In an ironic twist, Deloitte was the auditor of a Per Se predecessor company called MedaPhis.
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Mr Phillips-Davies joined Perth-based SSE's predecessor company Southern Electric in 1997 before becoming energy supply director in 2002.
In September 2001, GeoEye's predecessor company, Orbimage, put up a satellite that failed to make it into orbit.
Its predecessor company, Buckeye Egg Farm, also had an abysmal environmental record.
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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Disagreements over pay with his government managers led Chen to found Zhuhai Yuanfang Software Industry in 1995, which became the predecessor company of YGSOFT.
He controlled the predecessor company that acquired the La Guardia Marriott.
Richard Burke, founder of a predecessor company, was named chairman.
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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Ohio Fresh's predecessor company, Buckeye Egg Farm, was hatched in the early 1980s by Anton Pohlmann, who was later banned from owning farms in his native Germany for abusing his livestock and an employee, who was sickened by the nicotine spray used to fight parasites on chickens.
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.
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".
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.
During his time at Unicom predecessor Commonwealth Edison, Rowe changed the course of the company's future to focus on nuclear power instead of dirtier coal and oil-fired plants. (See "Exelon's Carbon Advantage").
Its annual accounts, published this week, show that its five executive directors will qualify for bonuses of up to 60% of their salaries, even if the company performs worse than its much-criticised predecessor.
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The company claims the bottle performs exactly like its ugly predecessor, plastic.
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.
Family members lorded over the company for three generations and 118 years, until Johnson's celebrated predecessor, Anthony O'Reilly, added the chairman title in 1987, eight years after he became chief executive.
Bond and his predecessor, Sir William Purves, had both clocked up more than 30 years at the company, and HSBC has never hired an executive from outside to lead it.
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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