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Ferrovial, S.A. ((:feroˈβjal)), previously Grupo Ferrovial, is a Spanish multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of transport, urban and services infrastructure. It is a publicly traded company and is part of the IBEX 35 capitalization-weighted stock market index. The company is headquartered in Madrid.〔"(Contacts )." Ferrovial. Retrieved on 3 February 2011. "Príncipe de Vergara 135, Madrid 28002"〕 ==History== The company was founded by Rafael del Pino y Moreno in 1952 as a railroad construction company called Ferrovial, from the Spanish word for "railroad". Ferrovial acquired 98.27% of Agromán,〔(Ferrovial Business Lines: 1990s )〕 another leading Spanish contractor in June 1995 and then set up Cintra in February 1998: presided over by Rafael del Pino Calvo-Sotelo, Cintra originally comprised three business lines: Car Parks, Toll Roads and Airports (the latter would eventually be separated from the other two business lines).〔(Official Cintra Website - History )〕 In the early years of the new millennium the company expanded acquiring 58.5% of the Polish construction company Budimex Dromex S.A. in April 2000〔(Investment Profile Poland: Page 21 )〕 and Bristol Airport in Southwest England in December 2000. Joaquín Ayuso was appointed CEO of the Ferrovial group in January 2002; Santiago Bergareche remained on the Board and was appointed Vice Chairman. In June 2002, Ferrovial acquired the concession for Sydney airport, the largest airport in Australia.〔(Ferrovial - History )〕 The company then expanded in the United Kingdom acquiring Amey plc, a British contractor and major investor in Tube Lines, one of the two public–private partnership companies responsible for the maintenance of London Underground's lines and rolling stock in April 2003〔(Spanish firm set to buy Amey )〕 and Belfast City Airport in May 2003.〔(Spanish firm secures Northern Ireland Airport )〕 Acquisitions continued: the Texan group Webber, specializing in civil engineering infrastructure, recycling of aggregates and extraction and supply of sand in Texas〔(Webber Acquisition )〕 and Swissport International were both bought in August 2005.〔(Ferrovial Agrees to Buy Swissport )〕 In 2006, a Ferrovial-led consortium purchased the British company BAA Limited, for £10bn〔( BAA agrees to Ferrovial takeover )〕 and BAA sold its stake in Bristol airport to Macquarie Airports.〔(Ferrovial Sells Bristol Airport Stake to Macquarie )〕 Then in 2007, Ferrovial finalised the sale of its stake in Sydney Airport and MAp exercised its call option on Ferrovial Airports' 20.9% stake in Sydney Airport for the agreed price of A$1.009 bn.〔(Ferrovial sells Sidney airport )〕 Also in 2007 Ferrovial sold Budapest Airport to a consortium led by Hochtief AirPort GmbH for £1.3bn 〔http://www.ferrovial.com/en/Press-Room/Announcements/BAA-announces-sale-of-Budapest-Airport-1309-billion〕 and announced changes in its corporate structure. Iñigo Meirás, former Head of the Services Division, was appointed CEO of the new Airports Division. Santiago Olivares, who was head of the international area of the Services division and CEO of the handling subsidiary, Swissport, was appointed CEO of Ferrovial Servicios. Enrique Díaz Rato, then CEO of Cintra, was appointed to head the Toll Roads & Car Parks Division.〔(Ferrovial Management Changes )〕 At the end of the year BAA finalised the sale of its stakes in 6 Australian airports to Hastings Fund Management Limited for approx. €495m.〔(BAA completes sale of Australian assets )〕 In 2008, BAA sold World Duty Free Europe (WDF) to Autogrill for £546.6m,〔(BAA sells World Duty Free shops )〕 33 properties of Airport Property Partnership (APP) to Arora Family Trust, a private group, for £265m〔(Ferrovial's BAA agrees to partial sale of APP assets for 265 mln stg )〕 and Belfast City Airport Limited to ABN Amro Global Infrastructure Fund / Faros Infrastructure Partners LLC for £132.5m.〔(Ferrovial sells Belfast )〕 In 2009 Ferrovial subsidiary Amey and the UK's Birmingham City Council announced financial close on the £2.7bn Birmingham Highways private finance initiative (PFI) scheme〔(Amey reaches financial close on £2.7bn Birmingham Highways PFI )〕 and Cintra completed the sale of its 99.92% stake in subsidiary Cintra Aparcamientos, S.A. to a consortium for €451m, including bank debt.〔(Cintra Sells Car Parks Division )〕 Later in the year Ferrovial appointed Íñigo Meirás as the new CEO, relieving Joaquín Ayuso who was subsequently named Vice-Chairman of the group. On 21 October 2009, BAA reached an agreement to sell London Gatwick airport to an entity controlled by Global Infrastructure Partnership for £1.5bn〔(BAA sells Gatwick airport for 1.657 billion euro )〕 and Ferrovial's majority-owned subsidiary Cintra was reacquired in full in December 2009. On 17 December 2009, NTE Mobility Partners LLC, a consortium in which Cintra has a majority stake, completed raising $2 bn to finance the North Tarrant Express Managed Lanes project in Texas〔(Cintra finishes raising 2 billion dollars to finance the North Tarrant Express in Texas )〕 and on 29 December 2009, Cintra sold 60% of its Chilean subsidiary to ISA for €209m.〔(Cintra sells 60% of its Chilean subsidiary to ISA for 209 million euros )〕 Then in 2010 Transport for London completed the deal to purchase PPP contractor Tube Lines from Ferrovial for £310m〔(TfL completes Tube Lines buy out )〕 and Ferrovial subsidiary Amey acquired the national rail consultancy of WYG Engineering Limited (‘WYG’), part of the WYG Group (formerly, White Young Green).〔(Amey buys WYG rail division )〕 Ferrovial also sold its 50% stake in Autopista Trados 45 for €67m〔(Ferrovial sells its 50% stake in Autopista Trados 45 for 67 million euro )〕 and Ferrovial Servicios subsidiary AmeyCespa acquired Dickerson Group, including its U.K. waste management company Donarbon, for £48.6m.〔(Spanish firm acquires U.K. waste management firm )〕 In 2012 BAA sold Edinburgh Airport to Global Infrastructure Partners for £807m.〔(Edinburgh Airport sold to Global Infrastructure Partners for £807m ) BBC, 23 April 2012〕 Ferrovial also announced the sale of a 10% stake in the parent company of Heathrow Airport Holdings Ltd to Qatar Holding LLC for £478m. Following this sale Ferrovial now has an indirect interest in Heathrow of 33.65%.〔(Ferrovial completes sale of 10.62% of Heathrow Airport Holdings to Qatar Holding )〕 On 19 January 2013, Heathrow Airport Holdings (formerly BAA) announced the sale of Stansted Airport for £1.5bn to Manchester Airport Group〔(BBC News - Stansted Airport being sold to Manchester for £1.5bn )〕 and on 21 February 2013, Ferrovial, through Ferrovial Services, reached an agreement with international investor 3i to acquire Enterprise, one of the UK's leading providers of services to utilities and the public sector, for £385m.〔(Ferrovial buys Enterprise from 3i for £385m ) The Telegraph, 21 February 2013〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ferrovial」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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