Has the name for Sunopta Inc. ever changed?
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No, it has not.\n\nHere is an overview of the company's spin-off divisions. Maybe this will answer and lingering concerns:\n\n"SunOpta shines in several industries. The company takes in most of its sales from the SunOpta Food Group, which produces, processes, markets, and distributes natural, organic, and kosher food products in Canada and the US. The company's remaining sales have come from Opta Minerals which recycles industrial waste and makes abrasives and bentonite clays for foundries. Its StakeTech Steam Explosion Group makes a steam explosion system to separate cellulose and nonwood fibers (used in the production of pulp). SunOpta director Stephen Bronfman and the Bronfman family owns about 15% of the company.\n\n\nSunOpta is poised to take advantage of expected growth in the natural foods industry in Canada. The company has acquired a slew of natural and organic foods distributors including Wild West Organic Harvest, Simply Organic, Distribue-Vie, Snapdragon Natural Foods, and Supreme Foods Limited. It has also picked up snack food producers (Sigco Sun Products, Dakota Gourmet and kosher foods distributor les Importations Cacheres Hahamovitch.. SunOpta has begun to consolidate several of its natural, organic, and kosher food distribution businesses into one large warehouse in Toronto.\n\nThe company is also expanding its lines of private labels for its retail customers, and is bulking up on its grain and fiber processing facilities to serve its food manufacturing customers.\n\nThe company purchased aptly named Organic Ingredients (industrial food ingredients) of Aptos, California and Pacific Fruit Processors (industrial fruit-based ingredients) of South Gate, California. These businesses have been stirred together to form a new operating group, the SunOpta Fruit Group.\n\nSunOpta has spun off Opta Minerals in an IPO yet retains nearly 73% of Opta Minerals."\n\n--From Hoover's business database
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I've lived in Sarasota all my life and the most common theory about how it got it's name is the one listed above ... named for Sara de soto. But I did find some more information that it was not always named sarasota. On old maps it is listed as Porte Sarsote, Sarazote or Saraxote. Leading to the theory that the name may have originated with an Indian word "sara-se-cota", meaning a landfall easily observed.
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No.  It's like GM and Ford.  Same products, different companies.
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As I'm not certain which country you are located in, I will provide the "generic" answer which I believe would apply across the board.\n\nAny time a company that is doiing one form of business, branches out to do another as well, if the branch is related to the present objectives of the company, there is no need to change the main company name.\n\nHowever, the extreme leap to a completely different business operation such as is the case here, would require either a request to the Governmental office that is responsible for handling business registrations in your Country.  The company need not change their name to accompany the addition of this new section of business, rather it is wiser to either provide a new name for the new area of business and link it to the current business by stating "A division of (the Original Company's Name).\n\nOtherwise, a completely new entity itself should be created for the Realty business.  Changing the name of this company in mid stride may be less expensive to achieve however, if it has been in operation for awhile, there will be the matter of changing the Company's building sign (if applicable), a major dollar grabber in itself.  The name will have to be reflected in business materials (business cards, letter head, flyers, brochures, purchase orders, invoices etc).  \n\nFurther, the cost to notify all current customers of the name change would be a courtesy and recommended.  Therefore, the cost to change the name alone is still compounded by the requirements to ensure as smooth a transition as possible so as not to lose any current clients/suppliers.\n\nIt would be more beneficial and less confusing if the company where to operate under one umbrella/entity that controls all companies.  For example, a Company my husband is part owner of is actually under the ownership of a Holding Company.  This Holding Company is the umbrella Corporation for 3 businesses all operating under their own unique Names, carrying on their own line of business and conducting their own accounting procedures, all separate from the other 2 businesses.\n\nBy doing things the way in which this Company in question is doing it, will cause a logistics nightmare eventually, unless the owners are able to maintain two separate paper trails/accounting practices accurately and without trouble.\n\nPersonally, as a business owner with a husband  one as well, I would want to be extremely certain that a simple change in my current company's name didn't lead to far more problems than necessary.  The real estate business in my opinion should be a separate name all together, although working from the same location could be possible for awhile provided there was a clear division of the two businesses here as well.  The company should look into creating an umbrella Corporation that  controls all aspects of both companies i.e. shares, shareholders, decisions regarding expansions etc.  But it should work in the background while the two businesses work as separate entities.\n\nGood luck with this and whatever role you play in it.
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its already been released. Bill says its great but customers say whats new?????? Why the name change?????
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yes, search yahoo.\nHere's a good one\nhttp://www.solarviews.com/cap/sun/sundiag.htm i think...
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i guess they changed the name now.they do operate
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The company is called Sunbeam Tech, and they are located at http://www.sunbeamtech.com/.
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"XsunX Ends 2005 on High Note". Read this article at: http://www.primezone.com/newsroom/news.html?d=91761\n\n'xsnx' is no longer valid. It has changed to XSNX.OB.
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No, they haven't discontinued it, but according to the automated message on their hotline, the plant that manufactures it is going through some sort of equipment upgrade, and so it won't be on the shelves again until the beginning of April.\n\nI was freaking out myself thinking they'd done something stupid like discontinued it, because I'd gone to like 10 stores in L.A. myself trying to find the darn stuff. I can't use the other manufacturer's brands because they use preservatives, so I was really worried and called Ciba Vision to find out what in flipping hell was going on. :-)\n\nIt really blows having to wait, but if you can hold out until April, all will be good. Better than having it disappear completely though. I just hope they don't change the formula or anything, because I really rely on it.
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Not very, not yet, those last two satalite launches (a few weeks ago) are going to make it better and, eventually, cheaper.\n\nThere's dead spots.  It's like using a cell phone....
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SBC bought it, but the fun fact is after buying it they change their name to AT&T
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Here is their home page. \n\nhttp://www.sun-shack.net/
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Isn't this the company who purchased A.T.&T.?  If so, I believe it will go by A.T.&T, INC.   Also sometimes referred to as NEW A.T.&T......This is due to the recognition of the name A.T&T.
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It looks like a company that may have gone into bankruptcy a long time ago.  I'm not sure if it's the same company, though.
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No.  They're different companies.
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No.  Check their website.