In September 2004, the French government sold a part of its shareholding so that it would no longer be the majority shareholder.

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 January 2003 Shriro Group acquired a majority shareholding in Hasselblad.

Masstock became one of the pioneers of the establishment of a modern dairy industry in Saudi Arabia as a result of its minority shareholding ( largely disposed of in 1991 ) in the Almarai Group, a joint venture with majority shareholder HH Prince Sultan Bin Mohamed Bin Saud Al Kabeer.

In October 1993 Foodland Associated Limited ( FAL ) bought the majority shareholding from Coles Myer and shortly after bought all remaining public shares and delisted Progressive from the New Zealand stock exchange.

In October 1993, Foodland Associated Limited ( FAL ) brought the majority shareholding in Progressive Enterprises from Coles Myer and shortly after brought all remaining public shares and delisted Progressive from the New Zealand stock exchange.

In 2000, Abitibi-Consolidated acquired a majority shareholding in Canadian integrated forest products company Donohue Inc.

* 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 )

The Aire and Calder decided to subscribe £ 20, 000 for shares, to ensure that they held a majority shareholding.

Following establishment of British Air Services as BEA's new holding company for its two loss-making regional airline subsidiaries, BKS Air Transport and Cambrian Airways, in March 1970, the corporation acquired a two-thirds majority shareholding in British Air Services in the autumn of that year to ensure its regional partners ' survival.

Introduced under Sections 6 and 7 of the Local Government Act 2002, they are essentially any company with a majority council shareholding, or a trust or similar organisation with a majority of council-controlled votes or council-appointed trustees, unless designated otherwise.

When Private Eye ran into financial problems Cook was able to gain a majority shareholding on the proceeds of his brief but financially successful venture.

in a desire to meet the reasonable aspirations of Malaysians to have a majority shareholding in the company which produced the largest mass-circulation organ in the English language.

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

Graham Turner purchased the majority shareholding in 1998 saving the club from probable extinction and, after nine seasons in the Conference, Hereford returned to the Football League by winning the 2006 Conference Playoff Final.

Having initially offered his resignation Graham Turner went on to purchase the majority shareholding in the club in 1998 from the previous regime of Peter Hill and Robin Fry who left the club with debts of £ 1 million owed to a developing company which also controlled the leases on the stadium.

On February 2, 1995, Comcast purchased a majority shareholding in QVC, Inc., taking control of the corporation.

Kiwibank invested NZ $ 8m into a majority shareholding in New Zealand Home Loans, a home loan lender specialising in debt reduction, in June 2006.

* 1984 Bofors acquires the majority shareholding in KemaNobel

* 1987 acquires the majority shareholding in Sadolin & Holmblad, a Danish paints and adhesives group, from ATP, Hafnia, Norsk Hydro, and the Foss and Sadolin families.

* 1999 acquires the majority shareholding in American decorative coatings company Coatings & Chemicals Corp. ( CCC ).

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.

As of June 2012, Investor AB owns a 30 % stake in the company ( 39. 5 % of the voting rights ) and is the majority owner.

* 1975 – AB Atlas Copco bought a majority of Berema – known for lightweight petrol driven rock drills and breakers – a complement to their Cobra drill.

Centertidningar AB bought a majority stake in the company in 1975.

In 1937 it became a part of the newly founded SAAB but already in 1941 Volvo acquired a majority of the stock and the name was changed to Svenska Flygmotor AB ( SFA ), and later on Volvo Flygmotor.

A majority stake of the company was acquired by Ericsson in 1991, and the company was renamed Objectory AB.

The frequent operating and shop personnel references to the cars as AB's or AB Types were derived from the above letter designations, as the vast majority of the cars were originally A units, and later reorganized into B units.

In June 2012 the football club AB A / S was saved from bancrupcy by the majority of the city council ( 23 in favor and 2 against ).

When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party slipped only a little in the voting but it was enough to lose the absolute Bundestag majority it has enjoyed since 1957.

It was my desire to advise the membership of the Legion that the majority of polling places are on private property and, without an amendment to the law, we could not enforce this.

Under the 1939 Code this item was permitted to survive a tax-free reorganization in the Stanton Brewery case, but only over the dissent of Judge Learned Hand, who wrote the majority opinion in the Sansome case, a leading case requiring carryover of earnings and profits in a non-taxable reorganization.

With the return of our soldiers, it soon became apparent that the belief was not shared by the great majority of citizens.

To try to oppose the general religious and moral conviction of such a majority by a legislative fiat would be to invite the same breakdown of law and order that was occasioned by the ill-starred Prohibition experiment.

During the years when Israel was passing from crisis to crisis -- the Sinai campaign, the infusion of multitudes of penniless immigrants -- it was felt that the purpose of national unity could be best served if the secular majority were to yield to the religious parties.

The 1857 Congressional rejection of the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution was the first multi-party solid-North vote, and that solid vote was anti-slavery to support the anti-slavery majority in Kansas Territory.

It held that slavery in the territories was to be allowed as a property right to any settler, even where the majority opposed slavery.

A social movement that was individualist, egalitarian and perfectionist grew to a political democratic majority attacking slavery, and slavery ’ s defense in the Southern pre-industrial traditional society brought the two sides to war.

The Secretary promulgated the Constitution of American Samoa which was approved by a Constitutional Convention of the people of American Samoa and a majority of the voters of American Samoa voting at the 1966 election, and came into effect in 1967.

) After the dispute over Arianism became politicized and a general solution to the divisiveness was sought — with a great majority holding to the Trinitarian position — the Arian position was officially declared heterodox.

The Germanic elites were Arians, and the majority population was Nicene.

In a culture that set a high value on oratory and public performances of all kinds, in which the production of books was very labor-intensive, the majority of the population was illiterate, and where those with the leisure to enjoy literary works also had slaves to read for them, written texts were more likely to be seen as scripts for recitation than as vehicles of silent reflection.

Labor was the first party in Australia to win a majority in either house of the Australian Parliament, at the 1910 federal election.

The general impression was that, as much as the senate was packed with men devoted to the royal couple and the government obtained a large majority at the general elections, King Alexander would not hesitate any longer to proclaim Queen Draga's brother as the heir to the throne.

The 1841 – 42 legislative session, with Whigs having a majority in the House chamber and the Democrats a smaller majority in the Senate, was marked by an impasse over the election of Tennessee's two United States senators.

In 1843, Johnson was the first Democrat to run for, and win, election as the U. S. representative from Tennessee's 1st congressional district, and joined a new Democratic majority in the House.

When Tennessee seceded, though the vote did not win a majority in East Tennessee, Johnson was forced to flee from the state with armed security ; he was in fact the only Senator from the seceded states to continue participation in Congress.