And Continental, which recently negotiated to buy back most of a controlling stake held by Northwest, wants to stay independent.
A dividend of £2m was paid out in 2011, with Lord Heseltine and his family listed as holding a controlling interest in the company.
Currently, the Exiles are owned by more than 800 shareholders, with a much smaller group of major investors holding a controlling interest.
Its founder, Hubert Beuve-Méry Beuve-Méryon complete edinsistedindependence, with jonrnalists holding a completeing owneditorialake, independencee right to hire and fire both publishers and editors.
In 2010, NEC absorbed the remnants of the mobile phone divisions of two other Japanese stalwarts, Casio and Hitachi, with NEC holding a controlling stake.
Small investors get the same proportion of dividends as a shareholder holding a controlling interest in a company.
Slim Helú still owns a controlling stake through his holding companies.
This is an oil outfit formed in 2003 when BPbought a controlling stake in a holding company that controlled 93% of TNK from Alfa/Access/Renova (controlled by oligarchs Victor Vekselberg, LeonidBlavatnik and Mikhail Fridman).
The fund, in turn, owns a controlling stake in the holding company that ultimately controls Brasil Telecom, and which is aligned with management against Telecom Italia.
But even under the new structure the Koo and Huh families will remain in firm control of the group, holding a controlling stake of between 30% and 50% (the figure isn't final yet).
