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	J. Arthur Rank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank (December 23, 1888 – March 29, 1972) was a British industrialist and film producer, and founder of the Rank Organisation, now known as The Rank Group Plc.
		Arthur Rank was a devout member of the Methodist Church and in his middle age he taught Sunday School to which he began to show religious films.
		In 1938 the Rank Organisation bought Amalgamated Studios in Elstree and in 1941 it absorbed the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation who owned 251 cinemas and the Shepherd's Bush Studios (which the Rank Organisation later sold to BBC Television.) It also bought the Paramount cinema chain so that by 1942 the Rank Organisation owned 619 cinemas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/J._Arthur_Rank (874 words)

	Rank Organisation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rank Organisation was a British entertainment company formed in 1937 and absorbed in 1996 by The Rank Group Plc.
		Arthur Rank in 1937 to consolidate all of his interests in the film industry.
		Although she was not a member of the school, Petula Clark was under contract to Rank for a period of time and starred in a number of films released by the studio, including London Town, one of the costliest flops in British film history.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rank_Organisation (661 words)

	Rank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rank is a very broad term with several meanings.
		As an adjective it used to mean profuse, conspicuous, absolute, or unpleasant, especially in relation to the sense of smell or taste.
		Rank (formation) Military term for a line of soldiers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rank (176 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Rank Organisation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Rank Group Plc was established on December 22, 1995 as a public limited company in England and Wales and in October 1996 it became a holding company owning all the outstanding shares of the Rank Organisation.
		Rank Xerox was formed in 1956 as a joint venture between the Xerox Corporation of USA and the Rank Organisation of UK, to manufacture and market Xerox equipment initially in Europe and later in Africa and Asia.
		In 1939 the Rank Organisation bought Amalgamated Studios in Elstree and in 1941 it absorbed the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation who owned 251 cinemas and the Shepherd's Bush Studios (which the Rank Organisation later sold to BBC Television.) It also bought the Paramount cinema chain so that by 1942 the Rank Organisation owned 619 cinemas.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Rank-Organisation (2254 words)

	Military Organisation and Structure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Rank is the lawful authority given to a sailor, soldier or an airman to command others.
		The higher the rank, the more people he or she has to command, and is responsible for.
		Those with warrant rank are known collectively as warrant officers and within a military organisation are generally responsible for the maintenance of discipline.
	www.awm.gov.au /atwar/structure/rank.htm (393 words)

	Rank Organisation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Rank Organisation, a British entertainment company now known as the Rank Group, was founded in 1946 by J.
		Rank was a major force in British movie making, characterised by its corporate logo of the Gongman.
		Rationalisation of the group (which had now been renamed Rank Group) in the 1990s led to the sale of Pinewood Studios and Odeon cinemas (1998) as well as the holidays businesses (including Butlins, Warner and Haven), engineering companies and anything else not deemed strictly core.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Rank_Organisation.html (1114 words)

	Rank
		Rank is looking to open five bingo and casino gaming complexes over the next five years at a cost of up to £30m, as part of its strategy to benefit from the changes to gambling legislation.
		Rank is hoping to apply for casino licences at up to 60% of its 123 bingo clubs, and has also announced plans to open six Hard Rock cafes in the UK by the end of next year.
		Rank Organisation is acquiring full control of the Hard Rock Cafes for $410m, thus gaining a further 13 outlets and 4 franchises.
	www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk /rankaaaa.htm (1650 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| The demise of Rank Organisation
		At the time, the Rank Organisation was planning a big-budget adaptation of Shaw's play Caesar and Cleopatra, to be produced and directed by the flamboyant Hungarian Gabriel Pascal.
		And yet, Rank didn't tally at all with the stereotype of the Sam Goldwyn or Louis B Mayer-type studio boss.
		By giving the most talented film-makers their heads, Rank reasoned, he would be rewarded with the prestigious A-pictures that would enable him to break into the all-important US market.
	film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,1527493,00.html (1443 words)

	ipedia.com: Rank Organisation Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Rank Organisation, a British entertainment company now known as the Rank Group, was founded in 1946 by J. Arthur Rank, a former flour-miller.
		Rank was a major force in British film making, characterised by its corporate logo of the Gongman.
		In Arthur Rank ceased to run the business, but remained as Chairman until 1962, when he handed the company to John Davis (1906-1993).
	www.ipedia.com /rank_organisation.html (453 words)

	Rank Group Plc - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Rank Group is the brainchild of J. Arthur Rank who in the early 1940s acquired a business established a few years earlier through the formation of Odeon Theatres (the forerunner of The Rank Organisation Plc).
		Rank’s profits from those activities were used to diversify into a range of other leisure activities, primarily in the UK, including hotels and roadside service areas and vacation centres.
		The Rank Group Plc was established on December 22, 1995 as a public limited company in England and Wales under the Companies Act 1985 and in October 1996 through the Scheme of Arrangement, became a holding company owning all the outstanding shares of The Rank Organisation.
	www.rank.com /rnk/about/history/?t=print (1276 words)

	Rank Organisation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Rank was a major force in British film making characterised by its corporate of the Gongman.
		From the late 1950s the Rank Organisation began to diversify interests into fields other than film.
		Rationalisation of the group (which had been renamed Rank Group) in the 1990s to the sale of Pinewood Studios and Odeon cinemas (1998) as well the holidays businesses (including Butlins Warner and Haven) engineering companies and else not deemed strictly core.
	www.freeglossary.com /Rank_Organisation (715 words)

	Definition of J. Arthur Rank
		Joseph Arthur Rank, Baron Rank (December 23 1888 – March 29 1972) was a British industrialist and film producer, and founder of the Rank Organisation, now known as the The Rank Group Plc.
		That was the business that he later inherited and which became known as Rank Hovis McDougal.
		In 1957 J. Arthur Rank was given a peerage and created Baron Rank, of Sutton Scotney near Southampton.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/J._Arthur_Rank (867 words)

	Rank Xerox Limited Information \| Business.com
		Rank Xerox Limited is composed of four parent companies, jointly owned by Xerox Corporation of the United States of America and the Rank Organisation plc of the United Kingdom.
		The participation of Xerox Corporation and the Rank Organisation plc in the Rank Xerox Proforma Group's profits is governed by the provisions of an agreement between the two companies.
		Financial Statements of the Rank Xerox Proforma Group are produced primarily to calculate the profits applicable to Xerox Corporation and the Rank Organisation plc.
	www.business.com /directory/retail_and_consumer_services/consumer_electronics/rank_xerox_limited/profile (313 words)

	The Anarcho-Statists of Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This is confirmed by the fact the rank and file agreed to return to work and leave the streets during the May Days when asked to by the CNT leadership and by the fact that a sizeable minority of anarchists opposed collaboration and activity put its ideas across to the rest of the CNT membership.
		Therefore, to state that the rank and file were not consulted is correct (they should have been) but the fact is that if the majority of union members had not supported that decision then the decision would not have been allowed to happen.
		Strangely enough, the rank and file seemed to have viewed collaboration in the government as a necessary evil in order to win the war and were not convinced by the anarchist minority within their ranks who disagreed with that policy.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/anarchism/writers/anarcho/history/spain/caplan.html (20284 words)

	J. Arthur Rank
		J. Arthur Rank was a devout member of the Methodist Church and in his middle age he taught Sunday School to which he began to show religious films.
		In Arthur Rank began to consolidate his movie interests in both the Pinewood Film Studios and the Denham Film Studios and other interests within a new company called the Rank Organisation.
		The name J. Arthur Rank became a common expression in Cockney rhyming slang.
	en.mcfly.org /J._Arthur_Rank (791 words)

	Rank
		Background: The company was founded in 1938 by producer Joseph Arthur Rank as General Film Distributors, but it would wait until the name change to J. Arthur Rank Organisation in 1944 that it got a proper logo.
		Rank still exists today as The Rank Group plc (www.rankgroup.com), a hotel, resort, and casino operator (the Hard Rock Café is among its properties).
		Among the many Rank movies include the classics Henry V (1944), Hamlet (1948), The Red Shoes (1948), Ladykillers (1955), and The Ipcress File (1965), and the 1980s distribution variant can be seen on Transformers: The Movie (1986).
	members.fortunecity.com /teamfx2000/OtherStudios/rank.htm (371 words)

	Rank expands Hard Rock Cafe International by acquiring Peter Morton's Hard Rock America. - Business Wire - HighBeam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1990, The Rank Organisation -- a leading operator of leisure and entertainment facilities in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, including the U.S. -- acquired the Hard Rock interests originally owned by Tigrett.
		Rank paid $410 million in cash for tangible assets valued at $30 million.
		Rank's Hard Rock Cafe International made an operating profit of $66 million on sales of $231 million in the same year.
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	Rank Organisation
		A history of these interests prior to 1937 is found under the entry for J.
		Its trade mark was characterised by its corporate logo of the Gongman and it acquired these properties: 1938: ODEON cinema chain.
		Under the management of John Davis (1906-1993), the Rank Organisation moved its production exclusively to Pinewood Studios and closed Independent Producers Ltd. 1956 Partnership with the Haloid Corporation to form Rank Xerox.
	en.mcfly.org /Rank_Organisation (471 words)

	Factbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Rank Xerox Limited is formed as joint venture of The Haloid Company and The Rank Organisation plc.
		Rank Xerox opens new factory in Coslada, Spain, and new assembly plant in Lille, France.
		Rank Xerox is renamed Xerox Limited, as Xerox buys out its European partner in the joint venture with The Rank Group.
	www.xerox.com /go/xrx/template/019d.jsp?view=Factbook&id=Historical&Xcntry=USA&Xlang=en_US (2822 words)

	screenonline: Rank, J. Arthur (1888-1972) Biography
		in his autobiography, A Life In Movies, boastfully calling his time with Rank "one of the most glorious partnerships in the history of British films".
		Biographies: Mr Rank by Alan Wood (1952); J.
		Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry by Geoffrey Macnab (1993).
	www.screenonline.org.uk /people/id/447127 (679 words)

	Morton sells his piece of the 'Rock' to Rank - Hard Rock Cafe co-founder Peter Morton sells interest in Hard Rock ...
		Rank's acquisition is seen as facilitating the plans of its Hard Rock Cafe International arm to expand the chain's logo into such fields as recorded music, lodging and broadcasting, ventures that would have been complicated by a continuing joint ownership of the brand.
		Morton, who had rebuffed previous buyout bids, walks away from the trendsetting restaurants at a time when his new hotel-casino business is flourishing and the so called entertainment category Hard Rock pioneered is becoming crowded with memorabilia-laden rivals.
		Rank, which six years ago bought the Hard Rock assets not owned by Morton, said its purchase of his rights and restaurants comprises tangible assets valued at $30 million, which last year generated $26 million in operating profits on revenues of $109 million.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3190/is_n24_v30/ai_18417965 (413 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		There is also evidence that Rank have supressed trade union membership among staff at Mecca bingo.
		In this state, Rank are very vulnerable to consumer pressure through boycotts, bad publicity and embarassing actions, such as the office occupation earlier this summer.
		For commercial success, Oasis need their holiday homes to be full most of the year, and it seems this has not been happening.
	www.keme.co.uk /~joe-d/lyminge/rank.htm (438 words)

	Historical Highlights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Rank Xerox opens new international headquarters in Marlow, United Kingdom.
		Rank Xerox ends distribution agreement with Xeratech Limited of South Africa, effective July 1991.
		Xerox pays The Rank Organisation plc nearly $1 billion to increase Xerox’s financial stake in Rank Xerox to about 80%.
	www.hbsx.com /pages/detpages/whyxerox86.shtml (2817 words)

	European Business News 96-08-09
		Alongside worse-than-expected earnings for the first half, Rank Organisation PLC announced a strategic restructuring Thursday - including plans to sell its Xerox holdings and expand the Hard Rock Cafe franchise to include resorts and a record label.
		The company said pretax profit dropped 71% to 128 million pounds in the period from a restated figure of 444 million pounds a year ago.
		The most stunning announcement, however, was that Rank Organisation plans to transfer its assets to a new holding company, the Rank Group PLC, which will issue new shares to replace those of Rank Organisation.
	www.hri.org /news/europe/ebn/1996/96-08-09.ebn.html (855 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- PERSONAL FILE -- Nov. 9, 1962 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		∙ Stepping up to the honorary presidency of his huge Rank Organisation Ltd., Britain's shrewd Lord Rank, 73, turned over the chairmanship to John Henry Davis, 55.
		Five years ago, as Rank's deputy in running Britain's biggest film studios and theater chain (507 houses), Davis, a onetime accountant, decided that increased pay and leisure would lure working-class Britons away from the movies to other and costlier forms of entertainment.
		Accordingly, the Rank Organisation closed or sold 148 theaters and put the proceeds into dance halls, bowling centers, highway restaurants and a new...
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,829361,00.html (145 words)

	Xerox Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		1956 Rank Xerox Limited is formed as joint venture of The Haloid Company and The Rank Organisation plc.
		1993 Rank Xerox Research Centre (now Xerox Research Centre Europe) is established in Grenoble, France.
		1995 Xerox pays The Rank Organisation plc nearly $1 billion to increase Xerox' financial stake in Rank Xerox to about 80 percent.
	www.scripophily.net /xercor1.html (3006 words)

	Amazon.com: The golden gong: Fifty years of the Rank Organisation, its films and its stars: Books: Quentin Falk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Amazon.com: The golden gong: Fifty years of the Rank Organisation, its films and its stars: Books: Quentin Falk
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		The golden gong: Fifty years of the Rank Organisation, its films and its stars (Paperback)
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