Domestic chains such as the 500-store Xi-Shu franchise are taking market share from state-owned Xinhua, while foreign publishers such as Pearson (part-owner of The Economist) and Bertelsmann's Random House are looking for local distribution channels.
First, a bull market, and the shining success of Deutsche Telekom, the former state-owned telecommunications monopoly whose share price has risen 50% since the firm's widely publicised flotation in November, has made German investors increasingly adventuresome.
About half of bank lending goes to state-owned enterprises, although that share is falling.
Private banks will keep gaining market share from state-owned banks in the next decade, he predicts.
State-owned firms are trying to gain share online, with ventures by CCTV, public listing of the new media arms of state media firms etc.
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Kalbe now has a 17.4% market share in generic drugs, almost even with Indofarma, the state-owned pharmaceutical company, which has a 17.6% share.
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In part, this is due to a quirk of the rules that oblige Western oil firms to share the crude they produce with state-owned oil firms in many countries.
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China's small and medium enterprises, for example, paid a dear price as state-owned entities and local governments received the lion's share of the limited supply of loans from commercial banks.
State-owned banks control 75% of total banking assets, a share second only to that of China (83%) among the large developing economies.
Her husband, Pradeep Kariyawasam, is being investigated over a questionable share transaction effected while he was chairman of the state-owned National Savings Bank.
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Whereas civil servants and employees in state-owned firms used to make up nearly 80% of all urban workers, their share is now down to 20%.
Angola's oil industry is dominated by Sonangol, the state-owned company that gives concessions to international oil companies and, over time, takes in the lion's share of the profits.
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When it comes to movie tickets, state-owned distributor China Film Group has recently sought to deduct the cost of the tax entirely from foreign producers' share of the box office, said several people involved in international film distribution.
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