Sentence examples for assets were acquired. from inspiring English sources

In 2005, the company closed and its assets were acquired by plating service, Whyco Finishing Technologies.

The bulk of Washington Mutual's assets were acquired by JPMorgan Chase in a fire sale.

Its most valuable assets were acquired by Rosneft, in which the Russian state owns a majority stake.

The company went bankrupt in 2001, and its assets were acquired by the Concord Consortium, a nonprofit education and technology organization based in Massachusetts.

Three years after it started, though, the company had still not launched a product, and in 2004 its assets were acquired by Cisco in a fire-sale deal.

Its assets were acquired by Iridium Satellite LLC, which continued to provide worldwide communication service to the U.S. Department of Defense as well as business and individual users.

The Allied Waste assets being acquired represent $125 million in annual revenue, Waste Management said.

The other assets are acquired when the agency takes over pension funds.

Energy XXI is the operator of 94 percent of the assets being acquired.

Sidelined in the merger game since its failed bid for MCI Inc., Qwest Communications could end up acquiring assets, being acquired or standing alone in the fast-consolidating telecommunications industry.

Last month, Professor Chris Bones of Henley Business School told parliament that the UK government should be able to impose conditions when a company with strategically important assets was acquired.