Sentence examples for state shareholding from inspiring English sources
The state shareholding was reduced to zero last year after the government gradually sold off its shares.
"Because of the size of the state shareholding in R.B.S. and Lloyds, selling these shares will take a number of years," Mr. Hester said on Friday.
Labour has already called on Osborne to use the state shareholding to stop such a request if it is made and UK Financial Investments, which looks after the taxpayer stake, is thought to be considering abstaining if it is put to the annual meeting in May.
In a report on EDF's international strategy, the Cour des Comptes – the French equivalent of the UK's National Audit Office – said EDF and its 85% state shareholding should take a close look at the risks associated with the project to build two nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point in Somerset.
But large state shareholdings in each firm, plus national pride, have hampered consolidation.
Likewise, state shareholdings in companies like Gazprom are mainly for politics, not profits.
Now would be a perfect moment for the government to push India's banking reforms further, by selling down state shareholdings and by encouraging further consolidation.
Critics fear that he or she might be a representative of the APE (the agency for state shareholdings), which reports to the ministries of finance and industry.
In January 2006, says Mr Breton, he read a note by the public Agency for State Shareholdings, recommending that the state reduce its own stake in EADS as the company would soon enter "a zone of turbulence".
MARIGNANE, FRANCE — France will play a more active role in managing its state shareholdings, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday in unveiling policies aimed at halting the decline of French industry.
A new government agency, UK Financial Investments, is to manage the state shareholdings in RBS and Lloyds/HBOS, as well as Northern Rock, a mortgage bank nationalised in February, and the assets rescued from Bradford & Bingley in September.
