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Lumen Technologies operating companies consist of operations inherited from various predecessor companies, which is reflected in the differing names of the companies and partially overlapping service territories; all operating companies do business as Lumen Technologies. Predecessors include: CenturyTel - the former corporate name of CenturyLink.
The following partial list contains marks which were originally legally protected trademarks, but which have subsequently lost legal protection as trademarks by becoming the common name of the relevant product or service, as used both by the consuming public and commercial competitors. These marks were determined in court to have become generic.
An image of the old Kremnica Mint building in Kremnica, central Slovakia.It is now an exposition of historical machines. The Old Crown is a pub in Deritend, England, an historic area of Birmingham, and is the oldest extant secular building in Birmingham. [85]
Purple Pill anti-heartburn medication was Prilosec (omeprazole magnesium) until 2001, when the patent ran out and the Purple Pill name was switched to Nexium (esomeprazole magnesium). [28] Raider as it was known in most of Europe became Twix in 1991. Sales immediately plummeted. [29] Royal Mail renamed itself Consignia in 2001. [30]
This is a list of companies named after people. For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see Lists of etymologies . All of these are named after founders, co-founders and partners of companies, unless otherwise stated.
In 1998, PNC sold its credit card business to Metris (now HSBC Finance) [18] and MBNA. [19] In 2000, the company adopted a new brand image and changed its name to PNC Financial Services Group. [20] In 2001, PNC sold the original PNC Mortgage to Washington Mutual due to volatility in the market. [21]
ExxonMobil, an American multinational oil and gas corporation presently based out of Texas, has had one of the longest histories of any company in its industry.A direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, the company traces its roots as far back as 1866 to the founding of the Vacuum Oil Company, which would become part of ExxonMobil through its own merger with Mobil during the 1930s.
Prior to that point, Wells Fargo had little to no participation in investment banking activities, though Wachovia had a well-established investment banking practice which operated under the Wachovia Securities banner. Wachovia's institutional capital markets and investment banking business arose from the merger of Wachovia and First Union.