Sentence examples for take small stakes from inspiring English sources
Chaebol often take small stakes in firms that incubate a risky new technology.
They consist of myriad shareholders and creditors who each take small stakes in many different companies.
Activist hedge funds take small stakes in firms and act like political campaigners, trying to win other shareholders' support for their demands: representation on companies' boards, cost-cutting, spin-offs and returning cash to shareholders.
PARIS -- In the latest sign of auto industry consolidation, three companies -- Daimler, Renault and Nissan -- are expected to announce an alliance as soon as Wednesday under which they would cooperate on technology and take small stakes in one another.
This leaves Citi with no choice but to take small stakes in local banks or build branches from scratch a painstaking process.For all of Citi's vaunted internationalism, it still makes 57% of its profits at home.
But Skinner denied the bank would act like the British National Oil Corporation, the state-owned offshore operator in the early days of North Sea hydrocarbons, although, he said, it would take small stakes in individual projects.
Rather than taking controlling positions in many midsize banks, the government could take smaller stakes (or none at all) in fewer, larger banks that in turn use the capital to buy troubled rivals.
Venezuela, the site of a series of nationalizations ranging from banks to cement to oil, actually showed signs of a truce with international oil companies after having forced foreign oil companies to take smaller stakes in the Orinoco Valley.
Its main role will be to channel state funds to promising firms by taking small stakes alongside private-equity investors.
Two European media groups stepped in by taking small stakes, but The Independent's cachet remained a lure for several larger publishers.
In the last year and a half, unable to resist the lure of the Internet economy, McKinsey has taken small stakes in more than 50 clients, in exchange for lower fees.
