EARLIER this year Subway, an international sandwich chain, sent a letter to Domino's, a pizza giant, demanding that it retract advertisements criticising Subway's sandwiches.
You may recall that it was Icahn and Deason, who together own a 15percentt stake in the printing a copier giant, demanded that Xerox be put up for sale last month.
To absolutely no one's surprise, Google wasn't too pleased: after all, the features that made the app so appealing didn't exactly jibe with YouTube's terms of service, and the search giant demanded the offending app be removed.
The giant leap demanded by Israel - that Hamas dismantle the terrorist organisation - is unrealistic and counterproductive.
The Air Force coastal defense radar, Giant Killer, demanded to know why the fighters had swerved from their patrol area.
But the auto giant's demands in recent years for ever lower prices have driven many of these companies out of business.
A petition containing 270,000 signatures has been delivered to the headquarters of food giant Kraft, demanding the firm remove two chemical food colourings from its mac'n'cheese product.
An activist shareholder is suing computer giant Apple, demanding that it share out more of its $137bn £87bnn) cash pile to its investors.
During more than two weeks of round-the-clock demonstrations at the square, protesters set up tents, brought in blankets, operated medical clinics and festooned the entire plaza with giant banners demanding removal of the regime.
Thus, we have the U.S. pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly demanding $500 million from Canada in a NAFTA trade tribunal because the Canadian Supreme Court failed to give them monopoly patent rights over two drugs and we see Phillip Morris suing Australia via a Hong Kong trade agreement over new plain packaging rules for tobacco in an attempt to discourage smoking.
