Marconi - Businesses

Businesses

  • Marconi Company, the former 1963 established British telecommunications company, which later in 1968 amalgamated into The General Electric Company(GEC). Founded originally in 1897 as the Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company by Guglielmo Marconi
    • Marconi Electronic Systems, the former defence arm of GEC. Later acquired by British Aerospace (BAe) to form BAE Systems in December 1999
  • Marconi plc, the former December 1999 established British telecommunications company formed by the renaming of GEC
  • Marconi Corporation plc, the former May 2003 established British telecommunications company formed by the restructuring of Marconi plc. Later acquired by Ericsson and Telent in 2005.
    • Marconi Communications, the former telecommunications arm of GEC founded in August 1998. Later in December 1999, a subsidiary of Marconi plc; eventually in May 2003, part of Marconi Corporation plc
  • Telent, a successor company of Marconi plc
  • Alenia Marconi Systems, former British-Italian defence electronics company
  • Matra Marconi Space, former Franco-British aerospace company

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