11.  Investors like active companies.

12.  Its current decision to increase production and resume sales came after intense lobbying from its Asian division and after consulting other multinational companies active in the country.

13.  Like all other tobacco companies active in the United States, British American is settling class-action suits brought by smokers and state governments.

14.  Other companies active in the digital signal processor market include Lucent Technologies Inc., Motorola Inc. and Analog Devices Inc.

15.  Q Data was the second most active company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

16.  Recently, its acquisitions have been of companies active in communications, not in computer technologies.

17.  The idea is that only the more active larger companies will be traded at the start.

18.  We also survey the latest prices offered by the most active marketing companies.

19.  WPP is not the only agency company active in custom publishing.

20.  With that in mind, I recently set out to pinpoint companies active in that field.