Sentence examples for shareholding to from inspiring English sources

At present, Craig Whyte is the majority Rangers shareholder after Sir David Murray sold his shareholding to the Motherwell businessman for £1 in May 2011.

Gennady Timchenko, one of Mr Putin's allies, increased his shareholding to 23% in 2009.

"Following his appointment, the process began to transfer Alastair's shareholding to me as his former co-director.

Sulaiman al-Fahim has resigned as non-executive chairman and will give his 10% shareholding to the Pompey supporters trust.

Fosun, a Chinese conglomerate, bought a 5% stake in Thomas Cook earlier this month for £91.9m and said it intended to boost its shareholding to 10% in future.

Most of the shares are understood to have come from the Capital Group of Companies, which sold down its shareholding to 12.7% from almost 14%.

The pair sold down their shareholdings to receive about £80m.

In theory, companies will be free to put capital now tied up in shareholdings to better use.

At Bestinvest, Jason Hollands says: "[Barnett] has a lot of similar shareholdings to Woodford and is a safe pair of hands".

The banks must also reduce their shareholdings to no more than 100percentt of their core capital, from the current 140percentto150percentcent.

But as friendly firms themselves face financial pressure, some are demanding a better return, or, desperate for cash, are selling some of their shareholdings to financial institutions.