Rank Organisation
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- Falk, Q. The golden gong, 1987:t.p. (Rank Organisation)
- KBE, 1986(Rank Organisation PLC)
- LC data base, 2-22-88(Rank Organisation Limited; usage: Rank Organisation Limited)
- The rocking horse winner, c2002:credits (J. Arthur Rank Organisation)
- Wikipedia, viewed 28 June 2016(Rank Organisation; headquarters in London, England; British entertainment conglomerate founded by industrialist J. Arthur Rank on 23 April 1937; film company, owning production, distribution and exhibition facilities; the company name lasted until 7 February 1996 when the name and some of the remaining assets were absorbed into the newly structured the Rank Group Plc; the film company emerged in 1937 as Rank sought to consolidate his film-making interests; by the late 1940s J Arthur Rank (or the Rank Organisation as it was now called) owned film studio complexes, cinemas, and associated businesses)
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The Rank Organisation (founded as the J. Arthur Rank Organisation) was a British entertainment conglomerate founded in 1937 by industrialist J. Arthur Rank. It quickly became the largest and most vertically integrated film company in the United Kingdom, owning production, distribution, and exhibition facilities, as well as manufacturing projection equipment and chairs. It diversified into the manufacture of radios, TVs, and photocopiers (as one of the owners of Rank Xerox). The company name lasted until February 1996, when the name and some of the remaining assets were absorbed into the newly structured Rank Group plc. The company itself became a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox and was renamed XRO Limited in 1997. The company's logo, the Gongman, first used in 1935 by the group's distribution company, General Film Distributors and seen in the opening titles of the films, became a film emblem.
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