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	Lists of corporate assets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Much of the world's assets, particularly in the media industry, are concentrated in the hands of a small number of large corporations.
		This page is an index for lists of assets owned by large corporations.
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	Bertelsmann to Buy Back 25% Stake for $5.8 Billion - New York Times
		Bertelsmann is also talking with Sony about possibly refinancing its stake in the Sony BMG venture, which could be a first move in stepping away from recorded music, people involved in those talks said.
		While Bertelsmann will remain a player in global media, it is likely to adopt a lower profile, returning to its roots as a family-owned enterprise in Gütersloh, a sleepy town in the northern part of the Westphalia region.
		Thielen said Bertelsmann, having decided against a stock offering, needed to act quickly because the value of the stake held by Groupe Bruxelles Lambert would have increased substantially by the end of the year as a result of Bertelsmann's strong financial performance.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/05/26/business/worldbusiness/26bertelsmann.html?ex=1306296000&en=9975eaa61c77d4b9&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (939 words)

	General Electric - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		In 1896, General Electric was one of the original 12 companies listed on the newly-formed Dow Jones Industrial Average.
		In 2004, GE bought from Vivendi Universal the television and movie assets and became the third largest media conglomerate in the world.
		The list of GE businesses varies over time as the result of acquisitions and reorganizations.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/GE (1012 words)

	Bertelsmann Weighs End to Its Privacy - New York Times
		Bertelsmann took on the Brussels-based Bruxelles Lambert as an outside shareholder in 2001 as part of a complex swap in which it acquired the investment firm's 30 percent holding in the RTL Group, Europe's largest television broadcaster.
		To raise cash for a buyback, Bertelsmann may have to sell major assets, according to the executives, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
		Bertelsmann recently succeeded in replacing the chief executive of Sony BMG, Andrew Lack, with its own representative, Rolf Schmidt-Holtz.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/03/23/business/worldbusiness/23place.html?ex=1300770000&en=ebfa2c4d8620ee45&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (782 words)

	Lawsuit targets Bertelsmann over Napster \| CNET News.com
		The complaint alleges that Bertelsmann "was fully aware of the critical role its funding played in facilitating infringement by Napster users" and therefore "systematically participated in, facilitated, materially contributed to and encouraged" illegal music file swapping.
		Bertelsmann spokeswoman Liz Young said she was unaware of the suit.
		In October 2000, Bertelsmann stunned the entertainment world when it announced that it would invest in Napster--even though BMG Entertainment, a record company owned by Bertelsmann, was suing the file-swapping software company.
	news.com.com /2100-1023-985285.html (814 words)

	Night Shade Books - Editorials
		Bertelsmann, who previously owned Bantam/Doubleday/Dell and all their associated imprints, bought up Random House (and all of THEIR associated imprints) in a 1998 deal that made Bertelsmann the largest English Language publishing house in the world, and is still sending shockwaves through the industry.
		Bertelsmann has spent the last 5 years reorganizing and streamlining its many competing imprints, shaking up senior editors, and in the last couple of years, instituting massive cost saving measures.
		It is Ironic that Bertelsmann had been courting the sinking ship AOL Time Warner, because Bertelsmann has been looking like a ship that, while not sinking, has at least been floundering.
	www.nightshadebooks.com /edit12.aspx (2341 words)

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		Scriba once owned twenty-five percent of Regency Enterprises (maker of Oliver Stone's JFK and Michael Douglas's Falling Down), which is controlled by Israeli producer Arnon Milchan.
		As one Bertelsmann executive tells it, owning a studio would be profitable only if Bertelsmann could also hold a stake in an American TV network, which would guarantee it distribution of its product.
		When asked if Bertelsmann would buy an American film studio if the foreign-ownership rule were changed (it's currently under review by Congress), Zelnick does not hesitate.
	hs.riverdale.k12.or.us /~dthompso/german/movies/boot/tinseltown.html (2474 words)

	Foreign Policy Section
		Conversely, Bertelsmann, though a major player in Germany in 1986, was barely visible in the United States.
		Bertelsmann also has had difficulty maintaining all the parts of its global enterprise: It recently fired its top executive and is planning to shed its online bookstore.
		It found that 29 percent of the world's largest newspapers are state owned and another 57 percent are family owned.
	www.defencejournal.com /2002/dec/globalmedia.htm (2825 words)

	GE
		Mergers with competitors and the patent rights owned by each company put them into dominant positions in the electrical industry.
		The company describes itself as composed of a number of primary business units or "businesses." Each "business" is itself a vast enterprise, any of which would, even as a standalone company, rank in the Fortune 500.
		The list of GE businesses varies over time as the result of acquisitions, divestitures and reorganizations.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/ge.html (1257 words)

	Telwares (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		While that is less than the 1,933% average for companies on last year's list, it is nonetheless dramatic in the current environment.
		The magazine is owned by Gruner + Jahr USA, one of the top-ranked magazine publishers in the U.S., reaching one of the largest readerships in America.
		G+J USA is 25.1% owned by the Jahr Group and 74.9% owned by Bertelsmann AG, the largest privately held and the fifth largest media company overall in the world with yearly revenues at $17.86 billion.
	www.telwares.com /5_news/pr102102_fast.asp (520 words)

	RhymeState.com - Record Label Information and Release List - RCA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The seizure of the assets of Italian-owned American Marconi by the United States Navy and the cooperation between the General Electric, United Fruit and Westinghouse Electric laid the groundwork for the Radio Corporation of America, RCA.
		They formed RCA in 1919, which was given the monopoly, as a publicly-held company owned in part by ATT and GE, and placed David Sarnoff in charge as General Manager.
		General Electric continues to own most of the remainder of what was once the RCA conglomerate, including the NBC television network.
	www.rhymestate.com /Pages/Labels.aspx?Label=RCA (844 words)

	Napster assets auctioned; Bertelsmann to bid high (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Bertelsmann is expected to be the highest bidder in the auction, as it guns to use Napster to launch an online music subscription service.
		What's more, Bertelsmann is offering to waive some $90 million in loans, plus an additional $5.1 million in debtor-in-possession credit it extended to keep Napster afloat, making its final bid worth more than $100 million, according to Rick Chance, managing director of investment banking at Trenwith.
		Despite Bertelsmann's hefty bid, Trenwith is casting a wide net for the Redwood City, Calif., company's assets, internationally and to a variety of industries, Chance said.
	www.computerworld.com /softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,73407,00.html (1023 words)

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		Bertelsmann, based in Guetersloh, Germany, controls a broad range of assets including pan-European broadcaster RTL Group (RTL.BT), the world's largest book publisher Random House, and a 50% stake in SonyBMG, a music joint venture with Japan's Sony Corp. (SNE).
		Bertelsmann repeated its earlier statement that it already meets the requirements of the capital markets.
		Bertelsmann Chief Financial Officer Thomas Rabe has repeatedly said that the company has room on its balance sheet to spend up to EUR3 billion on acquisitions and investments in the coming three years without jeopardizing its credit ratings.
	www.marketwatch.com /News/Story/Story.aspx?guid={E1FFF16F-AD56-4C7F-A118-6784B120D50F}&dist=rss&siteid=mktw (736 words)

	Aronsson's Telecom History Timeline
		Bertelsmann AG (BMG) to develop a membership-based distribution system that would guarantee payments to artists.
		Forbes listing of the world's richest people has (1) Bill Gates, Microsoft $51 billion, (2) Walton Family, Walmart $48 billion, (3) Sultan Bolkiah, Brunei $36 billion, and (4) Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway $33 billion.
		Forbes listing of the world's richest people has (1) Bill Gates, Microsoft $18 billion, (2) Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway $15 billion, (3) Paul Sacher Family, Switzerland $13 billion, and (4) Lee Shau Kee, Hong Kong $12 billion.
	aronsson.se /hist.html (19139 words)

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		It owned a network, a top record label, a magazine division, and a book operation, among other assets.
		Bertelsmann gives monopoly hysterics the heebie-jeebies, too, because it owns an extraordinary share of the U.S. book market.
		But Bertelsmann owes its Big Five standing, in part, to a pair of fortuitous investments it made in AOL and redeemed before the crash, turning a couple hundred million dollars into $6.7 billion.
	www.slate.com /toolbar.aspx?action=read&id=2104777 (1237 words)

	Globalvision News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		While Viacom, Disney, and AOL Time Warner are U.S. owned, many non-U.S.-owned companies dominate the roster of the largest media groups: News Corp. (Australia), Bertelsmann (Germany), Reed-Elsevier (Britain/Netherlands), Vivendi and Lagadere-Hachette (France), and Sony Corp. (Japan).
		Corporate-owned newspapers may actually provide better products than those that are family owned: Research suggests that large, chain-owned newspapers devote more space to editorial material than papers owned by small firms.
		Although news is low on the list of its uses, the Internet functions in much the same way as older news media: offering opportunities for both those who directly seek news sites and those who chance upon news links serendipitously.
	www.gvnews.net /html/Opinion/alert697.html (2984 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Bertelsmann owns RTL Group, Europe's No. 1 broadcaster, and Gruner and Jahr AG, Europe's biggest magazine publisher.
		Bertelsmann dwarfed Springer with net income of 1.03 billion euros last year on sales of 17 billion euros.
		Bertelsmann, which started in 1835 as a publisher of hymnbooks, is controlled by the Mohn family, descendents of the company's founder.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=alJS.RoXtWec&refer=europe (1356 words)

	Business Relationships of Media Giants
		Historians hired by Bertelsmann have revealed that the firm -- which had painted itself as an opponent of the Nazis -- was actually the largest producer of books and propaganda for the German army during World War II.
		Instead, the researchers tentatively concluded that Bertelsmann was closed in 1944 because it was not considered essential to the war effort.
		A corporate history prepared for the group's 150th anniversary in 1985 claimed that Bertelsmann was shut down by the Nazis because of the religious convictions of its chairman at the time.
	www.fathersforlife.org /culture/chart.htm (1366 words)

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		UFO was developed to replace the Fleet Communications Satellite (FLTSAT) and Leased Communications Satellite (LEASAT) assets as they reach the end of their useful lives.
		It is owned mainly by big trading companies such as Itochu Corp. and Sumitomo Corp. The merged company, called Japan Digital Broadcasting Services, will be capitalised at ¥40 billion.
	www.sat-net.com /listserver/sat-nd/msg00436.html (2194 words)

	Survived SARS: The Risks of Forex Accumulation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		It's a pretty effective listing of China's dilemmas, which are ultimately caused by the political commitment to control the fluctuation of the exchange rate.
		As liquid assets which are owned by the government and freely convertible, forex reserves do not impact the security of an economy directly.
		If China holds massive dollar assets, possible damages will be notable in the case of sharp depreciation of the dollar.
	survivedsars.typepad.com /survivedsars/2006/06/the_risks_of_fo.html (573 words)

	Killer App Thanks to its ballyhooed Napster alliance, Bertelsmann faces more than $17 billion in copyright lawsuits. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Though Bertelsmann's staid board has long since tried to wash its hands of the whole embarrassing affair--and of the would-be visionary CEO, Thomas Middelhoff, who succumbed to Napster's pirated siren song--Napster is not yet done with Bertelsmann.
		Bertelsmann had a vision that has come to be true: that peer-to-peer file sharing is a phenomenon that was here to stay.
		At the time of the Bertelsmann loan, Napster's cash was "down to in between $1 and $2 million," and the company could have lasted "a month or two" at most, according to the later testimony of Napster's CFO.
	money.cnn.com /magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/09/01/348194/index.htm (3199 words)

	EMI Sues Bertelsmann in Latest Napster Backlash
		The new legal action marks the third in a series of suits filed by record companies who feel their music was illegally downloaded and traded in peer-to-peer file-sharing.
		EMI claims Bertelsmann's investment in Napster in 2000 kept the service alive for another year, enabling people to continue to illegally download and swap EMI-owned songs.
		In 2000, Bertelsmann pumped more than $90 million worth of investments into the peer-to-peer firm as part of the media company's plans to create a legitimate online music subscription service.
	www.internetnews.com /bus-news/article.php/2217551 (547 words)

	Coolfer
		Bertelsmann, which owns half of the Sony BMG music group, will buy out the 25% of its stock that is owned by Albert Frere and expects to sell BMG Music Publishing to help fund the deal.
		The privately held company wanted to avoid seeing Frere publicly list that share of the company it did not own.
		Vivendi's CEO is on the record as saying his company is interested in a "significant set" of music publishing assets.
	www.coolfer.com /blog/archives/2006/05/bertelsmann_avo.php (190 words)

	Bertelsmann Weighs End to Its Privacy \| StarNewsOnline.com \| Star-News \| Wilmington, NC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Thielen said Bertelsmann would achieve a 10 percent return on sales, compared with 9 percent last year, by 2007, when he is scheduled to retire as chief executive.
		Bertelsmann says it has taken steps to prepare itself to sell shares, which would rank among the largest stock sales in German history.
		It does not disclose the compensation of its top executives, for example, listing only an aggregate number of 39.6 million euros ($47.9 million) for its seven-member executive board.
	www.wilmingtonstar.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060323/ZNYT01/603230304/1002/BUSINESS (1265 words)

	BW Online \| March 12, 2002 \| Why Napster Won't Get Its Groove Back
		For the record, Bertelsmann maintains that it "remains committed to Napster in their efforts to bring to market a consumer-friendly, peer-to-peer, digital-music service that compensates artists and rights holders," though a spokeswoman declined to specify just how much of an investment that would entail.
		Since then, Bertelsmann has ponied up $36 million more to help Napster pay its settlement with the National Music Publishers Assn., plus a reported $7 million to $12 million for operating costs (see BW Online, 10/26/01, "Bertlesmann Has Napster Stuck in Its Head").
		While Bertelsmann reported profits of $844 million on sales of $17.4 billion in its last fiscal year, a closer look reveals problems at the operating level.
	www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/mar2002/nf20020312_6365.htm (1623 words)

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		It was the biggest corporate bankruptcy filing in a year and places the company 10th on the list of biggest bankruptcies.
		Mirant, which listed $20.6 billion in assets and $11.4 billion in debt, filed its Chapter 11 petition late Monday, the day before a $1.1 billion payment was due.
		The filing is the latest milestone of financial turmoil for the company, which joined its rivals in furiously selling assets, trimming the size of trading contracts and refinancing debt since the 2001 demise of Enron Corp.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/07/16/biz_bizdigest16.html (268 words)

	THE 1988 BILLIONAIRES, RANKED BY ASSETS - September 12, 1988 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Her assets are as strong as ever, but the Queen has had to bounce back from meningitis.
		Owns Quelle, Europe's largest mail-order catalogue business.She became an apprentice at 16 in a wholesale linen and woolen company owned by Gustav Schickedanz.
		The list includes individuals or a ''nuclear'' family composed of husband and wife, parent and child, siblings, or some combination of those relationships.
	money.cnn.com /magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/09/12/70997 (8601 words)

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