International Business News - Name http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif CBRL Group, Inc., owner of Cracker Barrel restaurants, is changing its name. CBRL is returning to its original name of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. within the next two weeks. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/cracker-barrel-parent-to-change-corporate-name.htm Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:21:57 EST Sierra Pacific Resources, a power holding company, said on Wednesday a proposal to change the corporate name to NV Energy Inc. was approved. The new name will be effective on Thursday and the company will be traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the trading symbol "NVE." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081119/sierra-pacific-resources-changes-name-to-nv-energy.htm Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:28:31 EST An effort to rename one of two Dallas streets for Cesar Chavez failed Monday, but the city plans to find another road to name after the late labor and civil rights activist. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081110/dallas-nixes-2-proposals-to-name-road-for-chavez.htm Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:21:46 EST It ought to be a proud milestone in the Dutch seafaring heritage--the construction of a new ship its owner claims will be the world's largest. But there's one problem: its name. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/170148-netherlands-nazi-name.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081107/dutch-outcry-over-naming-giant-ship-after-nazi.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081107/dutch-outcry-over-naming-giant-ship-after-nazi.htm Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:11:01 EST Barack Obama may have a "funny name," as he once said--but it might just catch on among the nation's newborns. A Florida couple became among the country's first to bestow it on their child, even before most news outlets had declared the Illinois senator the president-elect. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081106/baby-obama-born-in-south-florida.htm Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:06:06 EST Some Hispanics in the nation's ninth-largest city are suspicious of why efforts for a "Cesar Chavez Avenue" in Dallas have stumbled. The name of the famed labor leader and civil rights activist won handily when the city asked residents to come up with a new name for Industrial Boulevard, a dull strip lined with liquor stores and bail bond offices http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/155824-street-name-squabble.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081020/dallas-officials-clash-over-a-streets-name.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081020/dallas-officials-clash-over-a-streets-name.htm Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:14:45 EDT You can call her CutoutDissection.com, Cutout for short, but just don't call her Jennifer. The former Jennifer Thornburg--whose driver's license now reads Dissection.com, Cutout--wanted to do something to protest animal dissections in schools. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081013/teen-changes-her-name-to-cutoutdissection-com.htm Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:36:43 EDT Mine operator Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. has changed its name. The company says its new moniker is Cliffs Natural Resources, the name it intended to adopt after its proposed $4 billion buyout of Abingdon, Va.-based coal mine operator Alpha Natural Resources. That deal hasn't gone through yet, but Cliffs says in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Thursday that it amended its articles of incorporation to change the name Oct. 3. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081010/mine-operator-cleveland-cliffs-changes-name.htm Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:40:15 EDT Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., a major Japanese electronics maker that rivals Sony Corp., said Wednesday it changed its name to Panasonic Corp., as expected. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/matsushita-changes-name-to-panasonic.htm Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:05:53 EDT The Bush administration is searching for a new way to sell its financial rescue plan after acknowledging some blunders and missteps in presenting it the first time around. One big key: Insist it's not a Wall Street "bailout." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/142782-bush.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080930/the-new-bailout-pitch-its-not-a-bailout.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080930/the-new-bailout-pitch-its-not-a-bailout.htm Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:55:09 EDT Pediatrix Medical Group Inc. said Friday it will change its name to Mednax in order to reflect its expansion beyond pediatric and maternal health care services. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080919/pediatrix-medical-to-change-name-ticker-symbol.htm Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:00:35 EDT Republicans have come up with another name for the opposing party--the right name. For years now, the GOP has gone after "Democrat schemes," "Democrat presidents," "Democrat Congresses"--all phrases from the 1996 Republican platform, repeated many times since. Twenty years earlier, Bob Dole famously declared that all wars of the 20th century were "Democrat wars." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080826/no-more-democrat-wars-for-gop-spinmeisters.htm Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:54:57 EDT Sorry, Michael Phelps, but it may take more than eight Olympic gold medals to make you a household name in China. In a walking survey of a traditional Beijing hutong, a neighborhood made up of narrow streets with carved and painted roof beams, Phelps still lacked some name recognition on Sunday, hours after winning his record eighth Olympic gold medal. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/110648-beijing-olympics.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080817/phelps-still-no-household-name-in-china.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080817/phelps-still-no-household-name-in-china.htm Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:31:28 EDT E Com Ventures Inc., which owns Perfumania perfume shops, said Friday it is changing its name to Perfumania Holdings Inc. The company's ticker symbol will be "PERF" starting at the opening of trading Monday, it said in a news release. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080808/e-com-to-change-name-to-perfumania-on-monday.htm Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:23:56 EDT Some Taiwanese lawmakers have called for boycotting the Beijing Olympics unless a dispute over the island's name is resolved. Several lawmakers of the ruling Nationalist Party say Thursday that China must not attempt to change the name under which the island will compete in next month's Olympics to suggest that Taiwan is part of China. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/96883-china-olympics.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/taiwan-opposes-olympics-name-change.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/taiwan-opposes-olympics-name-change.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:10:46 EDT A senior Taiwan official has rejected China's attempts to change the name under which the island will compete in next month's Olympics, striking a discordant note to the two sides' recently improved relations. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/taiwan-nixes-china-move-to-change-olympic-name.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:41:44 EDT This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, said it happened when an Internet registration company it oversees got fooled into transferring the domain names to someone else. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/internet-addressing-agency-loses-its-own-addresses.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:57:39 EDT Residents of Nowthen know it's a funny name, but they're proud to officially become a city. The community north of the Twin Cities changed its name Monday from Burnsville Township to Nowthen, which was the name the first local post office was given by mistake. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/nowthen-minn-i-think-our-city-has-a-name.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:15:23 EDT Residents of Nowthen know it's a funny name, but they're proud to officially become a city. The community north of the Twin Cities changed its name Monday from Burnsville Township to Nowthen, which was the name the first local post office was given by mistake. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/nowthen-minn-i-think-our-city-has-a-name.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:30:27 EDT A New Mexico appeals court on Friday ruled against a Los Alamos man who wanted to change his name to a phrase containing a popular four-letter obscenity. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080628/n-m-court-refuses-obscene-name-change.htm Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:13:00 EDT