Marconi Company
The
Marconi Company was a British telecommunications and engineering company that did business under that name from 1963 to 1987. Its roots were in the
Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company founded by Italian inventor
Guglielmo Marconi in 1897, which underwent several changes in name after mergers and acquisitions. The company was a pioneer of wireless long distance communication and mass media broadcasting, eventually becoming one of the UK's most successful manufacturing companies. In 1999, its defence equipment manufacturing division,
Marconi Electronic Systems, merged with
British Aerospace (BAe) to form
BAE Systems. In 2006, financial difficulties led to the collapse of the remaining company, with the bulk of the business acquired by the Swedish telecommunications company,
Ericsson.
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