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Locomotoras Albacete
The Locomotoras Albacete was a steam locomotive manufacturing company established in the 19th century in the Albacete, Spain. It is best known for its football team, Locomotoras Albacete Balón-Pie, who played a pivotal pioneering role in the amateur beginnings of football in Albacete, organizing the first known football match in the city in 1896 and being the predecessor of the latter Albacete Balompié. Thus, like in Swindon, football in Albacete is originally linked to the railway industry. History The company manufactured :es:Mikado (steam locomotive), Mikado locomotives in what is now the Zamora street. The company was founded with capital from the Goicoechea family, owners of Talgo, and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, British Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. In 1893, the company opened a new factory in Albacete, with John Hulse, an English industrial engineer of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways Company, being the one in charge of laying the foundations for the man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their public company, publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
