Telent
The communications and security systems corporation Telent was formerly the business arm of Marconi Corporation. Telent was created in 2006.[1] Telent is a communications and security systems corporation.[2]
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Activities
History
1886: H. Hirst joined G. Binswanger to form the General Electric Apparatus Company in London.[3]
1889: Name changed to the General Electric Company Ltd (GEC).[4]
1900: GEC was floated as a public limited company.[5]
1961: GEC took over Radio and Allied Industries.[6]
1963: Arnold Weinstock became managing director of GEC.[7]
1964: GEC acquired Cannon Cookers.[8]
1974-1987: GEC acquired Yarrow Shipbuilders, Avery, Picker, and Creda.[9]
1989: GEC and Siemens took over Plessey. GEC acquired Plessey's naval systems and avionics business.[10]
1990: GEC acquired parts of Ferranti.[11]
1995: GEC acquired Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd.[12]
1996: Weinstock retired. George Simpson became managing director.[13]
1998: GEC acquired Tracor.[14]
1999: GEC acquired Kvaerner's Govan shipyard, RELTEC, and FORE Systems.[15]
2000: General Electric Company was renamed the Marconi Corporation plc.[16] Marconi Corporation acquired SCITEC's Australian Communications Solutions business, MSI, Systems Management Specialists, Davies Industrial Communications, Albany Partnership, Mariposa Technology, the transmission business of Splice do Brazil, AMTEC SpA, and Telit Networks SpA.[17]
2006: Ericsson took over the Marconi Corporation. Name changed to Telent plc.[18]
Affiliations
People
As at November 2009:[19]
- Mark Plato - CEO
- Heather Green - chief financial officer
- Steve Harris - managing director
Funding
Clients
Publications
Contact
- Address: Telent headquarters, Warwick, UK
- telent, Point 3, Haywood Road, Warwick, CV34 5AH
- Phone: 01926 69 3000
- Email:
- Website: http://www.telent.com/
Resources
Notes
- ↑ Who We Are, Telent website, accessed 23 Nov 2009
- ↑ Our Services], Telent website, accessed 23 Nov 2009
- ↑ The Marconi Company, accessed 24 Nov 2009
- ↑ The Marconi Company, accessed 24 Nov 2009
- ↑ The Marconi Company, accessed 24 Nov 2009
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- ↑ The Marconi Company, accessed 24 Nov 2009
- ↑ The Marconi Company, accessed 24 Nov 2009
- ↑ The Marconi Company, accessed 24 Nov 2009
- ↑ About Us, Telent website, accessed 24 Nov 2009
