Sentence examples for acquires a majority from inspiring English sources

24-7 will continue to be run independently after Metro acquires "a majority stake," Mr. Taubert said by telephone.

Imagine instead that the government acquires a majority interest in — or perhaps 100percentt of — a bank, wipes out the existing shareholders and installs new managers.

A year later, it acquired a majority stake in Chrysler from Daimler in a bold move to turn around the carmaker.

In 2008, Blackstone acquired a majority of the company.

In 1999, Madison Dearborn Partners of Chicago acquired a majority interest in the chain.

Last year, Richard Branson, chairman of the Virgin Group, acquired a majority stake in the company, formerly called CircleLending.

At the time, Bertelsmann owned Bantam Books, in which it had acquired a majority interest in 1977.

In 2007, NTT Data acquired a majority stake in Vertex Software, an Indian company.

In 1997, it acquired a majority stake in a maker of injection-molded polypropylene panels.

But conversations resumed after Comcast acquired a majority stake in NBCUniversal in early 2011.

Last month, it agreed to acquire a majority stake in Sunoco's large Philadelphia refinery.