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ALSTOM Alstom (formerly GEC-Alsthom) (Euronext: ALO) is a large French multinational conglomerate whose businesses are power generation, railway signalling; and manufacturing trains (e.g. the TGV and Eurostar as well as Citadis trams) and the world's largest ships (e.g. , a French conglomerate conglomerate, in business
conglomerate, corporation whose asset growth, often very rapid, comes largely through the acquisition of, or merger with, other firms whose products are largely unrelated to each other or to that of the parent company.
, won a US$115 million contract from the government to expand capacity at the Chicoasen hydroelectric plant in the southern state of Chiapas Chiapas (chēä`päs), state (1990 pop. 3,210,496), 28,732 sq mi (74,416 sq km), SE Mexico, on the Pacific Ocean between Guatemala and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Tuxtla Gutiérrez is the capital. . A consortium including Alstom, Spain's Abengia and Elecnor recently won a $93 million contract to build power lines and sub-stations in the state of Veracruz.
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Author:DEMPSEY, MARY
Publication:Latin Trade
Date:Jan 1, 2001
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