and Pixar Petroleum.

Phoenix Contact

Phoenix Contact USA, one of the company's first international subsidiaries, was established in 1981 in Middletown, Pennsylvania.

Plaxton President

These were originally allocated to the Cambus, Manchester and Oxfordshire subsidiaries - although they've since been transferred to other subsidiaries within Stagecoach.

Pulte Homes

Pulte has subsidiaries that include Del Webb, which builds retirement communities, and Palm Beach Gardens-based Divosta Homes, a pioneer in the mass-market construction of cast concrete houses.

Richard P. Rubinstein

In 1988, Rubinstein and Aaron Spelling merged Laurel Entertainment and Spelling's own production company, Aaron Spelling Productions as subsidiaries of a new public company, Spelling Entertainment Inc.

Samsung Global Scholarship Program

The significance of the program can also be seen from the wide range of students who, as it was already in the first years, came from the leading companies including Cheil Communications, Amore Pacific, Woori Bank, POSCO, SK, Kyobo, Everland, Bosch, KTF and several Samsung subsidiaries.

Sedus

Sedus is one of Europe’s major office furniture manufacturers, with production plants in both Dogern and Geseke, plus eight European subsidiaries in France (Paris), Italy (Cadorago), Spain (Madrid), Austria (Vienna), Great Britain (London), the Netherlands (Zoetermeer), Belgium (Wetteren) and Switzerland (Rickenbach).

SoftBank

Additionally, it has various partnerships in Japanese subsidiaries of foreign companies such as Yahoo!, E-Trade, Ustream.tv, EF Education First and Morningstar.

Suscon, Pennsylvania

It is named for its position at the former junction of the Susquehanna Connecting Railroad and the Wilkes-Barre and Eastern Railroad (both subsidiaries of the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway).

Tokyu

Tokyu Hands Creative Life Store, a member of the Tokyu Group (see Tokyu Group for more subsidiaries)

TOM Group

Capitalizing on its innovative media and comprehensive network, OMG has 15 subsidiaries located in major cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Chengdu to provide clients with tailor-made services and one-stop shop solutions.

Vanoil Energy

In addition to its office in Vancouver, Vanoil has representation through its subsidiaries in Nairobi, Kenya, Antananarivo, Madagascar and Douglas, Isle of Man.

Volkswind

Companies headquarters is based in Ganderkesee, Germany, and has worldwide subsidiaries in France, England, Poland, Bulgaria and USA.

Win's Entertainment

Subsidiaries of Win's Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co Ltd include production companies such as Ocean Shores Video (Hong Kong) Co Ltd which was once a powerful film company formed since 1970.

Wolverine World Wide

In 2012, Wolverine World Wide added Saucony, Keds, Stride Rite and Sperry Top-Sider to their list of subsidiaries after a joint agreement with Blum Capital Partners and Golden Gate Capital acquired the Performance Lifestyle Group of Collective Brands for US$1.23 billion.


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