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Nobilis (company)
Nobilis was a French video game publishing and distribution company founded in 2001 in the Lyon metropolitan area and dissolved in 2013. Nobilis also distributed and produced accessories for consoles under the Subsonic brand, whose activity continued after the judicial liquidation of Nobilis. History Origins and development Nobilis was founded in 2001 in the Lyon metropolitan area by Arnaud Blacher, Pierre de Laporte, and Eric Pernelle, three former directors of Infogrames (now Atari SA). The company's headquarters were initially located in Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or, then moved to Dardilly and a few years later to Limonest. As a public limited company, the company was a publisher and distributor of video games for PC game, PC and Video game console, consoles (Xbox (console), Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation Portable, PSP, GameCube, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance). The company also distributed and produced accessories for consoles under the Subsonic br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Société Anonyme
The abbreviation S.A. or SA designates a type of limited company in certain countries, most of which have a Romance languages, Romance language as their official language and operate a derivative of the 1804, Napoleonic, civil law (legal system), civil law. Originally, shareholders could be anonymous and collect dividends by surrendering coupon (finance), coupons attached to their stock certificate, share certificates. Dividends were paid to whomever held the certificate. Since share certificates could be transferred privately, corporate management would not necessarily know who owned its shares – nor did anyone but the holders. As with bearer bonds, anonymous unregistered share ownership and dividend collection enabled money laundering, tax evasion, and concealed business transactions in general, so governments passed laws to audit the practice. Nowadays, shareholders of S.A.s are not anonymous, though shares can still be held by a holding company to obscure the benefici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
