• BTR plc was a British multinational industrial conglomerate company. It was headquartered in London, England. The company was originally founded in 1924...
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  • BTR Aerospace Group was a group of four companies formed in 1985 by BTR plc after the acquisition of the Dunlop Aviation Division from Dunlop Rubber....
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  • Invensys plc, and Invensys plc was acquired in January 2014 by Schneider Electric. Invensys plc. was formed in 1999 by the merger of BTR plc and Siebe plc, and...
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  • unwittingly took responsibility for significant debts; between 1996 and 1998, BTR plc (which acquired Dunlop Rubber in 1985) sold a number of companies which...
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  • anime BTR Aerospace Group BTR plc, formerly BTR Industries, one of the predecessor companies of Invensys plc British Thomson-Houston (former name BTR), a...
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  • plc was once one of the United Kingdom's largest engineering businesses and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. In 1999 it merged with BTR plc to...
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  • year it was acquired by BTR plc of the United Kingdom. In 1997 the Schlegel operations were acquired by UniPoly S.A. in a BTR management buy-out. From...
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  • Invensys (redirect from Invensys plc)
    180 countries. Invensys was formed in 1999 through the merger of BTR plc and Siebe plc. It was originally founded on 1 April 1920 as Siebe Gorman & Company...
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  • company was acquired by BTR plc for £100 million; BTR immediately sold the US tyre business to its management for £142 million. BTR began to divest itself...
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  • Nylex (section BTR era)
    crash. BTR, then a large global concern headed by Alan Jackson, re-branded the company as BTR Nylex. Under BTR, the company again expanded, with BTR Nylex...
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    Heinemann (publisher) (category Pearson plc)
    educational works in the US market. When Tilling was purchased by BTR plc in 1983, BTR sold off all their non-industrial assets; Heinemann was sold to Octopus...
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  • businessman who was Chief Executive and later Chairman of British conglomerate, BTR plc. Ireland was born in the Aden Protectorate in 1927 but soon left to study...
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    Slazenger was a sports equipment manufacturing company formed by now-defunct BTR plc by consolidating the various sports brands acquired as part their take-over...
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    was an Australian businessman who was the CEO of BTR Nylex between 1984 and 1991 and CEO of BTR plc between 1991 and 1996 as well as Chairman of the Australian...
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    Brunei. In 1985, the Dunlop Rubber Company was acquired by now-defunct BTR plc, and Sumitomo acquired the rights to manufacture and market Dunlop branded...
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  • Rubber was purchased by BTR plc, which formed a Sports Group combining Slazenger with the Dunlop Sport branded goods. 1996: BTR sold Dunlop Sport in a...
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  • Siddeley Group Plc was acquired by BTR plc for £1.5bn. This was led by Alan Jackson and Sir Owen Green who were the CEO and Chairman of BTR respectively...
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  • Group Plc was acquired by BTR plc for £1.5bn. In 1999 BTR merged with Siebe to form BTR Siebe plc, which was renamed Invensys plc. In preparation, BTR sold...
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    conglomerate after nationalisation of its bus interests; it was acquired by BTR plc in 1983. The company traces its origins to 1846, when Thomas Tilling started...
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    Hawker Siddeley. BTR plc then bought Westinghouse Brake and Signal in 1992. In 1999, BTR merged with Siebe plc to form "BTR Siebe plc", later renamed "Invensys"...
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    Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. In 1985, when Dunlop Rubber was taken over by BTR plc, the company acquired the automobile tire assets of Dunlop, including the...
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    executive BTR Engineering and Dunlop Overseas and became executive director BTR plc (London) in 1992. In 1998 he became CEO of Vickers plc (London), after...
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    Split to several companies Successor Boeing Integrated Defense Systems BTR plc Conexant Technologies Meritor Rockwell Automation Rockwell Collins Collins...
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  • separate and the APV section was acquired by Siebe plc in 1997. After the merger of Siebe with BTR plc, APV was acquired by SPX Corporation in 2007 where...
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  • chief executive and later chairman of the British industrial conglomerate BTR plc. Green was born in Stockton on Tees on 14 May 1925. He served with the...
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    City Manchester". THG plc. 14 February 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2022. "The Subplot - THG campus mystery, Manchester resi, BTR". Place North West. 27...
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  • September 9, 1987, British Tire & Rubber BTR plc entered into an agreement to purchase Stewart-Warner. In 1989, new owner BTR decided to relocate operations to...
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  • British businessman, and the former Chief Executive of British Aerospace and BTR plc. He sold Rover Group to BMW in 1994. He was born in Ruislip in Middlesex...
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    from BTR plc, a large engineering conglomerate. In November 1996 the FKI Group of Companies acquired the Hawker Siddeley Electric Power Group from BTR for...
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  • CompAir In 1985 Compair was acquired by Siebe Gorman In 1999 Siebe PLC and BTR plc merge to become Invensys In 2002 acquired from Invensys by Alchemy...
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