It also plans to offer 24 percent of the company in a public share offering.

The company said it had started its public offering of 45 million common shares at $26.50 a share.

And in June the company went public with an offering of four million shares at $17 each.

Its offering of 4.6 million shares at $22 each sold out within minutes.

A second offering of 2.6 million shares quickly sold out in May 1981.

In 1959 it went public with an initial offering of 250,000 shares at $12 each.

The9 Limited, an initial public offering of 6.1 million shares.

An initial public offering of 4 million shares was made in August 1998.

Opinion Research, an initial public offering of 4.3 million shares.

One almost certain outcome is that the banks will soon make share offerings.