SOGEPA (Societé de Gestion de Participations Aéronautiques) is a French
holding company
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owned completely by the
French Republic
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. It is one of the largest public bodies investing in European
aerospace
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technology, indirectly owning 11.11% shares of
Airbus
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as at 31 December 2016.
It was under supervision of
Agence des participations de l'État
''Agence des participations de l'État'' (APE, literally "State Participations Agency"), created in 2004 under the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin, is the French agency responsible for managing the State's shareholdings in companies of strateg ...
.
In 2014, SOGEPA became one of the major shareholders of
PSA Peugeot Citroën
The PSA Group (), legally known as Peugeot S.A. (Peugeot Société Anonyme, trading as Groupe PSA; formerly known as PSA Peugeot Citroën from 1991 to 2016) was a French multinational automotive manufacturing company which produced automobiles ...
(now
Stellantis
Stellantis N.V. is a multinational automotive manufacturing corporation formed in 2021 on the basis of a 50–50 cross-border merger between the Italian-American conglomerate Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and the French PSA Group. The comp ...
).
References
Holding companies of France
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