Word: ownerships
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...campaigns, and a $250 million foundation set up in 2000 by Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant. In Germany some newer foundations are following the example of Reinhard Mohn, who built Germany's Bertelsmann into a media powerhouse after World War II and in 1993 transferred the company's ownership to a foundation that now has about $900 million in assets. In Belgium Luc Tayart de Borms oversees the $250 million King Baudouin Foundation, which was set up by the Belgian head of state, and serves as an umbrella organization for corporate and other donors. The number of private funds...
...Light. Then, in April, Adami upped the ante with the humorous President of Beers campaign. Once it became clear that Miller's well-crafted messages were having an impact, Budweiser responded with a negative counterattack, challenging both Miller's heritage, by making an issue of its foreign ownership, and its manliness, by dismissing Miller Lite as the "queen of carbs." "That's a very macho accusation against a brand that has been giving them a royal shellacking," said Adami, a hard-swearing chain smoker, in a recent speech...
...certificate of ownership interest in a foreign company. In this case, each ADR represents 100 shares of stock in Surgut—or approximately $130 million in all—according to Harvard’s arbitration claim...
...also need to think about the hidden costs of vacation-home ownership. How will you take care of the place when you're not there? Security systems and caretakers can be expensive, but leaving the home unattended for long periods of time could lead to break-ins and costly damage if, say, a water pipe bursts and no one is around to notice. If this is your first vacation home, the Better Business Bureau suggests hiring a rental agent or management company to help you take care of it for the first year...
Returning to Ireland has been something of a clanfest, highlighted by my journey to see the O’Dea Castle. Actually more of a feudal tower, I pranced about it with a sense of ownership, and I imagine at least a few of the O’Dea/O’Day visitors in the guestbook came to stake their own claim to this ancestral abode. Crossing the country to visit relatives—cousins once or many times removed—presents me with open arms and hugs from people only rarely seen. What begins as an awkward...