Director and founder Caroline Collins says she doesn't bother stocking shades that look pretty but don't sell.

In 1962 the founders sold the company to their vice president, George Markham, who bought most of the franchises back over the next several years.

The company's founder had even sold Pathé's name and "rooster" trademark to other companies in return for a mere 2 percent of revenues.

Its founder sold it in 1994 to a corporation that has made sweeping changes to its management in the last two years.

Harris County prosecutors said that the original founders of the academy sold forged transcripts to undercover investigators.

Then, in 2009, the founders cashed out and sold to Cisco Systems, the computer networking giant, for $590 million.

Industry analysts speculated that if the company's founders did not sell, they would have been open to legal attacks from major shareholders.

Early in 2008 one of the project founders, Wintershall, sold its share to other shareholders and left the project.

The founders sold the company in 2009.

In 1967, the founders sold the hospital to a local business group.