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  2. Privately held company - Wikipedia

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    Private companies may be called corporations, limited companies, limited liability companies, unlimited companies, or other names, depending on where and how they are organized and structured. In the United States but not generally in the United Kingdom , the term is also extended to partnerships , sole proprietorships or business trusts .

  3. List of privatizations by country - Wikipedia

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    The company was folded and re-created in 2009, and privatized in 2012, under the supervision of the EU and IMF, as it was part of the debt-restructuring process of 2012. OPAP (Lottery and Betting Monopoly) – privatization completed in 2013, when the last remaining government-owned stock was sold [15]

  4. Privatization in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Outright sale of public assets to a private company. In the United States, the contracting of management and operations to a private provider (outsourcing) has been more common than the sale of utility assets to private companies. No major U.S. city has sold its utility assets in recent decades, although some smaller water utilities have done ...

  5. Privatization - Wikipedia

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    There was "very little" privatization during 1992: only 22 state-owned enterprises were privatized. The pace picked up throughout the following year, with more than 260 companies privatized. [64] Four of the 22 enterprises privatized in 1992 were sold to foreign investors. [65] In 1993, 265 companies were privatized, followed by 604 in 1994.

  6. Water privatization in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, the private companies tended to focus more on profit maximization than on the quality and quantity of service provided because water is a natural monopoly. Because of this, by 2000 only 15% of water supply remained privatized. [4] [5] There have also been multiple examples of privatization contracts being terminated by the government.

  7. List of government-owned companies - Wikipedia

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    Privatization, or the selling of Crown corporations to private interests, has become common throughout Canada over the past 30 years. Petro-Canada, Canadian National Railway, and Air Canada are examples of former federal Crown corporations that have been privatized.

  8. Privatisation of public sector undertakings in India - Wikipedia

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    In strategic sectors with more than 4 PSU's, the government will privatise, merge or consolidate the PSU's under holding companies in order to reduce wasteful administrative costs. Nirmala Sitharaman stated that there is a need for a coherent policy where all sectors are open to private sector participation while PSU's play an important role in ...

  9. List of nationalizations by country - Wikipedia

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    Nationalisation dates back to the 'regies' or state monopolies organized under the Ancien Régime, for example, the monopoly on tobacco sales. Communications companies France Telecom and La Poste are relics of the state postal and telecommunications monopolies. There was a major expansion of the nationalised sector following World War II. [23]