The cookie practice had been initiated by a predecessor company, Ms. Guarnaccia said.
Dayton-Halstead, whose predecessor company was founded in 1906, will add 44 agents to Corcoran's empire.
Mr. Stafford has been chairman of Wyeth and its predecessor company, American Home Products, since 1986.
Mr. Focht, 61, first retired in 1999 after 20 years with Tenet and a predecessor company.
Cedar Electronics' predecessor company was the first to introduce CB radios to the market decades ago.
Network Rail's predecessor company, Railtrack, introduced hundreds of speed restrictions on the railways while tracks were checked for cracking.
Mr. Steenkamp joined MF Global's predecessor company, Man Financial, in 2006 as vice president of external reporting.
A predecessor company was the first to deploy jack-up drilling rigs that could stand on the ocean floor.
It announced yesterday that Les Seagraves, a lawyer who joined Earthlink's predecessor company, Mindspring, in 1995 would take the post.
John Bogle, who founded the mutual fund firm The Vanguard Group in 1974, had been associated with a predecessor company since 1951.
Plumacher became an officer and director of QuesTec's predecessor company, Sportsight, in 1992, several months after he left Wall Street.
