Alstom

Alstom SA is a French multinational company operating worldwide in rail transport markets, active in the fields of passenger transportation, signalling and locomotives, with products including the AGV, TGV, Eurostar and Pendolino high-speed trains, in addition to suburban, regional and metro trains, as well as Citadis trams.

Alstom was formed from a merger between Compagnie Française Thomson Houston and the electric engineering division of Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques in 1928; significant acquisitions included the Constructions Electriques de France , shipbuilder Chantiers de l'Atlantique , and parts of ACEC SA . A merger with parts of the General Electric Company plc formed GEC-Alsthom in 1989. Throughout the 1990s, the company expanded its holdings in rail sector via the acquisition of German rolling stock manufacturer Linke-Hofmann-Busch and Italian rail signalling specialist Sasib Railways. In 1998, GEC-Alsthom was floated on the Paris Stock Exchange; later that year, it was rebranded as Alstom.

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