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General Motors
American multinational automotive company
Opel
Opel Automobile GmbH (), usually shortened to Opel, is a German automobile manufacturer which has been a subsidiary of Stellantis since January 16, 2021. It was owned by the American automaker General Motors from 1929 until 2017 and the PSA Group prior to its merger with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to form Stellantis in 2021. Most of the Opel lineup is marketed under the Vauxhall brand in the United Kingdom since the 1980s. Some Opel vehicles were badge-engineered in Australia under the Holden brand until 2020, in North America and China under the Buick, Saturn (until 2010), and Cadillac brands,
Stellantis North America
FCA US, LLC, conducting business as Stellantis North America and known historically as Chrysler ( ), is one of the "Big Three" automobile manufacturers in the United States, headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan. It is the American subsidiary of the multinational automotive company Stellantis. Stellantis North America sells vehicles worldwide under the Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram Trucks nameplates. It also includes Mopar, its automotive parts and accessories division, and SRT, its performance automobile division. The division also distributes Alfa Romeo, Fiat, and Maserati vehicles in Nor
Reader's Digest
magazine
Arizona Coyotes
National Hockey League franchise in Glendale, Arizona (1996-2024)
Chicago Cubs
baseball team and Major League Baseball franchise in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Silicon Graphics
former American company
Nortel
Nortel Networks Corporation, formerly Northern Telecom Limited, was a Canadian multinational telecommunications and data networking equipment manufacturer headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. It was founded in Montreal, Quebec, in 1895 as the Northern Electric and Manufacturing Company, or simply Northern Electric. Until an antitrust settlement in 1949, Northern Electric was owned mostly by Bell Canada and the Western Electric Company of the Bell System, producing large volumes of telecommunications equipment based on licensed Western Electric designs.
Midway Games
former American video game developing and publishing company
Six Flags
former amusement park operator
Saturn Corporation
former car manufacturing subsidiary of General Motors
Charter Communications
American cable services provider
The Philadelphia Inquirer
American daily newspaper
SL Aerospace
Russian aerospace subsidiary of the Energia Group
Samsonite
Samsonite International S.A. is an American luggage manufacturer and retailer, with products ranging from large suitcases to small toiletries, bags and briefcases. The company was founded in 1910 in Denver, Colorado, United States.
SPV GmbH
German record company
Escada SE
Escada SE is a luxury women's designer clothing company headquartered in Aschheim, Germany. The firm is owned by Regent, L.P., an international private equity firm led by investor Michael Reinstein.
Star Tribune
newspaper in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Qimonda
thumb|Qimonda 512 Mbit GDDR3 Qimonda AG ( ) was a German memory company split out of Infineon Technologies (itself a spun off business unit of Siemens AG) on 1 May 2006 to form at the time the second largest DRAM company worldwide, according to the industry research firm Gartner Dataquest. It was a patent licensing firm until Micron and others purchased its patents. Headquartered in Munich, Qimonda was a 300 mm manufacturer and was one of the top suppliers of DRAM products for the PC and server markets. Infineon still controlled a 77.5% stake in 2008, which it later wrote down. Infineon w
Palms Casino Resort
casino resort in Las Vegas, Nevada
Lear Corporation
American automotive parts manufacturer
LyondellBasell
LyondellBasell Industries N.V. is an American multinational chemical company, incorporated in the Netherlands with U.S. operations headquartered in Houston, Texas and offices in London, UK. The company is the largest licensor of polyethylene and polypropylene technologies. It also produces ethylene, propylene, polyolefins, and oxyfuels.
Fontainebleau Las Vegas
luxury hotel and casino resort located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada
Diocese of Wilmington
Latin Catholic ecclesiastical jurisdiction in Delaware and Maryland, United States
Arena Football League
professional American arena football league, 1986-2019
Checker Motors Corporation
defunct Kalamazoo, Michigan-based vehicle manufacturer
Trump Entertainment Resorts
defunct gaming and hospitality company
BearingPoint
BearingPoint (parent company: BearingPoint Europe Holdings B.V.) is a multinational management and technology consulting firm headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It has operations in 24 countries with around 6,200 employees.
Spectrum Brands
company
Jolt Cola
carbonated soft drink
Fatburger
Fatburger North America Inc. (doing business as Fatburger) is an American fast casual restaurant chain owned by FAT Brands. Its tagline is The Last Great Hamburger Stand. While it is a fast-food restaurant, the food is cooked and made to order. Some Fatburger restaurants have liquor licenses as well as "fat bars". Its franchise headquarters are located in Beverly Hills, California. In addition to the United States, the chain operates in 19 other countries. The Fatburger menu is centered primarily on hamburgers, offering various sizes and numbers of patties, along with add-ons such as cheese, b
Spansion
Spansion Inc. was an American-based company that designed, developed, and manufactured flash memory, microcontrollers, mixed-signal and analog products, and system-on-chip (SoC) solutions. The company had more than 3,700 employees in 2014 and was headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It was founded as the joint-venture FASL between AMD and Fujitsu, which eventually was spun out into the independent company Spansion afterwards.
CIT Group
American banking and financial services company
Vectrix
Vectrix was an electric vehicle company based in Middletown, Rhode Island, United States, with research and development facilities in New Bedford, Massachusetts and an assembly plant in Wrocław, Poland.
Eddie Bauer Holdings, Inc.
American clothing company
Visteon
Visteon Corporation (VC) is an American global automotive electronics technology company headquartered in Van Buren Township, Michigan. Visteon designs, engineers, and manufactures vehicle cockpit electronics products, connected car services and electrification products for global automotive manufacturers. Visteon operates engineering and manufacturing facilities across the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Tetra
company
The Orange County Register
daily newspaper in Anaheim, California
deCODE genetics
biopharmaceutical company based in Reykjavík, Iceland
Checker Taxi
car used as taxi
Cooper-Standard Automotive
automotive parts supplier
Six Flags Hurricane Harbor
water park chain
Philadelphia Daily News
daily newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Crabtree & Evelyn
American retailer of body and home products
Resolute Forest Products
pulp and paper manufacturer
Green Valley Ranch
resort near Las Vegas
Holley Performance Products
Holley manufactures high performance carburetors, manifolds, superchargers, water pumps, throttle body fuel injection and fuel pumps for street and race applications.
Simmons Bedding Company
bedding company
Red Rock Casino, Resort & Spa
casino resort in Las Vegas, Nevada
Chemtura
Chemtura Corporation was a global corporation headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, with its other principal executive office in Middlebury, Connecticut. Merged into Lanxess in 2017, the company focused on specialty chemicals for various industrial sectors, and these were transportation (including automotive), energy, and electronics. Chemtura operated manufacturing plants in 11 countries. Its primary markets were industrial manufacturing customers. The corporation employed approximately 2500 people for research, manufacturing, logistics, sales and administration. Operati
Texas Station
defunct hotel and casino in North Las Vegas, Nevada
Remington Products
company
Epic Aircraft
US-based aircraft manufacturer
Sun-Times Media Group
Chicago-based newspaper publisher
Tronox
Tronox Limited is an American worldwide chemical company involved in the titanium products industry with approximately 5,700 employees. Following its acquisition of the mineral sands business formerly belonging to South Africa's Exxaro Resources, Tronox is the largest fully integrated seller and marketer of titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigment, which provides brightness to applications such as coatings, plastics and paper. Tronox mines titanium-bearing mineral sands and operates upgrading facilities that produce high-grade titanium feedstock materials, pig iron and other minerals, including the rar