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Article: West Africa.(Africa's Top Companies)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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Determining a list of the biggest companies in any part of the world can be a difficult exercise. Are fully or partly state owned companies to be included, and what about the subsidiaries of foreign companies? In an age where a company can be registered in one country, with operations based in another, and a board and shareholders scattered around the world, such a task can seem almost impossible.
In the case of West Africa this task is perhaps even more problematic. For the purposes of this survey, subsidiaries mainly or wholly owned by foreign companies have been included only where that offshoot is registered and based within West Africa.
Wholly state ...