- Enterprise Florida www.enterpriseflorida.com
- attract inward FDI, is a public private partnership between Florida's business and government leaders
- mattel
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2016-09/13/content_26778855.htm Global leading toy producer Mattel Inc, owner of renowned brands including Barbie and Fisher-Price, is enhancing its brand awareness in China with plans to build more Thomas & FriendsTowns in major cities and by introducing the first Chinese character to its 70-years-old train story.
- https://www.ft.com/content/c21eb3c2-30e4-11e7-9555-23ef563ecf9a The Cordish Companies, a privately held US leisure group with close ties to the Trump administration, is doubling down on plans to build a €2.2bn casino and hotel complex outside Madrid — despite being rebuffed by authorities in the Spanish capital two months ago.
- Cotton Incorporated is a non-profit organization funded by cotton growers in the United States through per-bale assessments on producers and importers levied by the Cotton Board, which reports to the United States Department of Agriculture. The Cotton Research and Promotion Act of 1966 enabled the establishment of Cotton Incorporated in 1970. The organization conducts research and promotes the use of cotton. The company has helped cotton increase market share in fabrics since it was enacted, both through the branding of cotton with the "Seal of Cotton" and improved technology. The successful campaign was the first commodity brand. Cotton Incorporated's world headquarters are located in Cary, North Carolina, and offices are located in New York, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Osaka. Cotton Incorporated works with the Cotton Council International.
textile
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. is an American multinational manufacturing company specializing in products derived from fluoropolymers. It is a privately held corporation headquartered in Newark, Delaware. It is best known as the developer of waterproof, breathable Gore-Tex fabrics.
Fashion/apparel
- Nike, Inc. (official, US: /ˈnaɪki/; also, non-US /ˈnaɪk/)[note 1] is an American multinational corporation that is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing, and worldwide marketing and sales of footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories, and services. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, in the Portland metropolitan area. It is the world's largest supplier of athletic shoesand apparel[5] and a major manufacturer of sports equipment. The company was founded on January 25, 1964, as Blue Ribbon Sports, by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight, and officially became Nike, Inc. on May 30, 1971. The company takes its name from Nike, the Greek goddess of victory.
- https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/swoosh-owner-nike-stays-ahead-of-the-regulator-icij/ Nike shifted billions in trademark profits between subsidiaries to avoid high taxes in Europe. Profits on trademarks including the iconic Swoosh helped increase offshore profits to $12 billion plus – untaxed in United States. Dutch tax deals and loopholes were seized on by Nike, Uber and other U.S.multinationals.
- GAP
- gap to open 40 stores in india http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/21/us-gap-results-idUSKBN0GL22P20140821, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/03e3e5ac-2940-11e4-9d5d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3B5TsZk2q
- www.trendcouncil.com
- coach
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2016-05/09/content_25162345.htm Founded in 1941 as a small workshop in Manhattan, Coach is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. But while it is seen as a renowned luxury brand back home in North America, Bozec conceded that Coach is still a relatively young one in China that is attempting to reach its first generation of customers. Although Coach was among the first luxury brands to sell its leather bags and accessories in China in 1998, it was not until 2009 that the company took back its business from distributors and started to introduce its flagship stores to the country. In 2013, amid a stagnant economy and stiff competition from similarly-positioned brands like Michael Kors and Kate Spade, Coach's earnings fell significantly. To arrest its decline, the company kicked off a three-year, multi-dimensional and global brand transformation in 2014 with the aim of upgrading Coach from "an accessible luxury brand" to "a modern luxury one".
- Coach said the new name reflected the company's history and the fact that many brands will be interwoven to create one product. Coach acquired high-
property brokerage
-NAI global
- http://www.scmp.com/property/hong-kong-china/article/1872160/us-based-nai-global-goes-shanghai Despite keen competition in the industry, NAI Global, a US-based broker of commercial properties broker, has decided to extend its presence into Shanghai through a team-up with Shanghai-based agent Sofia Group. NAI Global recently announced Sofia Group Shanghai as its new member to expand brokerage business in the financial hub of China. With over 24 million inhabitants, Shanghai is among the world’s most rapidly developing megacities, according to Jay Olshonsky, President of NAI Global. They are looking at the city’s booming economy as the city has driven rates for quality commercial real estate to levels comparable to those of leading global markets, with more and more Fortune 500 firms choosing Shanghai as their Asia-Pacific headquarters, according to NAI Global.
- PulteGroup, Inc (Pulte Homes) is a homebuilding company founded in 1950 by Bill Pulte in Oakland County, Michigan. It is now based in Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia, United States. In 2009, the company, then known as Pulte Homes Inc., bought rival Centex — creating the nation's largest homebuilding company — in a stock transaction worth $3.1 billion, including $1.8 billion of debt. [1] Pulte completed the acquisition of Centex February 23, 2010.
- Reportedly sun city mesquite nevada is one of its developments
mining
- Freeport-McMoRan Inc., (FMCG) often called Freeport, is a mining company based in the Freeport-McMoRan Center in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
- largest copper producer
- https://www.ft.com/content/0b46c740-8925-11e7-bf50-e1c239b45787 Paringa Resources, a mining company with no production but some long-cherished plans, has been one of the most immediate beneficiaries of President Donald Trump’s election. Since 2012 it has been looking at a potential coal mine in Kentucky, acquiring leases and drawing up plans. The reserves are thermal coal, used for power generation, and Paringa had a contract to sell 40 per cent of the mine’s output to utilities owned by PPL. But last year it still needed to raise the capital to make the project a reality. Mr Trump, with his promise to “bring back coal”, caused “a sea-change in sentiment in the market,” says Grant Quasha, Paringa’s chief executive. In the spring, the company was able to raise A$53m (US$42m) on the Australian Stock Exchange and a $20m debt facility from Macquarie, and construction started this month. A year from now, the Poplar Grove mine is scheduled to begin production.
- Arch Coal
- Alpha Natural Resources
- Walter Energy
- Peabody Energy
- murray energy
- The slow death of the American coal industry has forced Murray Energy, the largest private coal miner in the United States, to file for bankruptcy protection Tuesday. Murray Energy's bankruptcy has been telegraphed for years. It recently failed to make payments to lenders, and the company entered into a forbearance agreement that bought it time to negotiate a restructuring. But that grace period came and went, and Murray Energy was unable to pay its bills. S&P Global Ratings downgraded the company's credit rating to "default" earlier this month.The coal company formed a restructuring agreement with some of its lenders, representing about 60% of Murray's $1.7 billion in liabilities. The company announced Tuesday it has received $350 million in credit to keep its business operational through bankruptcy.Robert Murray, the self-proclaimed king of the coal industry, has been replaced as CEO. Murray Energy announced Tuesday that former Chief Financial Officer Robert Moore will take over as the company's new chief executive. Robert Murray will remain as the company's chairman.https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/29/business/murray-energy-bankruptcy/index.html
Metal
- global specialty metal
- http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/23/us-globe-specialty-m-a-grupo-ferroatlant-idUSKBN0LR14N20150223 Silicon-metal producers Globe Specialty Metals Inc (GSM.O) and Spain's Grupo FerroAtlántica SA will merge to form a company controlled by FerroAtlántica shareholders, betting on growing demand from carmakers to solar energy companies. The combined company, with an enterprise value of $3.1 billion, will build on FerroAtlantico's presence in Europe and Globe Specialty's footprint in North America.
- Arconic said Monday that Klaus Kleinfeld has agreed to step down as CEO and chairman after the company’s board of directors discovered that he sent a letter to its largest shareholder. Arconic Inc. makes aluminum, titanium or nickel parts for planes, cars and electronics. The New York-based company was spun off from aluminum company Alcoa last year. Arconic said Kleinfeld’s letter was sent to a senior official at Elliott Management, an activist investor that has been pushing the company to replace Kleinfeld. Elliott Management has an 11.6 percent stake in Arconic.without telling them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/arconic-ceo-klaus-kleinfeld-steps-down/2017/04/17/19193914-2379-11e7-928e-3624539060e8_story.html?utm_term=.f8cdf08f6295
- The Bethlehem Steel Corporation (commonly called Bethlehem Steel) was a steel and shipbuilding company that began operations in 1904 and was America's second-largest steel producer and largest shipbuilder.The Bethlehem Steel roots trace back to 1857 with the establishment of the Bethlehem Iron Company; the Bethlehem Iron Company (also known as Bethlehem Iron Works or simply Bethlehem Iron) was established as the Saucona Iron Companyand ceased operations in 1901.After a decline in the American steel industry and other problems leading to the company's bankruptcy in 2001, the Bethlehem Steel Corporation was dissolved and the remaining assets sold to International Steel Group in 2003; Bethlehem Steel Corporation did not merge with/into International Steel Group.
Industrial manufacturing
- precision castparts
- johnson controls
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2016-06/14/content_25700751.htm Johnson Controls Inc, the United States-based manufacturer of energy storage, building equipment and control systems, will open its second global headquarters with a capacity for 1,200 employees in Shanghai next April, a senior executive said on Monday. Trent Nevill, vice-president of Johnson Controls and the new president for the company in the Asia-Pacific region, said as China continues to be one of its major growth markets, the new global headquarters in Shanghai will create a centralized and sustainable workplace to continue the company's business growth in both China and the Asia-Pacific region. Supported by more than 150,000 employees in more than 150 countries and regions, the company employs more than 7,500 people in China.
- Praxair
utility
- ASIDE from oxygen-quaffing mountaineers and scuba divers, few consumers give a thought to the normally stable world of making industrial gases. Yet the sector, essential for much other manufacturing, is now gripped by discussion of mega-mergers as big firms on either side of the Atlantic jostle for advantage. This week brought renewed talk of a long-expected tie-up. Analysts have speculated for a while about a possible family reunion between Linde, a German firm with a market value of $30 billion, and Praxair, an American rival of similar value that is more profitable. Praxair originally sprang from its European parent over a century ago. The talks are at an early stage. A union would produce the leader in industrial gases, with a market share of about 40%.http://www.economist.com/news/business/21705370-two-giants-industry-may-merge-somethings-air
- Whitefish Energy Holdings, LLC (d/b/a Whitefish Energy) is a small holding company based in Whitefish, Montana whose portfolio of companies installs, maintains, and repairs electrical grids. The holding company was founded in 2015 by Andy Techmanski, a former lineman. In October 2017, Whitefish was awarded a contract to repair part of the energy infrastructure in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria.Whitefish Energy Holdings LLC was founded in 2015 by Andy Techmanski, a former lineman with more than twenty years of experience in the electric power industry. The company has been funded by Dallas-based HBC Investments,[who?] by Flat Creek Capital Management,[who?] and by Brazil's Comtrafo Transformers.[who?][1] In 2016, a 51% stake in the company was sold to Comtrafo S.A.
- http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/30/politics/whitefish-energy-holdings-contract-fbi/index.html The FBI has opened a preliminary inquiry into the $300 million Whitefish Energy Holdings contract secured by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, according to a source with knowledge of the inquiry. It wasn't immediately clear what about the deal the FBI would be investigating. But members of Congress have raised concerns over the manner in which the contract for essential work to rebuild the island's decimated grid was awarded to the small Montana company. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has also raised concerns over whether the amount of the contract awarded was reasonable.The company also has ties to the Trump administration. The company is based in and named after the small hometown of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, and the CEO is an acquaintance of the secretary. An investment firm that owns a major stake in the company is run by a donor to Trump's presidential campaign.
- 美國加州去年因電纜斷裂，釀成多場致命火災。本年一月尋求破產保護的太平洋煤電公司（PG&E），周二同意向加州十四個地方政府，賠償十億美元（約七十八億港元），與保險公司、地方政府和私人業主要求的逾三百億美元（約二千三百四十八億港元）相差甚遠。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190620/00180_031.html
- 美國加州去年爆發被視為近年最嚴重的山火，嚴重災情的餘悸未消之際，北部周四山火再現。三藩市以北的索奴瑪縣政府下令居民疏散，而太平洋煤電公司（PG&E）為免災情擴散，決定停止向州內十七個縣、約十八萬人供電。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191026/00180_024.html
- economist 26oct19 "power struggle" why california can't quit pg&e
Energy
- conocophillips
- conoco starts shipping alaskan oil to south korea http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB31791489885250284008304580186200573182566
- Exxon Mobil Corporation is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company, and was formed on November 30, 1999 by the merger of Exxon (formerly Standard Oil Company of New Jersey) and Mobil (formerly the Standard Oil Company of New York).
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2017-10/19/content_33434541.htm ExxonMobil has launched a new oil-change vehicle for wind turbines that can be used in mountain roads, small areas and wind farms in China's southern regions. The company said the oil-change vehicles, introduced at the recent China Wind Power Exhibition in Beijing, are part of ExxonMobil's plans to expand coverage of Mobil wind turbine services in China and in line with wind farms in the country moving to the southern and eastern regions, said Ng Wei Fang, deputy general manager of Exxon-Mobil China Investment Co Ltd.
- 埃克森美孚惠州乙烯項目昨日正式開工。這是中國重化工領域的第二例外商獨資項目，也是美國企業在華獨資建設的首個重大石化項目。首批生產裝置將在2023年投產，預計可實現年均營業收入達390億元人民幣。中國北京、惠州，美國達拉斯，三地以5G視頻連線方式宣佈「雲開工」。中共中央政治局常委、國務院副總理韓正出席並宣佈項目開工。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2020/04/23/a14-0423.pdf
- chevron
- http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-bangladesh-chevron-idUSKBN1610T9 China's state-run Zhenhua Oil has signed a preliminary deal with Chevron (CVX.N) to buy the U.S. oil major's natural gas fields in Bangladesh that are worth about $2 billion, two Beijing-based Chinese oil executives said. Zhenhua is a subsidiary of China's defense industry conglomerate NORINCO. A completed deal would mark China's first major energy investment in the South Asian country, where Beijing is competing with New Delhi and Tokyo for influence.
- Coastal Corporation was a diversified energy and petroleum products company headquartered at 9 Greenway Plaza (Coastal Tower) in Greenway Plaza, Houston, Texas. The company was founded in 1955 by Oscar Wyatt and incorporated in 1955 as Coastal States Gas Producing Company. It merged with the El Paso Corporation in 2001.
- scmp 23nov18 remember a day - report of 23nov1978 about a small refinery in san francisco bay area set to be the first to process chinese crude oil (under a deal announced by coastal states gas corporation)
oil services
- Halliburton is an American multinational corporation. One of the world's largest oil field service companies, it has operations in more than 70 countries. It owns hundreds of subsidiaries, affiliates, branches, brands, and divisions worldwide and employs approximately 50,000 people. The company has dual headquarters located in Houston and in Dubai, where Chairman and CEO David Lesar works and resides. The company remains incorporated in the United States. Halliburton's major business segment is the Energy Services Group (ESG). ESG provides technical products and services for petroleumand natural gas exploration and production. Halliburton's former subsidiary, KBR, is a major construction company of refineries, oil fields, pipelines, and chemical plants. Halliburton announced on April 5, 2007 that it had sold the division and severed its corporate relationship with KBR, which had been its contracting, engineering and construction unit as a part of the company.
- Halliburton, the global oil service company, announced on Monday that it had written off its remaining investment of $312 million in Venezuela, as oil production in the politically polarized and virtually bankrupt country continues to plummet. The move had long been expected because the state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, known as Pdvsa, had for years been falling behind on paying its bills from companies that maintain and operate its oil and gas wells. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/business/halliburton-venezuela-pdvsa.html
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wethfrd-intl-bankruptcy/oilfield-firm-weatherford-international-files-bankruptcy-plan-idUSKCN1TT33N oilfield services firm Weatherford International [WFTIF.PK] on Friday filed a prepackaged restructuring plan with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a regulatory filing. The company, which has struggled under a heavy debt burden and years of losses, warned in May that it expected to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after failing to obtain new financing and after the loss of key employees.
- china
lng
- Cheniere Energy, Inc. (Cheniere), incorporated on March 25, 1983, is an energy company primarily engaged in liquefied natural gas (LNG)-related businesses. The Company operates through two segments: LNG terminal business, and LNG and natural gas marketing business. Its LNG terminal segment consists of the Sabine Pass and Corpus Christi LNG terminals. https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/companyProfile/LNG
- https://www.reuters.com/article/cheniere-energy-cnpc-corpuschristi-lng/update-2-cheniere-closer-to-expanding-texas-lng-site-after-china-deal-idUSL4N1PZ51V Cheniere Energy Inc said on Friday it has signed a deal to sell liquefied natural gas to China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) from its Corpus Christi export terminal under construction in Texas, moving the top U.S. LNG company closer to expanding the site.
shale
- Whiting Petroleum Corporation is a company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration. It is organized in Delaware and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.The company was founded in 1980 by Kenneth R. Whiting and Bert Ladd.In 1992, Alliant Energy, a Midwest public utility, acquired the company for $27.5 million.
hydrocarbon
- Anadarko Petroleum Corporation is a company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration. It is organized in Delaware and headquartered in two skyscrapers in The Woodlands, Texas: the Allison Tower and the Hackett Tower, both named after former CEOs of the company. The company has been the subject of multiple environmental cases, including the largest environmental contamination settlement in American history - the 2014 settlement related to the former Tronox subsidiary of Kerr McGee, a company purchased by Anadarko in 2006.
Solar
- SunEdison
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2014-10/23/content_18787600.htm SunEdison Inc, a leading United States-based solar developer, has signed its second joint-venture project in China, which one leading analyst expects to mark a significant expansion bythe company into the world's largest downstream solar market.
clean energy
- http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1893960/chinas-avic-plane-maker-ordered-pay-us70m-dallas-wind-firm-after Tang Energy Group, a Dallas-based clean energy company, has won a more than US$70 million arbitration award for breach of contract against China’s biggest state-owned aerospace and defence company, Aviation Industry Corporation of China (Avic). The ruling by the International Centre for Dispute Resolution in Dallas provides a glimpse into the growing number of disputes between Western firms and Chinese companies doing business overseas. Tang Energy argued Avic did not fulfil commitments to help fund a West Texas wind farm and develop a global wind energy business as part of a joint venture, Soaring Wind Energy. “The case clearly displays the need for Chinese companies operating in the United States to understand the importance of binding contracts, corporate formalities and the rule of law,” Tang Chief Executive Patrick Jenevein III said in a statement.
Due diligence
- gotham city research http://gothamcityresearch.com/
- http://www.economist.com/news/business/21606838-company-accounts-detectives-collar-another-suspect-got-em-gotham
- hket 7aug17
Branding/licensing
- Iconix Brand Group http://www.iconixbrand.com/
- In Private (website unknown)
- Interbrand http://www.interbrand.com/en/
- Fox International Production, Miqi Huang, Director of Production and Development
- millward brown https://www.millwardbrown.com, conducted surveys on world's most expensive brands
- http://www.interbrand.com/en/
- Interasia & Associates http://asialicense.com/, brands include hallmark
Corporate communications / public relations
- APCO Worldwide is an independent global public affairs and strategic communications consultancy. With more than 600 employees in 35 worldwide locations, it is also the second largest independently owned PR firm in the United States. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., APCO was founded in 1984 by Margery Kraus, who is now the firm's Executive Chairman. Most public relations firms focus on corporate communications, but APCO is usually hired to handle sensitive political and crisis management issues. Many APCO executives are former prominent government officials, politicians and ambassadors. APCO's clientele consists of multi-national corporations, governments, politicians, associations and nonprofit organizations.
- APCO stepped into prominence in India when it won the contract to promote and rebrand the Gujarat Global Investors' Summit, "Vibrant Gujarat".
- The "Sound Science Coalition" (TASSC) was created in 1993 by Phillip Morris and APCO in response to a 1992 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report[14]which identified secondhand smoke as a Group A human carcinogen.
- On March 30, 2010, Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim alleged in the Malaysian parliament (the Dewan Rakyat) that the 1Malaysia concept was mirrored after "One Israel" concept and designed by Mindteams Sdn Bhd, a branch in Malaysia of APCO Worldwide. He alleged that APCO also created the One Israel concept in 1999 for then Israeli's Prime Minister Ehud Barak.[19] Both APCO and the Barisan Nasional government stated that Anwar's allegation was untrue. Malaysian lawmakers have tabled a motion to censure Anwar for misleading the Parliament over his 1Malaysia-One Israel allegations which was passed by the Parliament on April 22, 2010.
- In 2010, APCO was involved in the controversial recommendation to fire Mark Hurd, the CEO of HP.
- Leung Ka Kit used their services for its CE campaign, John Tsang ce campaign team has links with the company
- fleishman-Hillard Inc. is a public relationsand marketing agency founded and based in St. Louis, Missouri. It was acquired byOmnicom Group in 1997, becoming part of the Diversified Agency Services (DAS) division. The company was founded in 1946 by Alfred Fleishman and Bob Hillard.[5] In 1994, the company expanded its operations to the Asia Pacific region with an office in Beijing.[6] In May 2013, the company rebranded its name to FleishmanHillard and launched the slogan "the Power of True".[7] As of August 2013, the company had 111 offices in 29 countries across the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, and Africa.
- Ketchum is an American worldwide public relations firm, offering marketing, branding, and corporate communications services. George Ketchum founded the firm as aPittsburgh-based advertising company in 1919 and registered with the state on May 22, 1923. It later evolved to include a public relations practice. Since 1999 the firm has relocated to New York City and currently has 23 offices and 46 affiliates and associations in North America, Europe,Asia Pacific, and Latin America.[1] Ketchum covers five global practice areas: brand marketing, corporate communications, healthcare, food and nutrition, and technology.[2] In 1996 Ketchum's Pittsburgh-based public relations division was merged into the Omnicom Group with headquarters moving to New York.[3] The advertising division retained the Ketchum name and Pittsburgh headquarters until merging with Earle Palmer Brown in 1999, which granted Omnicom exclusive rights to the Ketchum brand.[4] On June 16, 2009, Ketchum announced a merger with Pleon based in Düsseldorf, Germany and is known as "Ketchum Pleon" in Europe.
- Symphony is a secure, cloud-based, communication and content sharing platform. The technology was first built as an internal messaging system by Goldman Sachs called Live Current.[2] In October 2014, Goldman Sachs along with 14 other financial institutions created and invested $66M[3] in Symphony Communication Services LLC and acquired Perzo, Inc.,[4] a secure communication application that provided end to end encryption messaging. Perzo was founded by David Gurle in 2012 and David is currently the company's CEO.[6] He was involved in developing the communication offerings at Skype, Thomson Reuters, and Microsoft. On September 15, 2015, Symphony made a public release of its platform and announced partnerships with DowJones, McGraw Hill Financial, and Selerity. McGraw Hill Financial will integrate its financial information tool, S&P Capital IQ and Dow Jones will provide its entire live news feed of about 10,000 stories to the new platform. Selerity will deliver contextually relevant news, research and their proprietary breaking news notifications, directly into the Symphony platform.
- http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2113192/symphony-sets-profit-goal-it-pushes-its-communication-tool
- Definers Public Affairs is an American right leaning opposition research firm based in Arlington, Virginia.[1][2][3][4] It performs media monitoring services, conducts research using the Freedom of Information Act and also creates strategic communication to negatively influence the public image about individuals, firms, candidates and organizations who oppose their clients.[5][2][6][7] Definers shares at least nine current and former executives, as well as its office space, with America Rising, a Republican-affiliated political action committee, and NTK Network, a digital news aggregator.Definers was founded by Republican Party political operatives Joe Pounder and Matt Rhoades in 2016. In 2017, Dentons formed a strategic partnership with Definers dubbed 3D Global Affairs.[10][11] Among the services offered at 3D Global Affairs would be “governmental relations and lobbying support to shape the environment...campaign-style opposition research " and “communications and rapid response professionals to direct the narrative.” Definers established an office in San Francisco to provide opposition research to Silicon Valley clients.[13] In 2017 Definers opened an office in London called the U.K. Policy Group, headed by Andrew Goodfellow, the former head of research for the Conservative Party.
advertising
- Grey Group is a global advertising and marketing agency with headquarters in New York City, and 432 offices in 96 countries, operating in 154 cities — organized into four geographical units: North America; Europe, Middle East & Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. As a unit of communications conglomerate WPP Group, Grey Global Group operates branded independent business units in many communications disciplines including: advertising, direct marketing, public relations, public affairs, brand development, customer relationship management, sales promotion, interactive marketing — through its subsidiaries: Grey, G2, GHG, GCI Group, MediaCom Worldwide, Alliance, G WHIZ, and WING. Grey Group’s international clients include: Procter & Gamble, GlaxoSmithKline, Nokia, British American Tobacco, Diageo, Volkswagen, Novartis, Wyeth, Canon, DirecTV, and 3M.
- hkcd 16mar18 set up 精英advertising with gei man fung forty years ago
- https://myorbiter.com/collections/all-earth-photograph-prints
Telecommunications
- Sprint
Television/broadcast
- CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major production facilities and operations in New York City (at the CBS Broadcast Center) and Los Angeles (at CBS Television City and the CBS Studio Center).CBS is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network", in reference to the company's iconic logo, in use since 1951. It has also been called the "Tiffany Network", alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley.[2] It can also refer to some of CBS's first demonstrations of color television, which were held in a former Tiffany & Co. building in New York City in 1950. The network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc., a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System.
- American broadcaster CBS will buy Australia's troubled Ten Network, which had also attracted attention from a consortium led by Lachlan Murdoch.http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41070371
- The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional major offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank, California. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. ABC originally launched on October 12, 1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS and NBC. In the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop and greenlight many successful series. In the 1980s, after purchasing an 80% interest in cable sports channel ESPN, the network's corporate parent, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., merged with Capital Cities Communications, owner of several print publications, and television and radio stations. In 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABC's assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company.
- 20/20 is an American television newsmagazine that has been broadcast on ABC since June 6, 1978. Created by ABC News executive Roone Arledge, the show was designed similarly to CBS's 60 Minutes in that it features in-depth story packages, although it focuses more on human interest stories than international and political subjects. The program's name derives from the "20/20" measurement of visual acuity.
- disney connection
- The Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner.[1] It was founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner as a 24-hour cable news channel.[2] Upon its launch, CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage, and was the first all-news television channel in the United States. While the news channel has numerous affiliates, CNN primarily broadcasts from the Time Warner Center in New York City, and studios in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. Its headquarters at the CNN Center in Atlanta is only used for weekend programming. CNN is sometimes referred to as CNN/U.S. (or CNN Domestic) to distinguish the American channel from its international sister network, CNN International. The Cable News Network was launched at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on June 1, 1980. After an introduction by Ted Turner, the husband and wife team of David Walker and Lois Hart anchored the channel's first newscast.
- Walt Disney and his brother Roy contacted Goldenson at the end of 1953[49] for ABC to agree to finance part of the Disneyland project in exchange for producing a television program for the network. Walt wanted ABC to invest $500,000 and accrued a guarantee of $4.5 million in additional loans, a third of the budget intended for the park. Around 1954, ABC agreed to finance Disneyland in exchange for the right to broadcast a new Sunday night program, Disneyland, which debuted on the network on October 27, 1954 as the first of many anthology television programs that Disney would broadcast over the course of the next 50 years. When Disneyland opened on July 17, 1955, ABC aired a special live broadcast commemorating the park's first day of operation, Dateline: Disneyland. Shortly thereafter, on October 3, 1955, a second regularly scheduled program produced by Disney made its debut, The Mickey Mouse Club, a children's program that aired Monday through Friday afternoons, which starred a group of 24 children known as the "Mouseketeers". The two Disney programs made 1955 the year that the network was first profitable and as a station owner.
- http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/financeestate/art/20170724/20099413 美國有線電視新聞網（CNN）將香港廣播中心由鰂魚涌太古坊轉租至黃竹坑，最新月租33萬元，租金支出可大幅減輕逾四成。消息透露，CNN已落實租用由賭王四太梁安琪旗下尚嘉持有的黃竹坑香葉道41號中高層全層單位，面積約11,744方呎，月租約33萬元，呎租約28元。CNN目前租用鰂魚涌太古坊濠豐大廈40樓頂樓作為香港廣播中心，已承租長達18年之久，一直作為香港區總部
- Black Entertainment Television (BET) is an American basic cable channel that is part of the ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks unit of ViacomCBS. It is the most prominent television network targeting African American audiences,[2] with approximately 88,255,000 American households (75.8% of households with television) receiving the channel.[3] The channel has offices in New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago.[4] The channel's former headquarters were in Washington, D.C.After stepping down as a lobbyist for the cable industry, Freeport, Illinois native Robert L. Johnson decided to launch his own cable television network.1980年1月、ケーブルテレビ界のロービー活動家として活躍していたロバート・ジョンソンがアメリカのケーブルテレビ配信会社であるTCI（AT&Tとの合併を経て、2001年にメディア部門がリバティメディアとして独立）のCEOであったジョン・マローンから50万ドルの投資を受け、BETを設立。 BETはまず毎週金曜日の23時～25時（東部時間）までの2時間、USAネットワークでの放送を開始した。放送内容は、少し昔の映画や音楽ビデオが占め、当時まだ発展途上であったケーブルテレビ産業おける新たな市場であるアフリカ系アメリカ人の顧客開拓に乗り出した。
- CNBC 1 日採訪了黑人 娛樂電視台（BET）創始人、美國第一位 黑人億萬富翁約翰遜。約翰遜告訴 CNBC，他認為美國政府應該為奴隸制提供 14萬億美元賠款，以緩解種族不平等。http://hk.hkcd.com/pdf/202006/0603/HA03603CGJJ_HKCD.pdf
- music corporation of america
Music
- Rdio
Press/Media/Newspaper
- The McClatchy Company, commonly referred to as simply McClatchy, is a publicly traded American publishing company based in Sacramento, California, and incorporated in Delaware.[2] It operates 29 daily newspapers in fourteen states and has an average weekday circulation of 1.6 million and Sunday circulation of 2.4 million. In 2006, it purchased Knight Ridder, which at the time was the second-largest newspaper company in the United States (Gannett was and remains the largest). In addition to its daily newspapers, McClatchy also operates several websites and community papers, as well as a news agency, McClatchyDC, focused on political news from Washington, D.C.The company originated with The Daily Bee, first published in Sacramento, California, on February 3, 1857, by Native American writer Rollin Ridge. James McClatchy joined Ridge as a partner and took over as editor. Known as a supporter of the people's interests against corporations and corrupt politicians, McClatchy made The Bee a bastion of progressive reformism.
- United Press International (UPI) is an international news agency whosenewswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines andradio and television stations for most of the 20th century. At its peak, it had more than 6,000 media subscribers. Since the first of several sales and staff cutbacks in 1982, and the 1999 sale of its broadcast client list to its rival, the Associated Press, UPI has concentrated on smaller information-market niches.
- gannett Company, Inc. is a publicly tradedAmerican media holding companyheadquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, near McLean in Greater Washington DC. It is the largest U.S. newspaperpublisher as measured by total daily circulation. Its assets include the national newspaper USA Today and the erstwhile weekly USA Weekend. Its largest non-national newspaper is The Arizona Republic in Phoenix, Arizona. Other significant newspapers include The Indianapolis Star, The Cincinnati Enquirer,The Tennessean in Nashville, Tennessee,The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, NY, The Des Moines Register, the Detroit Free Press and The News-Press in Fort Myers.
- GateHouse Media Inc. (formerly Liberty Group Publishing), now owned by holding company New Media Investment Group (NYSE: NEWM), former symbol on OTC Markets Group's OTCQB tier GHSE, is one of the largest publishers of locally based print and digital media in the United States, headquartered in the town of Perinton, New York. As of April 2018, GateHouse Media publishes 144 daily newspapers, 684 community publications, and over 569 local-market websites in 38 states. Liberty Group Publishing was formed in 1998 when Kenneth L. Serota, a former Hollinger International attorney with backing from Leonard Green & Partners bought 160 community newspapers from Hollinger.
- vice media
- Huffington Post
- http://www.americanisraelite.com/
- tronc, Inc. (formerly Tribune Publishing) is an American newspaper print and online media publishing company based in Chicago, Illinois. Among other publications, the company's portfolio includes the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Orlando Sentinel, (Central Florida) Sun-Sentinel, The Baltimore Sun, (Allentown, Pennsylvania) The Morning Call, Hartford Courant, and the San Diego Union-Tribune. It also publishes several local newspapers in these metropolitan regions, which are organized in subsidiary groups. It is the nation's third-largest newspaper publisher (behind Gannett, and The McClatchy Company), with ten daily newspapers and commuter tabloids located throughout the United States. Originally incorporated in 1847 with the founding of the Chicago Tribune, Tribune Publishing formerly operated as a division of the Tribune Company, a Chicago-based multimedia conglomerate, until it was spun off into a separate public company in August 2014.On June 20, 2016, the company adopted the name tronc, short for "Tribune online content".
- The Washington Free Beacon is an American conservative political journalism web site launched in 2012. It states it is "dedicated to uncovering the stories that the powers that be hope will never see the light of day" and producing "in-depth investigative reporting on a wide range of issues, including public policy, government affairs, international security, and media."The Free Beacon was founded by Michael Goldfarb, Aaron Harrison, and Matthew Continetti, who remains its editor-in-chief. It launched on February 7, 2012, as a project of the 501(c)4 organization Center for American Freedom. In August 2014, it announced it was becoming a for-profit news site.
-The original incarnation of News Corporation (abbreviated News Corp.) was an American multinational mass media corporation operated and owned by media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, headquartered in New York City. News Corp was created in 1980 by Rupert Murdoch as a holding company for News Limited. News Limited was created in 1923 in Adelaide; subsequently the controlling interest was bought by The Herald and Weekly Times.
information and data
- ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based global information-content and technology company[1][non-primary source needed] founded in 1938 as University Microfilms by Eugene B. Power. ProQuest provides solutions, applications, and products for libraries.[2] Its resources and tools support research and learning,[1][non-primary source needed] publishing and dissemination,[3][non-primary source needed] and the acquisition, management and discovery of library collections.ProQuest is part of Cambridge Information Group.
- Rhodium Group has decades of experience advising CEOs, portfolio managers, philanthropists and policy leaders. In addition to our stand-alone analyses, we maintain long-standing collaborations with leading think-tanks and universities in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Our work is regularly cited by media and government bodies, and consulted by firms, investors and policymakers worldwide. Key areas of Rhodium expertise include Chinese economic, social and political development, energy and climate change, India’s emergence as a global player and advanced economy restructuring. www.rhg.com
Theatre/film
- Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (known as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation with hyphen from 1935 until 1985, stylized as 20th CENTURY FOX or simply known as Fox or 20th Century Fox Pictures) is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios and is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, just west of Beverly Hills. The studio was owned by News Corporation until 2013.Twentieth Century Pictures' Joseph Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck left United Artists (UA) over a stock dispute, and began merger talks with the management of financially struggling Fox Film, under president Sidney Kent.[3] Spyros Skouras, then manager of the Fox West Coast Theaters, helped make it happen (and later became president of the new company).[3] Aside from the theater chain and a first-rate studio lot, Zanuck and Schenck felt there was not much else to Fox, which had been reeling since the founder William Fox lost control of the company in 1930. The studio's biggest star, Will Rogers, died in a plane crash weeks after the merger. Its leading female star, Janet Gaynor, was fading in popularity and promising leading men James Dunn and Spencer Tracy had been dropped because of heavy drinking. At first, it was expected that the new company was originally to be called "Fox-20th Century", even though 20th Century was the senior partner in the merger. However, 20th Century brought more to the bargaining table besides Schenck and Zanuck; it was more profitable than Fox and had considerably more talent. The new company, 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, began trading on May 31, 1935;[4] the hyphen was dropped in 1985. Schenck became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, while Kent remained as President. Zanuck became Vice President in Charge of Production, replacing Fox's longtime production chief Winfield Sheehan. The company established a special training school. Lynn Bari, Patricia Farr and Anne Nagel were among 14 young women "launched on the trail of film stardom" on August 6, 1935, when they each received a six-month contract with 20th Century Fox after spending 18 months in the school. The contracts included a studio option for renewal for as long as seven years. For many years, 20th Century Fox claimed to have been founded in 1915, the year Fox Film was founded. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary. However, in recent years it has claimed the 1935 merger as its founding, even though most film historians agree it was founded in 1915.
- AMC
- Disney
- SD | MEDIA is a leading production company that produces original content in the non-fiction category; specializing in adventure, lifestyle, travel and educational programming.
- SMG is an American worldwide venue management group headquartered in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, that specializes in managing publicly owned facilities. It began their operation in 1977 with management of the Louisiana Superdome. It is one of the largest property management corporations in the world. SMG was a joint venture in general partnership form with two equal principals, The Hyatt Hotel Company and Aramark Corporation. SMG was bought by American Capital in 2007 for US$631 million, and American Capital was sold to Ares Management in January 2017. Ares Management sold SMG to Onex Corporation in 2017.
casino
- Las Vegas Sands Corporation is an American casino and resort company based in Paradise, Nevada, United States. Its resorts feature accommodations, gaming and entertainment, convention and exhibition facilities, restaurants and clubs, as well as an art and science museum in Singapore.Entrepreneur Sheldon Adelson and his partners Richard Katzeff, Irwin Chafetz, Ted Cutler, and Jordan Shapiro bought the famous Sands Hotel in 1989. They opened the Sands Expo and Convention Centeracross from the hotel in 1990. The 1.2-million-square-foot center is currently the largest privately owned convention facility in the world.
- Trans World Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, acquires, develops, and manages casino operations and small-to-mid-size four-star hotels in Europe. The company operates through two segments, Casino and Hotel. The company owns and operates three fully- service casinos in the Czech Republic under the American Chance Casinos brand.
- marriott
- wyndham
Media/marketing
- forbes
- Nickelodeon http://www.nick.com/
- Starcom Mediavest http://www.starcomww.com/
- Getty Images http://www.gettyimages.com/
- The William Morris Agency (WMA) was a Hollywood-based talent agency. It represented some of the best known 20th century entertainers in film, television, and music. During its 109 year tenure it came to be regarded as the "first great talent agency in show business".In April 2009, WMA announced it would merge with the Endeavor Talent Agency to form William Morris Endeavor which owns Miss Universe. In 1898, William Morris (born Zelman Moses), a German Jewish immigrant to the US, posted a cross-hatch trademark above an office door in New York City – four "X's", representing a W superimposed on an M – and went into business as William Morris, Vaudeville Agent. By the time WMA formally incorporated in New York State on January 31, 1918, Morris' son William Morris Jr. and an office boy named Abraham Lastfogel, who, after becoming a talent agent in his own right, entered into a business partnership with Morris Sr. As silent film grew into widely viewed entertainment, Morris encouraged his clients to experiment in the new medium. Stars such as Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson, the Marx Brothers, and Mae West were all represented by the company. By 1930, Morris had turned over leadership of the agency to his son and Lastfogel. In 1932, five years after his retirement, William Morris, Sr. died from heart failure. By that time, the Agency had begun the process of relocating from Hollywood and Vine to Canon Drive in Beverly Hills.The William Morris Agency attained further industry dominance with the December 1949 acquisition of the Berg-Allenberg Agency. The senior agent in the motion picture department during the 1950s was Mike Zimring. By 1965, WMA's Music Department had emerged as an industry powerhouse, representing, among others, the Rolling Stones, Sonny & Cher, the Beach Boys, and the Byrds.[citation needed] Less than 10 years later, in 1973, the Agency's newly established Nashville office provided another significant boost to the operations of William Morris, extending the Agency's reach into country music and beyond.
- United Talent Agency
Arts management
- columbia arts management
speakers management
- harry walker agency
Literary/talent agent
- international creative management http://www.icmtalent.com/
PR/corp comm
- http://www.conecomm.com/
- http://www.burson-marsteller.com/
- http://www.richardattiasassociates.com/,
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/93984ccc-6705-11e3-8d3e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz34hf29elr (WPP teams up with Davos man Attias)
- http://www.ruderfinn.com/
Music publisher
Medical devices
- becton dickinson
biotech
- Thermo Fisher Scientific is an American multinational biotechnology product development company, created in 2006 by the merger of Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific.[2][3] In April 2013, after a competitive bidding with Hoffmann-La Roche, Thermo Fisher acquired Life Technologies Corp for $13.6 billion in a deal that would rank the firm as one of the leading companies in the genetic testing and precision laboratory equipment markets.
- gilead
- celgene
- biogen
Pharmaceutical
- pfizer
- Eli Lilly www.lilly.com/
marijuana/cannabis
- acreage holdings
Consulting
- Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is an American management consulting firm founded in 1963.The firm was founded by Bruce Henderson as part of The Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company. Henderson, a Harvard Business School alumnus, had previously been employed at Arthur D. Little. In 1973 Bill Bain and others left BCG to form Bain & Company, and two years later Henderson arranged an employee stock ownership plan(ESOP), so that the employees could take the company independent from The Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company.
- political
- www.icfi.com
- Arthur D Little http://www.adlittle.com/
- mckinsey
- http://www.familybusinessinstitute.com/about/
- BLJ Worldwide is an international strategic consultancy founded by Peter Brown and Sir Nicholas Lloyd, specializing in public diplomacy, advocacy, and communications.
Defense
- Lockheed Martin http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/who-we-are.html, http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/who-we-are/global/lmgi.html
- Smith & Wesson (S&W) is an American manufacturer of firearms, ammunition and restraints. The corporate headquarters are in Springfield, Massachusetts. Smith & Wesson was founded in 1852 and after various corporate changes is now a unit of American Outdoor Brands Corporation.Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson founded the Smith & Wesson Company in Norwich, Connecticut in 1852 to develop the Volcanic rifle. Smith developed a new Volcanic Cartridge, which he patented in 1854. The Smith & Wesson Company was renamed Volcanic Repeating Arms in 1855 and was purchased by Oliver Winchester. Smith left the company and returned to his native Springfield, Massachusetts, while Wesson stayed on as plant manager with Volcanic Repeating Arms.
Executive search
- Heidrick & Struggles International Incorporatedis a global executive search firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States. In addition to its executive search practice, the firm also has a consulting practice focused on leadership and culture shaping. Heidrick & Struggles was founded in 1953 by Gardner Heidrick and John E. Struggles, both former employees of the management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. Heidrick recruited Struggles, who previously worked as a personnel manager for Montgomery Ward, as his partner in the new venture establishing their presence in Chicago. The partnership heralded the beginning of one of the first executive search firms in the United States.[1]Their first three clients were West Virginia Coal & Coke Corporation, Northern Trust and Continental Can.
Research/intelligence
- ibisworld http://www.ibisworld.com/
- micronomics http://www.micronomics.com/, economic research and consultancy
- Country risk solutions http://www.countryrisksolutions.com/
- ABI research https://www.abiresearch.com/, on technology
- Constellation Research *** (http://www.constellationr.com/)
- Gartner (tech research) http://www.gartner.com/technology/home.jsp
- Strategic Business Insights http://www.strategicbusinessinsights.com/
- Altos research http://www.altosresearch.com/ on real estate
- http://www.phocuswright.com/about-us, focus on travel
- Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas.[3][4] SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries in 43 states, eight Canadian provinces, and Puerto Rico. Robert L. Waltrip, a licensed funeral director who grew up in his family’s funeral business, founded the company in 1962.[5] SCI began as a small network of funeral homes and cemeteries in the Houston area. As SCI grew its offshore presence, it continued to acquire businesses in North America—a marketplace that, by the late 1990s, had become extremely competitive among companies seeking to buy death care businesses. SCI, Alderwoods Group and Stewart Enterprises emerged from this period as the three largest companies in the industry. On December 31, 1999, SCI owned and operated 3,823 funeral service locations, 525 cemeteries, 198 crematoria and two insurance operations located in 20 countries on five continents. In 1999, SCI also introduced Dignity Memorial, the first transcontinental brand of death care services and products in North America. By unifying its network of funeral homes and cemeteries under one brand name, SCI believed it could establish recognizable and communicable brand values.
- http://www.kalasfuneralhomes.com/
- http://www.forestlawncemetery-fh.com
- MCA, Inc. (or Music Corporation of America) was an American media company. Initially starting in the music business, the company next became a dominant force in the film business, and later expanded into the television business.
- http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/920a0990-ffcf-11e4-bc30-00144feabdc0.html Univision, the largest Spanish-language broadcaster in the US, has bought The Root, an African-American focused news and culture website, as the company looks to build a digital network catering to multicultural millennial consumers. Univision has been expanding its digital footprint to reach a younger, more diverse generation of Americans who use their mobile phones rather than traditional television for information and entertainment. Two years ago, it launched Fusion, an English-language news and lifestyle TV network and website that is a joint venture with Walt Disney.
- http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20170503/20009169流亡美國的中國富豪郭文貴在美國之音（Voice of America, VOA）受訪直播被腰斬事件，引發VOA中文部「大地震」。參與專訪郭的團隊，包括中文部主任龔小夏、主持人東方、資深編輯李肅、寶申，以及資深記者楊晨，被宣佈無限期休假，交回所有工作用品，接受調查，其間禁止以VOA名義對外活動。
Music
- Rdio
- http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/73c19892-a091-11e4-8ad8-00144feab7de.html Rdio, the US-based music streaming service, is widening its international footprint through a partnership with Digicel, the Caribbean and Central American telecoms group controlled by Irish billionaire Denis O’Brien, as it looks to compete with bigger rivals including Spotify and Deezer. The deal covers 31 markets in the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific islands, including 24 in which Rdio’s service will become available for the first time. Digicel customers will receive 30 minutes a day of Rdio’s radio service without charge for data usage.
Press/Media/Newspaper
- The McClatchy Company, commonly referred to as simply McClatchy, is a publicly traded American publishing company based in Sacramento, California, and incorporated in Delaware.[2] It operates 29 daily newspapers in fourteen states and has an average weekday circulation of 1.6 million and Sunday circulation of 2.4 million. In 2006, it purchased Knight Ridder, which at the time was the second-largest newspaper company in the United States (Gannett was and remains the largest). In addition to its daily newspapers, McClatchy also operates several websites and community papers, as well as a news agency, McClatchyDC, focused on political news from Washington, D.C.The company originated with The Daily Bee, first published in Sacramento, California, on February 3, 1857, by Native American writer Rollin Ridge. James McClatchy joined Ridge as a partner and took over as editor. Known as a supporter of the people's interests against corporations and corrupt politicians, McClatchy made The Bee a bastion of progressive reformism.
- The publisher of the Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star and dozens of newspapers across the country is filing for bankruptcy protection.The publisher's 30 local newsrooms will continue to operate as usual as McClatchy Co. reorganizes under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/mcclatchy-publisher-dozens-u-s-newspapers-files-bankruptcy-protection-n1136256
- United Press International (UPI) is an international news agency whosenewswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines andradio and television stations for most of the 20th century. At its peak, it had more than 6,000 media subscribers. Since the first of several sales and staff cutbacks in 1982, and the 1999 sale of its broadcast client list to its rival, the Associated Press, UPI has concentrated on smaller information-market niches.
- gannett Company, Inc. is a publicly tradedAmerican media holding companyheadquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, near McLean in Greater Washington DC. It is the largest U.S. newspaperpublisher as measured by total daily circulation. Its assets include the national newspaper USA Today and the erstwhile weekly USA Weekend. Its largest non-national newspaper is The Arizona Republic in Phoenix, Arizona. Other significant newspapers include The Indianapolis Star, The Cincinnati Enquirer,The Tennessean in Nashville, Tennessee,The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, NY, The Des Moines Register, the Detroit Free Press and The News-Press in Fort Myers.
- https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/14/mng-makes-offer-to-buy-usa-today-publisher-gannett.html Better known as Digital First Media, MNG Enterprises is backed by hedge fund Alden Global Capital and is the publisher of the Denver Post and San Jose Mercury News.
- https://www.apnews.com/a0409119ab71400b944662fc770593a0 Two of the largest U.S. newspaper companies have agreed to combine for roughly $1.4 billion, creating a new industry giant that hopes to manage the crisis of print’s decline through sheer size. GateHouse Media, a fast-growing chain backed by an investment firm, is buying USA Today owner Gannett, promising to speed up a digital transformation as readers shift online. The companies say they are committed to “journalistic excellence” — while also cutting $300 million in costs every year.
- GateHouse Media Inc. (formerly Liberty Group Publishing), now owned by holding company New Media Investment Group (NYSE: NEWM), former symbol on OTC Markets Group's OTCQB tier GHSE, is one of the largest publishers of locally based print and digital media in the United States, headquartered in the town of Perinton, New York. As of April 2018, GateHouse Media publishes 144 daily newspapers, 684 community publications, and over 569 local-market websites in 38 states. Liberty Group Publishing was formed in 1998 when Kenneth L. Serota, a former Hollinger International attorney with backing from Leonard Green & Partners bought 160 community newspapers from Hollinger.
- vice media
- https://www.ft.com/content/302008e2-a4f1-11e6-8b69-02899e8bd9d1 Vice Media is unleashing its edgy journalism into the world’s biggest Muslim majority country in an attempt to tap into Indonesia’s 100m-strong youth population.
- Huffington Post
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20141210/PDF/a16_screen.pdf 美國在線公司（AOL）旗下的著名在線新聞門戶網站《赫芬頓郵報》，8日首度推出印度網頁，同時也表示期望有朝一日能推出中國版，挺進中國市場。
- http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/6375fcae-2e61-11e5-8873-775ba7c2ea3d.html A messaging service described as a WhatsApp for business is being launched by some of the world’s biggest banks in a bid to challenge Bloomberg’s dominance of the communications market. The service, Symphony, will debut two years after it emerged that Bloomberg’s reporters had used private terminal data to spy on bank employees
- https://www.ft.com/content/ead8500c-81ca-11e7-a4ce-15b2513cb3ff The lines between media consultants, advertising agencies and content providers are blurring, as pressure on ad revenues drives media businesses to seek new sources of growth, including events, e-commerce — and now, giving advice to the corporate world. Bloomberg, best known for its financial information terminals and wire service, is the latest company to enter the increasingly congested space of consulting, becoming the first major publisher to do so. A new service launched this month, aimed at competing with management consultants and media agencies, already has five clients. The idea is that Bloomberg will use data from across its assets — including the eponymous terminals, its news service and specialist publisher Bloomberg New Energy Finance — to inform its advisory services. Services will include brand consulting, corporate communications and marketing strategy advice, among others.
- Free-spirited style gives Liberty growing clout. Aim is control and influence using leverage, board presence and intricate, tax-driven dealmaking rather than ownership. Ft 16jun17
- http://www.americanisraelite.com/
- tronc, Inc. (formerly Tribune Publishing) is an American newspaper print and online media publishing company based in Chicago, Illinois. Among other publications, the company's portfolio includes the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Orlando Sentinel, (Central Florida) Sun-Sentinel, The Baltimore Sun, (Allentown, Pennsylvania) The Morning Call, Hartford Courant, and the San Diego Union-Tribune. It also publishes several local newspapers in these metropolitan regions, which are organized in subsidiary groups. It is the nation's third-largest newspaper publisher (behind Gannett, and The McClatchy Company), with ten daily newspapers and commuter tabloids located throughout the United States. Originally incorporated in 1847 with the founding of the Chicago Tribune, Tribune Publishing formerly operated as a division of the Tribune Company, a Chicago-based multimedia conglomerate, until it was spun off into a separate public company in August 2014.On June 20, 2016, the company adopted the name tronc, short for "Tribune online content".
- The Hartford Courant is the largest daily newspaper in the U.S. state of Connecticut, and is often recognized as the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States. A morning newspaper serving most of the state north of New Haven and east of Waterbury, its headquarters on Broad Street are a short walk from the state capitol. It reports regional news with a chain of bureaus in smaller cities and a series of local editions. It also operates CTNow, a Connecticut entertainment, dining and events website. Beginning in 2000, it was owned by Tribune Company, which later combined the paper's management and facilities with those of Tribune-owned WTIC-TV in Hartford. In 2014, the newspapers were spun off to corporate parent Tribune Publishing.
- The Washington Free Beacon is an American conservative political journalism web site launched in 2012. It states it is "dedicated to uncovering the stories that the powers that be hope will never see the light of day" and producing "in-depth investigative reporting on a wide range of issues, including public policy, government affairs, international security, and media."The Free Beacon was founded by Michael Goldfarb, Aaron Harrison, and Matthew Continetti, who remains its editor-in-chief. It launched on February 7, 2012, as a project of the 501(c)4 organization Center for American Freedom. In August 2014, it announced it was becoming a for-profit news site.
- http://freebeacon.com/national-security/secret-document-reveals-china-covertly-offering-missiles-increased-aid-north-korea/
China's Communist Party adopted a secret plan in September to bolster the North Korean government with increased aid and military support, including new missiles, if Pyongyang halts further nuclear tests, according to an internal party document. The document, labeled "top secret" and dated Sept. 15—12 days after North Korea's latest underground nuclear blast—outlines China's plan for dealing with the North Korean nuclear issue. It states China will allow North Korea to keep its current arsenal of nuclear weapons, contrary to Beijing's public stance that it seeks a denuclearized Korean peninsula. Chinese leaders also agreed to offer new assurances that the North Korean government will not be allowed to collapse, and that Beijing plans to apply sanctions "symbolically" to avoid punishing the regime of leader Kim Jong Un under a recent U.N. resolution requiring a halt to oil and gas shipments into North Korea. A copy of the four-page Chinese-language document was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon from a person who once had ties to the Chinese intelligence and security communities. An English translation can be found here.
-The original incarnation of News Corporation (abbreviated News Corp.) was an American multinational mass media corporation operated and owned by media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, headquartered in New York City. News Corp was created in 1980 by Rupert Murdoch as a holding company for News Limited. News Limited was created in 1923 in Adelaide; subsequently the controlling interest was bought by The Herald and Weekly Times.
- 美國證券管理委員會（SEC）7月31日公布文件顯示，媒體大亨梅鐸之幼子詹姆斯已退出新聞集團董事會，理由是與集團旗下新聞機構發表的內容和其他戰略決策存在分歧。 現年47歲的詹姆斯在一份公司公告中突然宣布辭職，他稱決定退出，是因為「不認同集團新聞媒體發布的部分內容以及某些戰略決策」。身為新聞集團執行主席梅鐸和詹姆斯兄長拉克蘭透過聲明表示：「我們對詹姆斯多年來對集團的服務充滿感激，祝福他今後的事業一切順利。」 詹姆斯曾獲梅鐸器重，出任21世紀霍士的CEO，直到該公司去年被迪士尼公司併購後才辭職務。此後他創立了自己的投資基金公司Lupa Systems，但仍在新聞集團董事會任職。http://www.takungpao.com.hk/news/232111/2020/0802/482252.html
- 華人 文化集團（CMC）在娛樂相關業務再下一 城，與美國Discovery簽訂合作備忘錄，雙 方將共同開發 「探索營」線下娛樂業務和 STEM數字化教育產品。 根據合作備忘，雙方將在大中華地區 共同研發、建設並運營Discovery相關產品 的機會，亦會探索主題公園或實體場所的 建設運營合作模式，以Discovery品牌為核 心的大型綜合戶外項目，以及集教育和娛 樂於一體的青少年室內探索體驗中心。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20190425/PDF/a17_screen.pdf
information and data
- ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based global information-content and technology company[1][non-primary source needed] founded in 1938 as University Microfilms by Eugene B. Power. ProQuest provides solutions, applications, and products for libraries.[2] Its resources and tools support research and learning,[1][non-primary source needed] publishing and dissemination,[3][non-primary source needed] and the acquisition, management and discovery of library collections.ProQuest is part of Cambridge Information Group.
- Rhodium Group has decades of experience advising CEOs, portfolio managers, philanthropists and policy leaders. In addition to our stand-alone analyses, we maintain long-standing collaborations with leading think-tanks and universities in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Our work is regularly cited by media and government bodies, and consulted by firms, investors and policymakers worldwide. Key areas of Rhodium expertise include Chinese economic, social and political development, energy and climate change, India’s emergence as a global player and advanced economy restructuring. www.rhg.com
Theatre/film
- Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (known as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation with hyphen from 1935 until 1985, stylized as 20th CENTURY FOX or simply known as Fox or 20th Century Fox Pictures) is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios and is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, just west of Beverly Hills. The studio was owned by News Corporation until 2013.Twentieth Century Pictures' Joseph Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck left United Artists (UA) over a stock dispute, and began merger talks with the management of financially struggling Fox Film, under president Sidney Kent.[3] Spyros Skouras, then manager of the Fox West Coast Theaters, helped make it happen (and later became president of the new company).[3] Aside from the theater chain and a first-rate studio lot, Zanuck and Schenck felt there was not much else to Fox, which had been reeling since the founder William Fox lost control of the company in 1930. The studio's biggest star, Will Rogers, died in a plane crash weeks after the merger. Its leading female star, Janet Gaynor, was fading in popularity and promising leading men James Dunn and Spencer Tracy had been dropped because of heavy drinking. At first, it was expected that the new company was originally to be called "Fox-20th Century", even though 20th Century was the senior partner in the merger. However, 20th Century brought more to the bargaining table besides Schenck and Zanuck; it was more profitable than Fox and had considerably more talent. The new company, 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, began trading on May 31, 1935;[4] the hyphen was dropped in 1985. Schenck became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, while Kent remained as President. Zanuck became Vice President in Charge of Production, replacing Fox's longtime production chief Winfield Sheehan. The company established a special training school. Lynn Bari, Patricia Farr and Anne Nagel were among 14 young women "launched on the trail of film stardom" on August 6, 1935, when they each received a six-month contract with 20th Century Fox after spending 18 months in the school. The contracts included a studio option for renewal for as long as seven years. For many years, 20th Century Fox claimed to have been founded in 1915, the year Fox Film was founded. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary. However, in recent years it has claimed the 1935 merger as its founding, even though most film historians agree it was founded in 1915.
- AMC
- AMC takes $200m stake to expand BBC America http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c0593b00-5b0a-11e4-8625-00144feab7de.html#axzz3H7iD2QQW
- Disney
- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-2861477/Mickey--math-Disney-unveils-learning-apps.html
- http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2017/04/28/a18-0428.pdf所 謂 33 俱 樂 部，由迪士尼創 始人華特．迪士 尼創建，設在迪 士尼園區內。目 前全世界只有三 個，分別位於美 國加州、日本東 京和中國上海迪 士尼樂園內。 該俱樂部設立至今，一直嚴格控制會員人 數，只對部分特殊會員開放，還在幾年前一度 關閉會員申請資格，直到2012年才重新開放。 據稱，該俱樂部並非有錢就可入會，還需內部 成員邀請，是一個集合了社會名流、公司高 管、億萬富翁的精英階層圈子。 又傳華特．迪士尼是共濟會成員，加之俱 樂部名字中帶有 33（共濟會的象徵性數 字），又為 33俱樂部增添了一份神秘感。 且共濟會內多聚集權貴人士，不僅有錢，更 有政治地位，種種都表明迪士尼園內的這個 俱樂部不簡單且常人不可觸及。上海浦東 法院日前一宗調解案，涉及上海迪士尼高級私人俱樂 部 Club 33，該案源起會員倒賣遊園福利後資格遭中 止，會員要求賠償。此案亦首次使滬迪園 33俱樂部進 入公眾視線。據悉，並非每個迪園內都有此俱樂部， 因其會費動輒數十萬元（人民幣，下同），私密性極 強，加之鮮有內部照片流傳外界，因此被冠以「神 秘」稱號。不過目前，滬迪士尼 33俱樂部卻存在會員 涉嫌倒賣遊園福利現象，普通消費者可在網上以不足 百分之一的會費價格輕易買到會員福利。
- 美國迪士尼週二宣布，現時擁有巴黎迪士尼樂園九成七股權，並將購入餘下股權；現準備將把巴黎迪士尼除牌，結束這家公司過去二十七年獨立經營。巴黎迪士尼受歡迎程度一直不及美國，更曾被母公司打救最少三次。巴黎證券交易所規定，美國迪士尼最少擁有95%股權才可令巴黎迪士尼股份退市和落實強制收購，購入餘下股權。迪士尼目前已超過這個水平，週二更宣布將完成強制收購行動，在六月十九日前以每股2歐元購入剩餘股份。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170615/PDF/b4_screen.pdf
- http://www.ejinsight.com/20160126-fox-unit-mulls-plans-for-mega-theme-park-in-china/ Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products, a unit of media giant Twenty-First Century Fox, is looking at opportunities that may allow it to build a Fox-branded theme park in China, following previous moves in Malaysia and Dubai. “There is certainly an opportunity in China, where we can build a mega theme park that could attract more than 10 million people a year,” Jeffrey Godsick, president of Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products, told EJ Insight in an interview in Hong Kong. “Macau does not have the land base for a theme park while Hong Kong has a lot of saturation with Disneyland and Ocean Park. In terms of catchment, there are a lot of opportunities in Guangdong cities such as Zhuhai and Guangzhou,” Godsick said.
- SD | MEDIA is a leading production company that produces original content in the non-fiction category; specializing in adventure, lifestyle, travel and educational programming.
- programme include road less travelled
- SMG is an American worldwide venue management group headquartered in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, that specializes in managing publicly owned facilities. It began their operation in 1977 with management of the Louisiana Superdome. It is one of the largest property management corporations in the world. SMG was a joint venture in general partnership form with two equal principals, The Hyatt Hotel Company and Aramark Corporation. SMG was bought by American Capital in 2007 for US$631 million, and American Capital was sold to Ares Management in January 2017. Ares Management sold SMG to Onex Corporation in 2017.
- partnered with new development development in kai tak sports arena project
casino
- Las Vegas Sands Corporation is an American casino and resort company based in Paradise, Nevada, United States. Its resorts feature accommodations, gaming and entertainment, convention and exhibition facilities, restaurants and clubs, as well as an art and science museum in Singapore.Entrepreneur Sheldon Adelson and his partners Richard Katzeff, Irwin Chafetz, Ted Cutler, and Jordan Shapiro bought the famous Sands Hotel in 1989. They opened the Sands Expo and Convention Centeracross from the hotel in 1990. The 1.2-million-square-foot center is currently the largest privately owned convention facility in the world.
- https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190315/00180_011.html 香港商人孫志達控告美國拉斯維加斯金沙集團拖欠中介費案，周三在內華達州法院第三度開審。孫志達指早年曾介紹金沙集團主席艾德森予中國官員，促成澳門政府向金沙發出賭牌，其代表律師指他應獲金沙支付三億四千六百萬美元（約二十七億港元）中介費。
- Las Vegas Sands Corp.’s Singapore casino has hired a law firm to conduct a new investigation into employee transfers of more than $1 billion in gamblers’ money to third parties, according to people familiar with the matter.Davinder Singh Chambers LLC, which specializes in dispute resolution and international arbitration, was appointed after Singapore police began a probe of third-party transfers at Marina Bay Sands Ltd., said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private matters.The review by one of Singapore’s best-known law firms adds to scrutiny of the casino by the U.S. Department of Justice and Singapore authorities after a patron sued the firm last year alleging that S$9.1 million ($6.7 million) of his money was transferred to other gamblers without his knowledge. The lawsuit was settled out of court in June, with the casino agreeing to reimburse the full amount. There was a “non-admission” of liability from both sides.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-16/adelson-s-casino-hires-law-firm-to-probe-1-billion-in-transfers
- Trans World Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, acquires, develops, and manages casino operations and small-to-mid-size four-star hotels in Europe. The company operates through two segments, Casino and Hotel. The company owns and operates three fully- service casinos in the Czech Republic under the American Chance Casinos brand.
- http://www.asiaone.com/business/far-east-consortium-announces-expansion-into-european-hospitality-sector-and-acquisition-of
- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-01/hard-rock-expands-in-china-to-tap-growing-leisure-industry Hard Rock International is expanding in China with new hotels and restaurants to tap the fast-growing leisure and entertainment demand in the world’s second-largest economy. The Florida-based chain is opening three hotels in China’s coastal cities, including a 200-room oceanfront resort in northeastern Dalian city due to be completed in 2018. The others are in Shenzhen and Haikou in the south. Three restaurants will also be opened in some of China’s richest cities this year, the closely held company said in a statement Tuesday.
- marriott
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2016-07/28/content_26248080.htm teachers and students of tourism and hospitality discipline have welcomed TheMarriott China Hospitality Education Initiative (CHEI), a charitable effortfunded by The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation.
- http://www.hkcd.com.hk/pdf/201702/0227/HZ17227CTE1.pdf peggy fang roe asia pacific chief mktg officer
- wyndham
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/hkedition/2011-12/24/content_14321564.htm
- http://www.chinadailyasia.com/leaders/2017-01/09/content_15554105.html
Media/marketing
- forbes
- http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbespr/2014/07/18/forbes-media-agrees-to-sell-majority-stake-to-a-group-of-international-investors-to-accelerate-the-companys-global-growth/, http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1556593/hong-kong-investor-group-buys-majority-stake-forbes-media
- Nickelodeon http://www.nick.com/
- Starcom Mediavest http://www.starcomww.com/
- Getty Images http://www.gettyimages.com/
- getty sues microsoft on image searches http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/5fbc84e0-3450-11e4-b81c-00144feabdc0.html
- The William Morris Agency (WMA) was a Hollywood-based talent agency. It represented some of the best known 20th century entertainers in film, television, and music. During its 109 year tenure it came to be regarded as the "first great talent agency in show business".In April 2009, WMA announced it would merge with the Endeavor Talent Agency to form William Morris Endeavor which owns Miss Universe. In 1898, William Morris (born Zelman Moses), a German Jewish immigrant to the US, posted a cross-hatch trademark above an office door in New York City – four "X's", representing a W superimposed on an M – and went into business as William Morris, Vaudeville Agent. By the time WMA formally incorporated in New York State on January 31, 1918, Morris' son William Morris Jr. and an office boy named Abraham Lastfogel, who, after becoming a talent agent in his own right, entered into a business partnership with Morris Sr. As silent film grew into widely viewed entertainment, Morris encouraged his clients to experiment in the new medium. Stars such as Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson, the Marx Brothers, and Mae West were all represented by the company. By 1930, Morris had turned over leadership of the agency to his son and Lastfogel. In 1932, five years after his retirement, William Morris, Sr. died from heart failure. By that time, the Agency had begun the process of relocating from Hollywood and Vine to Canon Drive in Beverly Hills.The William Morris Agency attained further industry dominance with the December 1949 acquisition of the Berg-Allenberg Agency. The senior agent in the motion picture department during the 1950s was Mike Zimring. By 1965, WMA's Music Department had emerged as an industry powerhouse, representing, among others, the Rolling Stones, Sonny & Cher, the Beach Boys, and the Byrds.[citation needed] Less than 10 years later, in 1973, the Agency's newly established Nashville office provided another significant boost to the operations of William Morris, extending the Agency's reach into country music and beyond.
- United Talent Agency
- Jeremy Zimmer, United Talent Agency: movie dealmaker goes digital http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d3ea7bca-4d63-11e4-8f75-00144feab7de.html
Arts management
- columbia arts management
- When Yu Long, artistic director of the Beijing Music Festival, talked with his agency, Columbia Arts Management Inc in New York, about commissioning a piece to commemorate the "ping-pong diplomacy", a friend recommended Akiho to him. They then went to the SPiN Club in New York, which combines table tennis with live music. http://www.chinadailyasia.com/lifeandart/2015-10/23/content_15333621.html
- organises ultra music festival
speakers management
- harry walker agency
- clients include clinton and obama
Literary/talent agent
- international creative management http://www.icmtalent.com/
PR/corp comm
- http://www.conecomm.com/
- http://www.burson-marsteller.com/
- http://www.richardattiasassociates.com/,
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/93984ccc-6705-11e3-8d3e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz34hf29elr (WPP teams up with Davos man Attias)
- http://www.ruderfinn.com/
- kobalt (paul mccartney, prince)
Medical
- Medtronic
Massachusetts General Hospital , a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School
- Allergan plc is a multinational company in the pharmaceutical industry that produces branded drugs and performs pharmaceutical research and development. It was formed on February 18, 2015, when its predecessor, Actavis, acquired Allergan, Inc. and assumed the Allergan name.
The company markets brand products in 6 therapeutic areas: Aesthetics/Dermatology/Plastic Surgery; Neurosciences/CNS; Eye Care; Women’s Health and Urology; GI and Cystic Fibrosis; and Cardiovascular Disease and Infectious Disease. The company's products include Botox (Botulinum toxin), Namenda (Memantine), Restasis (Ciclosporin), Linzess (Linaclotide), Bystolic (Nebivolol), Juvederm (Injectable filler), Latisse (Bimatoprost), Lo Loestrin Fe, Estrace (Estradiol), Teflaro, Dalvance (Dalbavancin, Ozurdex (Dexamethasone), Optive, Natrelle, Viibryd (Vilazodone), Liletta (Levonorgestrel), Saphris (Asenapine), Enablex (Darifenacin), Actonel (Risedronic acid), Androderm (Testosterone), and Gelnique (Oxybutynin).
- Medtronic
- http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ddcd9ad6-a5cf-11e4-ad35-00144feab7de.html Medtronic, one of the world’s biggest medical technology companies, has completed its $49.9bn takeover of Ireland-based Covidien, and shares in the combined company started trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday. It is one of just a handful of deals to have survived a White House crackdown on inversions, in which companies slash their tax bills by acquiring a foreign company and redomiciling overseas. Other big transactions, most notably AbbVie’s £32bn takeover of Shire, collapsed after the US Treasury rewrote the rules.
- http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/9c2407f4-b5d9-11e4-a577-00144feab7de.html In 2010, Bill Gates visited an unremarkable building in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Shenzhen, China. With row after row of high-tech machinery humming inside, the place could easily be mistaken for an anonymous data warehouse. But Mr Gates and Ray Yip, head of the Gates Foundation’s China operation, saw something else that day. As they toured the BGI headquarters, the two men were stunned by the ambition of the scientists working at the biotech company. Inside, more than 150 state of the art genetic sequencing machines were analysing the equivalent of thousands of human genomes a day. The company is working towards a goal of building a huge library based on the DNA of many millions of people. BGI executives see this not as the end-game, but as the springboard for new drug discoveries, advanced genetic research and a transformation of public health policy.
- boston hospital eyes chinese joint venture http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2014-10/20/content_18767340.htm
- Allergan plc is a multinational company in the pharmaceutical industry that produces branded drugs and performs pharmaceutical research and development. It was formed on February 18, 2015, when its predecessor, Actavis, acquired Allergan, Inc. and assumed the Allergan name.
The company markets brand products in 6 therapeutic areas: Aesthetics/Dermatology/Plastic Surgery; Neurosciences/CNS; Eye Care; Women’s Health and Urology; GI and Cystic Fibrosis; and Cardiovascular Disease and Infectious Disease. The company's products include Botox (Botulinum toxin), Namenda (Memantine), Restasis (Ciclosporin), Linzess (Linaclotide), Bystolic (Nebivolol), Juvederm (Injectable filler), Latisse (Bimatoprost), Lo Loestrin Fe, Estrace (Estradiol), Teflaro, Dalvance (Dalbavancin, Ozurdex (Dexamethasone), Optive, Natrelle, Viibryd (Vilazodone), Liletta (Levonorgestrel), Saphris (Asenapine), Enablex (Darifenacin), Actonel (Risedronic acid), Androderm (Testosterone), and Gelnique (Oxybutynin).
- In the spring of 1983, colleagues Allen Chao and David Hsia formed Watson Pharmaceuticals, a small drug development company with funding from friends and family. The founders established an initial product development and analytical laboratory with 4 other employees in a leased space in Libertyville, Illinois.
Medical devices
- becton dickinson
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2015-08/22/content_21671561.htm Becton Dickinson and Co, a United States-based medical technology company, is targeting a 17 percent growth in sales from China this year to about $600 million, its chairman said. China is already the second-largest market for the company after the US, said Vincent Forlenza, chairman of Becton Dickinson. Medical devices, especially the infusion business, is still the largest revenue earner in China, said Forlenza, adding that Becton Dickinson's presence in the sector can be traced back to 1906, when it built up the first facility in the US to manufacture needles and syringes. Becton Dickinson is one of the world's largest medical devices and diagnostics solution providers and has three facilities in China. All its China facilities are in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, with the third one commencing operations earlier this year. According to Forlenza, there has been a huge exponential demand in China for products like needles and quick diagnostic kits. At the same time, the company is also furthering its localization efforts so that it can respond to market requirements quickly, he said.
biotech
- Thermo Fisher Scientific is an American multinational biotechnology product development company, created in 2006 by the merger of Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific.[2][3] In April 2013, after a competitive bidding with Hoffmann-La Roche, Thermo Fisher acquired Life Technologies Corp for $13.6 billion in a deal that would rank the firm as one of the leading companies in the genetic testing and precision laboratory equipment markets.
- NYSE-listed laboratory equipment provider Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc has launched a precision medicine customer experience center in Guangzhou as it eyes significant investments in China, its second-largest market. Located in the Guangzhou International Bio-Island, the 600 square meter center showcases its products and services in genomics, proteomics and metabolomics.http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2017-09/20/content_32231860.htm
- china daily 28nov19 on plans in china
- gilead
- celgene
- biogen
Pharmaceutical
- pfizer
- http://www.reuters.com/article/us-pfizer-china-idUSKCN0ZE0A8 Pfizer Inc will invest $350 million to build a biotech center in China, the latest in a series of moves by pharma industry giants to set up shop in the world's no. 2 drugs market with the aim of securing faster approvals for their products.The facility in eastern Hangzhou region - Pfizer's first biotech center in Asia - is expected to be completed by 2018, the firm said in a statement on Tuesday.Global "Big Pharma" is increasingly looking for smart ways to tap China's healthcare market, estimated by consultancy IMS Health to be worth around $185 billion by 2018. From investing in China facilities to acquisitions, licensing deals and joint ventures, the aim is to seek an edge in dealings with domestic regulators and government.
- Eli Lilly www.lilly.com/
- 信达生物製药（苏州）有限公司与美国礼来製药集团12日达成全球开发合作协议，首期里程碑付款总金额超过10亿美元（约78亿港元），成为迄今为止中国新药国际合作项目的所涉金额最大的一桩。不久前，中国药企恆瑞医药将自身的单抗药物有授许可给美国Incyte，获得最高7.95亿美元的收益，这被美国媒体评论称“中国新药卖出了一个全球价”。如今，这一金额纪录再被刷新。此次合作涉及三个目前最有前景的新型双特异性肿瘤免疫治疗抗体，三个抗体均使用来自于信达生物自主研发的PD-1单抗。其中，信达生物将合作主导中国市场的开发、生产和销售，礼来将合作主导国外市场的开发、生产和销售。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20151013/PDF/a6_screen.pdf
- Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK), d.b.a. Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) outside the United States and Canada, is an American pharmaceutical company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The company was established in 1891 as the United States subsidiary of the German company Merck, which was founded in 1668 by the Merck family. Merck & Co. was nationalized by the US government during World War I and subsequently established as an independent American company in 1917. While it operates as Merck & Co. in North America, the original Merck based in Darmstadt holds the rights to the Merck name everywhere else. Merck & Co. is the world's seventh largest pharmaceutical company by market capitalization and revenue. Its headquarters is located in Kenilworth, New Jersey.
- Zoetis, Inc. (/zō-EH-tis/) is the world's largest producer of medicine and vaccinations for pets and livestock. The company was a subsidiary of Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, but with Pfizer's spinoff of its 83% interest in the firm it is now a completely independent company. The company operates in 70 countries worldwide with recent expansions into Southeast Asia and China.
- hpv vaccine promoted by hku medical students
- product gardasil was promoted to mainlanders re scmp report on agents making up stories of shortage
marijuana/cannabis
- acreage holdings
Consulting
- Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is an American management consulting firm founded in 1963.The firm was founded by Bruce Henderson as part of The Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company. Henderson, a Harvard Business School alumnus, had previously been employed at Arthur D. Little. In 1973 Bill Bain and others left BCG to form Bain & Company, and two years later Henderson arranged an employee stock ownership plan(ESOP), so that the employees could take the company independent from The Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company.
- political
- Strator
- http://www.eurasiagroup.net
- senior adviors include victor cha, lord davies, william hague
- www.icfi.com
- recruits staff relating to hk policy re technology classified post 14 feb 15
- clients in uk (including ukti) http://www.icfi.com/regions/europe/united-kingdom#tab-2-clients
- Arthur D Little http://www.adlittle.com/
- mckinsey
- Economist article http://www.economist.com/news/business/21602240-mckinsey-tries-its-hand-restructuring-business-advising-doing (issue 17 May p57-8)
- http://www.familybusinessinstitute.com/about/
- BLJ Worldwide is an international strategic consultancy founded by Peter Brown and Sir Nicholas Lloyd, specializing in public diplomacy, advocacy, and communications.
- involved in work of tung chee hwa in usa hkej 30nov17
Defense
- Lockheed Martin http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/who-we-are.html, http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/who-we-are/global/lmgi.html
- Aeroflex http://www.aeroflex.com/, Cobham plans to buy http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2ff1be2c-dff2-11e3-b709-00144feabdc0.html#axzz32Jb5oqYe
- http://hybridhe.com/hybrid-airship/
- U.S. defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp said on Monday it would buy Orbital ATK Inc for about $7.8 billion in a deal that gives it greater access to lucrative government contracts and expands its arsenal of missile defense systems and space rockets.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-orbital-atk-m-a-northrop-grumman/northrop-grumman-to-buy-missile-maker-orbital-for-7-8-billion-idUSKCN1BT0ZZ
- Smith & Wesson (S&W) is an American manufacturer of firearms, ammunition and restraints. The corporate headquarters are in Springfield, Massachusetts. Smith & Wesson was founded in 1852 and after various corporate changes is now a unit of American Outdoor Brands Corporation.Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson founded the Smith & Wesson Company in Norwich, Connecticut in 1852 to develop the Volcanic rifle. Smith developed a new Volcanic Cartridge, which he patented in 1854. The Smith & Wesson Company was renamed Volcanic Repeating Arms in 1855 and was purchased by Oliver Winchester. Smith left the company and returned to his native Springfield, Massachusetts, while Wesson stayed on as plant manager with Volcanic Repeating Arms.
- ????? [教声17feb19] diocese of western massachusetts acquired american outdoor brands corporation
- 美國國防部近日宣布，大型國防合約商雷神公司（Raytheon）獲得台灣的海軍艦艇雷達翻新維修合約，價值近五千萬美元（約三點九二億港元），於二○二四年四月三日前完成合約。台海軍司令部回應稱，是項軍售維修保養是為了確保海軍的艦艇戰力。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190410/00178_022.html
- United Technologies and Raytheon are joining forces to create an aerospace and defense powerhouse. It is one of the biggest corporate mergers of 2019. The two companies announced Sunday that they have agreed to combine in an all-stock deal they termed a "merger of equals." The new company would have annual revenue of about $74 billion. Together, UTC and Raytheon are worth about $166 billion in market value now. UTC makes up the lion's share of that. Under the terms of the deal, United Technologies shareholders would own 57% of the combined company, with Raytheon shareholders owning the rest.https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/09/investing/united-technologies-raytheon-merger/index.html
Executive search
- Heidrick & Struggles International Incorporatedis a global executive search firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States. In addition to its executive search practice, the firm also has a consulting practice focused on leadership and culture shaping. Heidrick & Struggles was founded in 1953 by Gardner Heidrick and John E. Struggles, both former employees of the management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. Heidrick recruited Struggles, who previously worked as a personnel manager for Montgomery Ward, as his partner in the new venture establishing their presence in Chicago. The partnership heralded the beginning of one of the first executive search firms in the United States.[1]Their first three clients were West Virginia Coal & Coke Corporation, Northern Trust and Continental Can.
Research/intelligence
- ibisworld http://www.ibisworld.com/
- micronomics http://www.micronomics.com/, economic research and consultancy
- Country risk solutions http://www.countryrisksolutions.com/
- ABI research https://www.abiresearch.com/, on technology
- Constellation Research *** (http://www.constellationr.com/)
- Gartner (tech research) http://www.gartner.com/technology/home.jsp
- Strategic Business Insights http://www.strategicbusinessinsights.com/
- Altos research http://www.altosresearch.com/ on real estate
- http://www.phocuswright.com/about-us, focus on travel
- http://www.scarborough.com/ joint venture between The Nielsen Company and Arbitron
- http://www.strozfriedberg.com/category/services/forensics-investigations-services
- www.reddintelligence.com
- Plunkett Research, Ltd. provides industry sector analysis and research, industry trends, and industry statistics. The company offers data and market research, including market research, industry trends analysis, statistical tables, technologies analysis, business intelligence and facts, key industry associations (with contact information), corporate executive contracts, industry glossary, data export tools, and companies data. It also provides research reports and online subscription service for corporations, consultants, universities, libraries, and government agencies, as well as solutions for associations; and hospitals, medical libraries, and health organizations. https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=27605440
architecture
- M. Arthur Gensler Jr. & Associates, Inc., referred to as Gensler, is an American design and architecture firm headquartered in San Francisco. In 2015, Gensler generated $1.18 billion in revenue, the most of any architecture firm based in the United States.[7] As of 2015, it operated offices in 46 cities in 16 countries worldwide.Art and Drue Gensler, and their associate, James Follett, founded the firm in 1965.
building/construction
- for food services
- Jacobs Engineering was founded in 1947 by Joseph J. Jacobs. As of 2016 the Chairman and CEO is Steven J. Demetriou. The previous President and CEO was Craig L. Martin from 2006 until 2014. The company is publicly traded as a Fortune 500 company,[8] and as of October 2016 had 50,000 employees globally.[9] Jacobs has more than 250 offices in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, Africa, and Asia. The company is structured around four lines of business: Aerospace & Technology; Buildings & Infrastructure; Industrial; and Petroleum & Chemicals. In October 2016, the company moved its headquarters from California to Dallas, Texas.
- Louis Berger (formerly known as Berger Group Holdings) is a full-service engineering, architecture, planning, environmental, program and construction management and economic development firm based in Morristown, New Jersey. Founded in 1953 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania by Dr. Louis Berger, the firm now employs nearly 6,000 employees in more than 50 countries worldwide. The firm provides services to federal, state and local government clients, as well as to international multilateral institutions and to commercial industry. As of September 2011, Louis Berger ranked as the third largest USAID private-sector partner,[2] and was ranked #25 in 2015 among U.S. design firms in terms of total firm revenue by Engineering News-Record. The company has suffered setbacks in recent years with settlement of fraud charges for contracts in Afghanistan; admission of criminal responsibility to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations in a settlement with the US Department of Justice for bribery of governments in Asia; and a debarment by the World Bank for corrupt practices.
Aluminium
- Novelis
Printing/publishing
- bitstream http://www.bitstream.com/
- http://www.rrdonnelley.com/
- www.issuu.com, online publications such as http://issuu.com/rofmedia/docs
Translation
Chemical
- The Chemours Company, commonly referred to as Chemours, is an American chemical company that was founded in July 2015 as a spin-off from DuPont. It has its corporate headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, United States.Chemours manufactures and sells performance chemicals falling within three segments: Titanium Technologies (titanium dioxide); Fluoroproducts (refrigerants and industrial fluoropolymer resins and derivatives including Freon, Teflon and Viton); and Chemical Solutions (cyanide, sulfuric acid, aniline, methylamines, and reactive metals).
- www.pantone.com
- PPG Industries, Inc. is an American Fortune 500 company and global supplier of paints, coatings, specialty materials, and fiberglass. With headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Albemarle Corporation is a chemical company with corporate headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is a specialty chemical manufacturing enterprise.The Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Company opened in 1887 with the production of kraft paper, also known as Kraft, and blotting paper. In 1921, a team of chemists performing research for General Motors discovered tetraethyllead (TEL) had antiknock properties as a gasoline additive. As a result, the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation in Richmond, Virginia began production of tetraethyllead in 1937. TEL remained the primary product of the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation through the next four decades. When the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation expanded its product line (particularly to include MMT), its name was changed to the Ethyl Corporation. The Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Company borrowed $200 million in 1962 and purchased Ethyl Corporation, a company more than thirteen times its size. Throughout the next few decades, The Ethyl Corporation, under the direction of the Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Company, further expanded their product line to include bromine (in 1969 in Magnolia, Arkansas), lubricant additives (in 1975), and aluminum alkyls (in 1976 in Feluy, Belgium). Further expansion of The Ethyl Corporation included the purchases of Dow Chemical's bromine division, Russ Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Potasse et Produits Chimiques (PPC). In February 1994, Ethyl spun off its chemical businesses to create an independent, publicly traded company named Albemarle Corporation.[4] Albemarle was headquartered in Richmond, VA, until 2008 when it announced plans to move its corporate headquarters to Baton Rouge, LA.[5] In 2015 the company announced the relocation of its headquarters from Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Charlotte, North Carolina.In July 2014 Albemarle and Rockwood Holdings, Inc. announced a definitive agreement under which Albemarle would acquire all outstanding shares of Rockwood in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $6.2 billion.[12] The acquisition made Albemarle one of the world's premier specialty chemicals companies, with market-leading positions across four high-margin businesses: lithium, catalysts, bromine and surface treatment. Albemarle completed the acquisition in January 2015, expanding its customer reach as well as increasing its diversity across end markets, technologies and geographies. As a result of the acquisition, Albemarle currently employs approximately 6,900 people and serves customers in approximately 100 countries. In the wake of completing the acquisition, Albemarle announced it would realign its global business units: Chemetall Surface Treatment, Refining Solutions and Performance Chemicals.[13] Chemetall supplies specialty chemicals, with a focus on processes for the surface treatment of metals and plastics. Refining Solutions provides catalysts that can be used through the entire refinery process. Performance Chemicals will combine the lithium, aluminum alkyls and derivative catalysts businesses with Albemarle’s existing Performance Chemicals global business unit.
- Ashland Global Specialty Chemicals Inc. is an American chemical company which operates in more than 100 countries. Headquartered in Covington, Kentucky, the company traces its roots back to the city of Ashland, Kentucky, where it was headquartered from 1924 to 1999. The company currently has five wholly owned divisions, which include Chemical Intermediates and Solvents, Composites, Industrial Specialties, Personal and Home Care, & Pharmaceuticals, Food and Beverage, and Agriculture. Until 2017, the company was the primary manufacturer of Valvoline.Ashland was founded in 1924 as the Ashland Refining Company in Catlettsburg, Kentucky, by Paul G. Blazer.
cosmetics
- Verla International, Ltd. provides private label cosmetics manufacturing, contract packaging, and filling services in the United States and internationally.
- International Flavors & Fragrances is an American corporation producing flavors and fragrances and cosmetic actives, which it markets globally. It is headquartered in New York City and has creative, sales, and manufacturing facilities in 35 different countries.
- http://www.strozfriedberg.com/category/services/forensics-investigations-services
- www.reddintelligence.com
- Plunkett Research, Ltd. provides industry sector analysis and research, industry trends, and industry statistics. The company offers data and market research, including market research, industry trends analysis, statistical tables, technologies analysis, business intelligence and facts, key industry associations (with contact information), corporate executive contracts, industry glossary, data export tools, and companies data. It also provides research reports and online subscription service for corporations, consultants, universities, libraries, and government agencies, as well as solutions for associations; and hospitals, medical libraries, and health organizations. https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=27605440
architecture
- M. Arthur Gensler Jr. & Associates, Inc., referred to as Gensler, is an American design and architecture firm headquartered in San Francisco. In 2015, Gensler generated $1.18 billion in revenue, the most of any architecture firm based in the United States.[7] As of 2015, it operated offices in 46 cities in 16 countries worldwide.Art and Drue Gensler, and their associate, James Follett, founded the firm in 1965.
- china daily 20aug18
- partnered with new world development in kai tak sports arena project
- hk project - new world tst harbourfront singtao 8feb19
building/construction
- for food services
- http://www.galvindesigngroup.com/
- otis http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2014-12/05/content_19029451.htm Skyscrapers and imposing buildings are a common sight in most first- and second-tier Chinesecities. But with growth mushrooming and urbanization going into overdrive, demand for bigbuildings and high-speed elevators is also spiraling in China, says Tony Black, president of OtisElevator (China) Investment Co Ltd.
- Jacobs Engineering was founded in 1947 by Joseph J. Jacobs. As of 2016 the Chairman and CEO is Steven J. Demetriou. The previous President and CEO was Craig L. Martin from 2006 until 2014. The company is publicly traded as a Fortune 500 company,[8] and as of October 2016 had 50,000 employees globally.[9] Jacobs has more than 250 offices in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, Africa, and Asia. The company is structured around four lines of business: Aerospace & Technology; Buildings & Infrastructure; Industrial; and Petroleum & Chemicals. In October 2016, the company moved its headquarters from California to Dallas, Texas.
- Louis Berger (formerly known as Berger Group Holdings) is a full-service engineering, architecture, planning, environmental, program and construction management and economic development firm based in Morristown, New Jersey. Founded in 1953 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania by Dr. Louis Berger, the firm now employs nearly 6,000 employees in more than 50 countries worldwide. The firm provides services to federal, state and local government clients, as well as to international multilateral institutions and to commercial industry. As of September 2011, Louis Berger ranked as the third largest USAID private-sector partner,[2] and was ranked #25 in 2015 among U.S. design firms in terms of total firm revenue by Engineering News-Record. The company has suffered setbacks in recent years with settlement of fraud charges for contracts in Afghanistan; admission of criminal responsibility to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations in a settlement with the US Department of Justice for bribery of governments in Asia; and a debarment by the World Bank for corrupt practices.
- Louis Berger was founded in 1953 by Dr. Louis “Doc” Berger in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Born in 1914 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Dr. Berger graduated from Tufts College in 1936 with a degree in civil engineering, and earned a master’s in soils and geology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1940.[6] In 1942, Dr. Berger joined the Coast Guard where he designed waterfront facilities along the Mississippi River and commanded a Coast Guard base in Greenland. Upon returning from active duty, he earned his PhD in soil mechanics from Northwestern University and joined the teaching faculty at the Pennsylvania State University.[7]In 1952, Dr. Berger left his position at Pennsylvania State University to form the engineering consulting firm that would later become Louis Berger. Fredric S. Berger, son of the company's founder, Dr. Louis Berger, was involved with the company since 1972 and served as chairman of Louis Berger Group from 2007 until his passing in April 2015.[8] Mr. Berger held a bachelor's in economics from Tufts University and a master of science degree in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[9] Mr. Berger was a founding member of the American University of Afghanistan and served on the university's board from 2004 to 2015.[10] In 2013, Mr. Berger was appointed to advisory boards for the U.S. Institute of Peace and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency.The firm’s first major projects included design on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the first turnpike in the U.S.,[7] and on I-80 between Denville and Netcong, the first interstate road in the state of New Jersey[12] The firm also designed the Herat-Islam Qala Highway in Afghanistan in 1965.Louis Berger began its first international project in 1959 when the firm was selected by USAID and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Gulf District to design a 435-mile highway between Yangon and Mandalay in Myanmar.[1][13] The project was initially rejected by the Burmese government as proposed by the Corps of Engineers, but Louis Berger was able to design the project using more economical alternatives. In December 2010 the Discovery Science Channel production team filmed 30-hours of footage of the works for the construction of a new bridge over the Sava River in Belgrade, Serbia. In 2012, Louis Berger completed work on the Juba-Nimule Road in South Sudan under the Sudan Infrastructure Services Project.[16] The road was the first paved highway in South Sudan and links the Sudanese capital to the town of Nimule on the Ugandan border.
- 有美媒報道指，成功中標負責今次建築項目的建築商，施工前根本未有獲得州政府安全認可。據報佛州運輸局早與佛羅里達國際大學達成協議，要求大學僱用通過預審的投標商，進行一次獨立設計檢查。然而，大學最終將項目外判給知名跨國建築商Louis Berger，惟建築商事前並無通過當局預先審查。運輸局曾因此向大學發出危險警告。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180317/00180_011.html
Aluminium
- Novelis
- Novelis says China plant to boost sales http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2014-10/23/content_18787812.htm
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2015-09/09/content_21826354.htm case of growth in china
Printing/publishing
- playboy
- http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21674498-china-considers-nudity-magna-carta-and-popularity-artists-ahead-xi-jinpings ayboy, a monthly magazine known for its photographs of opulently curvaceous naked women, has decided to ban nudity to help its licensing business in China. The magazine has long been banned there. Instead Playboy’s Chinese business has been built on selling mostly men’s dress shirts, bags and shoes with Playboy’s distinctive bunny logo. Retail revenues in China came to more than $500m last year, a third of the company’s global retail sales. Playboy would like to broaden its appeal to young women, too, hence the worldwide turn away from pictures of naked women.
- Feldheim Publishers (or Feldheim) is an American Orthodox Jewish publisher ofTorah books and literature. Its extensive catalog of titles includes books on Jewish law, Torah, Talmud, Jewish lifestyle,Shabbat and Jewish holidays, Jewish history, biography, and koshercookbooks.[1] It also publishes children's books. It is headquartered in New York, with publishing and sales divisions inJerusalem, Israel. Its president is Yitzchak Feldheim.
- New Directions Publishing Corp. is an independent book publishing company that was founded in 1936 by James Laughlin and incorporated in 1964. Its offices are located at 80 Eighth Avenue in New York City. New Directions was born in 1936 of Ezra Pound's advice to the young James Laughlin, then a Harvard University sophomore, to "do something useful" after finishing his studies at Harvard. The first projects to come out of New Directions were anthologies of new writing, each titled New Directions in Poetry and Prose (until 1966's NDPP 19). Early writers incorporated in these anthologies include Dylan Thomas, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Thomas Merton, Denise Levertov, James Agee, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
- ArtScroll is an imprint of translations, books and commentaries from anOrthodox Jewish perspective published byMesorah Publications, Ltd., a publishing company based in Brooklyn, New York. Its general editors are Rabbis Nosson Scherman and Meir Zlotowitz.
- myfonts http://www.myfonts.com/foundry/Linotype/, sell fonts http://foundry.myfonts.com/prospectus/- New Directions Publishing Corp. is an independent book publishing company that was founded in 1936 by James Laughlin and incorporated in 1964. Its offices are located at 80 Eighth Avenue in New York City. New Directions was born in 1936 of Ezra Pound's advice to the young James Laughlin, then a Harvard University sophomore, to "do something useful" after finishing his studies at Harvard. The first projects to come out of New Directions were anthologies of new writing, each titled New Directions in Poetry and Prose (until 1966's NDPP 19). Early writers incorporated in these anthologies include Dylan Thomas, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Thomas Merton, Denise Levertov, James Agee, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
- Siddhartha is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple, lyrical style. It was published in the U.S. in 1951 and became influential during the 1960s.The word Siddhartha is made up of two words in Sanskrit language, siddha (achieved) + artha (what was searched for), which together means "he who has found meaning (of existence)" or "he who has attained his goals".[2] In fact, the Buddha's own name, before his renunciation, was Siddhartha Gautama, Prince of Kapilavastu. In this book, the Buddha is referred to as "Gotama". New directiins was the publisher.
- ArtScroll is an imprint of translations, books and commentaries from anOrthodox Jewish perspective published byMesorah Publications, Ltd., a publishing company based in Brooklyn, New York. Its general editors are Rabbis Nosson Scherman and Meir Zlotowitz.
- bitstream http://www.bitstream.com/
- http://www.rrdonnelley.com/
- www.issuu.com, online publications such as http://issuu.com/rofmedia/docs
Exhibition
- kallman
Packaging
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2015-09/24/content_21965617.htmPackaging expert Sealed Air Corporation enjoyed exponential growth in China in line with the country 's burgeoning economy when it first entered the market in the 1980s. The New Jersey-headquartered company had first started out helping US beef manufacturers and exporters extend the shelf life of their products with innovative packaging , and later diversified with the acquisition of Diversey Inc , the Wisconsin-based provider of cleaning and hygiene products . But Shen Hong , vice-president of Sealed Air 's Shanghai headquarters , said it entered unchartered waters when China 's economic slowdown took hold over the past couple of years . No one pushed the panic button , said Shen , but the company was forced to find a way to mitigate the effects . All four strands of the company 's business here were affected by China 's falling exports , a drop in the number of new hotel openings and falling occupancy rates ,and the government 's crackdown on corruption －the last of which hurt exactly the kind of high-end dining venues that accounted for a fair chunk of Sealed Air China revenues .
Auction
- Sotheby's
Glass
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2015-09/23/content_21957775.htm Glass and ceramics maker Corning Inc said on Tuesday that it was open to newinvestments and acquisitions for growth, amid an economic slowdown in theworld's second-largest market. "Our next five-year plan will be centered on new investments and acquisitions,operations, innovation and talent training," said Li Fang, president and generalmanager of Corning China. "We have been looking into possible projects, evaluating them to make sure thatthey are in line with our overall strategy." The United States-based Corning's business in China includes opticalcommunications technologies and display technologies used to make liquid crystaldisplay panels. Sales hit $2 billion in 2014. Li said the company will continue to see robust sales due to the growing demandfor smartphones, tablets and the push for clean energies in China, which representsthe largest market for Corning. In April, it acquired a manufacturing facility in Hainan province for its fiber opticsbusiness from South Korean giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. It also kicked off construction on a new LCD glass substrate finishing facility inChongqing in June.
Eyewear
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/qaceo/2016-04/22/content_24744015.htmClaudio Gottardi , president and CEO of New York-based Marchon Eyewear Inc , sees the future of glasses not just in fashionable design , but in portable technology . So , Marchon worked with Google Inc for the development of Google Glass that uses the Google technology and turns geek into chic .
Certification
- UL LLC is a global safety certification company headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois. It maintains offices in 46 countries. Established in 1894 as the Underwriters' Electrical Bureau (a bureau of the National Board of Fire Underwriters),[2] it was known throughout the 20th century as Underwriters Laboratories and participated in the safety analysis of many of that century's new technologies. UL is one of several companies approved to perform safety testing by the U.S. federal agency Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).[4] OSHA maintains a list of approved testing laboratories, which are known as Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories.Underwriters Laboratories Inc. was founded in 1894 by William Henry Merrill.[3] Early in his career as an electrical engineer in Boston, a 25-year-old Merrill was sent by underwriters issuing fire insurance to assess risk, and investigate the World Fair's Palace of Electricity. In order to determine and mitigate risk, Merrill found it necessary to conduct tests on building materials. Upon seeing a growing potential in his field, Merrill stayed in Chicago to found Underwriters Laboratories.On January 1, 2012, Underwriters Laboratories transformed from a non-profit organization to a for-profit company in the U.S. A new subsidiary named simply UL LLC, a limited liability corporation, took over Underwriters Laboratories’ product testing and certification business.
- kallman
- http://www.kallman.com export marketing advocate focused on helping the United States of America and its business leaders capitalize on international trade events to grow their share of global markets. Our flagship U.S. International Pavilion programs cover all the details of creating and presenting a professional business environment to buyers, enabling exhibitors, clients and partners to maximize their event marketing opportunities, cultivate meaningful global business relationships
Packaging
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2015-09/24/content_21965617.htm
Auction
- Sotheby's
- http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f5f9b0b0-b923-11e4-98f6-00144feab7de.html Sotheby’s has been thrown into fresh turmoil after an activist investor attacked the board of the New York-based auction house, accusing it of “wilful neglect” and demanding the resignation of its chief financial officer. The latest onslaught comes just two months after chief executive Bill Ruprecht announced he would step down “by mutual agreement with the board”, after several years under fire from some of its most prominent shareholders. Daniel Loeb, Sotheby’s largest shareholder with a 9.6 per cent stake, carried out a blistering public campaign for much of last year against the company, accusing it of failing to understand the art market and calling it “an old master painting in desperate need of restoration”.
- http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/28/news/china-insurer-sothebys-stake/, http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20160731/19716749 已故中共領導人毛澤東外孫女婿陳東升旗下的中國泰康人壽，成為國際拍賣行蘇富比最大股東。紐約證交會紀錄顯示，泰康人壽以2.33億美元（約18.1億港元）收購蘇富比800萬股股權，增持股份至13.5%。蘇富比總裁表示歡迎泰康人壽入股；泰康人壽則表示，將會爭取蘇富比董事會席位。
- people
- kevin ching ceo of sotheby's asia ft how to spend 12jul19
- 網上流傳，現場一名身穿 「Be Water 」 黑衣、參與 「私了」 的男子，疑似是香港蘇富比中國書畫部前 主管、現職高級顧問張超群。有市民 在網上留言，怒斥張超群 「邊賣中國 畫，邊反中國，真正人格分裂」 。大 公報記者追蹤採訪，昨日當面向張超 群查問真相，惟對方聞風色變，拒絕 澄清及正面回應。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20191106/PDF/a9_screen.pdf
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2015-09/23/content_21957775.htm Glass and ceramics maker Corning Inc said on Tuesday that it was open to newinvestments and acquisitions for growth, amid an economic slowdown in theworld's second-largest market. "Our next five-year plan will be centered on new investments and acquisitions,operations, innovation and talent training," said Li Fang, president and generalmanager of Corning China. "We have been looking into possible projects, evaluating them to make sure thatthey are in line with our overall strategy." The United States-based Corning's business in China includes opticalcommunications technologies and display technologies used to make liquid crystaldisplay panels. Sales hit $2 billion in 2014. Li said the company will continue to see robust sales due to the growing demandfor smartphones, tablets and the push for clean energies in China, which representsthe largest market for Corning. In April, it acquired a manufacturing facility in Hainan province for its fiber opticsbusiness from South Korean giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. It also kicked off construction on a new LCD glass substrate finishing facility inChongqing in June.
Eyewear
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/qaceo/2016-04/22/content_24744015.htm
Certification
- UL LLC is a global safety certification company headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois. It maintains offices in 46 countries. Established in 1894 as the Underwriters' Electrical Bureau (a bureau of the National Board of Fire Underwriters),[2] it was known throughout the 20th century as Underwriters Laboratories and participated in the safety analysis of many of that century's new technologies. UL is one of several companies approved to perform safety testing by the U.S. federal agency Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).[4] OSHA maintains a list of approved testing laboratories, which are known as Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories.Underwriters Laboratories Inc. was founded in 1894 by William Henry Merrill.[3] Early in his career as an electrical engineer in Boston, a 25-year-old Merrill was sent by underwriters issuing fire insurance to assess risk, and investigate the World Fair's Palace of Electricity. In order to determine and mitigate risk, Merrill found it necessary to conduct tests on building materials. Upon seeing a growing potential in his field, Merrill stayed in Chicago to found Underwriters Laboratories.On January 1, 2012, Underwriters Laboratories transformed from a non-profit organization to a for-profit company in the U.S. A new subsidiary named simply UL LLC, a limited liability corporation, took over Underwriters Laboratories’ product testing and certification business.
- china daily 12aug19 ul changzhou battery lab to start in 2020
- test.com, online test and certification
- Payscale (salary survey)
- Transperfect http://www.transperfect.com/, translated for French May event, free web translation at http://web.transperfect.com/free-translations/
Chemical
- The Chemours Company, commonly referred to as Chemours, is an American chemical company that was founded in July 2015 as a spin-off from DuPont. It has its corporate headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, United States.Chemours manufactures and sells performance chemicals falling within three segments: Titanium Technologies (titanium dioxide); Fluoroproducts (refrigerants and industrial fluoropolymer resins and derivatives including Freon, Teflon and Viton); and Chemical Solutions (cyanide, sulfuric acid, aniline, methylamines, and reactive metals).
- www.pantone.com
- http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/11/how-pantone-became-a-pop-culture-icon/414043
- PPG Industries, Inc. is an American Fortune 500 company and global supplier of paints, coatings, specialty materials, and fiberglass. With headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Albemarle Corporation is a chemical company with corporate headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is a specialty chemical manufacturing enterprise.The Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Company opened in 1887 with the production of kraft paper, also known as Kraft, and blotting paper. In 1921, a team of chemists performing research for General Motors discovered tetraethyllead (TEL) had antiknock properties as a gasoline additive. As a result, the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation in Richmond, Virginia began production of tetraethyllead in 1937. TEL remained the primary product of the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation through the next four decades. When the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation expanded its product line (particularly to include MMT), its name was changed to the Ethyl Corporation. The Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Company borrowed $200 million in 1962 and purchased Ethyl Corporation, a company more than thirteen times its size. Throughout the next few decades, The Ethyl Corporation, under the direction of the Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Company, further expanded their product line to include bromine (in 1969 in Magnolia, Arkansas), lubricant additives (in 1975), and aluminum alkyls (in 1976 in Feluy, Belgium). Further expansion of The Ethyl Corporation included the purchases of Dow Chemical's bromine division, Russ Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Potasse et Produits Chimiques (PPC). In February 1994, Ethyl spun off its chemical businesses to create an independent, publicly traded company named Albemarle Corporation.[4] Albemarle was headquartered in Richmond, VA, until 2008 when it announced plans to move its corporate headquarters to Baton Rouge, LA.[5] In 2015 the company announced the relocation of its headquarters from Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Charlotte, North Carolina.In July 2014 Albemarle and Rockwood Holdings, Inc. announced a definitive agreement under which Albemarle would acquire all outstanding shares of Rockwood in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $6.2 billion.[12] The acquisition made Albemarle one of the world's premier specialty chemicals companies, with market-leading positions across four high-margin businesses: lithium, catalysts, bromine and surface treatment. Albemarle completed the acquisition in January 2015, expanding its customer reach as well as increasing its diversity across end markets, technologies and geographies. As a result of the acquisition, Albemarle currently employs approximately 6,900 people and serves customers in approximately 100 countries. In the wake of completing the acquisition, Albemarle announced it would realign its global business units: Chemetall Surface Treatment, Refining Solutions and Performance Chemicals.[13] Chemetall supplies specialty chemicals, with a focus on processes for the surface treatment of metals and plastics. Refining Solutions provides catalysts that can be used through the entire refinery process. Performance Chemicals will combine the lithium, aluminum alkyls and derivative catalysts businesses with Albemarle’s existing Performance Chemicals global business unit.
- Ashland Global Specialty Chemicals Inc. is an American chemical company which operates in more than 100 countries. Headquartered in Covington, Kentucky, the company traces its roots back to the city of Ashland, Kentucky, where it was headquartered from 1924 to 1999. The company currently has five wholly owned divisions, which include Chemical Intermediates and Solvents, Composites, Industrial Specialties, Personal and Home Care, & Pharmaceuticals, Food and Beverage, and Agriculture. Until 2017, the company was the primary manufacturer of Valvoline.Ashland was founded in 1924 as the Ashland Refining Company in Catlettsburg, Kentucky, by Paul G. Blazer.
cosmetics
- Verla International, Ltd. provides private label cosmetics manufacturing, contract packaging, and filling services in the United States and internationally.
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/11/20/cosmetics-factory-explosions-fire/882486001/
- International Flavors & Fragrances is an American corporation producing flavors and fragrances and cosmetic actives, which it markets globally. It is headquartered in New York City and has creative, sales, and manufacturing facilities in 35 different countries.
- International Flavors & Fragrances was formed in 1958 by the merger between Polak & Schwarz (P&S) and van Ameringen-Haebler. Polak & Schwarz was founded in 1889 by Leopold Schwarz, who had an interest in spices, flavors, and fragrances, and his brother-in-law, Joseph Polak in the small Dutch town of Zutphen. P&S quickly grew to 36 sites globally. Arnold Louis (A.L.) van Ameringen was hired by Polak & Schwarz to open P&S's US office in 1917 before losing his job with them. Relieved of his duties, he opened van Ameringen & Co. at 13 Gold Street in Manhattan, took over Morana, Inc. in 1920, and became van Ameringen-Haebler (VAH) in 1929.
- Protocol School of Washington http://www.psow.edu/
- Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas.[3][4] SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries in 43 states, eight Canadian provinces, and Puerto Rico. Robert L. Waltrip, a licensed funeral director who grew up in his family’s funeral business, founded the company in 1962.[5] SCI began as a small network of funeral homes and cemeteries in the Houston area. As SCI grew its offshore presence, it continued to acquire businesses in North America—a marketplace that, by the late 1990s, had become extremely competitive among companies seeking to buy death care businesses. SCI, Alderwoods Group and Stewart Enterprises emerged from this period as the three largest companies in the industry. On December 31, 1999, SCI owned and operated 3,823 funeral service locations, 525 cemeteries, 198 crematoria and two insurance operations located in 20 countries on five continents. In 1999, SCI also introduced Dignity Memorial, the first transcontinental brand of death care services and products in North America. By unifying its network of funeral homes and cemeteries under one brand name, SCI believed it could establish recognizable and communicable brand values.
- http://www.kalasfuneralhomes.com/
- http://www.forestlawncemetery-fh.com
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