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Amstrad Plc.

AMT is in the Technology Industry

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 Webber
Number of Employees 88
Contact Information

Brentwood House 169 Kings Rd

Brentwood CM14 4EF

www.amstrad.com

(44) 1277228888

NAICS Code Electronic Computer Manufacturing: 334111

News & Analysis

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  • Credit crisis diary

    - 2009-02-19

    The apprentice turns the tables First Will Young and now Tim Campbell - BBC One's Question Timecontinues in its mission to diversify its panel away from the usual gang of dull politicians. No doubt Tim, right, a former winner of The Apprentice, will have a few ideas for...

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  • Sir Alan leaves Amstrad board

    - 2008-07-02

    Home News IN BRIEF *Sir Alan Sugar has stepped down as chairman of Amstrad, which he formed at 21, in what he says is a planned move after the company was bought by Sky in 2007. The multimillionaire and chairman in the BBC reality TV show The Apprentice...

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  • 'Be honest in your CV - or we'll find out'

    - 2008-06-26

    MY WAY Bordan Tkachuk gives his tips for success in the workplace Bordan Tkachuk is the chief executive officer of Viglen, the IT company that is owned by Sir Alan Sugar, with whom Tkachuk has appeared as a semi-final stage judge in The Apprentice ...

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  • Model job for TV Alex

    - 2008-06-22

    APPRENTICE finalist Alex Wotherspoon has been signed by a leading model agency. The 25-year-old met representatives from Models1 - who have Agyness Dean and Yasmin Le Bon on their books - last week. And insiders revealed that the former sales manager has been bombarded...

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  • Model job for TV Alex

    - 2008-06-22

    APPRENTICE finalist Alex Wotherspoon has been signed by a leading model agency. The 25-year-old met representatives from Models1 - who have Agyness Dean and Yasmin Le Bon on their books - last week. And insiders revealed that the former sales manager has been bombarded...

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  • Happy Fathers Way

    - 2008-06-15

    EVERY little boy wants to be just like his dad... and when your pa's a world-famous superstar, sometimes the magic rubs off. To celebrate Father's Day, we've rounded up 11 famous sons who are real chips off the old block. Whether you're a Hollywood actor, a comedian with a stroppy...

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  • YOU ASK THE QUESTIONS 'THE APPRENTICE' SPECIAL

    - 2008-06-10

    So, Claire, if Sir Alan had turned up on one of your Club 18-30 trips, how would you have shown him a good time? Alex, why don't you just get a shave and a haircut? Lee, who's scarier - Nick or Margaret? Helene, did the programme's editors portray you fairly?...

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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...

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  • THE REAL STARS OF THE APPRENTICE

    - 2008-05-10

    Step aside, Sir Alan. In the current series of his reality TV series, it's the tycoon's sidekicks who have stolen the show. By Simon Usborne and Rob Sharp MARGARET MOUNTFORD Until the current series of The Apprentice, Margaret Mountford was a rather enigmatic lieutenant. As...

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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...

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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

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