The French insurance company called the AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company was renamed from The Equitable Life Assurance Company of the United States in the year of 2004.
Sold to Swiss Re Insurance and renamed Reassurance of America
Started in 1925 as Metropolital Funeral System Assn, name changed to Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company of Chicago in 1946. Renamed Chicago Metropolitan Mutual after 1952. It was acquired by Atlanta Life in the early 1990s.
Commercial Union Insurance merged with the British company General Accident in 1998. The merger renamed the companies CGU Insurance and is located in Boston, Massachusetts.
Yes, it was renamed "Sea River Shipping Company"
James I became the new patron of the company, and thus it was renamed.
The company Project Playlist has renamed themselves as Playlist Inc. The company is providing widgets for MySpace, myYearbook and Facebook. In addition, the company was founded in 2006.
Sold to Swiss Re Insurance and renamed Reassurance of America.
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Martha Stewart Inc. was a company created by Martha Stewart in 1997. It was renamed to Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.
MapQuest was originally founded in 1967 as Cartographic Services. When it became an independent company in 1994, it was renamed Geo Systems Global Corporation.It wasn't until 2000 that it was renamed MapQuest and was acquired by AOL.
It was the London Company that was later renamed the Virginia Company and the year was 1607.
CountryWide Homes was a home mortgage lending company. The company struggled through the housing crisis and was bought out and renamed by Bank of America.