I need help with a question??
 

I have one question for my MBA class that I cannot find an answer too:

Name a company that originated in the US, was then purchased and operated by another company in a foreign country, and then was bought back from a company here in the US and is still operating today?

Anyone have any ideas?

The Jim Henson Company was sold to EM.TV in 2000 and then bought back in 2003.

http://www.muppetcentral.com/news/2000/022100.shtml

http://www.muppetcentral.com/news/2003/

Great, thank you very much. How in the hell did you find it??

Well, actually I already knew about it.

All I had to do was search for "Jim Henson Company sold to Germany" to find those articles.

Not sure exactly how you'd find out something like that if you didn't already know. So, in that way I have failed you. I suppose you could search periodicals in your library databases (Lexis-Nexis, etc.); but something that vague would take some time to research. Start with U.S. companies sold to foreign countries ... then use that list to see if any were bought back?

I don't know if your concept of "company" fits these two, but I kind of enjoyed watching the dynamics of these two businesses since they were purchased by foreign investors and eventually resold at what I think were large losses back to "American" ownership, the Pebble Beach and Rockefeller Center Enterprises:
http://www.pebblebeach.com/
http://www.rockefellercenter.com/