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Kraft went public Monday with a cash-and-stock bid for Cadbury, which had already rebuffed the advance in private.

PAGE: A lot of those companies were around for less than a year or two before they went public.

Goldman Sachs reported just its second quarterly loss since it went public and the first since the dark days of late 2008.

Her company, which went public to great acclaim a year ago, has not found the going so easy since.

He's married and has four kids, and when she first went public about the affair, he denied it and said that she had made up the whole story.

The second guy did all the same things but caught the wave a bit earlier and sold his venture for stock to a company that then went public.

So, over the weekend, Kim Lehman, one of Iowa's two Republican National Committee members, went public with doubts on Obama's Christianity.

But some of the beliefs on which the firm was founded have been eroded, especially since it went public in 1999.

Key state-owned insurance firms were reorganized and went public, promoting rapid development of the insurance industry.

In 1989, about a year after we went public, we had a horrible problem related to inventory management.

Starbucks has posted its first quarterly loss since the company went public in 1992.

Goldman also said in January that it would make the smallest employee payouts relative to revenue since the firm went public in 1999.

Despite its upbeat earnings report on Thursday, shares of GM sank to the lowest levels since the stock went public last November.

Representatives of Rodman & Renshaw, which itself went public by assuming the ticker of a defunct company, declined to comment.

The following January, Paul Warburg went public with his agitation for a central bank, publishing two articles on its behalf.

We went public only two years after the company was founded.

The stock price of Blackstone, a rival private-equity firm that went public in 2007, has tumbled to less than a third of its listing price.

Since Goldman went public in 1999, it has built its business around making markets and building market positions using its own capital.

Swayze went public with his illness last spring, and worked as he had treatment.

By the time HTC went public in 2002, it had expanded to North America.

In the year 2007, her father transferred the holding to her before the company went public.

Whitman said she went public with her story because she hoped to inspire ot hers to become organ donors.

Virtually all the companies mired in scandal today went public in the US through a reverse merger.

After J& J went public with a listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYX) in 1944, expansion and decentralization proceeded apace.

The company went public only two years later, and has since amassed a net worth of 1. 8 Billion.

The potential listing is one of the most highly anticipated IPOs since Google went public in 2004.

When Tanox went public in April 2000, it raised $244 million, which at the time was the largest biotech initial public offering.

Many companies that went public in the late 1990s boom did not.

eBay went public in 1998 and continues to see exponential growth.

Like millions of other baseball fans around the world, I had mixed emotions when the Mitchell Report went public last week.

The company went public in 2000, and is listed in Copenhagen.

It went public that September, with the ticker THIN, by merging with a shell company.

Renren, the Chinese Facebook clone that itself is called a rare social networking gem, went public in early May at $14 a share.

In the two weeks after the e-mails went public, one Cato scholar gave more than twenty media interviews trumpeting the alleged scandal.

During the two quarters before OpenTable went public, no venture-backed startups staged an IPO.

But that was before Michelle Obama went public on February 9 with her campaign against childhood obesity.

Bankers say a handful of funds that usually invest in private Asian firms are discreetly buying blocks of companies that just went public.

NEA sank about $120 million into SMIC, for instance, and the company went public three years ago.

With some deft financial maneuvers, these businesses essentially went public while sidestepping the usual rules.

SJM, which went public in July after repeatedly cutting its offering price to entice a sceptical market, has seen its valuation cut in half.

On the same day, Buffett went public with his concerns, calling Rosenfeld's proposal to issue more shares a "blank check. "

Several months later Expedia went public, a process Harford helped facilitate by running investor relations.

Yet since he went public with his revelations and criticisms, he was placed into an even darker solitary confinement.

Annual sales reached $350 million by 2006, the year the company went public.

He also reveals he was furious when Scowcroft went public with his opposition to the Iraq invasion.

Internet search giant Google Inc. has taken investors on a wild ride since it went public five years ago last Wednesday.

The Hyatt Hotels ( H - news - people ) chain, owned by Chicago's Pritzker family, also went public in November.

But when Apple went public in 1980, he refused to give any stock options to Daniel Kottke, a longtime supporter and soul mate from college.

Xinhua Finance went public on a section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2004, that market's first Chinese listing.

When they went public in 1991 , they revealed how easy it was to make circles even for men in their 60s .

Gain Capital Holdings Inc. and FXCM Inc. , two of the biggest online currency-trading firms, both went public in the past two weeks.

For most of that time, he has maintained a low profile, but he went public two weeks ago to launch a , semi-autobiographical novel.

In 1993, Martek went public after entering into similar license agreements with two additional infant formula companies.

BP was a cornerstone investor when PetroChina went public in 2000, buying 20 per cent of the listed shares.

Mr Wilson, 61, left Lazard Freres for Goldman in 1998, a year before the investment bank went public.

In the second quarter, Goldman's VaR climbed to $245 million, its highest quarterly level since the firm went public in 1999.

Linux and fetchmail both went public with strong, attractive basic designs.

In 1999 Goldman went public, allowing employees to sell their shares for immediate gain. Mr Weinberg had deep reservations.

Investors probably care less now about litigation than when its rival went public.

she says he's married and has four children, and when the student first went public about their affair, he denied it.

So? So, right after my company went public, my partner's wife left him and took their two-year-old daughter.

Sales skyrocketed, from $2 million in 1977 to $600 million in 1981, the year the company went public.

And then the company went public in 1995 and raised 35 million dollars.

When the most exciting international companies went public, nearly all chose to list on US exchanges.

The company went public on Nasdaq in 2006.

But on Tuesday, the Agricultural Bank of China embraced a capitalist's dream: it went public.

First came the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), whose share price has rocketed since it went public in 2002.

On July 25, a company backed by Battery, Blade Logic, which makes software to automate data centers, went public.

Google went public with a 24% operating margin.

At the peak of the dotcom bubble, 225 start-ups on average went public each year.

The disagreement between Mr Huang and Mr Chen went public in August.

LinkedIn, which went public last month, revealed that it earned just $15 million in 2010.

Goldman Sachs registered a quarterly loss for only the second time since it went public in 1999.

The remaining Chinese offerings returned a more modest average of 5. 9% when they went public.

But rather than keep it in the family, Fukuyama went public.

Then the competitions went public.

In 2006, it went public on the New York Stock Exchange, making Yu a billionaire.

When Blackstone went public in 2007, he and his co-founder, Peter Peterson, sold shares worth a combined $2. 6 billion.

The government found it to contain nothing that was actually detrimental to human beings, and it went public, so to speak.

Mr. Smith went public today that he was retiring.

The Kuwait Investment Authority took a stake in Industrial and Commercial Bank of China when the Chinese bank went public in 2006.

Green Dot went public in 2010: Sequoia's original $5. 8 million stake is now worth around $270 million.

First Solar, a 13-year-old Arizona-based firm that went public in 2006, was until recently the world's largest solar-panel manufacturer.

It went public in December and enjoys a $650 million market value.

But even OpenTable's $2. 1 billion value is only 38 times its sales in 2008, before it went public.

In the late 90's when all looked bleak, one company that broke through was eBay(EBAY); it went public in the fall of 98.

When Google went public in 2004, estimates were that the IPO created more than 1, 000 paper millionaires on the first day.

The report said the problems all occurred in 2005, the year BoCom listed in Hong Kong and well before both BoC and CMB went public.

You know, in the last five, four years, many Taiwanese companies went public on Hong Kong's stock exchange.

Bill Gates controlled only 49. 2 percent of Microsoft as it went public in 1986.

Many internet firms that went public in the late 1990s could not say the same.

Only six venture-backed firms went public in 2008.

When Apple went public in 1980, its market value hit more than $1bn.

India's largest microlender, SKS Microfinance, went public this summer, raising $358 million, and other banks may do the same.

'People called us a one-trick pony when we went public in 1993, ' Otto recalls.

Since Starbucks went public in 1992, its stock has soared by some 6, 400%.

Only six companies that were backed by venture capital went public last year, the lowest numbers since the 1970s.

Coke's possible reunion with CCE, which went public in 1986, mirrors the steps PepsiCo took last year to snap up its largest bottlers.

And Mixi, the dominant site in Japan, went public this week in a spectacular debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Dangdang, which went public in the US late last year and once counted as 360buy's closest rival, is seeing margins slide.

Nearly one in 10 American companies that went public last year did so outside the United States.

24 state-owned companies went public last year, with another 16 and secondary IPOs expected in 2011.

Renren, the Chinese networking site that went public last week, is valued at $6. 7bn, or 90 times last year's sales.

I have known CIC since it bought a 9. 4 per cent non-voting interest in Blackstone when we went public last year.

The company went public after having been closely held for

In 1993, Hong Kong Lenovo went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in a US $12 million IPO.

I bought shares soon after the firm went public in 1999 and held them until I sold them last year, as I reported in this column.

Tencent went public in June 2004 on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Google went public on NASDAQ in August 2004.

From 1991 to 2000, typically 150 venture-backed companies went public every year on Wall Street;