Ferranti

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Ferranti

Company type	Public
Industry	Electronics & Defence
Founded	1882 (as Ferranti, Thompson and Ince); 1885 (as S.Z. de Ferranti); 1901 (as Ferranti Ltd)
Defunct	Bankrupt 1993 (the Belgian subsidiary lives on as Ferranti Computer Systems and as of 1994 is part of the Nijkerk Holding)
Fate	Bankrupt & broken up
Successor	GEC-Marconi, Matra Marconi Space
Headquarters	Hollinwood, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Key people	Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti

Ferranti or Ferranti International PLC was a UK electrical engineering and equipment firm that operated for over a century from 1885 until it went bankrupt in 1993. The company was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

The firm was known for work in the area of power grid systems and defence electronics. In addition, in 1951 Ferranti began selling an early computer, the Ferranti Mark 1. The Belgian subsidiary lives on as Ferranti Computer Systems and as of 1994 is part of the Nijkerk Holding.