The French government is expected to choose the French bank to organise the privatisation of state-controlled Compagnie des Machines Bull SA next week, industry sources told Reuter: the plan to privatise the group, in which the French state has a 75.8% stake – but France Telecom has another 17%, will probably be done in two stages, the first kicking off in the second half of this year, the second sometime in 1995.