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chartered companies
chartered companies associations for foreign trade, exploration, and colonization that came into existence with the formation of the European nation states and their overseas expansion. An association received its charter from the state and sometimes had state support. In the regulated company each... Read more
public utility
public utility industry required by law to render adequate service in its field at reasonable prices to all who apply for it. Public utilities frequently operate as monopolies in their market. In the United States, public utilities are most commonly involved in the business of supplying consumers w... Read more
American Fur Company
American Fur Company chartered by John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) in 1808 to compete with the great fur-trading companies in Canada—the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company. Astor's most ambitious venture, establishment of a post at Astoria , Oreg., to control the Columbia River va... Read more
leveraged buyout
leveraged buyout the takeover of a company, financed by borrowed funds. Often, the target company's assets are used as security for the loans acquired to finance the purchase. The acquiring company or group then repays the loans from the target company's profits or by selling its assets. Many lever... Read more
Virginia Company
Virginia Company name of two English colonizing companies, chartered by King James I in 1606. By the terms of the charter, the Virginia Company of London (see London Company ) was given permission to plant a colony 100 mi (160 km) square between lat. 34°N and lat. 41°N; the Virginia Compan... Read more
credit card
credit card device used to obtain consumer credit at the time of purchasing an article or service. Credit cards may be issued by a business, such as a department store or an oil company, to make it easier for consumers to buy their products. Alternatively credit cards may be issued by third parties... Read more
Kirov Ballet
Kirov Ballet one of the two major ballet companies of Russia, the other being the Bolshoi Ballet . In 1991 it was officially renamed the St. Petersburg Maryinsky Ballet; however, on its frequent tours abroad it is still called the Kirov Ballet. Often regarded as the foremost European ballet compan... Read more
insurance
insurance or assurance, device for indemnifying or guaranteeing an individual against loss. Reimbursement is made from a fund to which many individuals exposed to the same risk have contributed certain specified amounts, called premiums. Payment for an individual loss, divided among many, does ... Read more
William George Fargo
William George Fargo 1818-81, American pioneer expressman, b. Pompey, N.Y. He had been successively a postrider, freight agent, messenger, and resident agent (1843) for an express company in Buffalo, N.Y., when in 1844, with Henry Wells and another partner, he organized Wells & Company, the fir... Read more
British East India Company
British East India Company 1600-1874, company chartered by Queen Elizabeth I for trade with Asia. The original object of the group of merchants involved was to break the Dutch monopoly of the spice trade with the East Indies. However, after 1623, when the English traders at Amboina were massacred b... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Types of companies"

SIC 3542 Machine Tools, Metal Forming Types
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries ...Machine Tool (Metal Forming Types) Manufacturing) According...billion. The vast majority of companies in this industry were small...Many machine shops employ both types of machine tools. The primary...movement. Most metal forming companies were concentrated around the...
Inventory Types
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Management Inventory Types Inventory is defined as a...finished goods inventory, companies are able to promise customers...times. They also enable companies to accept longer inbound...suppliers. Generally, inventory types can be grouped into four...
Pensions, Plan Types and Policy Approaches
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Aging PENSIONS, PLAN TYPES AND POLICY APPROACHES The U.S. retirement income system is analagous...Pension coverage in the United States varies sharply by size of firm. In companies with one hundred or more employees, 70 to 80 percent of the full...
SIC 3541 Machine Tools, Metal Cutting Types
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries SIC 3541MACHINE TOOLS, METAL CUTTING TYPES This industry details establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing...metal cutting processes, were becoming more popular with larger companies interested in decreasing the amount of time handling materials...
Employee Benefits
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Business and Finance, 2nd ed. ...another type of benefit many companies offer their employees. These types of benefits often encourage...retirement plans are the most common types of benefits employees receive, some companies offer even more types of benefits to help attract...
B2E Management (Business to Employee)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Management ...type of selling that companies are beginning to find...attractive, especially large companies, and this is B2E...offering employees many types of opportunities and...company services. The companies will benefit from B2E...options; explore other types of insurance the company...
SIC 6351 Surety Insurance
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries ...It differs from other types of insurance in several...parties involved, the way companies determine premium rates...subcontractors. Other common types of surety insurance include...is served by different types of surety companies. The standard market...
Direct Mail
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Small Business ...mail, advertising and other types of messages are delivered through...product, while owners of existing companies may find it useful in generating...general advertising and other types of marketing. Offers are designed...should be made. Some basic types of offers include: optional...
Risk Management
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Management ...risks they face. Common types of risks include automobile...although more complicated types such as liability and...exist. Furthermore, companies face a number of risks...sums up these different types of risks companies face by placing them...
Annuities
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Small Business ...banks, mutual fund companies, stockbrokers, and...for valued employees. TYPES OF ANNUITIES There are...addition, like other types of annuities, the principal...the deferred annuity types is the variable annuity...directly from mutual fund companies. The minimum investment...

Dictionary entries related to "Types of companies"

Air Conditioning
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...of the first film exhibition companies to exploit the appeal of comfort...Corporation and four partner companies), controlled that technology...traditional air conditioning companies in pursuit of the residential...conditioning now came in two basic types: a central air conditioning...
Television
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...medium. This, in turn, encouraged more companies to advertise on TV. At first, television...television relied on a variety of program types or "genres." The first was the variety...starring Ernest Borgnine. Other program types came from network radio: the dramatic...
Credit Cards
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...circulated. In the 1950s, gas companies moved to embossed aluminum...issuing company. There are two types of universal cards: travel...distinction between the two types of cards — evident...cards were issued by private companies. Diners Club led the way in...
Debt and Investment, Foreign
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Actually the obligations are of many different types — some representing borrowing...representing investments in the equity of foreign companies. The relative quantities of these various types of paper have changed greatly over the course...
Fire Fighting
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...although in some fire departments, lieutenants and sergeants command companies when the captain is off duty. Fire companies are usually organized by types of apparatus: engine companies; ladder companies; and squad or rescue companies. Boston installed...
Hardware Trade
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...importing centers sold to all types of customers, including country...general stores, and to some types of industrial users. Generally...became one of the first hardware companies to employ traveling salesmen...department stores by mail-order companies such as Sears Roebuck and Montgomery...
Quast, Pieter
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...Adriaen van Ostade , but he also painted more refined types in ‘merry companies’, as well as theatrical subjects...art). Sometimes he combined elegant and peasant types in the same picture ( A Man and Woman in a Stableyard...
Colonial Policy, British
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...resources through such commercial companies as the Hudson's Bay Company...to the London and Plymouth Companies of Virginia, and a settlement...Baltimore family. Thus three types of colonial government, royal...proprietary, appeared. Three types of British colonies existed...
cluster analysis
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...measure significant similarities and differences between individuals, social groups, companies, or other types of organization, nation-states, types of event, and so forth; and the development of classifications and typologies. Different...
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...covered only government employment and employment in private companies doing business directly with the government. Legislative support...In 1979, the EEOC became the lead agency for handing all types of employment discrimination. Congress gave it enforcement...

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TYPES OF BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS E-MARKETPLACES: THE ROLE OF A THEORY-BASED, DOMAIN-SPECIFIC MODEL
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Statistical evaluation of influence of viscosity of polymer and types of filler on dipyridamole release from floating matrix tablets.(Research Paper)
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...upon viscosity of polymer and types of filler used. Microcrystalline...by incorporation of different types of filler. In initial phase...release viscosity of polymer and types of filler both governs the drug...mandatory for pharmaceutical companies to reconsider their research...
Critical choices in e-commerce: retailers' decisions about what types of payment they'll accept for groceries they sell through the Internet can have a major impact on the cost of doing business.
Magazine article from: Grocery Headquarters; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...to this time, is: Which types of payment do these companies accept? The derivative of this is: What types do consumers prefer? [ILLUSTRATION...we counted the number of companies that accepted one of six payment types--MasterCard, Visa, American...
Installment 2 -- System Types, Scalability and Tools.(Industry Trend or Event)(Tutorial)
Magazine article from: Cadence; 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...following system types: Local Systems...favored by smaller companies with modest needs...modified. Many companies are comfortable...documents. These types of systems are ideal...Internet. These types of systems are more...concerns that many companies would rather not...
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service approves four nontoxic shot types.
M2 Presswire; 2/8/2006; 700+ words ; ...approval of these four shot types demonstrates our determination...have a wider choice of shot types and this will continue to lessen...appreciates the efforts of the companies that have developed alternatives...lead shot." The approved shot types are: A formulation of tungsten...
INDUSTRY OF GLASS BOTTLES AND OTHER TYPES OF GLASSWARE CONTINUE GROWING
Magazine article from: Indonesian Commercial Newsletter; 1/27/1992; 700+ words ; ...domestic production of other types of glassware, such as those...1991 Year Glass Increase Other types of Increase (ton) (%) glassware...producers of glass bottles and other types of glassware. Of these 12 producers...categorized as large-scale companies. Five of these 7 companies...
FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE APPROVES FOUR NONTOXIC SHOT TYPES
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/9/2006; 633 words ; ...approval of these four shot types demonstrates our determination...have a wider choice of shot types and this will continue to lessen...appreciates the efforts of the companies that have developed alternatives...lead shot." The approved shot types are: * A formulation of tungsten...
US titanium companies allege unfair exclusion; DLA may include bids on types B, C sponge. (U.S. Defense Logistics Agency)
Magazine article from: American Metal Market; 6/29/1990; ; 700+ words ; US titanium companies allege unfair exclusion DLA may include bids on types B, C sponge ALEXANDRIA, Va...s three integrated titanium companies complained to the federal agency...about $5 per pound for all types. In the United States a call...
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New Simulation Question Types from MeasureUp Help IT Professionals Better Prepare for Certification Exams.
Business Wire; 5/9/2001; 700+ words ; ...MeasureUp. "These question types help eliminate the chances of...These new simulation question types have been implemented in several...to contain the new question types are the Microsoft Windows 2000...products to a broad range of companies including EDS, New Horizons...