Sentence examples for a majority shareholding from inspiring English sources

The 67-year-old has agreed with his fellow shareholders a price at which he could take a majority shareholding if he can raise the necessary money.

McCann bought a majority shareholding in Celtic for £9.4 million.

The government has a majority shareholding in ORT, but Mr Berezovsky has been the main supplier of money and management.

Goddet's position was delicate: a majority shareholding in L'Auto, outside his control, had been sold to German businessmen with Nazi connections.

"This will increase the state's ownership in these banks and in some cases that may result in a majority shareholding," he said.

But it wasn't just any bank: it was RBS, which that very day had effectively been taken into public ownership, with taxpayers taking a majority shareholding.

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi said a big chunk of its majority shareholding in Unionbancal, a California bank holding company, would go on the block, though the Japanese bank would retain a controlling stake.

What he sought was a substantial, but not majority, shareholding in foreign-owned businesses, as was happening in other African countries at that time.

The Sunday Telegraph reported she did not declare her directorship and majority shareholding in a spice company.

He bought the club's majority shareholding with a view to passing it on to the Well Society and delivering a fan-owned club to the local community.

Former Rangers chairman Alastair Johnston has been highly critical of the club's previous owner Sir David Murray, claiming he ran the organisation as a "dictatorship" and sold his majority shareholding to Craig Whyte out of panic.