Sentence examples for initially owned from inspiring English sources

The Ctrip partners initially owned 55% of Home Inns, with a state-owned hotel-management outfit in Beijing holding 45%.

Initially owned by the government, it opened its first domestic routes in 1951.

It swiftly became Techtronic (2000), the entity that initially owned MG Rover and its associated assets.

The bank was created in 1983 by an act of the government, which initially owned 25 percent of its shares.

The school initially owned more than 10 percent of the company, but declined to participate in later financing rounds.

Hitachi initially owned 70 percent of the company but took full control in 2005, following structured payments over the intervening three years of about $2 billion for IBM's HDD patents and associated manufacturing facilities in San Jose.

Vestas and Mitsubishi will initially own equal stakes in the business, but Mitsubishi will have the right to increase its stake to 51 percent beginning in 2016.

The tie between Alkermes and Zohydro had not drawn attention because the company did not initially own the drug, nor was it apparently involved in the efforts to get it approved in the United States.

It will initially be owned by Prudent, with Gills having an option to buy it later.

For example, the New College of the Humanities will not initially have its own degree awarding powers.

He initially denied owning two apartments and a villa in Florida, saying they belonged to his son.