List of privatizations by country
List of privatizations is a link list for notable privatizations. See also: Privatization.
- Qantas
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia
- Telstra (49% privatised; remaining 51% to be privatised soon)
- Commonwealth Serum Laboratories
- Commonwealth Industrial Gases
- Commonwealth Oil Refineries
- Electricity and gas supplies in Victoria
- State-owned betting agencies in most States
- Many long-distance and urban passenger railway services
- All freight railway services except Queensland Rail
- Most State-owned banks
- Government Printing Service (New South Wales)
- Government Cleaning Service (New South Wales)
- Government Insurance Office in New South Wales
- All public transport in Melbourne
- Sydney Airport
- Bahrain Telecommunications Co. (Q1 2005, $800 million)
- Air Canada
- Canadian National Railway
- Petro-Canada
- Telus - In the province of Alberta, formerly Alberta Government Telephones
- Uranium Industry in Saskatchewan
- Canadian National Railway
- Teleglobe - An international telco carrier.
- Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
- Nova Scotia Power
- Virtually everything after the Velvet Revolution in 1989
- 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)
- Deutsche Bundespost became
- Deutsche Post AG. Jan. 2005 - KfW buys 12% (€1.7 billion) to sell to public ([1]).
- Deutsche Telekom AG
- Postbank AG (in 2004 a minority stake was floated for €2.5 billion)
- Deutsche Bundesbahn became Deutsche Bahn AG in 1994
- 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
- (planned) most industries except oil, at the behest of the United States occupation government.
- Enel S.p.A. (1999 32% €16.6 billion, 2003 6.6% €2.2 billion, 2004 20% €7.5 billion) ([2])
- Terna (Enel sold 43.5% for €1.48 billion in June 2004) ([3])
- Aramex International (Q1 2005, 75% for $150-200 million)
- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
- Japan Post (half-privatized)
- Japan Tobacco
- Japan Railway (formerly Japanese National Railways)
- Kuwait Finance House (November 20004, 25% of the company for $1 billion)
- Al-Bilad Bank (November 2004, 50% valued at $400 million)
- Nordea (20% owned by Swedish government) ([4])
- OMX AB (6.9% directly owned by Swedish government) ([5])
- SAS (50% owned by Swedish, Danish, Norwegian government) ([6])
- Telia Sonera (65% owned by Swedish and Finnish government) ([7])
- PTT, the mail and telecom company
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen
For more, see also: state-owned enterprises
- Auckland International Airport
- Air New Zealand - subsequently rescued by the Crown
- Contact Energy
- Bank of New Zealand - subsequently rescued by the Crown, and later reprivatised
- Government Print
- Telecom New Zealand
- New Zealand Rail (later Tranz Rail) - Government repurchased the track lease
- various council-controlled organisations owned by territorial authorities
- Q-Gas (Q1 2005, 50% for $600 million)
- Damas Jewelry (November 2004, 55% of the company for $224 million)
- British Telecom
- British Steel
- British Gas
- British Airways
- British Airports Authority
- British Petroleum
- British Rail
- Cable and Wireless
- Water industry
- Electricity Industry
- One million council-owned houses sold to their tenants