Back in India, in 1975, BoB acquired the majority shareholding and management control of Bareilly Corporation Bank ( est.

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation, also known as The Bank of Russia, is a majority shareholder of Sberbank, owning 57. 58 % of Sberbank's voting shares with the rest of the shares dispersed among portfolio, private and other investors with an estimated shareholding of about 20 % by foreigners.

In January 2004, Laurent Adamowicz gave away control of Fauchon to Compagnie du Bois Sauvage, the Belgian company listed on the Euronext market in Brussels, also the owner of the Chocolatier Neuhaus and chocolatier Marcolini, as well as a vast portfolio of real estate and financial holdings, including a large shareholding in Fortis Bank.

AIB invested in Poland by gradually building a majority shareholding of 60. 1 % in Wielkopolski Bank Kredytowy ( WBK ) between 1995 and 1996.

In June 1999, AIB reached an agreement with the Polish State Treasury to acquire an 80 % shareholding in Bank Zachodni SA.

During the 1980s it became the world's largest commercial aircraft lessor and expanded its shareholding to include Air Canada, General Electric, Long Term Credit Bank of Japan and companies in the Mitsubishi group.

In 1975 the government of Malta nationalized Barclays Bank International's operations in Malta and renamed it Mid-Med Bank, exercising its option to purchase Barclays ’ remaining shareholding in Mid-Med in 1979.

During Zoellick's time at the World Bank, the institution's capital stock has been expanded and lending volumes increased to help member countries deal with the global financial and economic crisis ; assistance has been stepped-up to deal with the famine in the Horn of Africa ; a major increase in resources has been achieved for the institution's soft loan facility, the International Development Association ( IDA ), which lends to the poorest countries ; and a reform has been carried out to the World Bank's shareholding, Executive Board and voting structure, to increase the influence of developing and emerging economies in the World Bank's governance.

* 2006: Lombard Bank Malta acquired Transend Worldwide's 35 per cent shareholding in Maltapost Plc.

Upon Kenya's independence in 1963, the Government of Kenya acquired 60 % shareholding in National & Grindlays Bank in an effort to bring banking closer to the majority of Kenyans.

In 1920, Banque Misr ( Bank of Egypt ) was founded by Talaat Pasha Harb as " an Egyptian bank for Egyptians only ", which restricted shareholding to native Egyptians and helped finance various new Egyptian-owned businesses.

In 1980 The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation acquired a 51 % shareholding in Marine Midland Bank, which it extended to full ownership in 1987.

Dec-Announced intention to increase shareholding in PT Bank NISP to 51 %

In the same year, OCBC Bank purchased an additional 28. 5 % stake in Bank NISP, raising its shareholding in Bank NISP to a majority of 51 %.

KBC acquired a full 100 % shareholding in IIB in 1999, and in 2000 changed the bank's name to IIB Bank.

Arab Bank is a publicly held shareholding company listed in the Amman Stock Exchange.

BoH sold its shareholding in the Bank of Tonga and Pacific Commercial Bank of Samoa to Westpac.

IFIC Bank was requested, by the Maldivian government, to reduce the shareholding and also the number of representatives in the Board.

* Imperial Bank South Africa-100 % shareholding

On 1 July 1993 the remaining telephone and mobile network operator was transformed into a government-owned shareholding company, named Telia AB.

In 1998 BAe's shareholding of Orange plc was reduced to 5 %.

The Orange shareholding was a legacy of the 30 % stake in Hutchison Telecommunications ( UK ) Ltd when Hutchison exchanged its own shares for a mobile phone company ( Microtel Communications Ltd ) from BAe.

In July 2003, Alenia Aermacchi was integrated into the Finmeccanica Group, which increased its shareholding to 99 %.

In 1996 Telstra recorded the largest profit in Australian corporate history, some $ 3. 8 billion and was partly privatised in November 1997 through sale by the Commonwealth of around 33. 3 % of its shareholding.

By 1989, ICIC's shareholding was reduced to 11 % with Abu Dhabi groups holding almost 40 %.

Four months later, on 20 December 2007, it was announced that the family of billionaire Lakshmi Mittal had purchased a 20 percent shareholding in the club from Briatore.

The company, which was established in 1740 and whose shareholding is mainly family-held, produces a wide variety of commercial work such as magazines, leaflets, report and accounts, brochures and information packs at its on-site print facility.

National Express had a 17. 5 % shareholding in London and Continental Railways ( LCR ) from its formation in 1994 until it was nationalised by the UK Government in 2009.

In March 1995 Newspaper Publishing was restructured with a rights issue, splitting the shareholding into Independent News & Media ( 43 %), MGN ( 43 %), and Prisa ( El País, 12 %).

When the Gramophone Company merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company ( including Columbia's subsidiary label Parlophone ) in 1931, the new Anglo-American group was incorporated as Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. At this point RCA had a majority shareholding in the new company, giving RCA chair David Sarnoff a seat on the EMI board.

Though the paper became a publicly listed company in 1900, the family continued to hold a majority shareholding until the 1960s ( even after the family lost control, the great-grandson of the original purchaser was the paper's London editor ).

At the same time work was undertaken to improve the Avon Navigation, from Bristol to Bath, with the Kennet and Avon Canal Company purchasing a majority shareholding in the Avon Navigation in 1816.

In 1990 ownership of the airport was privatised, with British Aerospace taking a 76 % shareholding in the new company.

The Hibs fans protested against this and Mercer was prevented from gaining the 75 % shareholding that was needed to close Hibs.

On 20 August 2007, NASDAQ announced that it was abandoning its plan to take over the LSE and subsequently look for options to divest its 31 % ( 61. 3 million shares ) shareholding in the company in light of its failed takeover attempt.

However, the main source of its income was from the sale of radio receiving sets and transmitters manufactured by its shareholding member companies as well as from a portion of the government ( GPO ) license fee that had to be purchased by BBC listeners.

This was dismissed outright by Tony Tyler, then Chief Operating Officer of Cathay Pacific who said " We have no plans to change that structure right now ... we are happy with the structure of the shareholding in Dragonair at the moment.

Subsequently Telekom Malaysia sold its 51 % shareholding to the TRI group which was controlled by Tajuddin Ramli.

During the Asian financial crisis in 1997, Celcom's owner, Tan Sri Tajudin Ramli suffered a debt crunch, and his shareholding in Celcom was seized by Danaharta, the national asset restructuring company.

In December 2010 it was announced that Renault had sold its remaining 25 % shareholding in its eponymous Formula 1 team to Lotus Cars, and that the team would be renamed Lotus Renault in 2011.

In 1930 the bulk of Daimler's shareholding in its subsidiary Daimler Hire Limited was sold to the Thomas Tilling Group and, in January 1931, Daimler completed the purchase of The Lanchester Motor Company Limited.

On 1 July 1994, this activity, as well as the old analog Mob2 system, was transferred to a subsidiary, Belgacom Mobile, with the following shareholding: 75 % Belgacom – 25 % Air Touch, then Vodafone in 1999.

* Late 1940s-A majority shareholding in Allied Cinemas and Irish Cinemas Ltd was gained, becoming the largest exhibition circuit in Ireland ( a position maintained until the early 1980s )