The Keswick family, in consortium with several London-based banks and financial institutions, bought out the controlling shares of the Buchanan-Jardine family in 1959, but subsequently sold most of the shares during the 1961 public offering, retaining only about 10 % of the company.

* 1981-Following expropriation legislation passed by the government of the Province of Quebec, General Dynamics ' Canadian subsidiary sold its 54. 6 % controlling interest in Asbestos Corporation Limited to the Quebec government-owned corporation, Société nationale de l ' amiante ( SNA ).

After falling ill in 1925, Strachey finally sold his controlling interest in the paper to his business manager, Sir Evelyn Wrench, and retired, dying two years later in 1928.

Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent ( 2 June 1850 – 13 June 1931 ) transformed The Boots Company, founded by his father, John Boot, into a national retailer, which branded itself as " Chemists to the Nation ", before he sold out his controlling interest to American investors in 1920.

Hours before the deadline, Trindle sold a two-thirds controlling interest to Denver trucking magnate Bill Ringsby for $ 350, 000.

After four months of controlling but co-owning Group Lotus with Toyota, the Japanese company sold out to GM.

When Sidney J. Mussburger, a ruthless member of the board of directors, learns that Hudsucker's stock shares will be sold to the public soon, he mounts a scheme to buy the controlling interest in the company: he will temporarily depress the stock price by hiring an incompetent president to replace Hudsucker.

In 1995 he sold a quarter share of the team to The Walt Disney Company and a controlling interest the following year, with the remaining share to be transferred after his death.

In 1926, Johnson sold his controlling ( but not holding ) interest in Victor to the banking firm of Seligman & Spyer, who in 1929 sold to the Radio Corporation of America, which then became known as the Radio-Victor Division of the Radio Corporation of America later RCA Victor.

Late in the 2004 baseball season, Colangelo sold his controlling interest in the Arizona Diamondbacks to a group of investors led by Jeff Moorad.

In 1900, W. N. Ferris sold capital stock in Ferris Institute to the public, keeping a controlling interest in his own hands.

In 2007, controlling interest in the BOX was sold to MX by BSE and IB.

Failure to resolve his debts resulted in the controlling stake in Celcom being sold to Telekom Malaysia, the government-owned incumbent fixed line operator in 2003.

After owning the NFL franchise for 44 seasons, Modell sold controlling interest of the team to Bisciotti, citing ill health.

In practice, this meant that Heinkel was detained until he sold his controlling interest in his factories to Hermann Göring.

In 1994, Paramount was sold to Viacom, followed by Seagram's purchase of a controlling stake in MCA ( of which Universal was a subsidiary ) from Matsushita the next year.

In 1996, Namco acquired a controlling share of the Japanese film company Nikkatsu, but its interest would be sold during the merger with Bandai.

In 1985, the controlling interest of Atari Games was sold to Namco ( a company with strong past ties to Atari Inc .), who soon lost interest in operating an American subsidiary.

In April 2010, the controlling interest in Bezeq, held by the Apax-Saban-Arkin group, was sold to B Communications, a subsidiary of Shaul Elovitch's Eurocom Group, for $ 1. 75 billion.

In 1992, the network's flagship stations were sold to the Canadian-based Canwest media group, which held a controlling stake in the network until 2009.

David Maule-Ffinch was a member of the board of Capital Radio and its largest stockholder until 1994, when he sold his controlling interest to Information et Publicite, a subsidiary of Havas, the French media conglomerate.

In 1924, the founder, William Pigott sold a controlling interest in the company to American Car and Foundry Company.

The New York Central Railroad briefly had a controlling interest in the Rutland from 1904, but sold half of its shares to the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad in 1911.

Initially written by Jean Marc Brun and Michel The ' ron at Laboratoire d ' informatique pour la mécanique et les sciences de l ' ingénieur ( LIMSI ) for modelling fluid flow, they founded their own company, Datavision in 1979 and then sold a controlling interest in 1980 to the French company Matra Datavision.

The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.

In 2001, the other beneficiaries sold their interest in the estate to the Disney Corporation for $ 350m.

Colangelo sold his interest in the General Partnership of the Diamondbacks to a group of investors who were all involved as partners in the founding of the team in 1995.

The computers sold quite well initially and attracted the interest of several independent software developers, most notably Microdeal.

The expansion of the iron works was apparently costly to Allen ; he was forced to sell off portions of the Cornwall property to raise funds, and eventually sold half of his interest in the works to his brother Heman.

The Allen brothers sold their interest in the iron works in October 1765.

As noted, twelve years before his death Oxford sold his interest in Castle Hedingham to Lord Burghley, in trust for his three daughters by his first marriage.

" When Veeck sold his interest, Greenberg remained as general manager and part-owner until 1957.

Bogart sold his interest in Santana to Columbia for over $ 1 million in 1955.

Unfortunately, the amount of speech that could be compressed into a 4K or 8K ROM cartridge was limited, and the system did not sell as well as Mattel had hoped ; while the initial orders were as high as 300, 000 units for the Intellivoice module and its initial game-cartridge offerings, interest in future titles dropped rapidly until the fourth and last Intellivoice title, Tron: Solar Sailer, sold a mere 90, 000 units.

DaimlerChrysler eventually sold most of their interest in Chrysler to a private equity company in 2007.

First, owner Ewing Kauffman sold 49 % of his interest to Memphis developer Avron Fogelman.

In March 2007, Casey Rose sold his 50 % interest in the firm to Arvin Starrett and the name became Starrett Funeral Home.

GE sold its 50 % interest in then-RCA / Ariola International Records to its partner Bertelsmann and the company was renamed BMG Music, for Bertelsmann Music Group.

The Group's interest in the partially built High Speed 1 line was also sold for £ 295m.

Also, even with heavy duty special editions sold to the public for homologation purposes, the race car rules were further modified, primarily in the interest of safety.

The Players ' League dissolved after the season, and Day sold a minority interest to the PL Giants ' principal backer, Edward Talcott.

In 2007, the rise in interest rates and the collapse of the housing market caused a wave of loan payment failures in the U. S. The subsequent mortgage crisis caused a global financial crisis, because the subprime mortgages had been securitized and sold to international banks and investment funds.

In 1855, Medill sold his interest in the Leader to Cowles, and bought the Tribune in partnership with Dr. Ray and Cowles ' brother Alfred.

The island of Tortola was eventually sold to Willem Hunthum at some point in the 1650s, at which time the Dutch West India Company's interest in the Territory effectively ended.

After Henry's death in 1460, the Portuguese crown showed little interest in continuing and, in 1469, sold off the neglected African enterprise to a private Lisbon merchant consortium led by Fernão Gomes.

A glut of war surplus aircraft and a lack of government interest in aviation caused the company to become unprofitable, and in 1920 it was sold to Birmingham Small Arms Company, who had its operations liquidated later that year.

Two years later, Kurzweil sold his company to Xerox, which had an interest in further commercializing paper-to-computer text conversion.

Schlesinger sold his interest in the cartoon studio in 1944 to Warner Bros. and went into retirement-he would die five years later.

Longs and Albertsons remained equal partners up though 2001, when Albertsons sold their 50 % interest to Longs.