ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd.

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Name (Latin)
ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd.
Other forms of name
ABB (ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd.)
Asea Brown Boveri Ltd
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 133267581
Wikidata: Q52825
Library of congress: nr 89009115
CMA10: 000063694
Sources of Information
  • Directory of obsolete securities, 1997 :p. 281 (Combustion Engineering, Inc., acquired by ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd. by an exchange of shares, January 30, 1990)
  • Wikipedia, April 22, 2025(ASEA, Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget [General Swedish Electrical Limited Company]; a Swedish industrial company, founded in 1883 by Ludvig Fredholm in Västerås as a manufacturer of electrical light and generators; after merging with Wenström's & Granströms Elektriska Kraftbolag, the name was changed to Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget, or ASEA for short; in 1987 it announced a merger with the Swiss company Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC) to form ABB, which took effect on 1 January 1988)
  • Wikipedia, April 22, 2025(Brown, Boveri & Cie (Brown, Boveri & Company; BBC) a Swiss group of electrical engineering companies; founded in Baden bei Zürich in 1891 by Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown and Walter Boverie, who worked at the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon; bcause of the limitations of the Swiss domestic market, Brown Boveri established subsidiaries throughout Europe relatively early in its history; in 1988 BBC merged with ASEA to form ABB, Asea Brown Boveri; the merger with ASEA, a company praised for its strong management, was expected to help Brown Boveri reorganize and reassert control over its vast international network)
  • ABB review, Jan. 1988:t.p. verso (ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd.; an international company)
  • NGOs urge ABB to quit Malaysian dam, Swedish-Swiss firm should withdraw from Bakum contract, via International Rivers Network web site, 7/5/1996, accessed 8/4/2000(Swedish-Swiss engineering multinational Asea Brown Boveri (ABB))
  • The new global leaders, c1999:CIP pref. (ABB formed from the merger of ASEA and Brown Boveri)