Alfa
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Alfa may refer to:
  • A grass also called esparto
    Esparto
    Esparto, or esparto grass, also known as "halfah grass" or "needle grass", Macrochloa tenacissima and Stipa tenacissima, is a perennial grass grown in northwest Africa and the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula employed for crafts .-Esparto paper:It is also used for fiber production for paper...

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  • ALFA (rowing), an international indoor rowing competition in Estonia
  • Alfa (Lebanon)
    Alfa (Lebanon)
    Alfa is one of the two operating GSM networks in Lebanon, side by side with MTC Touch.-Overview:Mobile Interim Company 1 MIC 1 is the company that manages the alfa network on behalf of the Ministry of Telecommunications in the Republic Of Lebanon .alfa is the brand name of the network owned by...

    , a Lebanese telecom company
  • ALFA (Mexico)
    ALFA (Mexico)
    ALFA is a Mexican conglomerate composed of four business groups: Alpek , Nemak , Sigma Alimentos and Alestra ....

    , a Mexican industrial conglomerate
  • Alfa (title)
    Alfa (title)
    Alfa is a title given to distinguished figures in Guinea, particularly in the Kankan Region. It has become known in Guinea as a title of respect, especially amongst the Maninka and Fulbé and is commonly given to scholars and learned and religious military leaders....

    , a title in Guinea
  • Alfa (rocket)
    Alfa (rocket)
    Alfa was the designation of an Italian solid propellant SLBM program. Starting as a development effort for a study on efficient solid-propellant rockets, the Alfa rocket was planned as two-stage rocket...

    , the designation of an Italian program for the development of efficient solid-propellant rockets
  • Alfa Aesar
    Alfa Aesar
    Alfa Aesar, headquartered in Ward Hill, Massachusetts, is a supplier of reagents and materials for use in research and development, and analysis. They have facilities in many countries and manufacture many of the chemicals they sell...

    , a Chemical catalogue company owned by Johnson Matthey, who originally traded elements under the Alfa label.
  • Alfa-Bank, the Alfa Group corporate treasury, the largest private commercial bank in Russia
  • Alfa Brewery
    Alfa Brewery
    Alfa Brewery is a family-owned independent brewery located in Schinnen, the Netherlands. Alfa was started in 1870 by Joseph Meens and is one of the few independent breweries left in the Province of Limburg.-Availability:...

    , a family owned independent brewery located in the Netherlands.
  • Alfa Cable Television
    Alfa Cable Television
    Alfa Cable is a cable television company in Tirana, Albania, offering many popular international channels from Western Europe and the Balkan.In 2006, Alfa Cable started to offer cable Internet and VoIP telephony. An interesting fact is that all the internet subscribers have the same IP to the...

    , a cable television company in Tirana, Albania
  • Alfa Group
    Alfa Group
    Alfa Group Consortium is one of Russia's largest privately owned investment groups, with interests in oil and gas, commercial and investment banking, asset management, insurance, retail trade, telecommunications, water utilities and special situation investments...

     Consortium, one of Russia's largest privately owned financial-industrial conglomerates
  • Alfa class submarine
    Alfa class submarine
    The Soviet Union/Russian Navy Project 705 was a class of hunter/killer nuclear powered submarines. The class is also known by the NATO reporting name of Alfa...

    , NATO reporting name for Soviet Union/Russian Navy Project 705 submarine class of hunter/killer nuclear powered vessels
  • Alfa Laval
    Alfa Laval
    Alfa Laval AB is a Swedish company, founded in 1883 by Gustaf de Laval and Oscar Lamm. The company is a leading producer of specialized products and solutions used to heat, cool, separate and transport such products as oil, water, chemicals, beverages, foodstuffs, starch and...

     AB, a Swedish company,
  • Alfa Matrix
    Alfa Matrix
    Alfa Matrix is a Belgian record label. Founded in 2001, the label releases various musical styles including aggrotech, dark elektro, synthpop and electronica....

    , a Belgian record label.
  • Alfa Pendular
    Alfa Pendular
    Alfa Pendular is the name of the Pendolino high-speed tilting train of Portuguese state railway company CP. It connects the cities of Braga, Porto, Aveiro, Coimbra, Santarém, Lisbon, Albufeira and Faro, among others at speeds of up to ....

    , the pendolino high-speed train of Portuguese state railway company CP
  • Alfa Retailindo, a retail company from Indonesia, partially owned by Carrefour
    Carrefour
    Carrefour S.A. is an international hypermarket chain headquartered in Levallois-Perret, France. It is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world...

  • Alfa Romeo
    Alfa Romeo
    Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of cars. Founded as A.L.F.A. on June 24, 1910, in Milan, the company has been involved in car racing since 1911, and has a reputation for building expensive sports cars...

    , an Italian automobile manufacturer
  • Alfa TV
    Alfa TV
    Alfa TV is a premium television service available in Cyprus, that broadcasts Sports and children's programming as well as the odd film. It is owned by Alfa TV Ltd. and it launched in 1998...

    , a premium television service available in Cyprus
  • Isaac Alfa
    Isaac Alfa
    Air Marshal Isaac Mohammed Alfa is a retired Nigerian Air Force officer and former Chief of the Air Staff. He now aspires to a political role and in 2003 he contested the governorship of Kogi State....

    , a retired Nigerian Air Force officer
  • The usual spelling for the code word for the letter "A" in the NATO phonetic alphabet.


See also:
  • Alpha
    Alpha
    Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. Alpha or ALPHA may also refer to:-Science:*Alpha , the highest ranking individuals in a community of social animals...

  • Alfalfa
    Alfalfa
    Alfalfa is a flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae cultivated as an important forage crop in the US, Canada, Argentina, France, Australia, the Middle East, South Africa, and many other countries. It is known as lucerne in the UK, France, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, and known as...

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