He later offered to hand over his shares and those of other majority holders in Yukos in a bid to free Mr. Khodorkovsky.

Optus's majority holders are Australians, as mandated by law.

But British Petroleum - the majority holder of Alyeska - got a knife in, too, by bungling the initial response to the spill.

To gather a war chest, he sold 42 percent of Christian Dior to the public this year for $520 million, but Agache remains majority holder.

For a time during his retirement, Borman was the majority holder of a Chevrolet dealership founded by his son Fred.

As the majority holder of funds for technology transfer, the DTI's announcements relating to the White Paper are where much of the action is.

When Sherman died two years ago he left me shares enough to make me the majority holder.

Brodosplit is a joint stock company, with the Government of Croatia as the majority holder.

At end of September 2002, Thomson SA bought parts from Canal+ and became the majority holder with 92% of shares.

Carl Icahn is the majority holder with an 87% interest in Icahn Enterprises.