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Market Cap:$15.9B
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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A dull day in the markets but the sun shines on Lords
- 1996-07-27
Lords Cricket Ground, headquarters of the English game, was yesterday home to a large part of the commercial and financial establishment as well. A dull day on the markets it may have been, undermined by futures selling, but the sun was shining in St Johns Wood. Even Nick Knight, famously...
Psion ditches Amstrad bid and blames price
- 1996-07-27
The proposed pounds 230m takeover of Amstrad was dramatically called off yesterday when Psion said it was not possible to reach an agreement on the price. No reason were given for the decision with Amstrad's chairman, Alan Sugar, saying: "I'm as much in the dark as you are."...
Bowling customers over can be a bit of old hat
- 1996-07-05
Stan Laurel's bowler hat is going on a nation-wide tour, thanks to the building society that features two bowler-hatted men in its ads. Bradford & Bingley bought the legendary Laurel & Hardy bowler at Bonhams auctions last autumn for pounds 2,000, after which it held a ceremony to...
Amstrad sale aids Psion deal
- 1996-07-02
Amstrad is hiving off its loss-making consumer electronics operation, ACE, in an attempt to make itself more attractive to Psion, the electronic organiser maker that last week said it was planning a pounds 230m bid. The former engine-house of Amstrad's rise to prominence in the 1980s will be...
Sugar serves Betacom an ACE
- 1996-07-01
Amstrad will announce today the injection of its loss-making consumer electronics business into Betacom, the separately quoted telephone equipment distributor it controls. The deal is being seen as a possible precursor to a takeover by Alan Sugar of Betacom, allowing the Amstrad chairman to continue his long involvement with the...
Private means.(privatization trends and other business news)(Brief Article)
- 1996-06-29
Privatisation revenues around the world dipped in 1995, but the urge to privatise is strengthening again. Top floaters in 1995 were Australia ($9.4 billion), Italy ($7.2 billion) and France ($5.7 billion). Germany this year will raise $16.9 billion, $10 billion of that by selling part of...
Psion's pounds 230m Amstrad takeover move catches City by surprise
- 1996-06-26
Psion is close to making an agreed takeover of Amstrad. In a move that caught the City by surprise yesterday, the successful personal organiser maker hopes to acquire Alan Sugar's once high-flying computers to mobile phones group for at least pounds 230m. The deal was instigated by Mr...
Sugar makes an exit, but what's Psion's game?
- 1996-06-26
Alan Sugar is one of only a handful of entrepreneurs in Britain who can genuinely claim to have transformed an industry. His IBM clone revolutionised the personal computer business. For a number of years at least, it also made investors in Amstrad a great deal of money. But since then,...
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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 | 1,864,560 |
| Shares Outstanding | 401.4M |
| Market Cap | 15.9B |
| Year High | 40.54 |
| Year Low | 19.35 |
| Earnings Per Share | 0.67 |
| P/E Ratio | 59.1940 |
| Dividend | 0.00 |
| Yield | 0.00 |
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