Company legal forms can be processed to standardise the way that they are written
Do not strip out the company legal type indicator without noting where is belongs in the company name string, as it may be written in different places in different languages and company names, and needs to be put back in the correct position for use.
Resources
Legal Forms from Hell Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen looks at the effect company legal forms have on data matching, October 2010. (Cached version)
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