But buying an international British group projects it for the first time on to a world stage.
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The British group is already the third-biggest global gum seller, thanks to small acquisitions in Europe and China.
Yet even with this incitement, the British group proved unusually dull.
Mumford and Sons' second effort Babel rested at number two after climbing two places since the folk rockers won best British group at the awards ceremony.
Vega's performance was followed by the British group Duran Duran who, keen to experiment with the latest technology, created their own virtual island within the world to perform concerts.
Alt-J and Mumford And Sons are also up for best British group, a shortlist that also takes in stadium rock with Muse, teen pop with One Direction and atmospheric indie with The xx.
The singer and songwriter Scott Walker was one-third of the sixties British pop group the Walker Brothers, who were not British, not brothers, and not really named Walker (Scott was born in Ohio, as Noel Scott Engel).
And it worked well for the launch of a British pop group called the Arctic Monkeys, whose first record went to the top of the British charts in 2005 largely thanks to being marketed by fans on the internet.
The British software group Autonomy is to be investigated by the UK's accountancy watchdog.
He and the British dance group Sonique lead the competition with four nominations each.
Google is suing BT, claiming the British telecoms group has infringed a number of its technologies.
The British island group of Tristan da Cunha stands profoundly alone in the South Atlantic.
The letter echoes concerns expressed by the British aid group Oxfam last week.
Geberit's bonds helped finance its acquisition by Doughty Hanson, a British investment group.
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It was privatised in July 1994 and two years after that, the Belfast business was bought by the British airport group, tbi.
But the recent case of Polestar, a British printing group, showed that companies can be refinanced smoothly even if hedge funds are involved.
Has joint venture with France's Renault to make cars (will launch next year) and one with British communications group BT, which listed this year.
It was commissioned by Tax Justice Network, a British activist group.
Labour MP Keith Vaz, a former chair of the Indian-British parliamentary group, said the government needed to reassure its Indian counterpart that their bilateral relationship was still a priority.
The new Honeywell does not have the acquisitiveness of Tyco (which this week said it was once more in talks to buy a big British industrial group, Williams Holdings).
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- With four nods each, British dance group Sonique and pop singer Robbie Williams lead the nominations for the MTV Europe Music Awards, scheduled for next month in Sweden.
At her eight-minute hearing Wednesday, Brooks, the former top executive of Murdoch's British newspaper group, spoke only to confirm her address and was ordered to appear in Southwark Crown Court on June 22.
Biofuels Watch, a British lobby group, worries that a craze for the stuff could see virgin land tilled specifically to grow crops such as switchgrass, whose only purpose was to be pyrolised and buried.
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Corp struggles to restructure its British newspaper group.
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RMC, a British concrete group.
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The event was started "about five years ago" by British actor Craig Robert Young and a group of fellow British expats living in Los Angeles.
The FBI also identified a British-based group, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, as a U.S. terror threat.
's multibillion-dollar bid to take full control of British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC.
"Julian and I bonded over Scritti Politti, " Mr. Bing said, referring to the British New Wave group.
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