The original shareholders were all members of both families.

Improvements continued, and were funded by making calls on the original shareholders.

The dividends are passed from the original shareholders on to the community member of their choice (often parent to child).

If the buyer fails to do so, the public is no worse off, since the original shareholders gained what he lost.

Others have manipulated profits through new holding companies, circumventing original shareholders.

In 2001 the company was acquire back by the original shareholders.

It was the original shareholders on a rights issue.

Descendants of the original shareholders also retained a substantial interest in the company.

"The company was started by my family and I'm on a first-name basis with a lot of the original shareholders," he said.

The "V" product nomenclature remains as a legacy of the five original shareholders.