Gary Friedman has already announced a new venture in which Restoration Hardware will be taking a minority interest.
Just as Tiger Woods had a major impact on increasing minority interest and viewership of golf, Albert Pujols may have similar converting abilities.
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The Ruias, too, have not gone unscathed given their minority interest in Loop Telecom, a rival mobile phone operator, that is also under the CBI scanner.
Since buying a minority interest in SEM in 2005, Cat has been working to upgrade the quality and durability of SEM machines, while sharing its prowess in manufacturing, safety and dealer service.
"We regret that Craigslist felt compelled to resort to unfounded and unsubstantiated claims in order to divert attention from actions by Craigslist's board that unfairly diluted our minority interest, " eBay spokeswoman Kim Rubey said in a statement.
Initially the service was a minority interest, with just a handful of Ceefax-capable TVs in the UK, but it slowly started to gain popularity and the engineering team that developed the service was honoured with a Queen's Award for innovation.
The Staples Center in Los Angeles, which opened in 1999 and is home to basketball's Lakers and Clippers and hockey's Kings, for instance, is controlled by billionaire Philip Anschutz, who owns the Kings and has a minority interest in the Lakers.
Thus without minority fan interest, a chicken and egg dilemma arises in which there is little incentive and high risk for ownership, and subsequently sponsors to invest into minority drivers.
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Under these conditions, equity is overpriced relative to a valuation which fully accounts for the conflicts of interest between minority and majority investors.
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One problem, as recent fan demographics of the league show, is that there are is low existing interest levels from minority communities: approximately 8.6% of NASCAR fans are African-American while 8.3% are Hispanic.
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There's also no limit to the amount that minority owners can borrow against their interest in the team.
To get there, we had to overcome the furious lobbying of an array of powerful interest groups and a partisan minority determined to block change.
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Waters is accused of improperly seeking federal assistance in 2008 for OneUnited Bank, a minority-owned bank in which her husband held a financial interest.
In Holland last year, the Dutch government effectively expelled anti-Islamist politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali in the interest of currying favor with Holland's restive Muslim minority.
Another possibility would be to gauge the interest of former Mets players to see if there is any desire in becoming minority owners in the ball club.
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As Catherine Trautmann explained last year, when she was culture minister, it was in France's interest to ratify the Council of Europe's charter that protects regional and minority languages.
Many believe the Wilpons have been offering up a minority share in the Mets for awhile now, quietly canvassing friends and high net worth individuals to gauge interest.
That is still a minority view, but financial markets clearly expect things to get at least bad enough for the Fed to start cutting interest rates soon.
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