The central bank also operates indirectly: it joined other public-sector do-gooders by taking a 5% shareholding in Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, a heavily loss-making encyclopedia publisher, in 1995.
The idea is to take a shareholding stake of nearly 10% in the Bank of England.
Fry's remark will be interpreted as a suggestion that Virgin may be considering taking a shareholding in the team in the future.
The report proposes that Scotland should have a shareholding in the Bank of England, based on its population share of nearly 10%.
"If it was a takeover or a shareholding by Harlequins in the Broncos, I would be concerned, but it's not, " he said.
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This new shareholding majority comprises a rich and flourishing taxonomy of investors: income turtles, value fish, growth hounds, short worms, hedge caterpillars, option rabbits, day-trading bumblebees, and so on.
McGruther concluded that the club were "hopelessly insolvent" and said Massone must sell his shareholding to allow a full takeover that would enable the club to survive.
The spokesman said Prof Clement, who is now the university's president, has a shareholding worth less than 5% in CyDen Ltd and is the firm's vice chairman.
Some form of equity issue is likely in the form of depositary receipts, because Yuksi wants to broaden a shareholding base that will be narrow at first.
The founding family's controlling shareholding, and a blocking stake held by the state of Lower Saxony, where VW is headquartered, allow it to resist short-term pressures to pull out of any market that turns difficult.
The main pilots' union has called a 15-day strike from June 1st to protest against plans to dock their pay by 15% in exchange for a shareholding in Air France when the state-owned airline is privatised.
And he drew a parallel with the situation at McLaren in the early 1980s, when wealthy Saudi businessman Mansour Ojjeh bought a shareholding in the team and enabled it to grow quickly into the dominant force in F1.
Gold and Sullivan wanted to take a substantial shareholding in West Ham, and were reportedly ready to give manager Gianfranco Zola a transfer fund in January.
To protect Pearson's interests as a minority shareholder, if Bertelsmann declines a Pearson offer to sell its entire shareholding, Pearson may require a recapitalisation by which Penguin Random House raises debt of up to 3.5x EBITDA, with a dividend distributed to shareholders in line with their ownership.
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If Usmanov reaches a 30% shareholding, he will have to disclose whether he intends to make a bid for the club.
The clubs want a 50% shareholding in the Heineken Cup and claim the RFU has gone back on a deal struck last October.
Matsushita Communication, the world's fourth-biggest mobile-phone maker, announced that it was taking a 9% shareholding in Symbian, an 11-month-old software joint venture fostered by Psion, a small but pioneering British company that makes handheld computers.
It has been slow to restructure, partly because a large shareholding by the Bavarian state shields it from unwanted takeover bids.
Under the terms of the deal, agreed on Tuesday, the Allams will have a majority shareholding in both the club and the KC Stadium management company.
But American politicians are bound to kick up a stink about any contract going to a firm that has even a vestigial shareholding by foreign governments, albeit allies.
"I am delighted to announce the proposed disposal of a significant shareholding in Cairn India in line with our objective of adding and realising value for shareholders, " said Sir Bill Gammell, Cairn's chief executive.
The other thing that interests here is that the two people who we know turned Autonomy down were two companies where the founder still has a considerable shareholding and is also CEO (or at least an executive chairman).
Nevertheless, any likely penalties may not be enough to make much of a dent in Menatep's shareholding in Yukos unless the value of this were to fall a lot further.
With a 51% shareholding, SAIC will have the right to approve budgets and senior appointments.
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"Japanese banks and others are unwinding their cross-shareholding of keiretsu groups at a savage pace, " says C.
In London he rose to deputy chief executive and helped to lead the exchange's demutualization, transforming the member-owned organization into a listed, shareholding company.
With a 17% shareholding, the United States could block the sale.
Beijing-based Air China has a cross-shareholding agreement with Cathay Pacific.
His company Marussia Motors has acquired an undisclosed shareholding in the team with a view to furthering Russian involvement in F1 ahead of the Russian Grand Prix, which is due to make its bow on the calendar in 2014.
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