Heins says the company will change its name to BlackBerry in order to maintain one brand and one promise.
Wiese assumed the position of chairman in 1981, and in 1982 he led the company to change its name from Pep Stores to Pepkor Limited.
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The company said that EU law and the sale of the company's former sister organisation, Northern Ireland Electricity, to another company led to the name change.
And, oops, he also forgot to change the company name listed on several of his slides.
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To reflect his ambition to transform Apple from a computer maker into a consumer electronics company, Jobs announced a name change from Apple Computer Inc. to simply Apple Inc. in January 2007after introducing the iPhone.
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The service is free, and with a name like Change.org the company even sounds like a not-for-profit.
He'll soon change the name of his company from Fog Cutter to Fatburger so the chain will be publicly traded (over-the-counter).
The name change ties in with the company's 80 year anniversary.
Most obvious was the name change to Villeret to reflect the location of the company.
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PPR, which will soon officially change its name to Kering, has acquired Italian jewelry company Pomellato.
The name change on 30 May comes just over a year after the company signed a seven-year franchise.
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But copyright owners Britt Allcroft want the railway company to enter a licensing agreement with them or change the engine's name.
"Since the capability of the company is much, much broader, we thought it was very important to change the name, " says Gill.
Fortunately, his old company did not have his name on it, so he was able to make the job title change convincingly.
To be safe, Philip Morris aims to change its corporate name to Altria to show the public that it's more than a tobacco company.
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