As the industry continues to consolidate, analysts said, Novartis'accumulation of a blocking minority stake in Roche has at the very least ensured that the company will stay out of rival hands.
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The Walloon government said in March it would dilute its 78.77 percent stake to a blocking minority or around 25 percent if Cockerill were to ally itself with another steel producer . ( pa-dj)
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However, after a Brexit of the economically liberal British, the Germans and like-minded northern European countries ( the Dutch, Scandinavians and Balts ) would lose an ally and therefore also their blocking minority.
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Officials said a " blocking minority " led by Germany refused to accept a loosening of the embargo even after Britain offered to double the number of cattle it will slaughter to wipe out mad cow disease.
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At that time, Jacques Delors was Minister of industry, and decided to buy back in hand and via Saint-Gobain-company actions to achieve the blocking minority and thus influence the future of the group.
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Chicago-based Rainbow / PUSH's partnership with Freddie Mac is designed to help " tear down the barriers blocking minority families from the most significant financial opportunity facing most American families : home ownership,"
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The Russian government owns 51.17 percent of Aeroflot, while Millhouse Capital, a holding company controlled by shareholders in Sibneft, Russia's fifth-largest oil producer, owns a blocking minority in the airline.
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"Worms can hold out in the short-term, but with a blocking minority they'll manage to get him, " said Romain Burnand, an analyst at French brokerage Courcoux-Bouvert in London.
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Under the draft mechanism Spain and Poland, considered medium-sized countries, would lose much of their ability to form a blocking minority in EU decision-making once the bloc expands next year to take in 10 new members.
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The employee said they had agreed to open talks with de Rothschild, and are demanding a guarantee that the newspaper's charter on editorial independence be preserved and that the staff holding company retain a blocking minority of voting rights.
