Sentence examples for stake acquired from inspiring English sources

The ESPN stake, acquired for around $170 million in 1990, has been especially lucrative.

Chinalco is already Rio's biggest investor with a 9% stake acquired expensively last year when shares were bubbling.

The company, in which the Tanzi family owns a 51percentt stake, acquired operations in the United States, Germany, France, Brazil and South Africa.

The value of the stake acquired by the railroad, which is based in Kansas City, Mo., is 6.2 billion pesos including taxes.

The shares, which are being sold at $12.50 each, are part of a stake acquired as part of a 1998 exclusive marketing agreement the companies have since dissolved.

That would, however, have forced VW to book a loss on its Scania stake (acquired at a higher share price than today's), putting strain on a balance-sheet already stretched by VW's takeover of Porsche.

Since 1996 the company has raised the stakes, acquiring seven home builders and almost doubling revenue, to an expected $3.7 billion, in the fiscal year that ends Nov. 30.

1-Year-Old Stake Hanson acquired its stake in Newmont in August 1989 as part of its acquisition of Consolidated Gold Fields.

Now led by Gianni's grandson, the company is trying to acquire a stake in Chrysler.

Bank of America will divest itself of a stake it acquired in 2003 for $1.6 billion.

Mr. Bacon holds about 6.9percentt of Apex, a stake he acquired in 1996.