The book not only gives witness to the company's desperate, and ultimately unsuccessful, efforts to prop up grizzled old G.I. Joe but also presents other milestones: Hasbro's purchase of powerhouses like Kenner, the company's painful downsizing, the auto-da-fe of a $45 million virtual-reality game and the fruition of deals with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.
In 2006, the family purchased British soccer powerhouse Manchester United for $1.4 billion in a controversial deal.
While the company isn't giving too many details away about the future plans for its most recent purchase, the Swedish streaming powerhouse explained some of the ways in which Sonalytic's technology could be useful.
Credit Suisse of Switzerland sought to become a universal banking powerhouse with its purchase of the United States investment bank Donaldson , Lufkin & Jenrettein 2000, only to see the merger sour.
The conventional wisdom is that Toyota hopes to create a financial services empire a la General Motors Acceptance Corporation, the arm of G.M. that extends well past financing car purchases, or General Electric's profitable powerhouse, GE Capital.
Anheuser-Busch, the self-titled "King of Beers" and maker of Budweiser, became an even bigger powerhouse after being purchased by Belgian-based InBev last year.
We think those problems are now ancient history, and the investor skittishness provides an opportunity to purchase a media and entertainment powerhouse at a very attractive price.
After the purchase in 2005 of card powerhouse MBNA, Bank of America became the largest card issuer (debit and credit) in the U.S. and Europe, says the Nilson Report, with $152 billion of balances.
On top of that, MySpace was purchased by News Corporation, a powerhouse media company, and was given professional managers to help guide its future as well as all the resources it ever wanted to support its growth.
But those walls will soon come down because the property has been purchased by an Asian gaming powerhouse — one indication that Las Vegas' devastated economy is on the mend.
