In September 1996, the national company "JSC Ekibastuzkomir" (and its mine Bogatyr) was privatised by the Kazakh government, the American company Access Industries bought the 70%-property of Bogatyr mine and Stepnoy mine, and the name was changed to Bogatyr Access Komyr, LLP.
When these government agencies became the privatised Deutsche Bahn AG, he kept his post.
British Gas was a nationalised industry at the time (before being privatised under the Gas Act 1986), and she and four other women claimed this was unlawful discrimination on grounds of sex, contrary to the Equal Treatment Directive (then 76/207/EEC, and now recast in 2006/54/EC).
The State mining company DSM (privatised in 1989) however remained active in Geleen, now purely as a chemicals producer.
After the 1951 General Elections the 1951–57 Conservative Government privatised most of the corporation, and in 1956 Parkgate was sold to Tube Investments.
In 1979 the refinery was renamed Teleajen after the nearby Teleajen River and held this name until 1998 when it was privatised and sold to the Russian company Lukoil for US$ 53 million; with this sale, the refinery's name became Petrotel-Lukoil.
In the early 1990s, Victoria's electricity industry was privatised by the Kennett Liberal State Government.
The first source of controversy in the Railtrack incident was the decision, taken at short notice with disregard for the regulator Tom Winsor, and implemented over a weekend, to ask the High Court to put the privatised railway infrastructure company Railtrack into railway administration, on 7 October 2001.
SWEB Energy, formerly South Western Electricity Board (SWEB) was a British state-owned Regional Electricity Company operating in South West England which was privatised by the Thatcher government.
The former state owned telephone monopoly (TPSA) has been mostly privatised, with France Telecom buying the largest share.
In 1997, John Prescott appointed a worker director overseeing some aspects of the now privatised industry.