Kamprad's spirit will surely continue to hang over the firm.
Then, last February, Comcast pushed in and tried to take over the firm.
But that changed after JPMorgan took over the firm in 2008.
Bruce Wasserstein will oversee distribution of equity when he takes over the firm in January.
This may create an opportunity for a potential acquirer to take over the firm at a profit.
Since 1997, however, when Bouvier took over the firm from his father, it has handled only paintings and sculpture.
Microsoft made repeated, aggressive attempts to take over the firm in 2008 and 2009, but somehow Yahoo survived.
It's never been about money for me, so Louise took over the firm and I became an MP".
An untersturmführer in the Waffen-SS, Mr. Oetker took over the firm in 1944 from his stepfather, a committed Nazi.
But after the construction phase is over, the firm will employ only 700 people in a town of 250,000 where unemployment is practically universal.
STAR TRADER CALLS IT QUITS | Greg Coffey, a hedge fund manager at Moore Capital, was once thought to be the heir apparent to take over the firm.
