Earlier this year, it purchased control of Anaya, an educational publishing company in Spain.

Jack, however, secretly organized a syndicate that purchased control of the company.

In 1902, the Teague family of Montgomery purchased control of the firm.

In 1955, he purchased control of International Bank of Washington.

In October 1933, the Big Four railway companies purchased control of the company in equal shares.

The agreement entitled Richemont to purchase full control of the firm after seven years.

So last year, it purchased control of Canada's largest drug distribution firm and a 10 percent stake in a Dutch company.

Could they actually have purchased control of some of them, bought up ownership?

In this case, the funds were used to purchase control of the Northern Pacific.

Mitsubishi Bank rescued it by purchasing control for about $2 billion.