Ford Motor Company, which already owns a controlling stake in Japan's Mazda, is the third bidder.
And to Hitachi Display, which makes small LCD screens for mobile phones, about buying a controlling stake.
HSBC entered into exclusive talks to buy a controlling stake in Nedbank, South Africa’s fourthlargest bank by assets.
In April it took a controlling stake in Yinlu Foods Group, a family-owned maker of peanut milk and canned rice porridge.
He read the internal politics of the sprawling Bancroft clan, which owns a controlling stake in Dow Jones, perfectly—perhaps better than he reads his own family.
