Sentence examples for before selling it for from inspiring English sources
Most recently the corporation bought the 108-year-old spentcor House for $75,0000 and spento$75,000 to restore its exterior before selling it for $265,000.
An angry John Caudwell, the flamboyant billionaire entrepreneur who founded the business in 1987, before selling it for £1.5 billion in 2006, blames Vodafone and EE.
The new administrator would have a role in investigating the conduct of BHS's former directors, including under Green, who controlled the company for 15 years before selling it for £1 last year to Dominic Chappell, a former bankrupt.
The entrepreneur, who set up the operation in the 1980s before selling it for £1.5 billion in 2006, said he could "guarantee" mobile handset prices would rise rapidly as a result, as administrators began talks on whether any Phones 4u stores can re-open.
Critics suggested that while Mr. Silverman was being paid as an executive, it looked as if he was in a position to help build up his company before selling it for an estimated $200 million to Elisabeth Murdoch, the daughter of Rupert Murdoch of the News Corporation.
Within a week they received multiple bids before selling it for $1,250,000.
Expanding the family's wealth, Yichang purchased mortgages on other peasants' land, thus becoming their landlord, while also purchasing the grain from the poorest farmers in the village before selling it on for a profit at the county seat of Xiangtan.
In 1997, it purchased Snapple, the beverage company famous for its under-the-lid facts, for about $300 million, before selling it in 2000 for $1.5 billion.
In 1997 he famously bought Snapple, the drinks company with the pleasingly taught lids, for about $300 million, before selling it in 2000 for around $1.5 billion.
Viagogo is the brainchild of American tech guru Eric Baker, 43, who also co-founded ticketing website StubHub before selling it to eBay for $310m in a deal believed to have made him more than $30m.
There he met Peter Long, now chief executive of rival group Tui Travel, and the two set up Sunworld in partnership with Spanish hoteliers before selling it to Thomas Cook for £40m.
