The firm sold off its stake in Fenway Group and its regional newspaper division earlier this year.
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It has shed its Hometown and Outlet stores, and plans to spin off a stake in its Canada division.
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Instead, the company is making a number of moves to boost shareholder value, among other things declaring an annual dividend of 50 cents a share, and opting to spin off its stake in its Covisint unit to holders following a pending IPO of that business.
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The company recently sold off a majority stake in its other best known business, the Rhapsody subscription music service.
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In October, he sold off a controlling stake in his flour milling company to Tiger Brands of South Africa.
But under pressure from Gordon Brown, backed by Mr Blair, she was forced to include the possibility of selling off a minority stake as one option in the review process.
French public-sector entities, with a 95% stake in Areva, have put off fully privatizing the investment.
However, it sold off its 30% stake in the ES-M-661 offshore block located in the Espirito Santo basin to Petrobras.
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That way you can sell off a majority ownership stake (at least 50%) while still maintaining control over the direction of the company.
But the figure was boosted by the one-off sale of its stake in its Japanese refining and chemicals business earlier this year and tax-related items, said the Texas-based group.
General Growth Properties will be of special interest today as Bruce Berkowitz of Fairholme Capital sold off some of its stake to Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE: BAM) in mid-January, according to SeekingAlpha.
The group recently sold off a 30% stake in one of its Greenland exploration licences to Norwegian group Statoil as part of a plan to bring in a partner to share the costs of exploration in the Arctic.
Malone told programmers that they were better off if TCI owned a stake.
That's the question at stake in a civil trial that kicked off Monday in Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland.
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Malone told programmers that they were better off if TCI owned a stake and was motivated to give them a good deal in paying them subscription fees.
But other analysts believe that Simon likely will hold off for now on raising its stake.
According to Cem Marti, an analyst at Ata Investment, the expansion also may help with government plans to sell off part of its 98% stake in the airline.
And then there are the Chinese companies that are not only offering financing for projects but are straight off giving the Kazakhs a 50% stake.
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General Electric has reported a 16% rise in first quarter profits, helped by a one-off gain from the sale of its stake in NBC Universal.
The company has been growing substantially and appears to be interested in acquiring a 33.3% stake in Galp, a Portuguese oil firm operating off the Brazilian coast.
The government owned airport management company, Infraero, will only be allowed a 49% stake in the new companies, to be auctioned off later this year on Aug. 22.
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There's too much at stake for you to be gambling on audiences and their off-the-cuff questions.
With a 5.6% stake, he'd still be a long way off, unless he's able to use his increasing influence to convince others to change their votes.
Lives are at stake when the fire department needs a utility to shut off power to a downed line and the police department to block traffic in the area.
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And whether or not NBC's licensing bet pays off, old media plants a massive victory stake in the ground, pushing aside technology's rightful role of connecting the world in shared moments, impervious to the sharpened sticks hurled by the digerati.
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Considering what is at stake, how much proof should be required before we rush off and destroy the economy of the world in order to save it?
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He also owns oil refineries in Morocco and Sweden and oil fields off west Africa as well as a 70% stake in the National Oil Company of Ethiopia.
The head of Icahn Enterprises has spent decades hunting for smug management teams, taking a stake in their companies, and then browbeating them into selling off assets, firing employees and whatever else it takes to jab a stock upward.
Ping An held close to a 5% stake in Fortis when it was dismantled and some its assets sold off by the Dutch and Belgian governments.
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