Book contents
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Dedication
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1Ferranti by the mid-1980s
- 2The rise of ISC
- 3A step too far? Merger with ISC
- 4From honeymoon to divorce
- 5Investigations and court cases
- 6The rescue strategy
- 7The ‘New Ferranti International’
- 8Demise and epilogue
- Appendix A: The financing of Ferranti, 1970–1993
- Appendix B: Profitability and return on capital employed at Ferranti, 1970–1993
- Appendix C: Turnover and employment at Ferranti, 1970–1993
- Appendix D: Chairmen and directors of Ferranti, 1905–1993
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - The ‘New Ferranti International’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 July 2026
Book contents
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Dedication
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1Ferranti by the mid-1980s
- 2The rise of ISC
- 3A step too far? Merger with ISC
- 4From honeymoon to divorce
- 5Investigations and court cases
- 6The rescue strategy
- 7The ‘New Ferranti International’
- 8Demise and epilogue
- Appendix A: The financing of Ferranti, 1970–1993
- Appendix B: Profitability and return on capital employed at Ferranti, 1970–1993
- Appendix C: Turnover and employment at Ferranti, 1970–1993
- Appendix D: Chairmen and directors of Ferranti, 1905–1993
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter analyses the strategies devised by Eugene Anderson in order to effect a recovery after the traumatic discoveries of 1989. This will include an assessment of the extent to which he was able to rebuild a ‘New Ferranti International’. As well as restructuring the business, and especially the American subsidiaries, further disposals were also effected, reducing the size of the business and its prospects of recovering fully. This also coincided with dramatic developments in the world defence market, not least the end of the Cold War and the consequent mergers in military-related sectors.
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- Ferranti: A HistoryVolume 3 Management, mergers and fraud 1987–1993, pp. 209 - 253Publisher: Manchester University PressFirst published in: 2026
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