0 an occasion when a company's shares are sold to the public for the first time:
2 a situation in which a company offers shares for sale on a stock market for the first time:
Shares fell one point to 138p, their lowest level since flotation in May.
a planned/proposed/possible flotation Interest from institutional investors in a possible flotation is rumoured to be strong.
Several subsidiaries were sold during a public flotation in 2005.
flotation of sth Finance experts have predicted a wave of flotations of private equity firms.
£500 million/$2.4 billion, etc. flotation Plans will be announced for a $1.1 billion flotation later today.
Publicly, the firm remains committed to a stock market flotation, which is likely to value it at up to pounds 4.5 bn.
The French media giant is the latest in a series of companies to abandon flotation plans.
Shares ended the week at 392p, compared with their 380p flotation price.
Advertising to publicise the offer for sale of the 12 regional electricity companies will be undertaken to inform the public of the forthcoming flotations.
They should have encouraged savings, especially in the light of the huge windfalls that consumers were receiving from building societies and insurance companies following flotations.
Unfortunately, second-named account holders cannot risk taking the obvious step of changing the order of names on their account in anticipation of future flotations.
Each one cost a good deal of money in advertising and underwriting, and these three flotations happened to come together at a bad time.
The flotations so far, for whatever reason, have been far too greatly over-subscribed.
The latter part of 2000 was a period when stock markets were weak and there were very few flotations.
Arrangements for employees of the electricity supply industry will be announced at a suitable date closer to the flotations of the electricity companies.
The flotations of state-owned companies have been conducted with great and acknowledged success throughout the world.
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