Sentence examples for increasing its stake from inspiring English sources

The AT&T Wireless Group said yesterday that it was increasing its stake in Rogers Wireless Communications, one of Canada's largest mobile phone operators.

In the wake of Telecom Italia's mounting financial problems, Telefónica announced this month that it was increasing its stake in the indebted company.

Spain's Telefónica announced last month that it was increasing its stake in Telecom Italia, which owns the Brazilian cellphone operator TIM, to 66 percent, from 46 percent.

Rio Tinto announced it is increasing its stake in Ivanhoe Mines from 7.3% to 29.6%.

For about three years it had been steadily increasing its stake in VW, a much larger yet less profitable carmaker with which it shares a little production.

Fraser & Neave announced on Monday that Thai Beverage was increasing its stake to 26.2 percent, making it the company's largest shareholder and putting Thai Beverage in a strong position to dictate whether Fraser & Neave shareholders support Heineken's takeover offer.

Acciona said it did not plan to make a takeover bid, but it did not rule out increasing its stake.

Tencent said that under the agreement with Sohu.com, it had the option of increasing its stake in Sogou to "approximately 40 percent".

Last year, it expanded into ports by increasing its stake in China-based Changshu Xinghua Port, a major port operator in Eastern and Central China.

HSBC has said that it would be interested in increasing its stake but has been held back by Chinese regulations that cap foreign ownership of a domestic bank at just under 20.0%.

A statement from Grandtop to the Stock Exchange read: "The Premier League has confirmed to Grandtop that it has no objection to Grandtop increasing its stake in Birmingham City PLC to over 30%.