• Laird plc was a leading British-based electronics and technology business. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by Advent...
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  • Cammell Laird is a British shipbuilding company. It was formed from the merger of Laird Brothers of Birkenhead and Johnson Cammell & Co of Sheffield at...
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  • Laird is a hereditary title in Scotland. Laird or Lairds may also refer to: Laird (given name) Laird (surname) Cape Laird, Ross Dependency Laird Glacier...
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  • Corps of Engineers Labour Research Department, a British organisation Laird plc (stock ticker LRD), a British electronics and tech company Lansing Roller...
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  • Timblick, Simon. "Doctors spoilers: Can Daniel Granger end the hunger strike?". What's on TV. Future plc. Retrieved 16 March 2021. Trevor Laird at IMDb v t e...
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  • from Unipoly in March 2006, and then acquired the security business of Laird plc in April 2007. After the company started making significant losses, in...
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    Cammell Weymann introduced the MCW Metrocab in 1987. In 1989 MCW’s owner, Laird plc, divested itself of the Metrocab. The rights passed to Reliant and production...
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    formerly Group Chief Executive of Logica from 1993 to 2007 and Chairman of Laird plc from 2014 to 2018. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British...
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  • Portland shipyard. With funding from the then-publicly traded Cammell Laird PLC in the UK, Transamerica Capital and Heller Capital, the Swan Island facility...
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    Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), EDS, Egg Banking, GE, IBM, ING Group, Laird plc, NHS, Nokia, Oce Copiers, Philips, Roche, Shell, Vodafone, Which? and...
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  • Cammell Laird Group PLC ran into difficulties, which eventually led to its closure. When it became inevitable that Cammell Laird Group PLC was to close...
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  • Siemens, Sony-Ericsson, Flextronics, Foxconn, Alcatel, Texas Instruments, Laird plc, Salcomp, ProWorks, Perlos(LOM), Power Wave Tech, Jabil Green and Sanmina-SCI...
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  • BAE Systems (redirect from BAE Systems PLC)
    BAE Systems plc is a British multinational aerospace, arms and information security company, based in London. It is the largest manufacturer in Britain...
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    Vickers (section Vickers plc)
    the rest of the 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...
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    Weatherford International plc is an American multinational oilfield service company, headquartered in the US and operating in 75 countries globally across...
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    knighted in the 1989 New Year Honours. He was a non-executive director of Laird Group plc from 2001 to the end of 2006. He is married to literary editor Miriam...
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  • ICar (magazine) (category Future plc)
    was launched in May 2011 as a quarterly car magazine, edited by Jeremy Laird. The magazine's aim was to cover more sustainable cars. It was very short-lived...
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  • Maguire Ian McElhinney Music by Don McGlashan Wayne Laird Distributed by Central Independent Television PLC (UK) Release date 1988 (1988) Running time 102...
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  • nationalised in the 1960s and 1970s, with the remainder being divested as Vickers plc in 1977. It featured among Britain's most prominent armaments firms. Vickers...
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    Launch of major new ship the Sir David Attenborough at Cammell Laird". Liverpool Echo. Reach PLC. Retrieved 4 July 2018. British Antarctic Survey (4 January...
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    VT Group (redirect from VT Group plc)
    VTG received a new majority investment from A&M Capital Partners. VT Group plc was a British defence and services company, formerly known as Vosper Thornycroft...
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  • Aberystwyth University. Drabble started his career with Black & Decker, then Laird, before joining Ashtead. Drabble has seen Ashtead's share price rise from...
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    number of businesses in Nigeria, which are now incorporated in John Holt plc. Holt was born in Garthorpe, Lincolnshire in 1841 to the family of Thomas...
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    Beijing: China Intercontinental Press, pp. 1–40, ISBN 978-7-80113-304-5. Laird (2006), pp. 106–107 Huaiyin Li (13 August 2019). The Making of the Modern...
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    announced that it would sell its RF Components and Subsystem Business to Cobham plc for $425 million. Tyco Electronics retained the wireless communications part...
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    Peter (2 March 2011). "Peel Group and Cammell Laird's boss buy A&P Group". Liverpool Echo. Reach plc. Archived from the original on 23 January 2022....
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    (STC), a United Arab Emirates-backed, pro-Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), "secessionist" faction in Yemen's ongoing civil war. The STC seized control...
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  • original to feature the character in underwater scenes. Additionally, Martina Laird appears as Lashana, one of the maids in Eric's castle, who is based on Carlotta...
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    (−271) – 21.9%LDM: 68 (+60) – 11.2% SNP: 19 (−29) – 2.9% GRN: 4 (+3) – 6.8% PLC: 4 (+2) – 0.6% RFM: 3 (+3) – 16.1% Others: 0 (=) – 1.2% + NI (18) & Speaker...
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    [citation needed] In September 2021, Infrastrata plc was renamed Harland & Wolff Group Holdings plc. In April 2023, the Belfast yard completed its first...
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