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Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ( ; formerly known as H-B Enterprises, Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. and H-B Production Co.), commonly known simply as Hanna-Barbera, was an American animation studio and production company which operated from 1957 until its absorption into Warner Bros. Animation in 2001. The studio was founded on July 7, 1957, by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the creators of Tom and Jerry and former MGM Cartoons employees, along with film producer George Sidney. Initially headquartered at Kling Studios in Los Angeles from 1957 to 1960, the company later moved to Cahuenga Bou
Massimo Dutti
multinational clothing retailer from Spain
NCR Corporation
American software, consulting and technology company
Toronto Argonauts
Canadian football team based in Toronto, Canada
Digital Research
software company
Max Factor
line of cosmetics
Kenner Products
defunct American toy company
SK-II
SK-II (pronounced S-K-Two) is a Japanese-based multinational cosmetics brand launched in the early 1980s, based on a compound derived from yeast. It is owned by parent company Procter & Gamble (P&G) and is sold and marketed as a premium skin care solution in East Asia as well as North America, Europe and Australia.
Ashton-Tate
Ashton-Tate Corporation was a US-based software company best known for developing the popular dBASE database application and later acquiring Framework from the Forefront Corporation and MultiMate from Multimate International. It grew from a small garage-based company to become a multinational corporation. Once one of the "Big Three" software companies, which included Microsoft and Lotus, the company stumbled in the late 1980s and was sold to Borland in September 1991.
Harvey Nichols
British department store chain with a flagship store in Knightsbridge, London
OfficeMax
OfficeMax is an American office supplies retailer founded in 1988. As an independent chain, it was the third-largest office supply retailer in the United States. Following a 2013 merger, it is currently a brand and subsidiary of Office Depot.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
British publisher
Engro Corporation
publicly listed conglomerate in Pakistan
Air Midwest
1965-2008 airline in the United States
Tonka
Tonka is an American brand and former manufacturer of toy trucks. The company was founded in 1946 and operated as an independent manufacturer of popular steel toy construction type trucks and machinery, until its sale to Hasbro in 1991.
MCB Bank Limited
bank in Pakistan
Propaganda Films
film production company
Al-Ghazi Tractors
Pakistani agricultural machinery assembler
Dillon, Read & Co.
former investment bank in New York City
Symbios Logic
manufacturer of SCSI host adapter chipsets and disk array storage subsystems
Allen & Heath
company
Square D
American manufacturer of electrical equipment