"We have a minority shareholding, but it gives us future flexibility in terms of cash funding."

It continued to retain minority shareholdings in both companies which were eventually disposed of.

But many analysts complain that companies do not consolidate their minority shareholdings, even in cases where they appear to have control.

Another oil concern, Yukos, has been accused of trying to dilute minority shareholdings with new stock issues.

Put simply, the necessary finance can be made available to you in return for Barclays taking a minority shareholding in your business.

Microsoft is keen to acquire a minority shareholding to protect the 10-year agreement with Yahoo, announced in 2009.

These range from full control, including power to liquidate the company, to a small or non-existent influence over the company's affairs of a minority shareholding.

Where, for example, two minority shareholdings are merged into one majority holding, the value of the whole will be greater than its two constituent parts.

It instructed Trident to set up both companies as independents and to retain only a minority shareholding in each."

Even if they have minority shareholding, the public so widespread is not in a position to be organized to hold those who handle their investments to account.

Origin's geothermal investment is via a minority shareholding stake in the Australian company Geodynamics.

Chargeurs maintained a minority shareholding.

LaPaglia has a minority shareholding in the International Goalkeepers Academy.

The railways relinquished the majority stakes they had already acquired but also bought substantial minority shareholdings in other companies in the combine groups.

These included selling off minority shareholdings in state companies, halting all subsidies and incentives for eight months, stricter monetary discipline and more efficient tax collection.

EBT also owns a minority shareholding (5.8%) in the National Microfinance Bank.

GBW has a minority shareholding in Kenya Breweries Ltd.

As part of the deal Courtaulds is relinquishing its minority shareholding in CEPI.

Lumi Technologies (WPP owns a 6.8% minority shareholding)

In practice, where a public company has a wide spread of shareholders, a significant minority shareholding may give the holder a decisive degree of influence over the company's activities.

One of those cases involves the Russian oil company Yukos, accused of authorizing shares to company insiders that would unfairly dilute minority shareholdings.

There were also plans to privatize the steel industry and to sell off majority or minority shareholdings in state-owned cement, food processing, pulp, mining and chemical concerns.

Early in TV3's life, financial supporters of the network included ABC and NBC as a minority shareholding, who later sold their interest.

Under the deal, Telefónica expects to pay BellSouth $4.2 billion in cash, while the rest is made up of minority shareholdings and debt transferred to Telefónica.

A quick recap: the dispute, which goes back several years, focuses on eBay's minority shareholding in the classified site, which the company says was unfairly and illegally diluted.