Word: ownerships
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...fulfil his dream of creating an aesthetic empire in a land still recovering from the artistic looting wrought by the Cultural Revolution. Basing himself in Shanghai, he quickly began to assemble the pieces: Layefe, a fashion-and-housewares label he founded, now with more than 130 stores nationwide; ownership of several lifestyle magazines; and a stable of long-legged beauties who would soon make up Yifei Modeling Agency, China's largest. Collectively, Chen's enterprises earned $200 million last year and brought an East-meets-West style to Chinese citizens caught up in the country's extraordinary economic boom. Along...
...preserving the socialist system. I think we should uphold two things. First, public ownership should always play the dominant role in our economy. Second, we should try to avoid polarization [of rich and poor] and always try to keep to the road of prosperity. Our policy of opening to the outside world, and the new approach introduced at home to stimulate the economy and to take more flexible measures, will not lead to polarization. As long as public ownership plays a dominant role in our country, I think the polarization can be avoided. There will be differences when the different...
When the buyout is completed, the company is owned by the participants in the deal. The management group, which invests its own money, often comes away with perhaps 20%. The big investors may get ownership rights for 45%. The remainder is usually held by the investment firm that brought the partners together. It also collects around 1% of the total value of a buyout, plus consulting and other fees. Buyouts invariably increase the value of the stock that executives had before the deal. Afterward the managers generally hold far more of the private company than they did of the public...
...standing accusations that his combination of media and political power constitutes a conflict of interest. Opposition leaders, including former Prime Minister Romano Prodi, were quick to note that the media group remained under Berlusconi's control. (The Berlusconi family retains majority voting rights in Mediaset, even with a minority ownership share, a common arrangement in family-dominated media companies.) The move may have been largely business-motivated; Fabrizio Perretti, a professor at Bocconi University, claims that Berlusconi timed the sale to capitalize on the recent record-high of Mediaset's share price, and to diversify his assets as traditional broadcasting...
Edwards also suggested repealing the administration’s tax cuts as a possible way to pay for these initiatives and said that Bush was encouraging an “ownership society...