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Caterair was sold by Carlyle to the Canadian private equity firm, Onex Corporation, in September 1995 which merged it with its other acquisition LSG/Sky Chef.
http://www.flyertalk.com/the-gate/blog/8647-did-an-airline-meal-kill-a-passenger.html
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Did an Airline Meal Kill a Passenger?
December 1, 2011 by Brian Cohen
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The wife and daughter of Miami resident Othon Cortes are suing LSG Sky Chefs and American Airlines for greater than one million dollars, claiming that a meal consumed during a flight from Barcelona to New York contained chicken contaminated with bacteria, ultimately killing Cortes.
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The firm invests in a wide array of industries. It has shown a particular interest in buying the high-cost manufacturing portion of companies and turning these into low cost suppliers. In the 1980s it played this role in the auto parts industry. In 1996 it bought IBM's manufacturing division Celestica. Although the firm has majority control over most of its subsidiaries, rarely does it have whole ownership.[citation needed]
Onex is involved in the American health care industry, owning a number of firms there. They are also in the movie theatre business, both in Canada with Cineplex Entertainment, as well as in Mexico with Cinemex, this latter one in partnership with U.S. based The Carlyle Group. The firm has also long been invested in the airline industry and is well known for its failed 1999 attempt to buy both Air Canada and Canadian Airlines to merge them. [2] In 2004 Onex bought Boeing Commercial Airplanes' Kansas and Oklahoma manufacturing facilities, forming Spirit AeroSystems, which was later partially floated in late 2006. In late 2006, Onex became a member of the Airline Partners Australia consortium in a takeover bid for Qantas. In January 2007, Onex signed a deal to acquire the Raytheon Aircraft Company from Raytheon (forming Hawker Beechcraft).
In January 2007, Onex signed a deal to acquire Eastman Kodak's medical imaging unit, including a Kodak factory in White City, Oregon. The company formed is now known as Carestream Health.
On June 28, 2007, Onex announced that it would partner with The Carlyle Group to buy the Allison Transmission unit of General Motors for $5.6 billion.[3]
Other companies in which Onex owns a significant stake include, as of November 2008, Sitel, American Medical Response, EmCare, Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd, Canadian Securities Institute and CiCi's Pizza.
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CSI Global Education Inc. (CSI) is a Canadian financial services education company that provides courses and credentials for financial services professionals (individuals and corporations) across all pillars of the financial services industry. CSI has a full mandate for all licensing education and testing for Canada’s financial services industry to build industry professionalization.
Courses (also available through distance education and self-study options) include the Canadian Securities Course, which is required to become a securities broker or investment advisor within Canada[1].
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CSI was established as the Canadian Securities Institute in 1970 by Canadian self-regulatory organizations (SROs) and changed its name in 2002 after incorporating as a for-profit entity under the name CSI Global Education Inc.
In 1999, CSI launched its first roster of internet-based courses.
In 2001, CSI was one of 10 educational providers granted the accreditation to provide life insurance licensing to customers in the Canadian marketplace.
By 2007, CSI acquired the Institute of Canadian Bankers (ICB)[2], which enabled them to provide extended financial services training and educational courses.
In 2010, CSI was acquired by Moody’s Corporation and became an indirect subsidiary operating as a separate company under Moody’s Analytics, ensuring that CSI would continue to be the global leader in financial education and accreditation[3].
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Moody's was founded in 1909 by John Moody. The top institutional owner and only shareholder holding more than 5% of all shares of Moody's is Warren Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway, holding a share of ~13%.[4]
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Southwest Marine Inc. also received contracts worth more than $1 billion since 1998, and Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock received contracts worth $827 million. In 1998, Carlyle merged these two companies into United States Marine Repair.
Vought Aircraft Industries, a large subcontractor doing work for military cargo planes, bombers, and fighters, received contracts worth $85 million. Vought is among the few defense contractors that the Carlyle Group has not sold.
Among other private equity firms, New York-based Veritas Capital Management firm that employs many former high-ranking military officials received Pentagon contracts to the tune of more than $2.2 billion. Veritas is the 41st ranked defense contractor.
Companies under the ownership of Vectura Holding Co., another New York-based group, got deals to the tune of $1 billion, while companies controlled by Berkshire Hathaway, led by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, won contracts worth $688 million. Companies owned by Green Equity Investors II LP ($275 million) and Gores Technology Group ($153 million) also received substantial defense money.
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Mattel sold Learning Co. to Gores Technology Group, receiving $27.3 million for the unit. TLC, along with Brøderbund, is now a subsidiary of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; however, some of the acquired entertainment holdings were sold to Ubisoft.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (/ˈhoʊtn ˈmɪflɪn/[1]) is an educational and trade publisher in the United States. Headquartered in Boston's Back Bay, it publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults.
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The company was formerly known as Houghton Mifflin Company but changed its name following the 2007 acquisition of Harcourt Publishing. Prior to March 2010, it was a subsidiary of Education Media and Publishing Group Limited, an Irish-owned holding company registered in the Cayman Islands and formerly known as Riverdeep.
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Criticism and controversies
The company was ranked the 10th worst place to work in America, according to a glassdoor.com survey in 2009.[25]
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Leonard Green & Partners, L.P.
Our first fund, Green Equity Investors, L.P., was formed in 1989 with $216 million in commitments; followed by Green Equity Investors II, L.P. in 1994 with $311 million in commitments; Green Equity Investors III, L.P. in 1998 with $1.24 billion in commitments; Green Equity Investors IV, L.P. in 2002 with $1.85 billion in commitments; and Green Equity Investors V, L.P. with $5.3 billion in commitments. In addition, in 2001 we formed the GCP California Fund, L.P. in partnership with the California Public Employees’ Retirement System with $50 million in commitments to invest in California-related industries and underserved markets.
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| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Traded as | NASDAQ: ONXX: [1]) |
| Industry | Biotechnology |
| Founded | 1992 |
| Headquarters | South San Francisco California U.S. |
| Key people | N. Anthony (Tony) Coles (CEO) |
| Products | Sorafenib (Nexavar) |
| Employees | 375 |
| Website | onyx-pharm.com |
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Ex-executive says Vertex made him go
Suit seeks severance benefit for lost duties
When Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. senior vice president Dr. N. Anthony Coles resigned two years ago, the Cambridge biotech company said he left to take another job.
But in newly filed court documents, Coles says he was shoved out the door.
In a lawsuit filed in Suffolk Superior Court, Coles, 47, says he was stripped of some of his key responsibilities in 2005 when Vertex hired another executive, spurring him to start job hunting.
He's seeking a golden parachute worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, or more.
The suit underscores how challenging it can be for emerging companies to keep top executives happy when they bring in new talent and shuffle responsibilities.
It also provides access to the kind of corner-office politicking that is typically played out behind corporate doors.
Vertex, founded in 1989, is developing several drugs, including a promising treatment for hepatitis C. It has more than 1,000 employees, including 800 in Cambridge. The company re ported $38 million in revenue last quarter and a loss of $118 million.
In March 2002, Vertex hired Coles as senior vice president for commercial operations and pharmaceutical products.
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Mr. Kinsella is a Life Sustaining Fellow at MIT and a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council at SAIS. He is the largest individual producer of the Tony Award-winning hit Broadway musical, Jersey Boys, and the partner of Rhino Records (Time Warner) in producing the Grammy Award-winning Jersey Boys Original Cast Recording, which has gone Platinum (selling over 1 million copies).
Mr. Kinsella is a member of the Board of Directors of AnaptysBio. Mr. Kinsella is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Broadway League (Tony voter). He and his wife, Tamara, own Kinsella Estates Winery (Healdsburg, California), whose first vintage of premium Dry Creek cabernet sauvignon has just been released.
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1) Companions of the Order of Canada, the highest level of the Order of Canada, have demonstrated the highest degree of merit to Canada and humanity, on the national or international scene. Up to 15 Companions are appointed each year, with a limit of 165 living Companions at any given time. Companions are entitled to use the post-nominal "C.C." As of June 14, 2010, there were 164 living Companions (including four honorary). This list shows all of the Companions, in alphabetical order, both living and deceased.
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1) Companions of the Order of Canada, the highest level of the Order of Canada, have demonstrated the highest degree of merit to Canada and humanity, on the national or international scene. Up to 15 Companions are appointed each year, with a limit of 165 living Companions at any given time. Companions are entitled to use the post-nominal "C.C." As of June 14, 2010, there were 164 living Companions (including four honorary). This list shows all of the Companions, in alphabetical order, both living and deceased.
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Bertram Brockhouse (1918–2003)
Bertram Brockhouse (1918–2003)
Charles Bronfman (1931–)
Samuel Bronfman (1891–1971)
Robert Bryce (1910–1997)
E.L.M. Burns (1897–1985)
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William Stephenson (1897–1989)
Maurice Strong (1929–)
Janine Sutto (1921–)
David Suzuki (1936–)
Thomas Symons (1929–)
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The Order of Canada (French: Ordre du Canada) is a Canadian national order, admission into which is, within the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, the second highest honour for merit. It comes second only to membership in the Order of Merit, which is within the personal gift of Canada's monarch.
To coincide with the centennial of Canadian Confederation, the three-tiered order was established in 1967 as a fellowship that recognizes the achievement of outstanding merit or distinguished service by Canadians who made a major difference to Canada through lifelong contributions in every field of endeavour, as well as the efforts made by non-Canadians who have made the world better by their actions. Membership is thus accorded to those who exemplify the order's Latin motto, desiderantes meliorem patriam, meaning "they desire a better country."[1] The three tiers of the order are Companion, Officer, and Member.
The order is administered by the Governor General-in-Council on behalf of the Queen of Canada.[2] The monarch, at present Elizabeth II, is Sovereign of the order and the serving governor general, currently David Lloyd Johnston, is its Chancellor and Principal Companion.
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The Lord May of Oxford, ecologist and former President of the Royal Society, appointed 28 October 2002[16](179)
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Connections
From his headquarters in St James's Place in London, Jacob Rothschild has cultivated an influential set of clients, business associates and friends who have extended his interests far beyond the normal scope of a banker. He was a close personal friend of Diana, Princess of Wales and maintains strong personal and business links with Henry Kissinger.[16]
His country estate has been a regular venue for visiting heads of state including Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Margaret Thatcher received French President François Mitterrand there at a summit in 1990. He hosted the European Economic Round Table conference in 2002, attended by such figures as James Wolfensohn, former president of the World Bank, Nicky Oppenheimer, Warren Buffett and Arnold Schwarzenegger.[17]
