Anatomy of a Merger. A history of GEC, AEI and English Electric
Details:
- Author(s) Jones, Robert, & Oliver Marriott
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1970
- Pages 346pp; illus
- Publisher Jonathan Cape
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Acquisition, takeover, merger, etc, activity exc competition issues
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Deals with the histories of GEC Ltd, AEI Ltd [Associated Electrical Industries Ltd] and English Electric Ltd and in particular the circumstances and processes by which in the 1960s the latter two were acquired [by hostile action] by GEC Ltd. Written by financial journalists. Much also about the historical constituents of the three businesses including British Thomson Houston Ltd [BTH Ltd]; Metropolitan Vickers Ltd; British Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co Ltd