E2V was formerly EEV of Chelmsford, (English Electric Valves)
For a period it was a part of the UK’s General Electric Company, (GEC), known as Marconi Applied technologies, and then in 2002 a well thought out management buyout supported by 3i following the collapse of the renamed GEC as Marconi plc due to the poor leadership of Lord Simpson.
In in 2004 the company floated on the London Stock Exchange.
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A £405m valued company, today is a UK plc success story in high technology in the areas of aerospace, defence, space, medicine and security.
A dividend yield of 2.4% for a technology company, this is incredible. A major investor is RIT Capital Partners plc (The Rothschild Family) whose wealth is managed by RIT Capital Partners.