OTTAWA — The Hudson's Bay Company, North America's oldest name in retailing, will have some buildings gain the comparatively youthful banner of Lord & Taylor after its purchase on Wednesday by the private equity firm NRDC Equity Partners.
Burberry is one of the world's oldest name brands, started by Thomas Burberry in 1856, when vast parts of the globe still lay unexplored and European travelers needed something dry to wear.
There's no representation from what you might call rock's more distinguished citizens: with Kate Bush unexpectedly absent from the list and the lauded comeback by Dexy's overlooked, the oldest name on the list belongs to Richard Hawley.
But the significance here isn't whether the tax rumor is true or not; it's that some executives of GM believe their bosses would cavalierly kill the oldest name in American auto history to get a tax credit.
Normally, the oldest name would be used, but a 1977 ruling by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature established the proper genus name as Dicerorhinus.
Smith had argued that ("nodding") is a more fitting epithet than, which makes no sense once separated from Hyacinthus, but the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants requires the oldest name to be used, regardless of meaning.
