Marconi
[FORMERLY GPT]
[12 NOV 01] NO GOOD NEWS EXPECTED FROM
MARCONI
 Investors
are bracing themselves for more bad news when Marconi releases
its interim financial results tomorrow. MORE
[15 OCT 01] MARCONI OUTLOOK BRIGHTER
 The
market has reacted well to Marconi's latest Trading Update
issued today - with the share price reaching over 28.3p by the
close from a low of 13.5p just a couple of weeks ago.
MORE
[02 OCT 01] MARCONI ON THE BRINK
Marconi
moved even closer to stock market annihilation on Monday as
its shares plummeted another 25% to a low of 13.5p.
MORE
[04 SEP 01] MORE DOOM FOR MARCONI
 Marconi's
chairman and chief executive have resigned after the company
issued its second profit warning in two months and announced a
further 2,000 job losses. MORE
[03 JUN 01] CISCO POISED FOR MARCONI
TAKEOVER
 A
Sunday newspaper has reported that US IT giant, Cisco, is
poised to make a takeover bid for Marconi. MORE
[13 MAY 01] WARWICK UNI MOVES AT THE
SPEED OF LIGHT
 A
new £5 million research centre that will be at the cutting
edge of new technology is to be housed in Coventry. MORE
[10 APR 01] MARCONI JOB CUTS HIT
COVENTRY
Telecomms giant
Marconi has rocked the city with the announcement of major job
cuts. MORE
[28 MAR 01] MARCONI SHARES SLIDE
DESPITE £20m DEAL
Coventry firm Marconi
has seen its share price continue to tumble, despite
announcing contracts with over £20 million with Chinese
firms. MORE
[27 FEB 01] MARCONI MAN BRINGS MUSCLE
TO CITY CENTRE
Cupid has been
spreading the air of romance in Coventry today to help the
city get in the mood for Valentine’s Day.
MORE
[26 FEB 01] CHINA PROVINCE TO BE LINKED
UP BY MARCONI
Coventry firm Marconi
is to bring multimedia technology to more than 100 million
people after securing a contract to supply a network in
China. MORE
[13 FEB 01] MARCONI TIES UP SOUTH
AFRICAN DEAL
Coventry firm Marconi
has won a contract to improve the performance of the national
network of one of South Africa's biggest telecoms operators,
Transtel. MORE
[09 FEB 01] UNI BUOYED BY MARCONI'S
ENTERPRISING MOVE
Coventry University’s
new Enterprise Centre has made a prestigious catch by signing
up electronics giant Marconi to the new building.
MORE
[31 JAN 01] BOOK MARKS MARCONI'S
ATLANTIC LEAP CENTENARY
Coventry firm Marconi
has published a book revealing the story of the first ever
radio signal to be transmitted across the Atlantic to mark the
event’s centenary. MORE
[29 JAN 01] BALTIC BLISS FOR MARCONI AS
SDH SPREADS
Engineers working for
Coventry-based Marconi will soon have snow on their boots
after winning a contract to help upgrade telecoms in the
Baltic state of Estonia. MORE
[23 JAN 01] HIGH-FIBRE MARCONI DIET TO
REPAIR WEAKEST LINK
Coventry-based Marconi is to supply a
German electricity company with a network capable of repairing
itself within a fraction of a second of a break
occurring. MORE
[11 JAN 01] MARCONI SNIFFS OUT NEW
CONTRACT IN COLOGNE
Coventry-based Marconi has landed a £6
million contract to expand the network of a German
telecommunications operator using fibre-optic
technology. MORE
[10 JAN 01] MARCONI GETS GREEN LIGHT
FOR JOBS SPREE
Work is shortly to begin on Marconi’s
£200 million new site that will bring thousands of jobs to
Coventry and provide a spaceage gateway to the region. MORE
[08 JAN 01] ICELAND GOES ON-LINE WITH
MARCONI
Coventry-based Marconi has won a
contract to supply Iceland's capital city with high-tech
telecommunications equipment. MORE
[05 DEC 00] NEW DEGREES FOR TALENTED
ENGINEERS
A scheme that allows firms such as
Marconi, BMW and Land Rover to put trainee engineers through a
degree course is to be extended. MORE
[04 DEC 00] MARCONI WINS £20m CONTRACT
FOR COVENTRY
Marconi has won a £20 million order for
optical fibre equipment for Denmark, which will be built at
its Coventry base. MORE
[29 NOV 00] MARCONI'S £6bn BULGING
ORDER BOOK
Marconi’s order books are bulging,
with £6 billion of work brought in to the company and profits
and turnover have soared. MORE
[21 NOV 00] JOBS TO COME TOGETHER IN
ELECTRONICA DREAM
New jobs are to be lured to Coventry by
piggy-backing off Marconi’s new investment in the
city. MORE
[16 NOV 00] MARCONI
GETS SPANISH CONNECTION GOING
People living in Spain will soon get
access to high-speed voice and data services and the internet
following work by Marconi engineers based in Coventry.
MORE
[11 OCT 00] MARCONI
TO GO ON THE NASDAQ
Marconi is to join the rollercoaster
ride of the dot com companies by listing its shares on the
topsy-turvy Nasdaq. MORE
[05 OCT 00] MARCONI
JOBS SENT AWAY FROM COVENTRY
Jobs are to go from Coventry’s Marconi
plant after the company decided to transfer its manufacturing
to other firms. MORE
[14 JUN 00] MARCONI
BRING IN THE BACON WITH NEW DEAL
Coventry-based Marconi
has secured another top-notch international deal to
provide a high-tech network in Denmark. MORE
[26 MAY 00] MARCONI
IN RACE FOR £30m ARENA NAME
Coventry City’s new arena will be
named after a major multi-national company in a £30 million
deal – and one of the frontrunners is a city firm.
MORE
[23 MAY 00] NEW
CENTRE INCREASES MARCONI SUPPORT
Marconi
today unveiled a purpose-built secure Network Operations
Centre to give telecommunications operators all over Europe
24-hour support. MORE
[15 MAY 00] NEW
COVENTRY MARCONI JOBS CONFIRMED
Trade and
Industry Secretary Stephen Byers and Marconi boss Lord Simpson
have confirmed that thousands of new jobs are coming to
Coventry. MORE
[15 MAY 00] MARCONI MOVE WILL ATTRACT
TOP STAFF
Marconi’s new development in Ansty
will attract the best graduates in the country to the
firm. MORE
[12 MAY 00] MARCONI
TO CREATE 3,000 NEW JOBS IN COVENTRY
Up to 3,000
jobs are to be created in Coventry as part of a massive
expansion by Marconi Communications. MORE
[10 AUG 99] MARCONI
GAINS IN AUSTRALIAN MOBILE PHONES
Marconi Communications will
supply Siemens Australia with the latest in SDH technology for
its turnkey contract with Vodafone. MORE
[29 JUL 99] MARCONI
WINS MAJOR CONTRACT IN LATVIA
Latvian national
telecommunications operator, Lattelekom, has ordered the
world's most advanced telecommunications system from Marconi
Communications. MORE
[23 JUN 99] SINGAPORE
SUCCESSES FOR MARCONI
Contracts topping £13m, which
will help prepare Singapore for the communications "datawave",
are announced today by Marconi Communications, along with
plans to create a Singapore-based regional centre for sales
and support operations. MORE
[18 JUN 99] £2.5m
MARCONI PACKAGE FOR POWERNET
Manchester-based Powernet
Telecom has ordered a £2.5m package of equipment from Marconi
Communications to drive its expansion as a national supplier
of telephony, Internet, data and multimedia network
services. MORE
[14 JUN 99] MARCONI
LINKS EUROPE & ASIA WITH SDH HIGHWAY
The Russian city of
Ekaterinburg, the traditional gateway between Europe and Asia,
has ordered an SDH (synchronous digital hierarchy)
transmission and management system from Marconi Communications
in a deal worth $1 million. MORE
[08 JUN 99] MARCONI
TAKES OFF IN USA
Later today in the United
States, Marconi Communications will announce its arrival into
the US telecoms market - the world's biggest - with orders
from major telephone network operator BellSouth for its
industry-leading customer access equipment. MORE
[27 MAY 99] NTL
SIGN £15M DEAL WITH MARCONI COVENTRY
NTL, the rapidly expanding
provider of communications and entertainment services to
business and domestic users, has signed an eight-year deal
with Marconi Communications of Coventry to support key parts
of its network. MORE
[21 MAY 99] TELEWEST
TRIUMPH FOR MARCONI
A prestigious contract to boost
the efficiency and performance of the Telewest
telecommunications network, while also creating new services
for its customers, has been won by Coventry-based Marconi
Communications against fierce international
competition. MORE
[05 MAY 99] MARCONI
IN US$10M CHINA PROJECT
The Marconi Communications'
joint venture company, Shanghai GPT, has been awarded a series
of new contracts by the Chinese Ministry of Railways (MOR), as
part of a programme of works called 'The Sixth Railway
Project'. MORE
[27 APR 99] AIRFORCE
ESTABLISH NEW SYSTEM WITH MARCONI
The Royal Netherlands Air Force
(RNAF) is to fully integrate its national military
communications systems by linking key sites across the country
with a new strategic Command and Control Network provided by
Marconi Communications in Coventry. MORE
[21 APR 99] LONDON
TUBE AWARDS CONTRACT TO MARCONI
Maintenance of London
Underground's new service control centres at Neasden and New
Cross - responsible for controlling train operations on the
Jubilee and East London Lines - has become the responsibility
of Marconi Communications under a contract worth over £13
million. MORE
[12 APR 99] MARCONI
WINS £100m ORDERS FOR ROMANIAN MoD
The Romanian Ministry of
Defence has placed orders worth more than £100 million with
Marconi Communications for a new, integrated military
communications system to be used throughout its army, navy and
air forces. MORE
[12 APR 99] BULGARIA
MILITARY ORDERS £36m MARCONI SYSTEM
The Bulgarian Ministry of
Defence has ordered a fully-integrated tactical communications
package worth £36 million from Marconi Communications, as
part of a programme to make the systems used by its armed
forces compatible with those used by NATO (North Atlantic
Treaty Organisation) members. MORE
[08 APR 99] CHINA
CHOOSES MARCONI FOR MOBILE UPGRADE
Marconi Communications of
Coventry has won a new order for SDH (synchronous digital
hierarchy) equipment from Dalian UNICOM, the Chinese network
operator serving the country's second biggest port of Dalian,
to enhance the capacity of its mobile phone
network. MORE
[26 MAR 99] MARCONI
CELEBRATES RADIO WORLD FIRST
The global information age was
born exactly 100 years ago tomorrow, when Guglielmo Marconi
sent the first radio message from one country to
another. MORE
[25 MAR 99] MARCONI'S
100m CARD TECHNOLOGY MILESTONE
Sales of GPT Card Technology's
Coventry-manufactured telephone cards to Oman have topped the
100 million mark following a £2.5m contract announced today
with the country's telecommunications network operator GTO
(General Telecommunications Organisation). MORE
[17 FEB 99] ORDERS
WORTH $50M FOR MARCONI COVENTRY
Marconi Communications of
Coventry, the telecommunications arm of GEC, has strengthened
its position in the Middle East and the United Kingdom with
orders from the GTO (General Telecommunications Organisation)
in the Sultanate of Oman and from Cable and Wireless
Communications. MORE
[18 JAN 99] SURF'S
UP FOR MARCONI COVENTRY IN £4M PROJECT
Marconi Communications has won
a £4 million contract to install digital exchange and SDH
(synchronous digital hierarchy) transmission equipment which
will help ScottishTelecom to reap the benefit of its recent
acquisition of Demon Internet, one of the UK's leading
Internet Service Providers. MORE
[14 JAN 99] COVENTRY
FIRM ATTACK US$100M BRAZIL MARKET
GPT Payphone Systems a division
of Coventry-based Marconi Communications, and DARUMA, Brazil's
leading payphone supplier, have signed a collaboration
agreement to enable them to attack the US$100m Brazilian
payphone market and other opportunities in South
America. MORE
[13 JAN 99] COVENTRY
IT MANAGER WINS AWARD
Kim Dennis, IT Specialist Skill
Group Manager with Marconi Communications, Stoke, Coventry,
today won the prestigious title of 1998 Young Woman Engineer
of the Year. MORE
[12 JAN 99] MARCONI
COVENTRY WINS RUSSIAN CONTRACT
Marconi Communications of
Coventry has won what is believed to be the first-ever
contract to supply the latest European standard mobile radio
technology in the Russian Federation. MORE
[06 JAN 99] MARCONI
WINS £29m ORDER FOR AWACS UPGRADE
Marconi Communications of
Coventry has won a £29 million order as part of a
comprehensive modernisation of the AWACS (Airborne Warning And
Control System) aircraft operated by NATO (North Atlantic
Treaty Organisation). MORE
[21 DEC 98] Highlands
And Islands Get Superhighway
[26 NOV 98] GPT
Win £6m BT Contract
[23 NOV 98] NTL
Invests In Massive Roll-Out With Marconi
[17 NOV 98] Singapore
Tunes To Marconi Radio
[03 NOV 98] New
£26m Deal For Marconi
[27 OCT 98] Coventry
Technology Rings Up World First
[13 JAN 98] First
Contract for GPT in Yemen
[19 DEC 97] Tricia
Aims to be Young Woman Engineer of the Year
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