From year to year, they try to compete with huge makers and movers of food.
The Indian company won a bidding war with French nuclear power group Areva with a $1.6bn offer for Repower, a maker of huge wind turbines.
Eric Schiermeyer, a co-founder of Zynga, an online game company and maker of huge hits like FarmVille, has said he has helped addict millions of people to dopamine, a neurochemical that has been shown to be released by pleasurable activities, including video game playing, but also is understood to play a major role in the cycle of addiction.
The Canadian maker of huge screens ($542 million market cap) has found a way to bring Imax to the masses by partnering with theater chains like Regal to convert multiplex screens into the Imax format.
The company twice misread how much to accrue for warranty costs on faulty new engines; it stumbled through a moneylosing joint venture with Wartsila, a Finnish maker of huge diesel engines; it dillydallied in cutting its overhead to 16% of sales, to put it in line with Caterpillar.
That's why so many in the Twittersphere have been so quick to point out that, nestled quietly behind a hotly contested NFC Championship between the New York Giants and the San Francisco 49ers, and an equally great game over in the AFC, was a fairly huge announcement for the maker of BlackBerry, Research In Motion.
Discovery, which was among the pioneers of HD television, has joined Sony and IMAX, a maker of huge-screen films, in a 3-D venture.
C9 Profits Fall at Drug Maker Schering-Plough, the maker of the huge-selling allergy pill Claritin, reported that profits for the second quarter were down 72percentt from a year ago.
There is a huge variety of makers of men's shoes, but the styles and colors tend to be very restricted.
The Orbit project got its start in 2009 after Mr. Johnson ran into Lakshmi N. Mittal, the chief executive of the huge steel maker ArcelorMittal and one of the world's richest men, at the coat check room at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
