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The company, which grew out of a predecessor company founded by Miles Rubin called Miles Electric Vehicles, is designed around the battery pack.
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Richard Burke, founder of a predecessor company, was named chairman.
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Comic writer Lee assigned the rights to his superhero characters to Marvel in 1998, but after Stan Lee Media collapsed, minority shareholders of the company claimed that Lee had previously assigned those rights in a written agreement to a predecessor company of Stan Lee Media.
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In an ironic twist, Deloitte was the auditor of a Per Se predecessor company called MedaPhis.
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Tim Cook, who was made Apple's CEO after Mr Jobs stood down in August, said his predecessor had left behind "a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple".
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In September 2001, GeoEye's predecessor company, Orbimage, put up a satellite that failed to make it into orbit.
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Britvic, which takes its name from its predecessor the British Vitamin Products Company, has started a consultation with staff, with the affected sites to close in the first quarter of next year.
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As in the case of SAIC, the move came when a new executive replaced a predecessor with family ties to the legacy location, and decided that the company could compete more effectively by being nearer to federal customers.
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Andrew Mackenzie, the next CEO of BHP, takes the reins of the mining company with a mission that is starkly different from the one his predecessor started with five years ago.
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Frank Appel, chief executive of German mail and logistics group Deutsche Post DHL, took charge of the company in February 2008 after his predecessor Klaus Zumwinkel stepped down following a personal tax evasion scandal.
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Ms. Whitman was named CEO of the struggling computer and printer giant in September and so far has aimed to undo the damage created by her predecessor, Leo Apotheker, including putting the kibosh on a proposed split-off of the company's PC business.
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