History
Companies with "Marconi" in their name can trace their ultimate origins, through a complex history of mergers, takeovers and divisions - to the 1963 established Marconi Company Ltd, founded originally in 1897 as the Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company by Guglielmo Marconi. The operations of Marconi amalgamated into GEC in 1968, when GEC acquired the parent company of Marconi - English Electric.
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