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Plessey. The Plessey Company plc was a British electronics, defence and telecommunications company. It originated in 1917, growing and diversifying into electronics. It expanded after World War II by acquisition of companies and formed overseas companies. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
- 1989
- Ilford, London, England
- 1917
Ilford. Essex. IG1 4AQ. United Kingdom. Telephone: (01) 478-3040. Statistics: Public Company. Incorporated: 1925 as the Plessey Co. Ltd. Employees: 26,216. Sales: £1.65 billion (US$2.98 billion) Stock Index: London. Company History: Plessey is one of Britain's largest electronics manufacturers.
GEC Plessey Telecommunications (GPT) was a British manufacturer of telecommunications equipment, notably the System X telephone exchange. The company was founded in 1988 as a joint venture between GEC and the British electronics, defence and telecommunications company Plessey.
- 1998
- telecommunications
- 1988
Plessey backgrounds in telecoms. The origins in telecommunications go back to 1884, when two brothers, J and G Crosland Taylor, founded the Telegraphic Manufacturing Company in Liverpool. The ‘Telegraph Manufacturing Company’ opened a factory in March 1887 at Helsby in Cheshire.
Marconi Communications, the former telecommunications arm of Britain's General Electric Company plc (GEC), was founded in August 1998 through the amalgamation of GEC Plessey Telecommunications (GPT) with other GEC subsidiaries: Marconi SpA, GEC Hong Kong, and ATC South Africa.
- 2005
- 1998
- Acquired
- telecommunications
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