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The Vesuvius head office in Fleet Street, City of London. The company was founded by Isaac Cookson in 1704 as a collection of metal and glass businesses on Tyneside. [3] In 1851 the Company diversified into lead manufacturing. In 1924 it merged with Lock Lancaster and W.W. & R. Johnson & Sons to form Associated Lead Manufacturers.
The company was formed as Investec Asset Management in 1991. [3] It changed its name to Ninety One in spring 2020: the new name is in recognition of the brand's heritage, as it was in 1991 that the investment firm was started in South Africa.
Kimberly A. Cheatle (born 1970/1971 [1]) is an American former law enforcement officer who served as the 27th director of the United States Secret Service from 2022 until 2024.
Jet2 plc (formerly Dart Group plc) is a British multinational airline company based in Leeds, England. Its head office is listed as Low Fare Finder House on the grounds of Leeds Bradford Airport, England. [2] Subsidiary Jet2.com has its head office in the same building. [3]
A new head office was built at Trinity Road, Halifax, in 1973. [5] The distinctive diamond-shaped building was used on marketing material during the 1980s and 1990s. Underneath the building is a specially constructed deedstore which is used to store property deeds for a one-off charge of £10.
It was purchased in November 1999 by Currys plc. [3] Elkjøp owned stores for a time in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. [4] The coined name Elkjøp translates from Norwegian as El purchase, where El is understood as shorthand for elektrisk (“electric”) or elektronisk (“electronic”). The company operated as an independent company with ...
Vallibel Finance PLC is a non-banking financial company in Sri Lanka. Vallibel Finance was incorporated in 1974 as The Rupee Finance Company. Dhammika Perera acquired the company in 2005 and was renamed Vallibel Finance. After an initial public offering, the company was listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange in 2010.
WH Smith PLC, trading as WHSmith (also written WH Smith, and known colloquially as Smith's and formerly as W. H. Smith & Son), is a British retailer, with headquarters in Swindon, England, which operates a chain of high street, railway station, airport, port, hospital and motorway service station shops selling books, stationery, magazines, newspapers, entertainment products and confectionery.