The IPO year of SUEZ SA is 2008
Initial public offering is a type of public offering in which shares of a company usually are sold to institutional investors that in turn, sell to the general public, on a securities exchange, for the first time.
Through IPO a privately held company transforms into a public company. Initial public offerings are mostly used by companies to raise the expansion of capital, possibly to monetize the investments of early private investors, and to become publicly traded enterprises. A company selling shares is never required to repay the capital to its public investors. After the IPO, when shares trade freely in the open market, money passes between public investors.
Although IPO offers many advantages, there are also significant disadvantages, chief among these are the costs associated with the process and the requirement to disclose certain information that could prove helpful to competitors.
The IPO process is colloquially known as going public. Details of the proposed offering are disclosed to potential purchasers in the form of a lengthy document known as a prospectus. Most companies undertake an IPO with the assistance of an investment banking firm acting in the capacity of an underwriter. Underwriters provide several services, including help with correctly assessing the value of shares.
Suez SA, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the water cycle and waste cycle management business in France, rest of Europe, North America, South America, Africa, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific. The company operates through four segments: Water; Recycling and Recovery; Environmental Technology & Solutions; and Other. It provides water distribution and treatment services to individuals, local authorities, and industrial clients; and waste and waste treatment services, including collection, sorting, recycling, composting, energy recovery, and landfilling for non-hazardous waste for local authorities and industrial clients. The company also offers water network management services; technical assistance, operation, cleaning, and maintenance services; and spare parts, refurbishment, and associated services, as well as designs and operates storage facilities for hazardous and non-hazardous residual waste. In addition, it provides resources management consulting services; engineering and construction contracts and other services; and digital technology solutions for resource and asset protection, as well as deconstructs sites in the end-of-life phase and decontaminates soil and water tables. The company serves food and beverage, chemical and pharmaceutical, construction, site deconstruction and soil decontamination, mining and metals, oil and gas, power, pulp and paper, electronics and electrical, automotive, transport, and aeronautic industries. Suez SA was founded in 1869 and is headquartered in Paris, France. As of January 7, 2022, Suez SA operates as a subsidiary of Veolia Environnement S.A.