2004 mergers and acquisitions

virtual map program developed by Google

is a Japanese video game company and subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings headquartered in Tokyo. It produces several multi-million-selling game franchises for arcades and consoles including Sonic the Hedgehog, Angry Birds, Football Manager, Phantasy Star, Puyo Puyo, Super Monkey Ball, Total War, Virtua Fighter, Megami Tensei, Sakura Wars, Persona and Yakuza. From 1983 until 2001, Sega also developed its own consoles.

Vans (originally called the Van Doren Rubber Company) is an American apparel, accessories, and skateboarding shoes brand, established in Anaheim, California, and owned by VF Corporation. The company also sponsors surf, snowboarding, BMX, and motocross teams. From 1996 to 2019, and beginning again in 2025, the brand has been a primary sponsor of the annual Warped Tour music festival.

Tripadvisor is an American company that operates online travel agencies, comparison shopping websites, and mobile apps with user-generated content.

Craigslist (stylized as craigslist) is a privately held American company operating a classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, for sale, items wanted, services, community service, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums.

Danish video game developer

British video game developer

automotive company

American record label

British video game development studio

former American video game development company

Cinnabon, Inc., is an American chain of baked goods stores and kiosks, normally found in areas with high pedestrian traffic, such as malls, airports and rest stops. The company's signature item is the cinnamon roll. As of December 2017, there were more than 1,200 Cinnabon bakeries operating in 48 countries. Its headquarters are in Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States.

Canadian football team based in Toronto, Canada

Lycos, Inc. (stylized as LYCOS) is a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University. Lycos also encompasses a network of email, web hosting, social networking, and entertainment websites. The company is based in Waltham, Massachusetts, and is a subsidiary of Ybrant Digital.

US-based movie theater chain in the US and Europe

makers of Mythos beer

Canadian video game developer

Ramada is a large American multinational hotel chain owned by Wyndham Hotels & Resorts. As of December 31, 2022, it operated 851 hotels with 120,344 rooms across 63 countries under the Ramada brand.

American typesetting and typeface design company

board game company

video game developer

former Japanese camera manufacturer

eMachines was a brand of economical personal computers. In 2004, it was acquired by Gateway, Inc., which was in turn acquired by Acer Inc. in 2007. The eMachines brand was discontinued in 2013.

chicken restaurant chain

American company

playing card manufacturer

former bank of the United States

Japanese food and pharmaceutical company

Asseco Poland S.A. is a Polish multinational software company which develops enterprise software primarily for the banking and finance industries. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Rzeszów, Poland, Asseco is one of the largest technology companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) and a component of the WIG20 stock market index. The company operates in over 60 countries and employs approximately 33,700 people worldwide. Asseco is the largest software house in Central and Eastern Europe. As of early 2025, the shareholder structure underwent significant changes after Cyfrowy Polsat, p

Focusrite PLC is an English music and audio products group based in High Wycombe, England (with its history in Focusrite Audio Engineering Ltd.). The Focusrite Group trades under eight brands: Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Martin Audio, ADAM Audio, Novation, Ampify Music, Optimal Audio and Sequential. Focusrite designs and markets audio interfaces, microphone preamps, consoles, analogue equalizers (EQ) and channel strips, and digital audio processing hardware and software for professional and home studios.

Napapijri is a clothing brand founded in 1987 in Aosta, Italy, widely known as a maker of travel bags, using waxed cotton canvas borrowed from military field tents. Since its acquisition in 2004, it has become a subsidiary of the U.S.-based VF Corporation.

company

1939-2012 aircraft manufacturer in the United States

Chinese shopping website

european price comparison service

privately owned national free-to-air television broadcaster currently available within New Zealand

subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company

cinema chain in Germany, Italy, Portugal and Brazil

Rivarossi is an Italian manufacturer of model railways. In 2004 it was acquired by Hornby Railways.

South Plainfield, New Jersey-based manufacturer of suitcases and bags for travel

Landis+Gyr AG is a publicly listed, multinational corporation operating in over 30 countries and headquartered in Cham, Switzerland. Landis+Gyr makes meters and related software for electricity, gas and water utilities.

American insurance company

American shipping, copying, printing, marketing and office services retail chain

classmates.com is an American social networking service. It was founded on November 17, 1995 by Randy Conrads as Classmates Online, Inc. and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. It bills itself as the leading online social network service in the United States for bringing high school alumni together, with over 90 million members.

Invista (stylized as INVISTA) is a fiber, resin, and intermediates company headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, United States. It has about 10,000 employees in over 20 countries worldwide. The predecessor DuPont Textiles and Interiors was formed from DuPont's textile fibers division in February 2003. The company was given the trademarked name INVISTA and was then sold to privately owned Koch Industries on April 30, 2004 for billion. Koch Industries combined the newly acquired organization with their KoSa subsidiary to complete the INVISTA company.

Belgian retailer of backpacks and accessories

organization

department store

Software company, acquired by Corel

GameHouse Inc. is an American casual game developer, publisher, digital video game distributor, and portal, based in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is a division of RealNetworks.

Serbian food company based in Belgrade

wind turbine manufacturer now merged with Vestas

manufacturer of kitchen utensils, office supplies, and housewares

220px|right thumb|right|debitel headquarters in the Stuttgart-Vaihingen|Vaihingen district of [[Stuttgart]] Debitel AG was one of the largest mobile telephone services providers in Europe, offering a wide range of telecommunication products – mobile and land-line telephony as well internet services. At its peak, the business commanded a 47% market share of the mobile service provider market in Germany (its largest market) with 12.4% of the overall mobile telephone market . The company boasted over 10.2 million customers of which 8.3 million were resident in Germany.

Marktplaats.nl () is a classified advertising site based in the Netherlands, started in 1999. The word means market place in Dutch. Having been part of eBay for 16 years, it was acquired by Adevinta in July 2020.

LookSmart is an American search advertising, content management, online media, and technology company. It provides search, machine learning and chatbot technologies as well as pay-per-click and contextual advertising services.

franchised convenience stores in Japan

public company based in Lithuania

American brand of electric home appliances

business group in Pakistan owned by Nawaz Sharif's family