The news prompted PrivCo, a research firm that provides financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies, to publish a report that declared Pipkin a billionaire.
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They run the gamut from government investment funds, state-owned companies and central banks to wealthy individuals like members of the Saudi royal family and even private companies owned by Arab potentates.
Huawei Technologies, founded in 1987 in Shenzhen, China, is a private company owned entirely by its employees.
Mr Paterson is accused of performing "cleavage-sparing" mastectomies at Solihull Hospital and two private hospitals owned by Spire Healthcare in Solihull and Little Aston, Staffordshire.
Whatever the cause, this "urbanization of poverty" has resulted in the large-scale erection of primitive forms of shelter, either on public land or on private land owned by absentee landlords.
Nancy Salzman, Raniere's business partner and NXIVM's president, is using the apartment, says one source, and two sources report that Salzman is flying around in a private jet owned by the sisters.
Dr. Hazlett points out that the ultimate sharing forum, the mobile Web (which enabled Web surfing from cellphones), had its first big success in Japan, on a private platform owned by NTT DoCoMo.
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The river has been open to the public as a navigable waterway for decades, though it was encased by private land owned by timber companies and covered by hunting club leases and posted against trespassing.
However, interestingly, there is no evidence that more private-equity-owned companies went bust in the great recession of 2008-9 than other kinds of firms - although there is plenty of evidence of private-equity-owned companies with large debts feeling very vulnerable.
About a fifth of Britain's private-sector employees work for heavily indebted companies owned by private-equity firms, notes Christopher Hall, a lawyer who sits on the EHYA's insolvency-reform committee.
Even the freeway privatization proposals of folks like Bob Poole typically involve private management of government-owned roads rather than full private ownership.
Many of these are held through partly owned private-equity partnerships, creating a web of astonishing complexity.
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This includes an extensive collection of company-owned private label brands, which offer value priced alternatives across numerous merchandise categories.
The earnings disclosure today is part of Huawei's ongoing commitment as a private employee-owned company to be more open and transparent with stakeholders.
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To see how this works, picture a pyramid at the top of which sits a private holding company owned by the patriarch and his family.
Jones Apparel competes with brands like Liz Claiborne and Phillips-Van Heusen, as well as department store mainstays such as Polo Ralph Lauren and store-owned private labels.
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That said, the amount of debt maturing for private-equity owned companies pales into insignificance compared with the debts of banks that have to be repaid or refinanced in 2012.
Running Starbucks as a wholly owned private company within Apple would make sense when one considers the 10.5% profit margins coupled with the synergy of distribution in BRIC countries.
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This isn't the first time a company has locked horns with the DTCC, the brokerage-owned private company that handles the bulk of the clearing and settlement in U.S. securities transactions.
Prosecutors said last month, in proceedings related by civil rights lawyer Khaled Abu Bakr, that Mubarak's businessman friend Hussein Salem got the right to export gas to Israel through a private company Salem owned.
More recently he has struck co-operation agreements with Macquarie, an Australian investment bank, and Bank of China. (In the interim, an attempt to buy Sarasin, a private Swiss bank owned by Rabobank of the Netherlands, came to nothing.) The aim is to have 50% of his business in emerging markets by 2015.
"Let me be very clear: My administration will not dictate security standards for private companies, " Obama told reporters, noting that the vast majority of American critical infrastructure is owned by the private sector.
Others are owned by private individuals and are often located on former cattle ranches.
But wage increases for managers at multinationals, private and state-owned companies have slowed or stalled.
In the battle of private insurers versus policyholder owned, the policyholders come out on top.
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Both private and state-owned firms are flush with cash, so their saving has risen sharply.
As more companies owned by private-equity firms go bust, the industry will have to admit its sins.
Most of these are at universities, though a handful are owned by private corporations, including Dow Chemical.
Although most of the economy is now private, state-owned firms still account for 60% of industrial output.
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