"There's no incentive for them to take stock that is essentially worthless while the U.A.W., for a much smaller claim, gets a much more significant stake in the company".
A more significant problem is saturation.
(See "Will Wright: Games Invade The Real World").. "The venture with EA appears to give Wright a much more significant economic stake in his future game designs, as as well as more creative control," Cowen and Company analysts Doug Creutz and Adam Nolly wrote in a note to investors on Wednesday.
Foreign oil companies have been trying for more than a decade to gain a significant stake in the Russian oil sector.
More likely his fund, which Thomson Reuters data shows has disclosed stakes in Wal-Mart, PepsiCo, General Electric, and more than 160 other companies, saw an opportunity to build a significant stake in an unusual business.
I.S.S. has proposed that an investor who has held a significant stake in a company for at least a year should be allowed to nominate one or more directors.
But a host of studies show that workers at firms where employees have a significant stake tend to be more productive and innovative, to retain staff better and to fire them less readily.
I used my usual technique: "Deal!" But the end results: in one case thestreet.com had a significant stake so that gave them more psychological stake.
Japan has got a significant stake.... Russia has a stake.
US investment group Franklin Templeton, Cadbury's largest shareholder with more than 8%, remained silent, as did Nelson Peltz's influential activist fund Trian, the holder of a 1.8% stake in Cadbury as well as a significant stake in Kraft.
Nimeiry offered him a significant stake if he would set up a national oil company and get things moving.
