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Companies portal; United Kingdom portal; This category includes articles on industries and companies that were nationalised by the government of the United Kingdom (but which were later re-privatised) and the legislation that brought them into state ownership.
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]
Adam and Company continued as an RBS private banking brand in Scotland, along the same lines as the Messrs. Drummond and Child & Co. businesses in England. [4] As part of the restructuring and brand management, it was decided that NatWest would become RBS Group's primary customer-facing brand in England and Wales.
NatWest Group plc [1] is a British banking and insurance holding company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.. The group operates a wide variety of banking brands offering personal and business banking, private banking, investment banking, insurance and corporate finance.
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Gas del Estado (1992) – national gas company partitioned and sold, among others, to the Spanish Gas Natural company Naturgy. Obras Sanitarias de la Nación (water company, 1992–93) - given under concession to the French conglomerate Suez , which operated it under the name Aguas Argentinas; re-nationalized in 2006 as Aguas y Saneamientos ...
It was the road transport company formed by the nationalisation of Britain's road haulage industry, under the British Transport Commission, as a result of the Transport Act 1947. [ 1 ] From 1963, the company was administered by the Transport Holding Company and had four main operating areas: British Road Services, BRS Parcels, Pickfords and ...
NatWest Offshore Limited was an Isle of Man-incorporated bank formed in 1997, with branches in Jersey, Guernsey and Gibraltar.The business was transferred to RBS International through private members' legislation passed in each of the four jurisdictions in 2001, with RBS retaining NatWest as a trading name as well as continuing its existing business.