Sentence examples for a big shareholding from inspiring English sources
An activist fund with a big shareholding in a company may find there are regulations barring the sale of its stake during a takeover battle, for example.
PetroChina, China's largest energy company, will pay $1 billion for the 45% stake in Singapore Petroleum held by Keppel Corp, a conglomerate in which Temasek, Singapore's state investment fund, owns a big shareholding.
Episode Seven is the jewel in the acquisition crown: Disney has bought George Lucas's production behemoth LucasFilm for $4.02bn£2.5bnbn): George Lucas gets a head-spinning payday and a big shareholding in Disney, and Disney itself gets the rights to the still-far-from-exhausted franchise goldmines such as Star Wars and Indiana Jones.
He has a big shareholding in Meridiana, the biggest private airline in Italy, but is likely to gradually divest his holding.
"Building a business one step at a time might take longer but you have a higher chance of success, retain a bigger shareholding and stand to make more money".
France, which controlled 15% of EADS directly, was unhappy with German demands for the business to have its headquarters in Munich, while Germany was concerned that France could end up with a bigger shareholding in the new business than the 9% it was seeking.
The same potential conflict of interest is raised by the central bank's big shareholding in INA, an insurance company.
And of course Vale's big shareholding in Norsk will give it continuing exposure to aluminium for the time being.
The merger creates the world's biggest airline by revenues.Bill's to payBill Gates, founder and chairman of Microsoft, the world's biggest software firm, decided to settle rather than fight charges brought by regulators for his allegedly failing to inform them of big shareholdings in a rubbish company and a drug firm acquired by a private-investment fund.
Mr Ecclestone remains F1's chief executive and retains a large shareholding in the sport.
He is presiding over the reduction of Deutsche's big shareholdings in German firms, stakes that are the hallmark of that country's approach to capitalism.
