A team led by Henri de France working at Compagnie Française de Télévision ( later bought by Thomson, now Technicolor ) invented SECAM.

In 1985, the News of the World moved out of Thomson House when the building was bought by the tycoon Robert Maxwell ( and renamed Maxwell House ) and after a short spell on the Daily Express presses in Great Ancoats Street moved to a new plant at Knowsley on Merseyside.

In 1987, the state-run Thomson bought RCA and GE Consumer Electronics from GE.

In 2005, Thomson bought Cirpack and Inventel.

ECNG itself grew in 1993, when it bought four weekly newspapers in Huntingdon, Ely, Wisbech and March from Thomson.

In 2003, the Thomson Corporation bought the Chilton automotive assets.

The paper was sold off in 1989 to a company owned by William Dean Singleton ; the Thomson Corporation bought majority control of the paper a year later.

In 1953 the newspaper was bought by Canadian millionaire Roy Thomson who was in the process of building a large media group.

In December, 2001, the newspaper, along with sister paper Brandon Sun, was bought from Thomson Newspapers by FP Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership.

In 1966, Thomson bought The Times newspaper from members of the Astor family.

Faiers remained editor-in-chief until 2009, when the company was bought by DC Thomson of Dundee, owners of the Sunday Post, Beano, Dandy and other publications.

In 1961, Drapers Record was bought along with the Illustrated London News, Men's Wear and the Tatler by the Thomson Corporation and formed into the new Thomson Publications business.

* Golding & Company ( 1918, Boston ), bought by Thomson National Company in 1927

The remaining components were bought by Thomson & Taylor based at Brooklands and a few more cars were assembled.

In 1961, Illustrated Newspapers, which published Tatler, The Sphere, and The Illustrated London News, was bought by Roy Thomson.

When Thomson exited the newspaper business in the late 1990s, Gannett bought it back.

A supporter of the anti-President Grant Liberal Republicans, Thomson was ousted from the paper after Carpenter and other pro-Grant Republicans bought the Sentinel in 1874.

Thomson later bought control of the Montgomery and West Point Railroad and helped finance and locate the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad.

J. Edgar Thomson, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad and a mentor and close friend to many of the partners, bought many of these bonds late 1873, helping keep the firm afloat.

The Scotsman Publications Limited, which also produces The Scotsman, Edinburgh Evening News and the Herald & Post series of free newspapers in Edinburgh, Fife, West Lothian and Perth, was bought by the Canadian millionaire Roy Thomson in 1953.

The Thomson-Houston Electric Company was formed in 1883 in the United States when a group of Lynn, Massachusetts investors led by Charles A. Coffin bought out Elihu Thomson and Edwin Houston's American Electric Company from their New Britain, Connecticut investors.

The Ferranti share was bought out by GEC-Marconi to become Thomson Marconi Sonar Systems.

In 2005, he bought two 1951 Giants jerseys from Thomson, who told him he knew he had worn them in that year's World Series, but could not remember whether he had worn one of them for The Shot.

Woodruff's sleeping car company, as a reward for holding shares that Woodruff had given to Scott and Thomson, as a payoff.

Unlike some other manufacturers, the company where SECAM was invented, Technicolor ( known as Thomson until 2010 ), still sells TV sets worldwide under different brands ; this may be due in part to the legacy of SECAM.

The former CEO of France Télécom Thierry Breton was appointed in 2002 after leaving his previous company Thomson SA ( formerly THOMSON Multimedia SA, owner of the legendary American brand RCA ) where he served as the CEO.

Thomson remained, though, the principal inventive genius behind the company patenting improvements to the lighting system.

In 1921, when Jay Hormel returned from service in WWI, he uncovered that assistant controller Cy Thomson had embezzled $ 1, 187, 000 from the company over the previous ten years.

At the time of the merger the company was known as SGS-THOMSON but took its current name in May 1998 following the withdrawal of Thomson SA as an owner.

* the semiconductor activities of the French electronics company Thomson.

Owner Thomson SA sold its stake in the company in 1998 when the company also listed on the Borsa Italiana in Milan.

In 1988, a small group of employees from the Thomson Rousset plant ( including the director, Marc Lassus ) founded a start-up company, Gemalto ( formerly known as Gemplus ) which became a leader in the smartcard industry.

In April 2008, he became the Deputy co-Chairman of Thomson Reuters following the creation of the new company.

FP Publications and The Globe and Mail were sold in 1980 to The Thomson Corporation, a company run by the family of Kenneth Thomson.

Nine years later, at the end of 2010, the Thomson family, through its holding company Woodbridge, acquired direct control of The Globe and Mail with an 85-percent stake.

* May 7, 2001: Global Insight announced it would acquire DRI and WEFA from their respective parent companies to form its first subsidiary, DRI-WEFA Inc. DRI, formerly known as Data Resources Inc. was at this point a unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, a New York publisher and financial services company, while WEFA was a unit of The Thomson Corporation, a Toronto diversified information company.

Majority control of the company was obtained in the late 1930s by Arthur J. Nesbitt and his partner Peter A. T. Thomson through their holding company, Power Corporation of Canada.

The company would go on to merge with Hill Thomson & Co., Ltd. and Longmorn-Glenlivet Distilleries, Ltd. in 1970 before changing their name to Glenlivet Distillers Ltd in 1972.

It was from this company, that the modern Thomson Group would evolve.

Thomson Brandt maintained a significant shareholding in this company ( approximately 40 %).

In 2004, Thomson increased its stake in the Bangalore, India based company Celstream Technologies, which specializes in product engineering.

D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, is a publishing company based in Dundee, Scotland, best known for producing The Dundee Courier, The Evening Telegraph, The Sunday Post, Oor Wullie, The Broons, The Beano, The Dandy and Commando comics.

The company began as a branch of the Thomson family business when William Thomson became the sole proprietor of Charles Alexander & Co., publishers of Dundee Courier and Daily Argus.