France presented a list of companies.
The list included both state owned and private enterprises, similar to the situation in Italy. State owned enterprises had to remain under state control, while private enterprises could be negotiated directly with their owners.
Among these were some special companies that the French government had confiscated after the war and were now directly selling.
The industries France offered for investment included oil, banking, steel, automobiles, machine tools, tobacco, insurance, liquefied gas, construction, aviation, and shipping.
Wells Fargo was planning to acquire a bank in France as part of its European expansion strategy. Hardy, on the other hand, instructed Andy to reach out to the shipping companies on the list to explore the possibility of investing in French shipping.
Hardy had already made up his mind.
