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Private equity backer TSG, which took a 22% stake in the brewer in 2017, is set to lose £27.6m.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

China is a top economic partner of Iran that buys much of its oil output and is also a key diplomatic backer.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

Gazprom publicly became the IBA’s financial backer, filling its coffers with tens of millions of dollars.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

Energy Transfer’s executive chairman Kelcy Warren, who Forbes estimates is worth over $9 billion, is a major backer of TXSE’s parent company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Ever attuned to the ebb and flow of research funding, he recognized that the government stood to become as generous a financial backer as the medical foundations he had mined to build the sixty-inch.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Saleh was interviewed in January, when Bab el-Mandeb was thrust into the power struggle between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the friendly-but-occasionally-fractious backers of Yemen’s internationally recognized government.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Besides Philippine telecom company Globe Telecom, which has a 34% stake in Mynt, backers include Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and private-equity firm Warburg Pincus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

OpenAI was founded in part because its backers, including first investor Elon Musk, feared that AI's development would end up in the hands of Google, which they believed could not be trusted with the technology.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

"I can't tell someone not to go to their sister's wedding," said one MP leading efforts to persuade backers of the bill to vote.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Sympathetic to Bobby’s plight, the committee circulated to its members a letter of protest that was ultimately sent to Icelandic Television, other media, and to the financial backers and distributors of the film.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady