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Subsidiaries. EMI. Thorn EMI was a major British company involved in consumer electronics, music, defence and retail. Created in October 1979, when Thorn Electrical Industries merged with EMI, it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
Thorn Electrical Industries Limited was a British electrical engineering company. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange , but merged with EMI Group to form Thorn EMI in 1979. It was de-merged in 1996 and became a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index , but was acquired by the Japanese Nomura Group only two years later.
England. 01-836-2444. Public Company. Incorporated: March 3, 1980 as a result of the merger of. Thorn Electrical Industries Ltd. and EMI Ltd. Employees: 80,484. Sales: £ 3.316 billion (US$4.769 billion) Market Value: £ 1.683 billion (US$2.42 billion) Stock Index: London.
The purchase gave Thorn EMI 50 percent of the rental market in the United States and made the company the largest rental company in the world. Acquisitions of lighting fixture makers in France and Sweden made Thorn EMI the leader in lighting in Europe.
Thorn EMI was a major British company involved in consumer electronics, music, defence and retail. 1979 EMI was acquired by Thorn Electrical Industries to form Thorn EMI [1] one of the largest operating companies in the UK. Thorn EMI's business covered four principal areas of activity;
Nov 12, 2012 · The Thorn EMI Liberator: the first British laptop. Time would show they were wrong, that what business wanted more than anything was standardisation and, more importantly, the cost savings that came with it. Other buyers wanted ultra-low cost computing.
Nov 16, 2012 · Electronics giant Thorn EMI designed the machine with help of a team of former Dragon Data engineers. As the Liberator, it launched in September 1985 to become the first British laptop and beating the first PC-compatible laptop, Toshiba's T1100, to market. Read the earlier instalments of the Liberator story in Part One and Part Two. Now Read on...
