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...substantial influence over about 40% of the entire capitalization of the Swedish stock exchange. (Even the exchange is part of a company that the Wallenbergs control.) Investor AB, the family's industrial holding company, dates from 1916. It faced an unprecedented attack two years ago, when Swiss financier Martin Ebner built up a 10% stake and called for Investor to be broken up in the name of improving shareholder value. Ebner, overstretched financially, has since had to sell or reduce many of his holdings, including his stake in Investor. The episode was a harsh test for the latest Wallenberg generation...
INVESTMENT Caught in a Bear Trap Swiss multimillionaire and bow-tied shareholder activist Martin Ebner, who has made a career out of being a thorn in the side of Switzerland's corporate establishment, sees himself as the Swiss equivalent to that patron saint of U.S. shareholders, investor Warren Buffett. Lately, though, Ebner has had a few setbacks. Last week he was forced to sell controlling stakes in four key investment funds. BZ Group, Ebner's holding company, made the sale after the share prices of the firms in which the funds held stock plunged. But while Ebner may have always...
Whitton kept the Lions hitless through five innings, but the first hit was a double by Columbia's Anne-Marie Ebner. Ebner would eventually score the game-tying...
...next inning, Ebner struck again, driving the game winning run off of Thoke, who had come in to relieve Whitton with runners on base...
Since then, thousands of other camps have begun to follow Ebner's lead. "In the past couple of summers e-mail has become a hot ticket," says Jeff Solomon, executive director of the National Camp Association, who estimates that as many as 75% of the nation's 6,000 residential summer camps offer e-mail access of some kind, up from just a handful a few years ago. "Camps have always wanted to respond to parents' concern that there be good communication. Mail is a little too slow for parents and phone a little too immediate for camps...