Thursday, August 11, 2011

Ethiopia to sell 18 more state-owned enterprises

(August 10th, 2011, African Capital Markets News ) -- Ethiopia’s Privatization and Public Enterprises Supervising Agency (PPESA – www.ppesa.gov.et) has privatised 287 enterprises since 1995, according to a news report in the local Fortune newspaper.

The agency plans to sell 18 companies in direct sales and 5 companies in joint ventures, estimating to collect Birr 1bn ($59 million) during the fiscal year to 7 July 2012.

During the 2009/10 fiscal year, PPESA sold 18 enterprises, an improvement of nearly 50% on the previous year. 

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