After four years of fighting, he offered to sell his shares to Stafford and in November 1961, Smythe sold 45,000 of his 50,000 shares in Maple Leaf Gardens Ltd. to a partnership of his son, Ballard, and Bassett for $2.3 million—a handsome return on his investment of 34 years earlier.
This rehab effort wouldn't have been material for ExxonMobil, but it's made a handsome return for Wapiti's majority owner Richard Agee.
Pets at Home, a purveyor of dog toys which three private-equity funds have chewed over in a decade, will deliver a handsome return for KKR if a proposed flotation goes ahead this year, for instance.Many private-equiteers worry, however, about earning a reputation as repeat buyers, particularly in Europe.
The transaction represented a handsome return for Cerberus, the private equity fund.
We know from vast experience exactly which measures reduce smoking, and it pays for itself, and in fact has a handsome return on investment.
Buoyed by a Blair Witch-y viral marketing campaign, Unfriended has cleverly (cynically?) connected with web-savvy teens, scaring up a $16m US opening weekend – a handsome return on a movie made for a mere $1m.
Even allowing a good measure of deductions for operating costs leaves a risk-tolerant landlord with a handsome return.
Making a handsome return on BGI was far easier for Diamond than it was for regular Barclays investors stuck with the whole company.
Meeting those prices, Attachmate could make a handsome return.
That will provide a handsome return to buyers of long- term noncallable bonds, like U.S. Treasurys.
