Firms, businesses

Usage examples of companies.

The fleet was eventually folded into two independent transportation companies that allowed the HBC preferential freight rates with no need for further capital expenditures.

Financing a new railway usually ineant its promoters would set up secretly controlled construction companies, then negotiate inflated contracts with themselves, collecting hefty profits at both ends of each deal.

Also at fault was the post-war collapse of the local wholesale business, when prosperity allowed carload lots to be shipped across the West instead of being broken up by wholesalers in Winnipeg, which meant that the three provinces West of Manitoba began to deal directly with the large eastern companies and institutions.

MERCHANT PRINCES accountant and did so well that the Bank of England began asking him to act on its behalf in helping salvage near-defunct British companies around the globe.

University, chairman of Ogilvie Flour Mills and a director of eleven other major companies, he was one of the few distinguished nonWinnipeggers to join the HBC Committee.

Sports Hall of Fame, he succeeded his father as president of Northern Trusts and was a director of such Winnipeg touchstone companies as Great-West Life and Beaver Lumber.

Company management immediately began to negotiate a new long-term agreement with its exploration partner, Continental Oil, locking the two companies into joint ventures until 1999.

I took the opportunity of expressing my own views on the breaking up of the companies or selling off limbs, especially those with long histories and established success.

The Canadian Managing Director had first demonstrated his political clout in 1960 when the Diefenbaker government introduced a 15-percent tax on dividends paid by branches of foreign companies operating in Canada.

By quietly nurturing his contacts, Murray got the bill altered to exclude companies carrying on trade in Canada before July 1, 1867-an amendment that applied only to the HBC.

Bronfinans, who began as bartenders and bootleggers, have made a fantastic fortune and they seem to buy new companies almost every day.

It certainly carried the kind of historic pedigree that would please a British-Canadian lord, it was widely held with no control blocks that would have demanded premium prices, and it was a well and conservatively managed enterprise, ideal for the Thomson habit of acquiring companies that turned decent profits without requiring day-to-day involvement.

As president of most of the family holding companies, Tory exercises enormous influence.

There are not enough young men left in the Iron Valleys for more companies to be raised, not without weakening the merchants and crafters and breaking the promises the Lord-Protector has made.

If I take any companies from around Southgate, the Regent could retake Southgate.