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Alstom is recruiting up to 75 apprentices at its power generators factory in Stafford. 23-Feb-2006 Alstom is to close its train renovation factory in Eastleigh next year, with the loss of about 530 jobs. 20-Dec-2004 Alstom Power Turbo-Systems is to shed up to 300 jobs at its factory in Knutsford. 25-Sep-2003 Alstom is planning to shed up to 5,000 jobs from its 10,000-strong UK workforce over the next two years, but hopes that 3,500 power transmission jobs will transfer to Areva of France. 11-Aug-2003 Alstom is to close its train-making factory at Washwood Heath in Birmingham next year with the loss of about 700 jobs. 23-Jun-2003 Alstom is to close its Transit railway equipment factory in Preston later this year, with the loss of up to 500 jobs. 28-May-2003 Alstom is to sell its industrial turbines business to Siemens of Germany for £760m. 29-Apr-2003 Alstom is looking to sell its transmission and industrial turbine operations, which would affect 1,500 workers at its factory in Stafford. 13-Mar-2003 Alstom Power is to shed up to 100 of the 400 jobs at its base in Knutsford, Cheshire. 06-Mar-2003 Alstom Power is to shed a further 120 jobs at its factory in Rugby later this year. 23-Jan-2003 Alstom has announced a £111m sale and leaseback agreement with St Modwen Properties and Sahlia Real Estate for its portfolio of 19 operational properties. 09-Dec-2002 Alstom is looking to raise up to £100m from the sale and leaseback of its UK property portfolio, which includes 20 plants. 08-Nov-2002 Alstom is planning to shed about 250 jobs at its Alstom Power turbines factory in Rugby. 16-Aug-2002 Alstom is planning to close its electrical switchgear factory at Higher Openshaw in Manchester over the next 12 months, putting 350 jobs at risk. 24-May-2002 Carillion has bought the remaining 51% of GT Rail Maintenance from Alstom for £34m, as part of a strategy to expand its rail maintenance operation. 28-Sep-2001 Alstom has won contracts worth £518m for the construction of three gas power plants in Malaysia, Bahrain and Australia. 22-Aug-2001 Alstom is linking up with the Engage division of GKN to set up a rail signals development centre at an unnamed site in Swindon, with the creation of 50 jobs. 08-Jun-2001 Alstom is to sell its Cegelec electrical contracting division to management for £477m, and further disposals are expected to follow. 16-May-2001 Alstom has bought Norweb Contracting from United Utilities for £25m, as part of a strategy to develop a one-stop shop for electrical services. 25-Apr-2000 Alstom is to acquire Sunvic of Germany, in order to expand its electrical contracting business into the petrochemical and chemical industries. 20-Apr-2000 Alstom has announced plans to shed up to 380 jobs at its Washwood Heath train factory in Birmingham, due to a shortage of orders. 14-Apr-2000 Alstom is to acquire ABB's 50% stake in ABB Alstom Power, their global power generation joint venture, in a $1.2bn deal. 03-Apr-2000 Alstom is to cut 730 of its 2,350 jobs in Stafford in a restructuring of the business, but a multi-million pound investment programme is expected to save the remaining jobs. 21-Jan-2000 Alstom is in discussions with workers at its train factory in Birmingham amid concerns that hundreds of jobs could be lost due to an anticipated fall in orders later this year. 08-Jul-1999 Alstom has won a contract worth £80m to build a combined heat and power plant at Deeside for Shotton CHP. 01-Jul-1999 Alstom and ABB are to merge their electricity generating equipment operations, creating a new company called ABB Alstom Power based in Brussels. 24-Mar-1999 Alstom is planning to make acquisitions to double the size of its US electrical engineering business over the next five years, and hopes to benefit from moves by municipal authorities to develop rapid transit systems. 16-Nov-1998
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