1.  A private company differs from a public company in a considerable number of ways.

2.  Alternatively, a private company need not be limited at all, and can trade as an unlimited company.

3.  Although its enormous diamond deposits have always attracted some interest, this has been limited to private companies and individual entrepreneurs.

4.  By a government licence under the Act, Mercury Communications, a private company, was authorized to establish a communications system.

5.  Capital expenditure was switched to current accounts, and parking meters and town halls leased to private companies.

6.  Equally, it is an offence for a private company to pass itself off as being a public company and viceversa.

7.  For example it might be his private company.

8.  Frustrated, he left state government and launched a private company-and the state disbanded its Marketing effort.

9.  He asked whether competition between the old private companies and the newly privatised ones is fair.