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Market Cap:$16.3B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$168.7M
- Public
- UK
Dow Jones Description
Amstrad Plc is a manufacturer and supplier of Telecoms, Audio, TV, Video and Digital Satellite products. Founded by present Chairman Sir Alan Sugar in 1968 as an electrical goods trader, the company has established its reputation as making innovative technology accessible to the mass market. Listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1980, Amstrad launched the first mass market home computer package in the mid 1980s and was the founder supplier to Sky TV when the service launched in 1988. Amstrad is the creator of the 3rd generation of e-m@iler superphones - the E3. The most affordable, easiest-to-use and cost effective videophone, the E3 follows on from the success of its predecessors, the e-m@iler and e-m@ilerplus, allowing email, internet, picture send, games and video calls. Amstrad currently supplies BSkyB with set-top boxes for the UK market, including Sky +, and also provides digital satellite receivers for the Sky Italia service.
Managing Director
Alun WebberNumber of Employees 88
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Electronic Computer Manufacturing: 334111
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Srallen's pain
- 2008-05-24
I used to have one of Alan Sugar's old Amstrad computers; in fact I wrote two books on it. The great advantage it had over modern computers was its slowness; you could literally make a cup of tea while it saved a page of text, and prepare a threecourse meal...
Trump vs Sugar
- 2006-04-16
In the world of big business it sometimes pays to hold your tongue. But Sir Alan Sugar and Donald Trump, who have made big business into must-see television, have cast aside niceties to turn their venom on each other. The pair head up separate versions of the reality series The...
Let's get down to business
- 2004-07-19
When Sir Alan Sugar smiles, it's rather like a shark baring its teeth. One can't quite tell whether the smile is genuine or not. Is he a rare and benevolent exception to a vicious species? Or is his expression a trick to lure the victim closer before he chews off...
John Walsh's Tales of the city
- 2001-02-13
I Felt that they were testing me LIKE A murderer revisiting the scene of his crime, I went back on Friday to the annual Quiz Nite at our local school in Dulwich. A year has passed since I played quizmaster and braved a howling throng of overeducated...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Alun Webber | Managing Director |
| Ian P. Saward | Director, Engineering |
| John Beattie | Director, Production |
| Martin A.G. Bland | Secretary, Director, Finance & Operations |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| J.E. Samson | Board of Directors |
| Margaret Mountford | Board of Directors |
| Roger Lambert | Board of Directors |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Amstrad PLC | Managing Director | Current |
| Amstrad PLC | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Amstrad PLC | Director, Engineering | Current |
| Amstrad PLC | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Amstrad PLC | Director, Production | Current |
| Amstrad PLC | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Amstrad PLC | Secretary, Director, Finance & Operations | Current |
| Amstrad PLC | Board of Directors | Current |
| Rio Tinto plc | Former |
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| Amstrad PLC | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Amstrad PLC | Board of Directors | Current |
| Georgica Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Amstrad PLC | Board of Directors | Current |
| Volume | 1,142,501 |
| Shares Outstanding | 401.4M |
| Market Cap | 16.3B |
| Year High | 42.42 |
| Year Low | 25.45 |
| Earnings Per Share | 0.67 |
| P/E Ratio | 60.82 |
| Dividend | 0.00 |
| Yield | 0.00 |
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