Limited company a distinction to be made between the publicly tradable companies of the "plc" type (for example, the German Aktiengesellschaft (AG), British PLC, Czech a.s., Italian S.p.A., Hungarian Zrt. and the Spanish, French, Polish, Greek and Romanian S.A.), and the "private" types of company (such as the German GmbH, Portuguese Ltda., British Ltd., Polish sp. z o.o., the Czech s.r.o., the French s.a.r.l., the Italian and Romanian s.r.l., Hungarian kft. and Slovak s.r.o.) This is a company that does not have share capital, but is guaranteed by its "members", who agree to pay a fixed amount in the event of the
Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada Ltd. of Canada in the landmark case "British Columbia v. Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd.", [2005] 2 S.C.R. 473, 2005 SCC 49. The Supreme Court riled that the provincial "Tobacco Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act", which allowed the government to sue tobacco companies, was constitutionally valid. Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada Ltd. The Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada is a Canadian cigarette manufacturing company that is an indirect subsidiary of British American Tobacco. Once known for marketing Sweet Caporals in Canada, Imperial Tobacco is now known for its du Maurier and Peter Jackson brands of cigarettes. Imperial Tobacco Company of