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American Broadcasting Company
American broadcast television network owned by The Walt Disney Company
Cartoon Network
American cable television channel
ESPN
ESPN (an initialism of their original name, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network until 1985) is an American basic cable sports broadcasting network and the flagship property of ESPN, a joint venture of the Walt Disney Company (72% and operational control via indirect subsidiary ABC Inc.), Hearst Communications (18%), and the National Football League (10%). It was founded on September 7, 1979, by Bill Rasmussen, Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan.
WarnerMedia
WarnerMedia, LLC, formerly Time Warner Inc., was an American multinational entertainment and mass media conglomerate. After being acquired by AT&T, the company became a wholly owned subsidiary in its last years of existence. WarnerMedia's headquarters were at 30 Hudson Yards in New York City.
New Line Cinema
American film studio
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
TNT
American pay television channel
Duracell
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AEG
former German manufacturer of electrical appliances and aircraft (1883-1996), whose household appliances division was sold to Electrolux
Maybelline
Maybelline New York (formerly The Maybelline Company and Mabelline and Co.), trading as and commonly known as simply Maybelline ( ), is an American multinational cosmetics, skin care, perfume, and personal care company, based in New York City. Founded in Chicago in 1915, it has been a subsidiary of French cosmetics company L'Oréal since 1996.
Turner Broadcasting System
former American media conglomerate
CMA CGM
French shipping company
Lifetime
American cable and satellite television station
Castle Rock Entertainment
American film and television production company
Sandoz
Sandoz Group AG is a Swiss company that focuses on generic pharmaceuticals and biosimilars. Prior to October 2023, it was part of a division of Novartis that was established in 2003, when Novartis united all of its generics businesses under the name Sandoz. Before this, the company existed as an independent pharmaceutical manufacturer until 1996, when it was merged with Ciba-Geigy to form Novartis. Prior to the merger, it specialized in medicines used in organ transplants, such as Sandimmune, and various antipsychotics and migraine medicines. Its headquarters were in Holzkirchen, Germany and a
NexGen
NexGen, Inc. was a private semiconductor company based in Milpitas, California, that designed x86 microprocessors until it was purchased by AMD on January 16, 1996. NexGen was a fabless design house that designed its chips but relied on other companies for production. NexGen's chips were produced by IBM's Microelectronics division in Burlington, Vermont, alongside PowerPC and DRAM parts.
Checkers and Rally's
American fast food company
Loewe
fashion house specialising in leather goods, clothing, perfumes and other fashion accessories
Disney Entertainment Television
The Walt Disney Company television proprieties subsidiary
ArmaLite
ArmaLite, or Armalite, is an American small arms engineering company, formed in the early 1950s in Hollywood, California. Many of its products, as conceived by chief designer Eugene Stoner, relied on unique foam-filled fiberglass butt/stock furniture and a composite barrel using a steel liner inside an aluminum sleeve, including the iconic AR-15/M16 family. While the original ArmaLite ceased doing business in the 1980s, the brand was revived in 1996, by Mark Westrom.
Southern Pacific Transportation Company
United States Class I railroad (1865–1996)
GEICO
The Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO ) is an American vehicle insurance company headquartered in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Their state of domicile is Maryland. It is the third largest auto insurer in the United States, after State Farm and Progressive Corporation. GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, which provides coverage for more than 24 million motor vehicles owned by more than 15 million policy holders as of 2017. GEICO writes private passenger automobile insurance in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The insurance agency sells policies thr
Turner Entertainment
American multimedia company
Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.
British-American publisher; publisher of Encyclopædia Britannica
Tivoli Software
service management brand of the IBM Software Group
ESPN2
ESPN2 is an American multinational pay television network owned by ESPN, a joint venture between the Walt Disney Company (which owns a controlling 72% stake), Hearst Communications (which owns 18%) and the National Football League (which owns 10%).
Rocketdyne
Rocketdyne was an American rocket engine design and production company headquartered in Canoga Park, in the western San Fernando Valley of suburban Los Angeles, in southern California.
Lapierre
French bicycle manufacturer
Conner Peripherals
defunct American computer hardware company
Chicago Bridge & Iron Company
former American engineering company
Gates Corporation
company in Denver, United States
Mitsubishi Bank
Japanese bank
Comcast Spectacor
American sports and entertainment company
FutureWave Software
American software company
Capital Cities Communications
former American media company
Sunshine Biscuits
American baker of cookies, crackers, and cereals
Lacta
Brazilian company
Community Health Systems
the largest provider of general hospital healthcare services in the United States
Diversey, Inc.
manufacturer of cleaning and hygiene products
The Bank of Tokyo
defunct Japanese bank