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GEC Alsthom GEC Alsthom has won a £100m contract to build a 140MW combined heat and power plant in Cheshire for PowerGen. 10-Jun-1998 Railtrack has awarded a £400m provisional contract to a consortium led by GEC Alsthom for the installation of a radio-based signalling system on the main west-coast rail line. 16-May-1998 GEC and Alcatel-Alsthom have released further details of their plans for the June flotation of their GEC-Alsthom joint venture, which will involve them taking a special dividend of about £770m and naming the company Alsthom. 16-Apr-1998 GEC Alsthom has acquired Cegelec, the French electrical contracting business, from Alcatel Alsthom for about £400m. 10-Apr-1998 National Express has placed orders worth a total of £148m for 40 electric trains from GEC Alsthom and 22 diesel trains from Adtranz, for use on its ScotRail and Central Trains franchises. 31-Mar-1998 GEC Alsthom is to buy most of the engineering and systems activities of Alcatel Alsthom, the French telecoms group, and the deal should be completed before its June flotation. 20-Mar-1998 GE Power Controls is acquiring a low-voltage components business based in Liverpool from GEC Alsthom. 12-Mar-1998 GEC Alsthom has finalised a deal to acquire Wessex Traincare, the former British Rail rolling stock repair company. 18-Feb-1998 Virgin Rail has awarded a £1bn contract to GEC Alsthom to supply and maintain tilting trains for the West Coast main line. 14-Feb-1998 GEC Alsthom has won a $153m order to supply 25 six-car electric multiple unit underground trains from the Singapore Land Transport Authority. 20-Jan-1998 GEC Alsthom is acquiring the railway signalling operations of Italian-owned Sasib for undisclosed terms. 09-Jan-1998 GEC Alsthom is to be floated in Paris, New York and London early next year, with GEC and Alcatel each retaining 24% and the new business being renamed Alsthom. 05-Dec-1997 Virgin Rail has eliminated a joint venture between GEC Alsthom and Fiat Ferroviaria from its shortlist to build £250m of diesel trains for its CrossCountry franchise. 04-Dec-1997 Fiat and GEC Alsthom have launched a joint bid to supply 57 trains to Virgin's Cross Country franchise, and will follow it up next month with a bid to supply 40 tilting trains for Virgin's west coast line. 30-Sep-1997 GEC is planning a major restructuring in order to focus on three core businesses - defence and aerospace, telecommunications and industrial electronics - and it is also proposing a £4bn stockmarket flotation for GEC Alsthom. 09-Jul-1997 GEC Alsthom, the joint venture between GEC and Alcatel Alsthom, is decentralising its management away from its Paris head office, and appointing 40 country managers. 23-Jun-1997 GEC Alsthom has won a £100m contract to provide and maintain eight trains for the Gatwick Express service. 15-Apr-1997 GEC and Alcatel Alsthom of France are reviewing the future of GEC Alsthom, their power engineering joint venture, and may even consider breaking up the business. 19-Mar-1997 General Electric Company is being restructured into five divisions, comprising: the main US operations, an industrial group, GEC Marconi, GEC Alsthom and GPT. 23-Jan-1997 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007