Moir Lockhead, FirstGroup's chief executive, said his company had raised standards of performance and safety since it acquired its three franchises and had already looked at several new ones.
Judge Jackson who writes in longhand and discovered PCs about 30 seconds ago says Microsoft has been inquisitioning innovation and kicking customers in the groin since it acquired its monopoly status around 1990.
Chase has undergone a major review of its space needs since it acquired J. P. Morgan & Company in September.
Pacific Century CyberWorks, the struggling communications company founded by Richard Li, reported its first profit since it acquired Hong Kong's flagship phone company, Cable and Wireless HKT, last year.
Gateway announced its first strategic shift since it acquired privately held Emachines by saying it would close its 188 Gateway Country retail stores and eliminate 2,500 retail sales jobs.
Amazon Studios has picked up its most significant title since it acquired Spike Lee's Chi-Raq earlier this year.
Capital One said, however, that the ranks of its retail banking business had grown since it acquired the banks.
Edudata Corp. of Westlake Village reported its results for the second quarter of fiscal 1997, its second full quarter of operation since it acquired Dental/Medical Diagnostic Systems and Bavarian Dental Instruments Inc.
Since it acquired IBM's PC division in 2004, its main customers have been corporations.
Huhtamaeki, based in Espoo, Finland, has been trying to sell the unit, which is the world's largest maker of steel drums, since it acquired the business last year as part of its $1.2 billion purchase of a Dutch rival, Royal Packaging Industries Van Leer N.V.
For the first time since it acquired them in the early 1980s, Australia's National Gallery is displaying its entire collection of Diane Arbus prints.
