The recent trend toward hybrids like Facebook, Google, and Alibaba suggests that many leaders appreciate the importance of retaining control through dual-class shares, even as they open the doors to outside shareholders and the capital they have.
Brent Laing and Jennifer Jones played a back-and-forth game with Torger Nergård and Carmen Küng, but retained control through most of the game and came out with the victory after Küng's last shot left Team North America having shot stone, effectively giving Laing and Jones the win.
A pact scheduled to expire in 2014 made Nestlé a sleeping shareholder, owning 29.7 percent of the firm, and allowed the Bettencourts, with their 30.9 percent, to retain control of L'Oréal through a holding company, Téthys.
Under the US listing the family will retain control of the club through class B shares that have 10 times more voting power than the publicly-traded class A shares.
Mr. Kapell argues that Greenport must retain control of its economic destiny, through whatever resources it can muster, to stave off commercialization and homogenization, which he thinks would be disastrous.
While the British-American plan for Iraq would remove any remaining restrictions on trade in consumer goods and material for rebuilding public services, it would retain control of Iraqi oil profits through United Nations-administered escrow accounts.
The potential deal with Cablevision fell through because Wilpon decided he wanted to retain control of the club and eventually turn it over to his son, Jeff.
It remains to be seen whether Mr. Kluge, who controls Metromedia through the Metromedia Company, an investment concern, will be able to retain control.
He resolved to retain control of Facebook.
