Sentence examples for acquire stakes from inspiring English sources

Sometimes it is, but mostly it is a purely financial flow that arises when foreign companies acquire stakes in domestic firms.

In essence, the Bouygues' financial cunning enabled the family to acquire stakes in companies that arguably should have been entirely in the hands of Bouygues SA.

Administration officials said the government could acquire stakes in the form of common stock, preferred shares paying a specific dividend or some other form of equity.

India's biggest government-owned refiner, the Indian Oil Corporation, will bid to acquire stakes in BP's retail businesses in Malaysia and Singapore, Indian Oil's chairman, M.S. Ramachandran, said.

There is even talk of creating a generously funded agency to acquire stakes in non-Chinese producers, possibly using the country's vast foreign-exchange reserves (at $1 trillion, the world's largest after China's).

So Mr. Hayward turned to Nathaniel Rothschild, of the great European banking family, who had established a company, now called Bumi, to acquire stakes in Indonesian coal mines and place them under a listing on the London stock market.

Until 2009, for example, foreign banks are restricted from acquiring stakes in Indian banks.

Two other activist investors, Nelson Peltz and Mick McGuire, have also acquired stakes in the company.

Last year, WPP acquired stakes in two other South Korean agencies, AD Venture Worldwide and Synergy Communications.

G.M. owns Saab and has acquired stakes in Isuzu, Suzuki, Fiat and Fuji, the parent of Subaru.

For at least a decade, global funds acquired stakes in Chinese start-ups.