Laird plc (LSE: LRD) is a leading British-based electronics and technology business. It is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
The company was founded by John Laird in 1824 as Birkenhead Ironworks in Liverpool. It launched its first ship in 1840. In 1903 it merged with Charles Cammell & Company Limited and, as Cammell Laird, went on to build numerous ships for the Royal Navy. In 1976 its transport division, which traded as Metro-Cammell, secured a major order to build mass transit railway carriages for the Hong Kong Mass Transit System.
In the 1977 its shipbuilding business was nationalised and in 1989 it disposed of its mass transit railway activities. In the 1980s it moved into security products and in 1994 into electronics. In 2000 it disposed of its automotive industry activities and more recently, in 2007, it disposed of its security business. In 2008 it changed its name from Laird Group PLC to Laird PLC.
The company's has operations organised as follows:
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Chris Faraday once smuggled illegal items or contraband into the country on freighters. He left that life behind, got married has a family and went legit. But when his brother-in-law got involved with Briggs, a drug dealer and when he blew a deal, Briggs demands restitution which he can't deliver. So Chris offers to find a way to pay him but the he threatens Chris' family if he doesn't deliver. So he gets on a freighter destined for Panama and he sets out to bring back some counterfeit currency. Briggs "goes to see" Chris' family. When Chris learns of this he asks his friend Sebastian to take care of them which he does. He tells Chris that it would be better to bring drugs instead of the cash.
Keywords: action-violence, alcoholic-relapse, alcoholics-anonymous, american-abroad, armored-truck, arrest, bar, beating, betrayal, blood-splatter
What would you hide to protect your family?
Chris Farraday: I've got to try and fix this. Trust me, I know what I'm doing.
Chris Farraday: [to Tim] You think you're the only guy with a fucking gun?
Sebastian Abney: [one of Chris sons hit him with a paper ball] Good aim.
Andy: Don't act like you don't like this shit.::Chris Farraday: Why, is that obvious? I know but don't tell your sister.
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It tells the tale of Petronella (a Scottish/Romany girl) and Fergal (her mysterious Irish traveller boyfriend). As their doomed relationship plays out, a Beast stalks the estate, killing locals, working its way towards our protagonists. Meanwhile Cathal and Liam, two mysterious travellers from Ireland use ritual and magic on a blood hunt. Mary, Fergal's mother performs ritual and magic of her own. As Cathal comes face to face with Mary in a vicious finale we know one thing: the Beast must die.
Keywords: beast, british-horror, celt, father-son-relationship, irish-traveller, magic, male-frontal-nudity, mentally-handicapped-child, mother-son-relationship, one-word-title
Evil Runs In The Blood
Beware The Beast Within
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The executive Bob Munro is stressed, feeling threatened of losing his job and his lifestyle, since his abusive boss Todd Mallory hired the Stanford's geek Laird to work in their soda's company. Bob has promised his wife Jamie Munro, his teenage daughter Cassie Munro and his young son Carl Munro to spend vacations in Hawaii, but Todd demands him to prepare a presentation and attend a business meeting with the owners of a family company in a merging operation scheduled in the same period. Bob hides the truth to his family, rents a recreational vehicle and tries to convince his dysfunctional family that a road trip to the Colorado Rocky Mountains would be good to bring old values back to their family. After many incidents and while in the trailers parking area, the rookie Bob is helped by the bizarre but friendly Gornicke family. They escape from the Gornickes and initiate a journey of difficulties and leaning, retrieving their forgotten family bonds.
Keywords: acronym-in-title, basketball, bicycle, business-trip, car-accident, car-in-water, colorado, corporate-ladder, critically-bashed, deception
One family. Eight wheels. No brakes.
8 Wheels. 1 Family. No Brakes. (Australia Theatrical)
On A Family Vacation, No One Can Hear You Scream.
Bob Munro: [about Travis Gornicke] Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten.
Marie Jo Gornicke: Do you wanna hear about the time Jesus saved us from a tornado?
Earl Gornicke: So, do you have a boyfriend?::Cassie Munro: Yeah, actually, I'm engaged.::Earl Gornicke: Unlikely.
Bob Munro: [angrily] We watch TV in four separate rooms and IM each other when dinner is ready.
Bob Munro: Hey, check this out. It's called the "pop-out."::Bob Munro: [starts to open the pop-out] Whoa, where are you? [chuckles]::Bob Munro: How cool was that?::Cassie Munro: [sarcastically] Macarena cool.
Cassie, age 5: Daddy?::Bob Munro: Yeah, baby?::Cassie, age 5: I'm never gonna get married.::Bob Munro: Why not? It's not as bad as it looks.::Cassie, age 5: Because I always want to live here with you.::Bob Munro: Well, you know, one day, you're gonna grow up, meet a wonderful guy, and you're gonna get married. But you and I will always be best friends. [kisses forehead]::Cassie Munro: [Scene switch] Dad, could you be any more of a dork?::Bob Munro: Cassie, you know where this girl lives or you just think you know?::Cassie Munro: I know where, I just know one way to get there. And you refuse to go that way.::Bob Munro: Because it's a stupid way.::Jamie Munro: You're lost, aren't you?::Bob Munro: Yes I'm lost, because our daughter doesn't know where her friend's house it. She knows it's next to the house with the fountain.
Cassie Munro: Maybe we can feed Carl to the raccoon.::Carl Munro: Maybe we can feed him you, he might be on the south bitch diet.::Bob Munro: That's a good one son.
[repeated line]::Cassie Munro: Dad, the RV's rolling away.
[Bob is sitting on the toilet]::Billy Gornicke: You got a nice one.::Bob Munro: What?::Billy Gornicke: You got a nice laptop.
Carl Munro: Does anybody have a vomit bag?::Jamie Munro: You sick?::Carl Munro: Big time. Cassie and Earl are making out.
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Football coach Harold Jones befriends Radio, a mentally-challenged man who becomes a student at T.L. Hanna High School in Anderson, South Carolina. Their friendship extends over several decades, where Radio transforms from a shy, tormented man into an inspiration to his community.
Keywords: 1970s, affection, african-american, american-football, american-south, barber-shop, based-on-article, based-on-true-story, basketball, bully
His courage made them champions.
Radio: Whe' mah pie!
Waitress: You want strawberry pie or apple pie?::Radio: I wan' both!
[repeated line]::Radio: That's a goo' one!
Radio: [holding pants up to the phone for approval] How dese ones, Co' Jones?
Linda: It's never a mistake to care for someone. That's *always* a good thing!
Honeycutt: You gonna want something to wash it down with too? Root Beer, Coke?::Radio: [Low Voice] Coke.
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Tom Selleck (TV's Magnum P.I.) and Sam Elliot (Tombstone) star as brothers who battled on opposing sides of the Civil War only to return home to discover that their family, including a younger brother and one of the brothers' fianc?es, have been kidnapped by a marauding band of rebel guerrillas whorefuse to accept the defeat of the Confederacy. Aided by their uncle, they set out to rescue the f...
Keywords: ambush, based-on-novel, bayonet, beach, betrayal-by-a-friend, brawl, brother-brother-relationship, cavalry-charge, cavalry-saber, chain-gang