"a model company" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a company whose practices and policies are seen as exemplary. For example, "Apple is often seen as a model company for its commitment to sustainability."
Reading the representations and warranties of Countrywide in the merger agreement, one sees a model company with no problems.
"They're a model company whose management and ownership know how to be efficient and have a clear vision," said Robert Booth, chairman of Aviation Management Services, a Miami consulting firm.
But by the late 1990s he had become determined to turn Yukos into a model company, one that would help lead the way toward a new entrepreneurial spirit in Russia.
The unlikely face-off pits Mr. Hewlett, 57, a consulting professor of music at Stanford University and a genial intellectual with advanced degrees in music, engineering and operations research, against Ms. Fiorina, 47, a forceful, charismatic outsider brought in by the board to shake things up at Hewlett-Packard -- a model company in many ways, but one that had become inbred and sluggish.
To ensure authenticity, all problem scenarios are embedded in a model company, which is based on a real-life medium-sized bicycle manufacturer.
The company had not only soared in value to become the seventh highest valued corporation in America, but was almost universally praised and revered as a model company in the modern American economy.
That's a model companies such as Sears are starting to use to assist their credit card fraud prevention efforts.
"I think it has the potential to be a McDonald's, but not a franchise model, company-owned".
But to trumpet this mighty yet flawed behemoth in an associated leader as "Asia's new model company" was a leap too far.
As Erick pointed out, this is almost a radio model – companies pay 9 cents per streamed track and hope that their good will is paid back through sales.
Mr. Hasselbach, who was raised in the Bronx and ran a model airplane company there, was a Scoutmaster when his two sons were young, and he put on model aviation shows for the Scouts in the 1950's.
