Was Fenway's capital injection enough to give it a controlling stake in the company?
One sticking point was that foreigners could not own a controlling stake in telecommunications companies.
That would give the family a controlling stake but it's not the only offer.
Italy's former leader Romano Prodi tried and failed to auction the government's controlling stake in the airline.
So in 2003 Gillette took a controlling stake in Fujian Nanping Nanfu Battery, China's dominant domestic maker.
Lichtenstein purchased a controlling stake in Park Avenue Bank in 2004 and installed Antonucci to run it.
Wharf obtained a controlling stake in the Hangzhou-based residential developer in mid-2012 after it became overstretched financially.
Glaxo provided the initial funding and holds a controlling stake, but the Cambridge, Mass. startup runs independently.
It also has interests overseas and recently bought a controlling stake in New York's landmark Plaza Hotel.
It is relying on its controlling stake in Japan's Mazda to develop its presence across the region.
The group also has interests overseas, it recently bought a controlling stake in New York's landmark Plaza Hotel.
Tom Glocer, Reuters' well-regarded boss, will take the helm, but the Thomson family will own a controlling stake.
Adelson, with a controlling stake in the company, reportedly earned five hundred and ten million dollars from the sale.
In October, he sold off a controlling stake in his flour milling company to Tiger Brands of South Africa.
The Investcorp Gulf Opportunity Fund acquired a controlling stake in Hydrasun from private equity firm Equistone Partners Europe Ltd.
ENI, and though it still has a controlling stake in the firm, it hopes to sell more shares soon.
Mr Taubman has put his controlling stake in Sotheby's up for sale too.
Gent, the CEO of Vodafone, was blocked by Vivendi from a controlling stake in Cegetel, France's No. 2 telecom.
It would have cost Anglo American hard cash to retain its controlling stake.
Suzuki bought a controlling stake last year, reducing the government's holding to 45.5%.
Bentley is a VW subsidiary, and Porsche owns a controlling stake in Volkswagen.
Lyondell had itself acquired companies such as Millennium Chemicals in 2004 and a controlling stake in Equistar Chemicals in 2002.
Nikolai Maximov founded steel mini-mill developer Maxi Group and sold his controlling stake to billionaire Vladimir Lisin's NLMK in 2007.
It has taken a non-controlling stake in a string of businesses in recent years, from a garden centre to an online streaming service.
Woodside, which started life as a small exploration firm in the mid-1950s, has a 53.85% controlling stake in the project.
Heineken is also tipped to take a controlling stake in Kaiser, Brazil's second-biggest brewer, which it might merge with Argentina's Quilmes.
Kazakhstan's sovereign-wealth fund, Samruk Kazyna, which also holds a controlling stake in BTA, owns a further 22% in the Turkish lender.
To address the first question, the answer is that we cannot always be certain whether 20 percent is a controlling stake.
Investors fumed when Alphatec announced in February it would buy a controlling stake in Submicron, a wafer-fabrication plant owned by Chaarn.
BayernLB and the Bavarian Finance Ministry, which has a controlling stake in the lender, didn't respond to a request for comment.
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