CAIRO - Egypt's finance minister said on Wednesday the government would evaluate the method of remaining state company sales in January after five share offerings planned before the end of this year.

"The five companies we decided to work on, we decided to see how it would go," Finance Minister Mohamed Maait said, adding that Egypt would then see whether it could work with strategic investors for further sales.

(Reporting by Patrick Werr and Aidan Lewis; Editing by Toby Chopra) ((Aidan.Lewis@tr.com; +20-1001174410;))