September 16, 2007
THE WHO OWNS WHOM DEPARTMENT
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Just exactly who owns that funky, Whole-Earth-type, progressive-minded, Third World-motif store which makes you feel oh, so sensitive when you frequent it? What about that earth-friendly brand name that you identify with? And what about that trusty brand that you feel comfortable with, since you’ve used it for years? (Oh yeah, and what about those multinational businesses that own more than you ever suspected?)
(This will be constantly updated and reorganized.)
NEW FOR THIS POSTING:
“That’s hot®” - The combination of the word “that’s” and the word “hot” is a registered trademark (“®”) owned by Paris Hilton. (9/16/07)
Oakley, a California manufacturer of “sporty” sunglasses - acquired for $2.1 billion by Italy’s Luxottica, a manufacturer of “fashionable” eyewear.
Ray-Ban sunglasses - acquired by Luxottica in 1999. (9/16/07)
Sunglass Hut, the world’s leading sunglass retailer - Luxottica. (9/16/07)
LensCrafters, America’s leading optical retailer - acquired by Luxottica in 1995. (9/16/07)
Loctite adhesive - Henkel, a German consumer-goods group. (9/16/07)
Cosco international shipping operator - the government of The People’s Republic of China. (9/16/07)
Bobcat, the construction equipment division of Ingersol Rand - acquired (with two other Ingersol Rand construction equipment units) for $4.9 billion by Korea’s Doosan Infracore (formerly Daewoo Heavy Industries). (9/16/07)
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus - Feld Entertainment. (9/16/07)
Swift, one of the U.S.’s biggest beef and pork processors - the company that controls JBS, Latin America’s biggest meat producer. (9/16/07)
San Pellegrino water - Nestlé (9/16/07)
Evian bottled water - Danone, a French food group (9/16/07)
Vitaminwater - Glaceau (9/16/07)
Glaceau - acquired in May, 2007 for $4.1 billion by Coca-Cola (9/16/07)
Stride Rite footwear retailer - Purchased in 2007 by Payless Shoe Source, Inc. for roughly $800 million cash (9/16/07)
Virgin Atlantic airline - Singapore Airlines purchases a 49% stake in 1999. (9/16/07)
KLM (Dutch airline) - Air France (9/16/07)
PayPal online payments service - Purchased in 2002 by eBay for $1.5 billion. According to the May 5, 2007 edition of The Economist, “It now boasts 143m accounts, double the number it had two years ago. Already international--35m of the accounts are in Europe, 15m of those in Britain alone--it is striving to become truly global.” (9/16/07)
Hilton Hotels - Acquired in 2007 by The Blackstone Group in a transaction worth $26 billion. (9/16/07)
The Blackstone Group - In May, 2007, China paid $3 billion for a 10 percent stake in this U.S. private equity firm. The deal marks the first time that the Chinese government. (9/16/07)
PREVIOUSLY POSTED:
Florigene commercial flower growers - Suntory (a Japanese drinks company) (3/4/07)
Expedia.com on-line travel agency - IAC/InterActive Corp, the chairman and senior executive of which is Barry Diller. (Expedia was founded as a part of Microsoft in 1995. Expedia, Inc. was spun off in 1996.) (3/4/07)
Maytag - Purchased in 2006 by Whirlpool for $2.6 billion (12/3/06)
Radisson Hotels - Carlson Companies (11/5/06)
The Chrysler Building in New York - Tishman Speyer (real estate developers (11/5/06)
Sheaffer writing instruments - BIC USA, Inc. (11/5/06)
YouTube (a website to which one can upload video clips for others to view) - Purchased in October, 2006 by Google for $1.65 billion in shares. (According to the October 14, 2006 edition of The Economist, “Every day YouTube fans upload 65,000 videos and watch 100m.” Also, “Google has the largest online network of advertisers.” And, “The main benefit of the deal ... may be the difficulties it creates for Google's rivals. Yahoo! and Microsoft, as well as News Corporation and Viacom, two media giants, all wanted YouTube. But Google pre-empted them, just as it denied them access to AOL, another portal, in which it bought a defensive stake last winter.” (11/5/06)
Virgin Mobile mobile phone service provider - NTL (a British cable television company (11/5/06)
Fisher-Price toys and games - [“You can tell it’s] Mattel [-- it’s swell!”] (10/22/06)
Simon and Schuster publishers - CBS (10/22/06)
Unocal - Purchased in 2005 by Chevron (9/30/06)
MySpace.com - Purchased in July, 2005 by News Corporation (does the name “Fox” ring a bell with you? How about Rupert Murdoch?) for $580 million. It has 108 million users. According to the April 1, 2006 edition of The Economist, “MySpace is now earning advertising revenues of about $13m [that’s ‘million’] a month ...” According to the July 29, 2006 edition of The Economist, “The social-networking site had 17m unique monthly visitors last July; ... now it has 54m, and is the most visited website in America.” According to the September 16, 2006 edition of The Economist, in August, 2006, “MySpace made a deal allowing Google, an internet-search giant, to sell a big chunk of ad space on MySpace and on News Corp’s other websites over the next three years. Google has guaranteed a minimum of $900 in revenue in return.” (9/30/06)
Autostrade (operator of toll-roads in Europe) - the biggest shareholder is Edizione Holding, the [United Colors of] Benetton family’s holding company (9/3/06)
Hard Rock Cafe (operates in 43 countries) - Rank (a Britain-based company whose core business is gambling) (8/8/06)
IBM personal computers - Purchased in 2004 by Lenovo (according to The Economist, “arguably China’s most important company”) for $1.25 billion (8/8/06)
DHL delivery service - Deutsche Post (Germany’s Post Office) (6/25/06)
Skype VOIP (‘voice over internet protocol’) which allows phone calls to be made over the internet - Purchased in 2005 by eBay for $2.6 billion (Source: The Economist, May 27, 2006) (6/11/06)
London Stock Exchange - NASDAQ recently revealed that it had become the LSE’s largest shareholder when it obtained a 15% stake for $780,000.000. It has even more recently increased its stake to 18.7%. And then, it has even further increased its stake to 24.1%. (British “takeover rules” prevent NASDAQ from either making another takeover bid before October, 2006 or increasing its ownership stake above 29.9%.) (Source: The Economist, April 15, 2006, May 6, 2006, May 13, 2006, May 27, 2006) (6/11/06)
NASDAQ - French insurance company AXA has recently taken a 10.6% stake in NASDAQ. (5/21/06)
“Bird Friendly®” - The combination of the word “bird” and the word “friendly” was created by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center [probably ®] at the National Zoological Park [probably ®], and is a registered trademark (“®”) owned by the Smithsonian Institution [probably ®]. (5/8/06)
Duracell - Owned by Gillette (4/25/06)
Gillette (which controls three-quarters of the world market in razors and shaving cream) - Purchased in 2005 by Procter & Gamble for $57 billion (4/25/06)
Wella - Purchased in 2003 by Procter & Gamble for $5.7 billion (4/25/06)
Clairol - Purchased in 2001 by Procter & Gamble for $5 billion (4/25/06)
Tom’s of Maine - Purchased in 2006 by Colgate-Palmolive for $100 million. (4/25/06)
Hollister - Owned by Abercrombie & Fitch (4/19/06)
The Body Shop - Purchased in 2006 by L’Oreal. (4/7/06)
WEARING APPAREL:
Reebok - Adidas (3/4/07)
Banana Republic - Gap (3/4/07)
Old Navy clothing stores - Gap (3/4/07)
ENTERTAINMENT:
BET (Black Entertainment Television) cable station - Viacom. (According to the October 14, 2006 edition of The Economist, "MTV Networks ... along with BET ... brings in just over 60% of Viacom’s revenues.”) (11/5/06)
MTV - Viacom (10/22/06)
Pixar animated film studio co-founded by Steve Jobs - Purchased in 2006 by The Walt Disney Company (9/30/06)
Touchstone studio - The Walt Disney Company (9/30/06)
Mirimax studio - The Walt Disney Company (9/30/06)
ESPN - The Walt Disney Company (9/30/06)
Dream Works SKG - Purchased in February, 2006 by Viacom (9/30/06)
DirectTV (satellite-delivered television programming - News Corporation (9/30/06)
PUBLISHING (INCLUDING NEWSPAPERS):
New York Post - News Corporation (12/3/06)
Harper Collins publishers - News Corporation (12/3/06)
Bloomberg data and news service - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (12/3/06)
Boston Globe - The New York Company (According to the November 4, 2006 edition of The Economist, Jack Welch, former boss of General Electric, wants to buy the Globe) (12/3/06)
Los Angeles Times - The Tribune Company (which also owns Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, two dozen television stations and The Chicago Cubs) (12/3/06)
Simon and Schuster publishers - CBS (10/22/06)
The New York Times - Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, owns a 5.6% stake of the New York Times Company (6/25/06)
FOOD AND DRINK:
Kentucky Fried Chicken - Yum Brands (5/6/07)
Taco Bell - Yum Brands (5/6/07)
Gerber (baby-food business) - Novartis, a Swiss drugs company (5/6/07)
Manischewitz - R.A.B. Food Group (of Seacaucus, New Jersey). Manischewitz was founded in Cincinnati by Rabbi Dov Ber Manischewitz to produce Matzoh. Manischewitz also produces matzoh under the Horowitz-Margareten and Goodman’s brands. (5/6/07)
Milka brand German chocolate - Kraft Foods (3/4/07)
Scharfen Berger brand chocolate - Purchased in 2005 by Hershey’s (3/4/07)
Joseph Schmidt brand chocolate truffles - Hershey’s (3/4/07)
Häagen-Dazs brand ice cream - Nestlé. (In 1983, Häagen-Dazs was acquired by Pillsbury for $70 million.) (3/4/07)
Breyers brand ice cream - Unilever (an Anglo-Dutch consumer-goods giant) (3/4/07)
Skippy brand peanut butter - Unilever (12/3/06)
Arrowhead Water - Nestlé (12/3/06)
Poland Spring (the top-selling spring-water brand in America - Nestlé (11/5/06)
TGI Friday’s restaurant chain - Carlson Companies (11/5/06)
Chipotle Mexican food chain - McDonalds (10/22/06)
El Pollo Loco - Trimarin Capital Partners (a New York-based private-equity group (10/22/06)
Baja Fresh - Purchased in 2002 by Wendy’s (10/22/06)
Baskin-Robbins - Dunkin’ Brands (the firm behind Dunkin’ Donuts) (10/22/06)
Nestea - Coca-Cola (10/22/06)
Minute Maid juices - Coca-Cola (10/22/06)
Dasani water - Coca-Cola (10/22/06)
Aquafina water - PepsiCo (10/22/06)
Gatorade sports drinks - Quaker (9/30/06)
Quaker - PepsiCo (9/30/06)
Tropicana juices - PepsiCo (9/30/06)
Lipton - Unilever (9/30/06)
Good Humor Ice Cream - Owned by Unilever (9/30/06)
Ben & Jerry’s - Purchased in 2000 by Unilever. (According to the March 25, 2006 edition of The Economist, "Ben & Jerry’s latest social audit says a survey of employees found that only 45% thought that top management was taking the company’s social mission seriously.”) (9/30/06)
Trident gum - Cadbury-Schweppes (9/30/06)
Dentyne - Cadbury-Schweppes (9/30/06)
Halls cough drops - Cadbury-Schweppes (9/30/06)
Dr Pepper - Cadbury-Schweppes (9/30/06)
7-Up - Cadbury-Schweppes (9/30/06)
Tazo brand specialty teas - Starbucks Corporation (8/8/06)
Hear Music Coffeehouse - Starbucks Corporation (8/8/06)
Albertson’s supermarket - Supervalu (6/25/06)
Cascadian Farm organic foods brand - General Foods (6/11/06)
Muir Glen organic foods brand - General Foods (6/11/06)
Kashi organic cereal - Kellogg (6/11/06)
Keebler - Kellogg (6/11/06)
Johnny Walker Whiskey - Diageo (5/8/06)
Guiness - Diageo (5/8/06)
AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY:
Bentley - Volkswagen (5/6/07)
Bugatti - Volkswagen (5/6/07)
Lamborghini - Volkswagen (5/6/07)
Volkswagen - Porsche owns 27.4% of Volkswagen (5/6/07)
Scion automobiles - Toyota (10/22/06)
Nissan - a 44% interest is owned by Renault (9/30/06)
Aston Martin luxury automobiles - Ford (9/30/06)
Jaguar - purchased in 1989 by Ford. Since then, Jaguar has cost Ford $10 billion (Source: The Economist, August 26, 2006) (9/3/06)
Saturn - General Motors (6/25/06)
Saab - General Motors (6/25/06)
Hummer - General Motors (6/25/06)
Rolls-Royce - BMW (6/25/06)
Just exactly who owns that funky, Whole-Earth-type, progressive-minded, Third World-motif store which makes you feel oh, so sensitive when you frequent it? What about that earth-friendly brand name that you identify with? And what about that trusty brand that you feel comfortable with, since you’ve used it for years? (Oh yeah, and what about those multinational businesses that own more than you ever suspected?)
(This will be constantly updated and reorganized.)
NEW FOR THIS POSTING:
“That’s hot®” - The combination of the word “that’s” and the word “hot” is a registered trademark (“®”) owned by Paris Hilton. (9/16/07)
Oakley, a California manufacturer of “sporty” sunglasses - acquired for $2.1 billion by Italy’s Luxottica, a manufacturer of “fashionable” eyewear.
Ray-Ban sunglasses - acquired by Luxottica in 1999. (9/16/07)
Sunglass Hut, the world’s leading sunglass retailer - Luxottica. (9/16/07)
LensCrafters, America’s leading optical retailer - acquired by Luxottica in 1995. (9/16/07)
Loctite adhesive - Henkel, a German consumer-goods group. (9/16/07)
Cosco international shipping operator - the government of The People’s Republic of China. (9/16/07)
Bobcat, the construction equipment division of Ingersol Rand - acquired (with two other Ingersol Rand construction equipment units) for $4.9 billion by Korea’s Doosan Infracore (formerly Daewoo Heavy Industries). (9/16/07)
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus - Feld Entertainment. (9/16/07)
Swift, one of the U.S.’s biggest beef and pork processors - the company that controls JBS, Latin America’s biggest meat producer. (9/16/07)
San Pellegrino water - Nestlé (9/16/07)
Evian bottled water - Danone, a French food group (9/16/07)
Vitaminwater - Glaceau (9/16/07)
Glaceau - acquired in May, 2007 for $4.1 billion by Coca-Cola (9/16/07)
Stride Rite footwear retailer - Purchased in 2007 by Payless Shoe Source, Inc. for roughly $800 million cash (9/16/07)
Virgin Atlantic airline - Singapore Airlines purchases a 49% stake in 1999. (9/16/07)
KLM (Dutch airline) - Air France (9/16/07)
PayPal online payments service - Purchased in 2002 by eBay for $1.5 billion. According to the May 5, 2007 edition of The Economist, “It now boasts 143m accounts, double the number it had two years ago. Already international--35m of the accounts are in Europe, 15m of those in Britain alone--it is striving to become truly global.” (9/16/07)
Hilton Hotels - Acquired in 2007 by The Blackstone Group in a transaction worth $26 billion. (9/16/07)
The Blackstone Group - In May, 2007, China paid $3 billion for a 10 percent stake in this U.S. private equity firm. The deal marks the first time that the Chinese government. (9/16/07)
PREVIOUSLY POSTED:
Florigene commercial flower growers - Suntory (a Japanese drinks company) (3/4/07)
Expedia.com on-line travel agency - IAC/InterActive Corp, the chairman and senior executive of which is Barry Diller. (Expedia was founded as a part of Microsoft in 1995. Expedia, Inc. was spun off in 1996.) (3/4/07)
Maytag - Purchased in 2006 by Whirlpool for $2.6 billion (12/3/06)
Radisson Hotels - Carlson Companies (11/5/06)
The Chrysler Building in New York - Tishman Speyer (real estate developers (11/5/06)
Sheaffer writing instruments - BIC USA, Inc. (11/5/06)
YouTube (a website to which one can upload video clips for others to view) - Purchased in October, 2006 by Google for $1.65 billion in shares. (According to the October 14, 2006 edition of The Economist, “Every day YouTube fans upload 65,000 videos and watch 100m.” Also, “Google has the largest online network of advertisers.” And, “The main benefit of the deal ... may be the difficulties it creates for Google's rivals. Yahoo! and Microsoft, as well as News Corporation and Viacom, two media giants, all wanted YouTube. But Google pre-empted them, just as it denied them access to AOL, another portal, in which it bought a defensive stake last winter.” (11/5/06)
Virgin Mobile mobile phone service provider - NTL (a British cable television company (11/5/06)
Fisher-Price toys and games - [“You can tell it’s] Mattel [-- it’s swell!”] (10/22/06)
Simon and Schuster publishers - CBS (10/22/06)
Unocal - Purchased in 2005 by Chevron (9/30/06)
MySpace.com - Purchased in July, 2005 by News Corporation (does the name “Fox” ring a bell with you? How about Rupert Murdoch?) for $580 million. It has 108 million users. According to the April 1, 2006 edition of The Economist, “MySpace is now earning advertising revenues of about $13m [that’s ‘million’] a month ...” According to the July 29, 2006 edition of The Economist, “The social-networking site had 17m unique monthly visitors last July; ... now it has 54m, and is the most visited website in America.” According to the September 16, 2006 edition of The Economist, in August, 2006, “MySpace made a deal allowing Google, an internet-search giant, to sell a big chunk of ad space on MySpace and on News Corp’s other websites over the next three years. Google has guaranteed a minimum of $900 in revenue in return.” (9/30/06)
Autostrade (operator of toll-roads in Europe) - the biggest shareholder is Edizione Holding, the [United Colors of] Benetton family’s holding company (9/3/06)
Hard Rock Cafe (operates in 43 countries) - Rank (a Britain-based company whose core business is gambling) (8/8/06)
IBM personal computers - Purchased in 2004 by Lenovo (according to The Economist, “arguably China’s most important company”) for $1.25 billion (8/8/06)
DHL delivery service - Deutsche Post (Germany’s Post Office) (6/25/06)
Skype VOIP (‘voice over internet protocol’) which allows phone calls to be made over the internet - Purchased in 2005 by eBay for $2.6 billion (Source: The Economist, May 27, 2006) (6/11/06)
London Stock Exchange - NASDAQ recently revealed that it had become the LSE’s largest shareholder when it obtained a 15% stake for $780,000.000. It has even more recently increased its stake to 18.7%. And then, it has even further increased its stake to 24.1%. (British “takeover rules” prevent NASDAQ from either making another takeover bid before October, 2006 or increasing its ownership stake above 29.9%.) (Source: The Economist, April 15, 2006, May 6, 2006, May 13, 2006, May 27, 2006) (6/11/06)
NASDAQ - French insurance company AXA has recently taken a 10.6% stake in NASDAQ. (5/21/06)
“Bird Friendly®” - The combination of the word “bird” and the word “friendly” was created by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center [probably ®] at the National Zoological Park [probably ®], and is a registered trademark (“®”) owned by the Smithsonian Institution [probably ®]. (5/8/06)
Duracell - Owned by Gillette (4/25/06)
Gillette (which controls three-quarters of the world market in razors and shaving cream) - Purchased in 2005 by Procter & Gamble for $57 billion (4/25/06)
Wella - Purchased in 2003 by Procter & Gamble for $5.7 billion (4/25/06)
Clairol - Purchased in 2001 by Procter & Gamble for $5 billion (4/25/06)
Tom’s of Maine - Purchased in 2006 by Colgate-Palmolive for $100 million. (4/25/06)
Hollister - Owned by Abercrombie & Fitch (4/19/06)
The Body Shop - Purchased in 2006 by L’Oreal. (4/7/06)
WEARING APPAREL:
Reebok - Adidas (3/4/07)
Banana Republic - Gap (3/4/07)
Old Navy clothing stores - Gap (3/4/07)
ENTERTAINMENT:
BET (Black Entertainment Television) cable station - Viacom. (According to the October 14, 2006 edition of The Economist, "MTV Networks ... along with BET ... brings in just over 60% of Viacom’s revenues.”) (11/5/06)
MTV - Viacom (10/22/06)
Pixar animated film studio co-founded by Steve Jobs - Purchased in 2006 by The Walt Disney Company (9/30/06)
Touchstone studio - The Walt Disney Company (9/30/06)
Mirimax studio - The Walt Disney Company (9/30/06)
ESPN - The Walt Disney Company (9/30/06)
Dream Works SKG - Purchased in February, 2006 by Viacom (9/30/06)
DirectTV (satellite-delivered television programming - News Corporation (9/30/06)
PUBLISHING (INCLUDING NEWSPAPERS):
New York Post - News Corporation (12/3/06)
Harper Collins publishers - News Corporation (12/3/06)
Bloomberg data and news service - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (12/3/06)
Boston Globe - The New York Company (According to the November 4, 2006 edition of The Economist, Jack Welch, former boss of General Electric, wants to buy the Globe) (12/3/06)
Los Angeles Times - The Tribune Company (which also owns Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, two dozen television stations and The Chicago Cubs) (12/3/06)
Simon and Schuster publishers - CBS (10/22/06)
The New York Times - Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, owns a 5.6% stake of the New York Times Company (6/25/06)
FOOD AND DRINK:
Kentucky Fried Chicken - Yum Brands (5/6/07)
Taco Bell - Yum Brands (5/6/07)
Gerber (baby-food business) - Novartis, a Swiss drugs company (5/6/07)
Manischewitz - R.A.B. Food Group (of Seacaucus, New Jersey). Manischewitz was founded in Cincinnati by Rabbi Dov Ber Manischewitz to produce Matzoh. Manischewitz also produces matzoh under the Horowitz-Margareten and Goodman’s brands. (5/6/07)
Milka brand German chocolate - Kraft Foods (3/4/07)
Scharfen Berger brand chocolate - Purchased in 2005 by Hershey’s (3/4/07)
Joseph Schmidt brand chocolate truffles - Hershey’s (3/4/07)
Häagen-Dazs brand ice cream - Nestlé. (In 1983, Häagen-Dazs was acquired by Pillsbury for $70 million.) (3/4/07)
Breyers brand ice cream - Unilever (an Anglo-Dutch consumer-goods giant) (3/4/07)
Skippy brand peanut butter - Unilever (12/3/06)
Arrowhead Water - Nestlé (12/3/06)
Poland Spring (the top-selling spring-water brand in America - Nestlé (11/5/06)
TGI Friday’s restaurant chain - Carlson Companies (11/5/06)
Chipotle Mexican food chain - McDonalds (10/22/06)
El Pollo Loco - Trimarin Capital Partners (a New York-based private-equity group (10/22/06)
Baja Fresh - Purchased in 2002 by Wendy’s (10/22/06)
Baskin-Robbins - Dunkin’ Brands (the firm behind Dunkin’ Donuts) (10/22/06)
Nestea - Coca-Cola (10/22/06)
Minute Maid juices - Coca-Cola (10/22/06)
Dasani water - Coca-Cola (10/22/06)
Aquafina water - PepsiCo (10/22/06)
Gatorade sports drinks - Quaker (9/30/06)
Quaker - PepsiCo (9/30/06)
Tropicana juices - PepsiCo (9/30/06)
Lipton - Unilever (9/30/06)
Good Humor Ice Cream - Owned by Unilever (9/30/06)
Ben & Jerry’s - Purchased in 2000 by Unilever. (According to the March 25, 2006 edition of The Economist, "Ben & Jerry’s latest social audit says a survey of employees found that only 45% thought that top management was taking the company’s social mission seriously.”) (9/30/06)
Trident gum - Cadbury-Schweppes (9/30/06)
Dentyne - Cadbury-Schweppes (9/30/06)
Halls cough drops - Cadbury-Schweppes (9/30/06)
Dr Pepper - Cadbury-Schweppes (9/30/06)
7-Up - Cadbury-Schweppes (9/30/06)
Tazo brand specialty teas - Starbucks Corporation (8/8/06)
Hear Music Coffeehouse - Starbucks Corporation (8/8/06)
Albertson’s supermarket - Supervalu (6/25/06)
Cascadian Farm organic foods brand - General Foods (6/11/06)
Muir Glen organic foods brand - General Foods (6/11/06)
Kashi organic cereal - Kellogg (6/11/06)
Keebler - Kellogg (6/11/06)
Johnny Walker Whiskey - Diageo (5/8/06)
Guiness - Diageo (5/8/06)
AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY:
Bentley - Volkswagen (5/6/07)
Bugatti - Volkswagen (5/6/07)
Lamborghini - Volkswagen (5/6/07)
Volkswagen - Porsche owns 27.4% of Volkswagen (5/6/07)
Scion automobiles - Toyota (10/22/06)
Nissan - a 44% interest is owned by Renault (9/30/06)
Aston Martin luxury automobiles - Ford (9/30/06)
Jaguar - purchased in 1989 by Ford. Since then, Jaguar has cost Ford $10 billion (Source: The Economist, August 26, 2006) (9/3/06)
Saturn - General Motors (6/25/06)
Saab - General Motors (6/25/06)
Hummer - General Motors (6/25/06)
Rolls-Royce - BMW (6/25/06)
