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 * ... that Umeå Energi set up lamps in bus shelters to avoid people getting SAD?


 * ... that children's book publisher Kane/Miller published the English language edition of Everyone Poops?
 * ... that the 1994 production of The Pirates of Penzance by Essgee Entertainment became the top-selling music video in Australian history?
 * ... that Aso Mining Company, which belongs to former Prime Minister of Japan Aso Taro's family, allegedly forced prisoners of war to work in mines during World War II?
 * ... that in September 2008, the Abu Dhabi Media Company established Imagenation, a subsidiary with access to more than US$1 billion with which to finance film production?
 * ... that by the end of its second year in business, Participant Media`s films had been nominated for 11 Academy Awards?


 * ...that Fun Little Movies is the first United States company to produce comedy films to play on mobile phones worldwide?
 * ...that DemiDec, a company that sells study material for the United States Academic Decathlon, also annually hosts the World Scholar's Cup?
 * ...that Jayco, the largest privately held manufacturer of recreational vehicles (collapsible model pictured) in North America, has mostly Amish and Mennonite employees?
 * ...that in 1998, Liverdance by Rhode Island Soft Systems was the first screensaver to incorporate built-in multiple advertisements?
 * ...that Iowa-based Gomaco Trolley Company, founded in 1982, makes replicas of 1902 streetcars?
 * ...that the collapse of Australia's largest managed investment scheme agribusiness, Great Southern Group, is being examined by two separate Australian parliamentary committee inquiries?
 * ...that The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills, established in 1967, carries more than 500 varieties of cheese?
 * ...that the United States Lebanese cuisine restaurant chain Aladdin's Eatery has grown to more than 20 sites from an initial $10,000 in 1994?
 * ...that the subscription service BoardEx provides information on the world's business directors and senior managers, including their salaries, bonuses, and incentive pay?
 * ...that funding to help J&D's Down Home Enterprises start producing bacon-flavored salt came from a three-year-old child's winnings on America's Funniest Home Videos?
 * ...that a network of companies including the Chester Rolling Mill, Chester Pipe and Tube Company, Standard Steel Casting Company and Combination Steel and Iron Company made shipbuilder John Roach & Sons one of America's first vertically integrated businesses?
 * ...that still-extant English piano manufacturer Broadwood and Sons once made instruments favoured by Haydn, Beethoven and Chopin?
 * ... that the Greeves motorcycle company funded production from a contract with the Ministry of Pensions for their Invacar for disabled drivers?
 * ... that even though MacAdam/Cage was outbid for Audrey Niffenegger's novel The Time Traveler's Wife, Niffenegger chose the small, independent firm because of their desire to publish the work?
 * ... that Alberts Frères, one of the earliest film production companies in the Netherlands, filmed a stunt at a Maastricht market with a donkey and a suckling pig to promote the company?
 * ... that in 1867, the Oregon Iron Company (furnace pictured) became the first company to smelt pig iron west of the Rocky Mountains?
 * ... that MGM Group of Companies is the master franchisee of the Marrybrown fast food chain for Southern India?
 * ... that Altman Lighting Co. introduced the PAR 64 for a Rolling Stones concert tour in 1966?
 * ... that the Corgi Motorcycle Co Ltd.'s Corgi scooter was branded the "Indian Papoose" for the United States market?
 * ... that Gold Toe Brands produces more than half the men's dress socks sold in United States department stores?
 * ... that Pacnews stopped reporting on Fijian news rather than submit to government censorship in the wake of the 2009 Fijian constitutional crisis?
 * ... that Festival Republic has replaced Aiken Promotions as co-organiser of Stradbally Hall boutique Electric Picnic arts-and-music festival in 2009?
 * ... that the Allaire Iron Works, using pig iron from Howell Works, built more than fifty percent of America's early marine steam engines?
 * ... that Pet Airways is claimed to be the first American airline to fly pets exclusively?
 * ... that aside from owning the publishing rights to The Beatles' songs, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, co-owned by Michael Jackson (pictured), controls the music of Eminem and Akon?
 * ... that the red and yellow molded plastic Cozy Coupe from Little Tikes was called the "world's best-selling car" for most of the 1990s by The New York Times?
 * ... that the original Liberty ship was designed by the owners of J.L. Thompson and Sons shipyard in Sunderland?
 * ... that the CEO of toonlet has also worked on The Sims, SimCity and Spore?
 * ... that Chilean Líder supermarkets sold Cuban rum at half price to eliminate it from stock in anticipation of becoming a Wal-Mart subsidiary, causing a controversy in Chile?
 * ... that the non-ferrous smelter built for the Phoenix Mine in 1900 by the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Company was the largest in the British Empire?
 * ... that St.GIGA was a satellite radio company that used to broadcast gaiden-versions of Nintendo's most popular franchises?
 * ... that MBM, a Barcelona based architecture firm, showed 32 designs that were never built in a 2003 show titled Lost Architectures?
 * ... that Stanford Financial Group, whose assets were frozen in 2009 due to charges of investment fraud, was the lead financier of the 2007 film The Ultimate Gift?
 * ... that the Emu Brewery in Perth, Western Australia, traced its history to the town's first standalone brewery, which was founded less than a decade after settlement?
 * ... that the Versailles Cuban restaurant is part of actress Helen Mirren's ideal weekend in Los Angeles?
 * ... that Armet & Davis was an architectural firm in California that designed buildings in the so-called Googie architecture style popular during the 1950s?
 * ... that Kansas City Barbeque is a restaurant and bar in San Diego, California, made famous after scenes in Top Gun were filmed there?
 * ... that between 1903 and 1924 Rover produced more than 10,000 motorcycles?
 * ... that the price war started by Color Air in 1998 led to its bankruptcy after 14 months?
 * ... that Teddy Air was the first airline to win a public service obligation in Norway?
 * ... that British marque AJW built high-end 1000cc motorcycles in the 1920s but were producing 50cc "Fox Cubs" by the 1960s?
 * ... that the Mechanics Bank based in Richmond, California, declined a 60 million dollar government bailout?
 * ... that NSB Gjøvikbanen won the first, and so far only, rail transport public service obligation tender in Norway in 2005?
 * ... that Norwegian railway company Ofotbanen went bankrupt due to the minority owner Autolink starting the competitor Cargolink?
 * ... that Itek Corporation was formed to build image retrieval systems, but instead became a reconnaissance camera vendor after winning the contract for the CIA's CORONA satellite?
 * ... that George Webb Restaurants locations each have two clocks that employees claim are set one minute apart to evade a local law banning businesses from being open 24 hours per day?
 * ... that the private company Gråkallbanen reopened the Trondheim Tramway in 1990, two years after it had been permanently closed by the city council?
 * ...that Trondhjems Omnibus Aktieselskab started the first scheduled coach route in Trondheim, Norway, in 1893?
 * ...that the Bank of Issue in Poland, created by the Nazis to support the Nazi economy, was penetrated by the Polish resistance which used it as a source of falsified documents?
 * ...that the 1904 Advance 2 3/4hp motorcycle displayed at the National Motorcycle Museum is thought to be the only complete Advance motorcycle in existence?
 * ...that the Great Divide Brewery won a prestigious Great American Beer Festival award less than three months after opening?
 * ...that the Phnom Penh Commercial Bank was Cambodia's 23rd bank and the first Japanese-financed bank in the country?
 * ...that ships built by the Grangemouth Dockyard Company during World War II included the SS Empire Arthur and the SS Empire Clansman?
 * ...that the Boulder Beer Company, the first microbrewery in the U.S. state of Colorado, was founded by two college professors who enjoyed homebrewing?
 * ...that the Bat Motor Manufacturing Co. Ltd was named after founder Samuel Robert Batson but was nicknamed "Best After Tests"?
 * ...that the Hershey Creamery Company, founded in 1894 by five brothers from the Hershey family, has actually been owned and operated by the Holder family since the 1920s?
 * ...that Dick's Last Resort, an American bar and restaurant chain, encourages the staff to act obnoxiously towards their customers?
 * ...that the last Silk motorcycle ever built was a 500cc model based on a prototype that was never produced and was used as a competition prize?
 * ...that Roderigue Hortalez and Company was a fictitious front organization set up by France to help American revolutionaries fight England?
 * ...that out of 300 entries for the Honor Award from the United States Department of Transportation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Wallace Roberts & Todd was one of eleven who won the award?
 * ...that John W. Lambert in 1891 made the first U.S. car for sale as well as Union cars and Lambert cars using his gasoline engines and gearless transmissions for the Union car company and Lambert car company as subsidiaries of the Buckeye Manufacturing Company?
 * ...that the Moonlight Brewing Company sells its product only in kegs because the brewmaster believes the process of bottling beer "is cruel for the beer and a logistical nightmare"?
 * ...that it now requires 250 employees and costs US$9 million to open a new location of the six-year-old America's Incredible Pizza Company?
 * ...that Bankrate monitors about 4,800 financial institutions throughout the United States?
 * ...that Norwegian businessperson Anthon B. Nilsen, founder of the company of the same name, also wrote popular novels and served one term in the Norwegian Parliament?
 * ... that in 1909, the American Brass Company manufactured two-thirds of all the brass in the United States, consumed a third of all copper produced in the U.S., and was the largest fabricator of nonferrous metal in the world?
 * ... that Réseau de Transport d'Électricité, Europe's largest transmission system operator, manages a 100000 km network of high-voltage power lines?
 * ... that Hitachi Zosen Corporation built the first oil tanker in Japan in 1908 per an order by Standard Oil Company?
 * ... that the Norwegian manufacturing company Thune, started in 1815 as a blacksmith's workshop, later expanded to build agricultural machinery, turbines and locomotives?
 * ... that the documentary series Bertie and Haughey on the lives of former taoisigh Bertie Ahern and Charles Haughey were made by Mint Productions?
 * ... that Hanwei Group is the biggest producer of eggs in the People's Republic of China?
 * ... that IMS Associates, Inc. became one of the earliest successful personal computing companies, before going bankrupt in 1979 after just six years?
 * ... that the liberal film company Brave New Films has produced full-length videos and paper advertisements in addition to the viral videos for which it is known?
 * ... that Amrutanjan Healthcare Limited, an Indian pharmaceutical company specializing in Ayurvedic balm for headaches and cold, was founded by freedom fighter Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao?
 * ... that the Newfoundland Butter Company of Newfoundland manufactured only margarine, and was the first margarine manufacturing plant allowed in Canada?
 * ... that all U.S. Presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower through Ronald Reagan ordered glassware from Fostoria Glass Company of Moundsville, West Virginia?
 * ... that MS European Stars, built in 2002, was the last new cruise ship delivered to Festival Cruises before their bankruptcy in 2004?
 * ... that Barley Yards Brewing Company is the first brewery in the United States to brew a Riesling ale?
 * ... that Biomedical Tissue Services was shut down after investigators discovered that it had harvested remains from 1,000 corpses without consent, including those of Alistair Cooke?
 * ... that Controlled Demolition, Inc. was recognized with world records for its 1998 demolitions of a 1200 ft radio tower, the tallest structure, and a 33-floor department store, the tallest building?
 * ... that the Oregon Nursery Company founded the town of Orenco, Oregon in 1908 to house its Hungarian immigrant workers?
 * ... that the hair salon chain First Choice Haircutters helped launch the career of soap opera star Jacqueline MacInnes Wood?
 * ... that Beecher's Handmade Cheese is an artisan cheese maker in Seattle, Washington that is known for mixing combinations of cheese cultures?
 * ... that the North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company was the defendant in the first environmental lawsuit in US legal history?
 * ... that Matsukata Kojiro, president of Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, implemented Japan's first eight-hour work day in 1919, after a strike by 30,000 workers threatened to bring down the government?
 * ... that when the Lackawanna Steel Co. moved from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to New York in 1902, its relocation led to the founding of Lackawanna, New York?
 * ... that the site of the first Tubby's sandwich shop was chosen after a flat tire forced its founder to stop in front of a building that was for rent?
 * ... that Adina World Beat Beverages was founded in order to keep traditional beverage recipes in third-world countries from being replaced by multinational cola distributors?
 * ... that after their success with the Detroit Copper Mining Company of Arizona, William E. Dodge, Jr. and his partners founded the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad?
 * ... that the Swiss manufacturer Synthes is the largest producer of implants to mend bone fractures?
 * ... that Drukair flights between Kathmandu, Nepal and Paro, Bhutan pass close to Mount Everest?
 * ... that Neafie & Levy built the U.S. Navy's first submarine in 1862 and its first destroyer in 1902?
 * ... that from October 2008, the Norwegian digital ticketing system t:kort will be valid on Kystekspressen?
 * ... that shipping company Bastø Fosen operates the most trafficked car ferry route in Norway, from Moss to Horten?
 * ... that Adbot, one of the first internet advertising companies, was forced to close only seven months after opening due to the fraudulent source of its start-up funding?
 * ... that Aberdeen's Northern Co-operative Society declared a loss of £7 million in 1992, and, unable to recover, went into receivership, bringing to an end a 132-year-old business?
 * ... that Hexaware Technologies Limited is ranked as India’s 11th top IT service provider by NASSCOM since 2005?
 * ... that Norsk Transport has operated four railway ferries on Lake Tinnsjå in Norway?
 * ... that the British franchisee of Domino's Pizza ' s almost decade-long sponsorship of The Simpsons ended with a 2007 Ofcom ban on advertising junk food to children?
 * ... that Scotland's Lothian, Borders & Angus Co-operative Society was founded in 1839, five years before the Rochdale Pioneers?
 * ... that WayForward Technologies developed a video game remake of the 1951 Warner Bros. cartoon Duck Amuck?
 * ... that the oil and gas exploration company WAPET struck Australia's first flowing oil in 1953, and Western Australia's first commercial natural gas field in 1964?
 * ... that a United States district court decision against the Omaha Horse Railway Company allowed cable car tracks to be installed in Omaha, Nebraska?
 * ... that Vuestar Technologies in Singapore claims to own patents for hyperlinking a visual image to webpages, and plans to bill virtually all websites including Google and Microsoft for its use?
 * ... that the US government took control of the Alaska Steamship Company ' s fleet during World War II?
 * ... that Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company is the world's largest limestone quarry?
 * ... that U.S. shipping company Sealift Incorporated has been awarded over US$400,000,000 in government contracts since the start of the 2000 fiscal year?
 * ... that Salt Lake City-based robotics firm Sarcos is developing a military powered exoskeleton allowing wearers to easily lift 200 lb?
 * ... that Rosetta Genomics Ltd. is a molecular diagnostics company that uses micro-ribonucleic acid biomarkers to develop diagnostic tests designed to differentiate between various types of cancer?