It also has a major stake in American Express, which has sizable insurance operations.
This has left it with a major stake in the old order and in preserving a hold on power.
The merger was first announced in November by private equity mining giant, Pallinghurst, which owned a major stake in both companies.
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The company already has a major stake in the digital video industry, given that its Flash technology powers a growing percentage of the Web's video.
Mr Lebedev owns Britain's Independent and Evening Standard newspapers, holds a major stake in the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and is the largest private shareholder in the Russian airline Aeroflot.
Navalny then noted that the governor of the Krasnodar region, where Sochi is, had a twenty-two-year-old niece who had somehow come to own a major stake in a multimillion-dollar pipe factory, a poultry plant, and a number of other businesses.
The Government Accountability Office reports that those federal dollars were dispensed in the course of bypassing normal administrative protocols, which is all the more suspicious given that a major Democratic donor, George Kaiser, had a major stake in the firm.
The New York-based company also disclosed that Elliott Associates LP and one of its affiliates plan to ask federal regulators for permission to buy a major stake in the company and may seek board seats at the annual meeting in May.
Even though the Australian press was able to sketch his background 18 months ago (borrowing on some Wall Street Journal reporting), Liu acquired a major stake in two overseas Aussie ventures, Sundance Resources and Moly Mines, and this week turned out not well for all of them.
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One of the things that made the US program so successful, and what I expect to drive the continued success of PepsiCo10 in Europe, is a clear sense of shared purpose: both PepsiCo and our partner companies have a major stake in understanding the potential of technology to transform consumer behavior and engagement.
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That would be the first major foreign stake in a Singapore bank since ownership limits were loosened in May.
The company also boosted its stake in major investments American Express Co.
But any athlete whose agent gets them an equity stake in a major shoe company should never consider leaving that agent ever.
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Getco says its proposal will leave no individual shareholder with more than a 20% stake and no major institutional holder with more than 10%.
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At home you are competing only against your opponent with nothing or very little at stake but at a major tournament you are competing against your nerves, pressure and a highly skilled opponent which has made many a gamer let the whole event get the better of him or her.
New funding is being sought after a major investor announced plans to reduce its stake in the project.
The stake sale would be a major reprieve for Kingfisher which has been in what seemed like a death spiral.
The lesson here is to establish a presence on the major social networks, if only to stake claim to your name and reputation.
The company has signed a major deal with Rosneft to sell its stake in TNK-BP, ending the troubled relationship with its Russian partners in the joint venture.
Anglo American is the natural home for our stake as they have been major shareholders in De Beers since 1926 and have a deep knowledge of the diamond business.
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New funding is being sought for a wind farm scheme off the coast of Aberdeen, opposed by Donald Trump, after a major investor announced plans to reduce its stake in the project.
The two other major parties also have a huge amount at stake.
As a result, shareholders have been calling for a major shake-up in the management or a stake sale to unlock potential value for themselves.
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Up until early 2004, he also held an option on a 0.5% stake in OAO Sibneft, then a major Russian oil company, say people familiar with his finances.
It also finds the threat of ballistic missile attack can be a major deterrent to Western intervention when national interests are at stake.
Including the stake in Bertelsmann, GBL currently has five major investments.
The activist hedge fund last year revealed that it was a major shareholder (eventually taking a 9.6% stake) and immediately began to cajole BMC to consider alternatives, including selling itself.
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Major shareholder Antonio Caliendo and his backers have agreed to sell their stake in the club - but Briatore insists he will not be held to ransom.
Under its agreement with Rio, Mongolia has a 34% stake in the mine and the project is already a major jobs provider, with 13, 000 workers of whom 87% are Mongolians.
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