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Market Cap:$16.4B
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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BSkyB extends offer for acquiring Amstrad by two weeks.(UNITED KINGDOM)
- 2007-09-01
British Sky Broadcasting Group has extended the takeover offer for computer/ electronic hardware-maker Amstrad to September 4. The firm has obtained acceptances for 85.9 percent of its stock. BSkyB has offered $253 million for the buyout of Amstrad. Earlier, The Office of Fair Trading said that...
Broadcaster BSkyB buys Amstrad for 125 million pounds
- 2007-07-31
LONDON AFP — British satellite broadcaster BSkyB on Tuesday said it had agreed to buy consumer electronics group Amstrad, which is headed by entrepreneur and founder Sir Alan Sugar. BSkyB, which buys around one third of its set-top boxes from Amstrad, said it has agreed to pay about 125...
Carl Gressum,senior analyst at Ovum comments on: BSkyB acquires Amstrad: what is wrong with the ODM model?
- 2007-07-31
M2 PRESSWIRE-31 July 2007-OVUM: Carl Gressum,senior analyst at Ovum comments on: BSkyB acquires Amstrad: what is wrong with the ODM model?C1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:31072007 Today BSkyB announced a GBP125 million bid for Amstrad, the set-top box vendor. BSkyB is a...
Amstrad Plc commences shipment of Sky+ set top boxes.
- 2004-03-03
M2 PRESSWIRE-3 March 2004-AMSTRAD: Amstrad Plc commences shipment of Sky+ set top boxesC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03032004 Amstrad plc announced today that it has received final technical approval from BSkyB for its Sky+ set top box. Deliveries to BSkyB commenced yesterday,...
BSkyB deal sends shares in Amstrad 14% higher
- 2003-04-15
AMSTRAD, Sir Alan Sugar's once mighty electronics business, had good news for investors yesterday, unveiling plans to make more equipment for BSkyB's booming digital TV business. Its shares climbed 14 per cent to 36.5p. Amstrad said it had won a contract to manufacture set-top boxes that also...
Amstrad plc signs supplier deals with BSkyB for Sky+ set top box and new Sky Navigator remote control.
- 2003-04-14
M2 PRESSWIRE-14 April 2003-AMSTRAD: Amstrad plc signs supplier deals with BSkyB for Sky+ set top box and new Sky Navigator remote controlC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04142003 Amstrad plc announced that it has signed two separate manufacture and supply agreements with BSkyB,...
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amstrad PLC | Secretary, Director, Finance & Operations | Current |
| Amstrad PLC | Board of Directors | Current |
| Rio Tinto plc | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Amstrad PLC | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Amstrad PLC | Board of Directors | Current |
| Georgica Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Amstrad PLC | Board of Directors | Current |
| Volume | 384,195 |
| Shares Outstanding | 401.4M |
| Market Cap | 16.4B |
| Year High | 41.78 |
| Year Low | 24.95 |
| Earnings Per Share | 0.67 |
| P/E Ratio | 61.00 |
| Dividend | 0.00 |
| Yield | 0.00 |
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