Depending on jurisdiction, the term "company" may or may not be synonymous withcorporation,partnership,firm andsociety. Companies are governed bycompany law, which is also known as corporate law in some jurisdictions. Incorporated companies are created by and registered with thestate, whereasunincorporated companies are not.
When a company closes, it may need to beliquidated to avoid further legal obligations. Companies may associate and collectively register themselves as new companies known ascorporate groups, collections of parent and subsidiary corporations. (Full article...)
William Stones started brewing in 1847 in Sheffield with Joseph Watts. Following Watts' death in 1854, he continued brewing by himself. In 1868, he purchased the lease of the Neepsend Brewery and renamed it the Cannon Brewery. He continued to brew there until his death in 1894. Stones' success saw him die as one of the richest men in Sheffield, although he lived a modest life. The company was taken over byBass in 1968. In 2000, Bass sold its brewing operations to the Belgian brewerInterbrew who were ordered by theCompetition Commission to sell Stones. In 2002, it was purchased by theCoors Brewing Company, who merged to becomeMolson Coors in 2005. (Full article...)
Image 130 St Mary Axe,London, widely known by the nickname "The Gherkin", and occasionally as a variant on The Swiss Re Tower, after its previous owner and principal occupier.Swiss Re is the world’s second-largestreinsurance company.
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A PLC can be either anunlisted or listed company on thestock exchanges. In the United Kingdom, a public limited company usually must include the words "public limited company" or the abbreviation "PLC" or "plc" at the end and as part of the legal company name. Welsh companies may instead choose to end their names withccc, an abbreviation forcwmni cyfyngedig cyhoeddus. However, some public limited companies (mostlynationalised concerns) incorporated under special legislation are exempted from bearing any of the identifying suffixes. The term "public limited company" and the "PLC"/"plc" suffix were introduced in 1981; prior to this, all limited companies bore the suffix "Limited" ("Ltd."), which is still used byprivate limited companies. (Full article...)
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Holden, formerly known asGeneral Motors-Holden, was an Australiansubsidiary company ofGeneral Motors. Founded inAdelaide, it was anautomobile manufacturer, importer, and exporter that sold cars under its ownmarque in Australia. It was headquartered inPort Melbourne, with major industrial operations in the states ofSouth Australia andVictoria. The 164-year-old company ceased trading at the end of 2020, having switched to solely importing vehicles in its final three years.
Holden's primary products were its own models developed in-house, such as theHolden Commodore,Holden Caprice, and theHolden Ute. However, Holden had also offeredbadge-engineered models under sharing arrangements withNissan,Suzuki,Toyota,Isuzu, and then GM subsidiariesOpel,Vauxhall andChevrolet. The vehicle lineup had included models fromGM Korea, GM Thailand, and GM North America. Holden had also distributed GM's German Opel marque in Australia briefly from 2012 to 2013. (Full article...)
TheCommonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), also known asCommonwealth Bank or simplyCommBank, is an Australianmultinationalbank with businesses acrossNew Zealand,Asia, theUnited States, and theUnited Kingdom. It provides a variety offinancial services, including retail, business and institutional banking,funds management,superannuation, insurance, investment, and broking services. The Commonwealth Bank is the largest Australian listed company on theAustralian Securities Exchange as of July 2024, with brands includingBankwest, Colonial First State Investments,ASB Bank (New Zealand),Commonwealth Securities (CommSec) and Commonwealth Insurance (CommInsure). Its former constituent parts were theCommonwealth Trading Bank of Australia, theCommonwealth Savings Bank of Australia, and theCommonwealth Development Bank.
Founded in 1911 by theAustralian Government and fully privatised in 1996, the Commonwealth Bank is one of thebig four Australian banks, with theNational Australia Bank (NAB),ANZ andWestpac. The bank was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange on 12 Sep 1991.
The former global headquarters of Commonwealth Bank were theCommonwealth Trading Bank Building on the corner ofPitt Street andMartin Place,Sydney, which was refurbished from 2012 for retail and commercial uses, and (from 1984 to 2012) theState Savings Bank Building onMartin Place, which was sold in 2012 toMacquarie Bank. The headquarters were then moved, splitting between two locations; Tower 1 of 201 Sussex Street and the Commonwealth Bank Place; a new complex of two nine-storey buildings inDarling Harbour on the western side of Sydney's city centre. In 2022, the headquarters were consolidated into the Commonwealth Bank Place, with Tower 1 of 201 Sussex Street remaining as a secondary head office. (Full article...)
... that despite specializing in literature and serving as a senior editor of theZhonghua Book Company, historianZhang Zhenglang never published a single book of his own?
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