For example, late in 2012, it announced the acquisition of a majority stake in Chinese luxury jewelry brand, Qeelin, and last month announced it acquired a majority stake in the luxury designer brand, Christopher Kane.
It's a new role for China, as its growing economic might gives it a bigger stake in global affairs.
It already struck a deal for private equity firm General Atlantic to buy a 10% stake in it, and it is said to be exploring a stake sale to the Chicago Merc, though neither the NYMEX nor the CME would comment.
Picture Frame Innovations, for example, is a shell company armed with a patent that had once been held by IV, and though it is unclear if IV retained a stake in it, the shell has sued Eastman Kodak and Hewlett-Packard for infringement.
For legal control of a Japanese company, an acquirer generally needs to have at least a 34% stake (note that when Renault took over Nissan, it had a 37% stake, and when DaimlerChrysler got Mitsubishi Motors, it had 34%).
So it has a huge stake in making sure it does not reach that point.
Constellation was not named in the government suit but it says it has a vested stake in the deal, which it supports.
But no gold stock has traded quite like Gabriel Resources, a company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange that is trying to develop a gold mine in Romania in which it owns a majority stake.
ENI, and though it still has a controlling stake in the firm, it hopes to sell more shares soon.
Internal consolidation is another option: Bertelsmann is likely to buy out the rest of barnesandnoble.com, an online bookstore in which it has a 40% stake, and merge it with its wholly owned bol.com, which sells mainly in Europe.
Was Fenway's capital injection enough to give it a controlling stake in the company?
Ghosn's alma mater Renault owns 37% of Nissan, a stake it began buying up early in 1999.
On September 15th Baidu, China's largest search engine, announced plans to list the shares of Qunar, a popular Chinese travel search aggregator, in which it purchased a controlling stake in June.
This week a Dubai investment fund said it had taken a big stake in Sony, Japan's biggest electronics firm.
The power unions' proudest moment so far was wringing a ten-year moratorium on layoffs from Belgium's Tractebel in 2000 when it bought a stake in the Polaniec power plant.
Fortunately, the stimulus package passed stateside gave Ener1 new life and the company is producing batteries for everyone from the military for a hybrid Humvee to Japanese conglomerate Itochu as well as Think, in which it took a financial stake.
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Japan and Alibaba, a Chinese internet firm in which it has a 43% stake.
Vodafone Group PLC (VOD) : This U.K.-based mobile phone giant has some 340 million customers, and a presence Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the United States (where it has a sizeable stake in Verizon Wireless).
The deal left former parent Toronto-Dominion Bank with a 33% stake (it has since increased that to a predetermined maximum of 39.9%).
The deal left former parent Toronto-Dominion Bank (nyse: TD - news - people ) with a 33% stake (it has since increased that to a predetermined maximum of 39.9%).
Bumi had launched a probe into PT Bumi Resources in which it owns a 29% stake.
In 2007, it bought a 43% stake in white-spirit producer Sichuan Chengdu Qianxing, which it later hiked to 49%.
Besides its big presence in Europe, Vodafone also has a strong foothold in the U.S. where it has a 44% stake in wireless operator Verizon Wireless.
JPMorgan is absorbed with the integration of Bank One and says it is not in the frame of mind to do a large deal (though that hasn't stopped it from buying a big stake in a hedge fund and a London-based corporate broker).
When they tout an investment, be especially skeptical if they have a stake in it.
Cantu himself owns a stake in it and he's on its board of managers.
Would that put Warner in competition with the soon-to-launch MySpace Music--in which it owns a stake?
After all, transparency breeds trust, and that makes it a fundamental table stake today.
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Six years later it acquired a majority stake in Cifra, and in 2000 changed the name.
That would give the family a controlling stake but it's not the only offer.
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