As Aston Martin required greater investment, he also agreed to sell his share holding to American importer and Greek shipping tycoon Peter Livanos, who invested via his joint venture company with Nick and John Papanicalou, ALL Inc. Gauntlett remained chairman of the AML company 55 % owned by ALL, with Tickford a 50 / 50 venture between ALL and CHI.

As the " small Aston " DB7 would require a large engineering input, Ford agreed to take full control of Aston Martin, and Gauntlett handed over the company chairmanship to Hayes in 1991.

The George Eastman company, the only manufacturer of film stock in the United States, was also part of the combine, which was called the Motion Picture Patents Company ( MPPC ), and Eastman Kodak agreed to only supply the members with film stock.

The original plan was to use horses to draw coal carts on metal rails, but after company director Edward Pease met Stephenson he agreed to change the plans.

The trade, however, was never completed ; unbeknownst to the Dodgers, Robinson had already agreed with the president of Chock full o ' Nuts to quit baseball and become an executive with the company.

As part of that settlement, the company agreed to pay $ 100 million in damages to the four major music companies — Universal Music, Sony BMG, EMI and Warner Music — and an undisclosed amount to the studios.

Realising that the company could not meet this level of demand, Brewster requested permission from Carpenter on 17 May 1818 for the device to be made by other manufacturers, to which he agreed.

In May 2008 the Government agreed to buy Toll NZ's rail and ferry operations for $ 665 million, and renamed the operating company KiwiRail.

On his 70th birthday, Nurmi agreed to an interview for Yle, Finland's national public-broadcasting company, only after learning that President Kekkonen would act as the interviewer.

A company can decrease its authorised share capital by passing an ordinary resolution to cancel shares which have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person.

With the Penguins in hand, Ram was able to swing a 2-for-1 deal with Mercury Records, in which the company agreed to take on the Platters as a condition for getting the Penguins ( the group that Mercury really wanted ).

Li, who bought nearly 20 % of the company at that time the largest shareholding in the company, agreed to sell his shares to Hongkong Land, a sister company of Jardines, at a premium.

The Justice Department agreed to allow the purchase if First National was maintained as a separate company.

Under the terms of his contract with the company, Stravinsky agreed to arrange ( and to some extent re-compose ) many of his early works for the Pleyela, Pleyel's brand of player piano.

In 2008, Chicago agreed to lease its parking meter system to an operating company created by Morgan Stanley in a 75-year, $ 1. 16 billion deal as it struggled to close a yawning budget deficit.

In return for the government's agreement not to pursue its case against AT & T as a monopolist, AT & T agreed to divest the controlling interest it had acquired in the Western Union telegraph company, and to allow non-competing independent telephone companies to interconnect with the AT & T long distance network.

It was announced on 15 June 2012 that Motorola Solutions had agreed to buy the company for $ 200 million.

The suit was settled out of court, and on June 2, 2009 Psion announced that the company was withdrawing all of its trademark registrations for the term " Netbook " and that Psion agreed to " waive all its rights against third parties in respect of past, current or future use " of the term.

In May 1985, News Corporation agreed to pay $ 2. 55 billion to acquire independent television stations in six major U. S. cities from John Kluge's company, Metromedia.

On July 17, 2007, The Wall Street Journal, a unit of Dow Jones, reported that the company and News Corporation had agreed in principle on a US $ 5 billion takeover, that the offer would be put to the full Dow Jones board on the same evening in New York, and that the offer valued the company at 70 % more than the company's market value.

Gloucester requested Richard go to the Tower to keep his brother company and Elizabeth agreed.

On May 13, 2008, Hewlett-Packard Co. confirmed that it had reached a deal with Electronic Data Systems to acquire the company for $ 13. 9 billion.

In December 2003, Maple Leaf Heritage Investments, a Nova Scotia-based company created to acquire shares of Hudson's Bay Company, announced that it was considering making an offer to acquire all or some of the common shares of Hudson's Bay Company.

The company announced its intention to acquire All Media Guide on November 6, 2007 and substantially all the assets of Muze, Inc. on April 15, 2009.

On December 23, 2010, the company announced its intention to acquire Sonic Solutions for its DivX digital video player software.

Sometimes, however, a smaller firm will acquire management control of a larger and / or longer-established company and retain the name of the latter for the post-acquisition combined entity.

Gaines sold his company in the early 1960s to the Kinney Parking Company, which would also acquire National Periodicals ( aka DC Comics ) and Warner Bros. by the end of that decade.

Paramount management planned to acquire additional owned-and-operated stations (" O & Os "); the company applied to the FCC for additional stations in San Francisco, Detroit, and Boston.

Both television networks suffered as a result, with neither company able to acquire five O & Os.

As of July 5, 2012, Volkswagen is to acquire the 50. 1 per cent in Porsche's capital that it doesn't already hold from holding company Porsche SE for € 4. 46 billion plus one Volkswagen share.

In early October 2005 the company announced acquisition of an 18. 53 % stake in Volkswagen AG ( VW AG ), and disclosed intentions to acquire additional VW AG shares in the future.

By 1989, Leone had been able to acquire $ 100 million in financing from independent backers, and the film was to be a joint production with a Soviet film company.

In June 2003 Patrick and his cousin Vanecko formed a Delaware company MSS Investors LLC and invested $ 65, 000 each to acquire a 5 % stake in Municipal Sewer Services, a Cardinal Growth venture.

:* Organisms: Bacillus anthracis ( Vaccine strain ), Clostridium botulinum ( Environmental isolate, Avirulent strain ) Aum Shinrikyo ordered Clostridium botulinum from a pharmaceutical company, and Ebola virus ( Attempted to acquire from Zaire outbreak under guise of an “ Humanitarian mission ”)

An American company, Blackburn Aircraft Corp., was incorporated in Detroit on 20 May 1929 to acquire design and patent rights of the aircraft of Blackburn Airplane & Motor Co., Ltd. in the USA.

However, Hill, without the benefit of a central company, managed to acquire the Colorado and Southern Railway lines into Texas, and to build the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway.

Since then, the company has a separate body corporate from the State and acquire a financial autonomy.

On January 2008, Zilog declined an unsolicited proposal made by Universal Electronics Inc to acquire the company.

Several diversions also come Ben's way: he must acquire items to cross a gorge when its bridge is destroyed, convince Maureen he didn't kill Corley via Miranda's recovered film, and fight through Ripburger's henchmen to stop Ripburger from taking over the company and getting away with murder.

In spending £ 690, 000 to acquire a 69 percent majority stake in the club from a Monaco-based consortium led by Italian football agent, Antonio Caliendo, Ecclestone spent £ 150, 000 on his 15 percent, while Briatore bought 54 percent for £ 540, 000 through a British Virgin Islands registered company, Sarita Capital.

In December 2011, Hershey reached an agreement to acquire Brookside Foods Ltd., a privately held confectionery company based in Abbotsford, British Columbia.

* On August 16, 2010, Dell announced plans to acquire the data storage company 3PAR.

IBM purchased the company in 1995 for $ 3. 5 billion, primarily to acquire Lotus Notes and to establish a presence in the increasingly important client – server computing segment, which was rapidly making host-based products like IBM's OfficeVision obsolete.

Following the commercial success of the film in June 1982, Steve Ross, chief executive officer ( CEO ) of Atari's parent company Warner Communications, started negotiations with Steven Spielberg and Universal Pictures to acquire the license to produce a video game based on the film.