It is the result of a public-private partnership between the Sierra Leone government and US-based nonprofit World Hope International along with its subsidiary FIRST STEP.
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On February 23, 2010, NXP acquired the 50% stake owned by Sony Corporation (Sony) in Moversa GmbH (Moversa), and merged Moversa with its subsidiary NXP Semiconductors Austria GmbH.
But Justice Scalia pointed out that the mere fact that an American distributor coordinates with its subsidiary does not mean that the subsidiary is an agent of the parent.
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One of my consulting clients, an animation studio in Los Angeles, was having a problem with its Japanese subsidiary.
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Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) is pumping tens of millions into its own efforts, in conjunction with its Columbia Pictures subsidiary.
Ford still deserves a premium over GM which imploded in the recession along with its recklessly managed GMAC subsidiary.
AOL's strength in the consumer market (over 14m subscribers, with another 2m from its Compuserve subsidiary) should complement Netcenter's greater appeal to the business market.
The ability of DT to revitalize its US subsidiary with a new infusion of cash and capital spending seems remote now that European mobile market teeters on the edge of a decisive downturn.
Some 13, 500 borrowers with mortgages from Bank of Ireland and its subsidiary Bristol and West will see their rates almost double.
Now GM is trying to do something about those costs with an unusual ally: its own OnStar subsidiary, the wireless satellite service that can open your car door when you're locked out or send an ambulance when your air bag deploys.
Mr Spitzer is in settlement talks with Citigroup over potential conflicts of interest within its subsidiary Salomon Smith Barney.
Last month on April 25, Altria announced, with significant surrounding publicity, that through its Nu Mark subsidiary it would introduce an electronic cigarette in the second half of this year.
Since that time, the company has struggled to rebuild and has done so with remarkable success, at least at its publicly traded subsidiary, eSpeed (nasdaq: ESPD - news - people ), which will announce earnings this week.
And rarely does a promising subsidiary need its parent to provide it with capital and expertise.
In 2008, for instance, when the European Union restricted Brazilian meat, alleging breeders weren't complying with EU traceability measures, JBS took advantage of its Australian subsidiary to export to Europe. (Brazilian beef exports to the EU resumed in 2009.) No Brazilian meat producer can export cuts to the U.S. because of U.S. safety rules.
In addition to the job cuts, the statement said, 5, 600 employees will leave the SAS group through divestment or outsourcing --- with 3, 000 of these through its loss-making Spanish subsidiary Spanair.
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In an inversion, a U.S. corporation with operations abroad designates its U.S. office as a subsidiary of the corporation--effectively allowing the company to significantly reduce the amount of tax that it owes.
Another ploy is to burden a subsidiary with losses and then get it to swap some of its consequently undervalued shares for those in a holding company owned by managers or their associates.
Sprint is up 13% at this point today but its nearly half owned subsidiary Clearwire is up almost three times that with a gain of 37%.
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On May 24, 2011, Discovery Communications, LLC , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Discovery Communications, Inc. amended its employment agreement with Peter Liguori, its Chief Operating Officer.
Now, with the blessing of federal regulators, GM can get financing via its own bank subsidiary at half the cost of what it would pay investors to take bonds off its hands.
That pays royalties to another Irish subsidiary, which passes payments to a holding company in the Netherlands with its tax base in Bermuda.
Last December, the subsidiary pulled out, citing big debts, disputes with the municipality over its failure to invest and an argument over price increases.
And the firm can replace them with aircraft that it leases through a subsidiary in Ireland, avoiding adding more debt to its books in Seoul.
Nike, including its Jordan Brand subsidiary, is the dominant basketball shoe company in the States with a 92% market share, according to SportsOneScan, which tracks sports shoe and apparel sales.
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Russian and British executives in this bad marriage have been in turmoil since 2011, with AAR accusing BP of treating TNK-BP merely as a Russian subsidiary to boost its reserves, and not letting the company expand abroad in areas where it might itself compete with BP.
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Almost from its inception, CCX had a strong connection with the Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange, whose subsidiary is the International Petroleum Exchange, the world's largest petroleum futures options market.
Although Marriott International has its own luxury subsidiary hotel brands like the Ritz-Carlton, it has teamed up with hotel designer Ian Schrager to launch its first boutique brand later this year.
In its filing, Oracle contends that users logging in from Internet addresses associated with rival SAP's subsidiary TomorrowNow used account information from former or soon-to-be former Oracle customers to download software patches, technical information and other materials.
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