Österreichische Industrieholding


The Österreichische Bundes- und Industriebeteiligungen GmbH or short ÖBIB, is a state holding company that can be characterized as a National Wealth Fund. It administers the investments of the Republic of Austria in partially or entirely nationalized companies. It is headquartered in Vienna.

History

In 1967 the Österreichische Industrieverwaltungs-GmbH was established to centralize the administration of the interests in nationalized companies. It was transformed to the Österreichische Industrieverwaltungs-AG in 1970 and at the same instant got assigned the shares of the nationalized companies. The ÖIAG and the companies it owned formed a group, the Austrian Industries AG until 1993 when this group was split and the ÖIAG was instructed to privatize the companies it owned.
In 2015, the Austrian state holding ÖIAG was turned into a limited liability company called Österreichische Bundes- und Industriebeteiligungsholding, which is permitted to make new acquisitions and which will report directly to the Ministry of Finance.

Investments

The ÖBIB holds shares in:
Severe protests from politicians, unions and workers' councils were the results of the privatisation of some of the ÖBIB’s former investments. Former investments were: