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Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham, with a population of 300,848, although... Stoke-on-Trent, Leicester and Nottingham have larger urban areas. The population of Coventry had risen to 315,800 as of 2010, according to the Office of National Statistics. Historically within Warwickshire, Coventry is situated 95 miles northwest of central London and 19 miles east-southeast of Birmingham, and is further from the coast than any other city in Britain. Although harbouring a population of almost a third of a million inhabitants, Coventry is not amongst the English Core Cities Group due to its proximity to Birmingham. Coventry was the world's first twin city when it formed a twinning relationship with the Russian city of Stalingrad during World War II. The relationship developed through ordinary people in Coventry who wanted to show their support for the Soviet Red Army during the Battle of Stalingrad.
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E.ON AG, marketed with an interpunct as E•ON, is the holding company of the world's largest investor-owned electric utility service provider based in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The name comes from the Greek word aeon which means eternity. It operates in over 30 countries and serves over 26 million customers. It is one of the 30 members of the DAX stock index of major German companies and a member of the Global... Titans 50 index. Its chief executive officer is Johannes Teyssen. The company came into existence in 2000 through the merger of energy companies VEBA and VIAG. In the UK, Powergen was eventually taken over itself by E.ON, an acquisition which was completed in January 2002. In 2003 E.ON entered the gas market through the acquisition of Ruhrgas . E.ON Ruhrgas is represented in more than 20 countries in Europe. E.ON has acquired Sydkraft in Sweden, OGK-4 in Russia and Powergen in the United Kingdom. Sydkraft and Powergen have now been rebranded to E.ON Sverige and E.ON UK respectively. In the United States, E.ON inherited Louisville, Kentucky-based LG&E Energy, via the acquisition of Powergen, and operated it as E.
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