31.   Overland Park-based Employers Reinsurance Corp., seeking to boost its international business, on Friday announced it had acquired a majority interest in a German company.

32.   PepsiCo Inc. plans to sell its majority interest in California Pizza Kitchen to a New York investment firm as it continues to unload some restaurant businesses, CPK said.

33.   Roche Holdings Ltd. of Switzerland holds a majority interest in Genentech, which is based in South San Francisco.

34.   Sears and Carrefour initially will share the majority interest in GlobalNetXchange, while Oracle will hold a minority interest and will provide software, implementation and support.

35.   RTZ originally held a majority interest in Conzinc Riotinto but reduced its holding to make CRA more Australian company.

36.   So Lincoln is the majority interest in the club, and thus on the hot seat.

37.   TBWA International said on Thursday that it had acquired a majority interest in Mark B TBWA, an agency in Copenhagen in which it formerly held a minority interest.

38.   The association also turned to big corporate investors, but it did not want to sell a majority interest in the plan and yield physician control.

39.   The change took place just months after Affiliated Managers Group of Boston bought a majority interest in Essex.

40.   The company owns a majority interest in three timber companies in the former Soviet Union and owns part of a metals manufacturing operation in St. Petersburg.