A company, abbreviated as co., is a
legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether
natural,
juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared goals.
Over time, companies have evolved to have following features: "separate legal personality, limited liability, transferable shares, investor ownership, and a managerial hierarchy". The company, as an entity, was created by the
state which granted the privilege of incorporation.
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Waterstones Booksellers Limited,
trading asWaterstones (formerly Waterstone's), is a British
book retailer that operates 311 shops, mainly in the United Kingdom and also other nearby countries. , it employs around 3,500 staff in the UK and Europe. An average-sized Waterstones shop sells a range of approximately 30,000 individual books, as well as
stationery and other related products.
Established in 1982 by
Tim Waterstone, after whom the company was named, the bookseller expanded rapidly until being sold in 1993 to
WHSmith. In 1998, Waterstones was bought by a consortium of Waterstone,
EMI and
Advent International. The company was taken under the umbrella of
HMV Group, which later merged the
Dillons and
Ottakar's brands into the company. Following several poor sets of results for the group, HMV put the chain up for sale. In May 2011, it was announced that A&NN Capital Fund Management, owned by Russian billionaire
Alexander Mamut, had bought the chain for £53.5m and appointed
James Daunt as managing director. The company is incorporated in England and Wales as Waterstones Booksellers Ltd, with its registered office at 203–206
Piccadilly, London (which is also the location of its
flagship shop). (Full article...)
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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-largest
reinsurance company.
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CPU produced by Intel Corporation that was introduced in 1992. Intel is the world's second largest
semiconductor company and the inventor of the
x86 series of microprocessors.
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are business transactions in which the ownership of
companies,
business organizations, or their operating units are transferred to or
consolidated with another company or business organization. This could happen through direct absorption, a merger, a tender offer or a hostile takeover. As an aspect of
strategic management, M&A can allow enterprises to grow or
downsize, and change the nature of their business or competitive position.
Technically, a merger is the legal consolidation of two business entities into one, whereas an acquisition occurs when one entity takes ownership of another entity's
share capital,
equity interests or
assets. A deal may be called a "merger of equals" if both
CEOs agree that joining is in the best interest of both of their companies. From a legal and financial point of view, both mergers and acquisitions generally result in the consolidation of assets and
liabilities under one entity, and the distinction between the two is not always clear. (Full article...)
According to Chen, the company focuses on creating video games that provoke emotional responses from players. He has stated that, while the company is not opposed to making action-oriented games, he believes that enough such titles are released by the established video game industry. When designing a game, Chen and Thatgamecompany's process is to start by mapping out what the game should make the player feel, rather than by establishing
game mechanics. Chen has stated that the company does not plan to produce large, blockbuster titles, due to their belief that the pressure for high sales would stifle innovation. (Full article...)
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (
Arabic: الشركة السعودية للصناعات الأساسية), known as SABIC (
Arabic: سابك), is a Saudi chemical manufacturing company. 70% of SABIC's shares are owned by
Saudi Aramco. It is active in petrochemicals, chemicals, industrial polymers, fertilizers, and metals. It is the second largest
public company in the
Middle East and
Saudi Arabia as listed in
Tadawul.
In 2017, SABIC was ranked fourth in the world among chemical companies by
Fortune Global 500. By the end of 2018 SABIC was the world's 281st-largest corporation. In 2014, the company had sales revenues of $50.4 billion, profits of $6.7 billion and assets standing at $90.4 billion. It also has been recognized as the world's second most valuable brand in the chemicals industry by Brand Finance in 2021. (Full article...)
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