Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The General Electric Company plc (GEC) was a British company. GEC is not to be confused with General Electric (GE). It was renamed Marconi plc on November 30, 1999 after demerging its Marconi Electronic Systems. History 1886 - Founded as The General Electric Apparatus Company. 1889 - Renamed The General Electric Co. Ltd 1968 - The General Electric Company plc merges with English Electric 1989 - Power engineering interests separated off into the joint-venture company GEC Alsthom, which in 1998 became independent as Alstom. 1995 - Acquired Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd. 1999 - Acquired US Telecom network products manufacturer RELTEC, and Internet switching gear maker FORE Systems. 1999 - After a period of restructuring, during which the Marconi defence business is sold to British Aerospace, GEC renamed itself Marconi Plc. See Marconi plc for more information. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.