Trust, transparency, social media and buyer control have fundamentally changed marketing and sales.

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With the buyer in control of the purchase process, focusing on leads is like trying to implement new management rules with New York cabbies in a snow storm.

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The rationale for the 47% discount is that an outside buyer of limited partnership shares can't control the partnership's management or force it to liquidate, and so wouldn't pay full value for the assets (FORBES, Apr. 17).

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Any buyer would need to have the cooperation of the Ford family in order to secure the complete control necessary for a private equity turnaround, notes KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst Brett Hoselton.

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Ian Shaw, from Forestry Commission Wales, said it was "extremely unlikely" any buyer would be able to develop the site later as the commission would retain some degree of control over its future.

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Andronikou was appointed on 26 February with the aim of cutting costs and finding a buyer for the Hampshire team, currently owned by Hong Kong businessman Balram Chainrai, who took control in early February.

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Since, in most states, the limited partners can't control the portfolio's management or force the partnership's dissolution, an unrelated buyer would demand a discount from the underlying value.

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