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February 9, 1989

PLESSEY’S CONTINGENCY PLAN TO SEE OFF GEC SIEMENS PLC

By CBR Staff Writer

The concept is a little confusing, and Plessey Co Plc yesterday denied that it was a serious option, but according to the Financial Times, the company has looked at a last ditch contingency plan to see off GEC Siemens Plc that would involve creating a new company for all its activities apart from its 50% shareholding in GEC Plessey Telecommunications Plc, and the company holding the 50% would be the surviving Plessey Co – that way, Plessey reckons its holding in GEC Plessey could be more realistically valued without it taking any action that effectively involved a chnage of ownership of Plessey that would give GEC Plc pre-emptive rights to buy the other 50% of GEC Plessey at much less than a third party would be prepared to offer.

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