List of privatizations

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List of privatizations is a link list for notable privatizations. See also: Privatization.

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[edit] Argentina

[edit] Australia

[edit] Bahrain

  • Bahrain Telecommunications Co. (Q1 2005, $800 million)

[edit] Brazil

[edit] Canada

[edit] Czechoslovakia

  • Virtually everything after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. See voucher privatization in Czechoslovakia for details.

[edit] Finland

[edit] France

  • France Télécom (the French State is under 50% of France Télécom since september 2004)
  • Snecma (in 2004 they sold 35% of Snecma for €1.45 billion)
  • Pages Jaunes (Yellow Pages) (in 2004 they sold 32% of Pages Jaunes for €1.25 billion)
  • SNCM (Société Nationale Maritime Corse Méditerranée) Ferry company. Privatized end of 2005.
  • Électricité de France (EDF) (in december 2005 they sold 30% of EDF)
  • Gaz de France (GDF) Prime minister Dominique de Villepin announced a merger between GDF and Suez company; since the state owns 80% of GDF, a new law would have to be passed in order to accept a privatization of GDF; the state would control only 34% of the capital of the new group [1].

[edit] Germany

[edit] Greece

  • OTE (Οργανισμός Τηλεπικοινωνιών Ελλάδος/Hellenic Telecommunications Company) was partly privatised in the 1990s, when its only shareholder at the time, the Hellenic State, reduced its share at the company to 36%
  • Olympic Airways at first, then Olympic Airlines. The Hellenic State attempted to privatise the ailing airlines five times, more or less, within the last 10 years.

[edit] India

  • One of the few countries where privatization and globalization efforts have been carried out at the same time, and quite successfully, within a short span of a little over a decade. These efforts are ongoing and will continue over the next several years.
  • Maruti
  • BSNL

[edit] Iraq

  • (planned) most industries except oil, at the behest of the United States occupation government.

[edit] Ireland

[edit] Italy

  • Enel S.p.A. (1999 32% €16.6 billion, 2003 6.6% €2.2 billion, 2004 20% €7.5 billion) ([3])
  • Terna (Enel sold 43.5% for €1.48 billion in June 2004) ([4])

[edit] Jordan

  • Aramex International (Q1 2005, 75% for $150-200 million)

[edit] Japan

[edit] Kuwait

  • Kuwait Finance House (November 20004, 25% of the company for $1 billion)

[edit] Malaysia

[edit] Netherlands

[edit] New Zealand

For more, see also: State-Owned Enterprises of New Zealand and Rogernomics

[edit] Qatar

  • Q-Gas (Q1 2005, 50% for $600 million)

[edit] Romania

  • Electrica - electricity distributor
  • Petrom - national petroleum company
  • Romtelecom - national telecommunications company
  • Sidex - steelworks

[edit] Saudi Arabia

[edit] Spain

[edit] Sweden

  • Nordea (19.5% owned by Swedish government) ([5])
  • OMX (6.75% directly owned by Swedish government) ([6])
  • SAS (50% owned by Swedish, Danish, Norwegian government) ([7])
  • Telia Sonera (56.68% owned by Swedish and Finnish government) ([8])

[edit] Planned privatisations

  • All of the above (Nordea, OMX, SAS and Telia Sonera)
  • SBAB
  • Vin & Sprit
  • Vasakronan

[edit] United Arab Emirates

  • Damas Jewelry (November 2004, 55% of the company for $224 million)

[edit] United Kingdom


Privatisations by share offer, 1981-91 From Nigel Lawson, The View from No. 11 (Bantam, 1992).
Date Company % of equity initially sold Proceeds £m
Feb 1981 British Aerospace 51.6 150
Oct 1981 Cable & Wireless 50 224
Feb 1982 Amersham International 100 71
Nov 1982 Britoil 51 549
Feb 1983 Associated British Ports 51.5 22
June 1984 Enterprise Oil 100 392
July 1984 Jaguar 99 294
Nov 1984 British Telecom 50.2 3,916
Dec 1986 British Gas 97 5,434
Feb 1987 British Airways 100 900
May 1987 Rolls-Royce 100 1,363
July 1987 British Airports Authority 100 1,281
Dec 1988 British Steel 100 2,500
Dec 1989 Regional Water Companies 100 5,110
Dec 1990 Electricity Distribution Companies 100 5,092
Mar 1991 National Power and PowerGen 60 2,230
May 1991 Scottish Power and Scottish Hydro Electric 100 2,880

[edit] United States

[edit] References

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