Executives, investors and academics have formed a group aimed at smoothing the often contentious relationships between corporations and their shareholders.

The investors formed a new company - Military Armament Corporation - to make and sell this weapon.

He said that brokerage research could help investors form opinions about companies and that analysts' recommendations about stocks put the research into context.

In 1878, investors formed the National Bell company to make money from the patents.

Androsch and other Austrian investors formed a consortium with Cerberus Capital Management, which acquired the bank in 2006.

So great was the excitement that, in one 24-hour period, investors and promoters formed more than 500 "oil companies."

These investors formed loyalties to various factions and this caused infighting when the venture turned into chaotic failure.

Mr. Merin said that investors, particularly pension funds, were forming alliances with developers "to give them instant access" to product to buy.

He and other investors formed the Vermilion Coal Company.

The investors formed a company called Australiawide Airlines, which was officially incorporated on 12 February 2002.