Sounds a lot like how another Washington state company responded to Apple many, many years ago.
Last fall, the city gave the land to Olympstroy, the state company building Olympic venues.
Through a joint venture with a Cuban state company, it makes a rum called Havana Club.
Meanwhile, China Minmetals, a giant state company, took over one of the biggest producers in Jiangxi province.
True, almost every other state company has made opportunistic diversions into exotic areas one steel giant bakes chocolate cakes.
They are managed by Infraero, an air-force dominated state company that is a Brazilian byword for bureaucratic obstruction and incompetence.
Firmus is owned by Irish state company Bord Gais, and supplies gas to about 20, 000 homes and businesses across NI.
Though Petrobras, subject to market discipline, is relatively lean, any new state company might quickly become puffed up by political appointees.
Mr Sarris had proposed instead setting up a Cypriot state company offering bonds to Russian commercial investors, the Russian finance minister said.
The gypsies sort mostly paper, iron and glass out of the rubbish, and sell their day's work back to the state company.
The biggest mobile- phone operator, China Mobile, is also a state company.
But the Washington state company hopes its 7-month-old Windows 8 operating system will become more popular as consumers get more familiar with its interface.
The chairman of the Dubai state company that owns the ship, Istithmar World, said he expects the 300-room hotel to open within 18 months.
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The Socialists are seen as closely linked to the Belene project, having granted a construction contract for the plant to Russian state company Atomstroyexport in 2008.
Russia was still transferring its gas, only now it was costing Ukraine more (never mind that the delays cost Russian state company Gazprom over a billion dollars).
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Mistresses of local officials or state company bosses cannot resist posting photos of themselves with luxury handbags, a new car, or on a spa vacation.
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In anticipation, they often sell the business to a big out-of-state company which is what happened in Seattle to Ben Bridge Jeweler, in Tacoma to the Frank Russell Co.
"This state company could have fiscal and regulatory benefits that private firms would not have and it will also be taking away market share, " Ricardo Baquero, from Venezuela's telecommunications chamber Casetel, told Reuters.
More than just another deal for Dow, the sale of 50.0% of its plastics business to a Kuwaiti state company was part of its strategy to reduce its exposure to the cyclical nature of the commodity chemicals business.
It is owned by a local state-owned company, Nakheel, a subsidiary of Dubai World, and fed with daily shipments by a Chinese state-owned company, COSCO.
As for most other assets still in state hands, such as the state oil company, the state department store, the national airline and Mongolia's bluest-chip, Gobi Cashmere, these may still be put on the block.
TO, 30% by Indonesia's state oil company Petronas, and 40% by China's state CNPC.
State oil company Pemex drilled dozens of new wells and built a system to inject nitrogen gas.
PDVSA, the state oil company, suffers from a shortage of both skilled staff and cash.
Solid-state drive company STEC this afternoon posted mixed financial results for the fourth quarter.
Aramco, the Saudi state oil company, sucks up nearly 10% of the country's energy output.
Last year, Gazprom, the giant state gas company, bought Sibneft, a private Russian oil producer.
The boss of Petroleos de Venezuela, the state oil company, paid for it with his job.
The state mining company, Comibol, sacked 16, 000 of its 27, 000 workers in a year.
But the sale of the state telephone company was unpopular and, says the opposition, tainted by corruption.
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