subsidiary Alvis Vickers. In 2003, Rolls-Royce renamed its Vickers subsidiaries Vinters Engineering plc. The Vickers name lived on in Alvis Vickers. In 2004,...

company was acquired by Rolls-Royce plc, which sold the defence arm to Alvis plc. The Vickers name lived on in Alvis Vickers, until the latter was acquired...

Alvis acquired Vickers Defence Systems from Rolls-Royce for £16 million and merged it with its existing UK business to form Alvis Vickers. The acquisition...

Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth...

Corporation, part of Rolls-Royce North America. Vickers/Vinters In 1999 Rolls-Royce acquired Vickers plc for its marine businesses. The portion retained...

created as a result of the demerger of Rolls-Royce Limited in 1973. Vickers plc owned Rolls-Royce Motors between 1980 and 1998. Volkswagen AG acquired...

directorships have included Severn Trent PLC, Vickers PLC, Travelport International, Hilding Anders AB, and Superdry PLC. Smith won the Accountancy Age Financial...

acquired by Vickers. A marketing survey in 1987 showed that only Coca-Cola was a more widely known brand than Rolls-Royce. In 1998, Vickers plc decided to...

Bentley, subsidiary thereof Rolls-Royce Motors (1973–1982), subsidiary of Vickers plc (from 1980) Bentley, subsidiary thereof Starting in 1970 for the 1971...

name resurfaced as Vickers plc between 1977 and 1999. Vickers was formed in Sheffield as a steel foundry by the miller Edward Vickers and his father-in-law...

to Vickers plc on 4 October 1986, the final agreement was signed on 31 March 1987 valuing ROF Leeds at £15.2 million. Vickers became Alvis Vickers and...

Rolls-Royce brand name and logo if the automotive division was sold. Although Vickers plc sold the vehicle designs, nameplates, administrative headquarters, production...

turbines. Kamewa was acquired by the British company Vickers plc in 1986. In 1999, Rolls-Royce acquired Vickers. In 2019 the Commercial Marine part of Rolls-Royce...

Vickers Limited with Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company Vickers plc (1977–1999), including Vickers Defence Systems, the defence arm of Vickers plc...

sought, and the traditional engineering company Vickers plc bought Cosworth in 1990. In September 1998, Vickers sold Cosworth to Audi. Audi kept the engineering...

government chose to proceed with the Vickers entry in December 1988, giving it the official name Challenger 2. Vickers received a £90 million contract for...

Rolls-Royce Motors was subsequently sold to engineering conglomerate Vickers, and in 1998 Vickers sold Rolls-Royce to Volkswagen AG, including Bentley with its...

from the original on 2012-02-25. Skerrett, Joanne (30 April 1998). "Vickers PLC: BMW Deal For Rolls-Royce Signed". The Chicago Tribune. Wilkinson, Stephan...

to Vickers plc on 4 October 1986, the final agreement was signed on 31 March 1987 valuing ROF Leeds at £15.2 million. Vickers became Alvis Vickers and...

public engagements. In 1998 Rolls-Royce Motors was sold by its then owner Vickers plc to the Volkswagen Group; however it transpired that the sale did not...

Britain's Vickers plc that won, purchasing the company and renaming it Vickers OMC. This continued until Alvis, also of Britain, purchased Vickers' defence...

renamed Bergen Diesel AS. In 1999 Ulstein Group was bought out by Vickers plc - Vickers was subsequently acquired by Rolls-Royce the same year. Rolls-Royce...

Octavia and Fabia models. After Volkswagen purchased Bentley in 1998 from Vickers plc, van Braeckel joined the British-based company in August 1999 as Director...

bought the rights to the Rolls-Royce brand as applied to motor cars from Vickers plc, it required a new manufacturing plant in which to build the new cars...

Shearing Machine Company. In 1901, backed by (Vickers Limited) brothers 'Colonel Tom' and Albert Vickers [la], Austin started what became Wolseley Motors...

Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit. When the Rolls-Royce Motor Car division was sold to Vickers plc in 1980, Bentley changed its image, resulting in the 140 miles per hour...

Allen Gwynnes Pumps subsidiary acquired the industrial pumps business of Vickers plc based in Barrow in Furness. After a difficult period in the 1970s, when...

first anesthesia apparatus 1988 Simonsen & Weel Medico Teknik is sold to Vickers plc, and Simonsen & Weel continues as a distribution agency in Denmark 1997...

Ferguson plc (formerly Wolseley plc) was an American-British multinational plumbing and heating products distributor. In August 2024, it merged into Ferguson...

bubble in 2001 led to the restructuring in 2003 of Marconi plc into Marconi Corporation plc. In 2005, the company failed to secure any part of BT's 21st...