1.   Many large companies acquire overseas subsidiaries and others build up their overseas interests internally from retained earnings and local borrowings.

2.   Companies like Securicor of Britain and ADT, a unit of Tyco International, based in Exeter, N.H., have acquired South African subsidiaries over the last year.

3.   Spokeswomen for Abbott and for Baxter International said the companies acquired subsidiaries that made vaccines, and had little involvement with its manufacture.

4.   There are no group comparison figures as the subsidiaries were acquired during the year just ended.

5.   Saez said that a buyer had offered to acquire a subsidiary, Viva Air, but declined to identify the bidder.