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In February 2007, Schindler, along with competitors Otis Elevator Co., ThyssenKrupp, Kone, and Mitsubishi Elevator Europe were fined by the European Union for a price-fixing cartel. Schindler was fined 144 million euros, or about $189.3 million US dollars. [8] Since 2011, Schindler have sponsored Solar Impulse, a solar-powered aircraft. [9]
In 2005, Schindler acquired the Hontz Elevator Company [1] after a brief legal battle with the German authorities over the registration of the company name. [citation needed] The court held that the Hontz Elevator Company had been established in the 19th century by Karl Hontz (then under the title Die Hontz Aufzugfirma) according to a folder of documents that had previously surfaced in the ...
CEO of OLX Autos in India is Amit Kumar. [35] OLX's operations in India, like other online retailers, has faced problems with fraud and faced problems with people selling stolen vehicles. In combating fraud, nearly 25% of the car listings get rejected by its systems to protect users from fraud. [36] [37] In August 2023, OLX's India business was ...
Alfred E. Schindler (1894 – January 2, 1987) [1] was an American industrialist who served as the acting secretary of commerce under President Truman. Career.
India's liberation of Goa was met with both international support and deploration. In the years following the liberation, Portugal refused to recognize India's sovereignty over Goa. Salazar died in 1970. In 1974 a democratic government took power in Portugal and recognized India's sovereignty in Goa.
The T/S 1000 was introduced in July 1982, [2] with Timex Sinclair touting it as the first home computer to cost under $100 in the U.S. market. [10] In spite of the flaws in the early versions, 550,000 units were sold by the end of the year. [11] In 1983, about 100,000 units were sold in Canada, and 400,000 in the US, with the price dropping to ...
The resulting European economic integration, consisting, among other factors, in relatively free markets that facilitated the bridging of labour shortages through migration from Portugal, as well as other southern European countries (such as Italy, Spain or Greece,) towards Central Europe (e.g. Germany) – so-called 'Gastarbeiter ...
Mehboob Khan's Academy Award-nominated Mother India (1957) was an unprecedented success in overseas markets, including Europe, [8] Russia, the Eastern Bloc, French territories, and Latin America. [9] In the 1950s, Hindi and Egyptian films were generally more popular than Hollywood films in East Africa. By the 1960s, the region was one of the ...