10 Facts About Thorn EMI

Thorn EMI was a major British company involved in consumer electronics, music, defence and retail.

Thorn EMI acquired the Mullard Equipment Limited division of Philips in 1990.

On 16 August, 1996, Thorn EMI shareholders voted in favour of demerging Thorn from EMI again: the Company became EMI Group plc, and the electronics and rentals divisions were divested as Thorn plc.

Thorn EMI was, until a share flotation in 1984, the majority shareholder in the London-based ITV broadcaster Thames Television.

Big Brown Box was launched in Australia in 2008 by Thorn EMI, and was later sold to Appliances Online, a subsidiary of Winning Appliances, in 2011.

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From its formation until the mid-1990s, Thorn EMI was one of the United Kingdom's largest defence companies.

In 1991, its consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing service division – Thorn EMI Software, was a subject of a management buyout and started to trade as a separate company named "Data Sciences Ltd".

One important aspect of Thorn EMI's business was its ability to manufacture one of its Ferguson televisions, and then make it available for rental through its rentals sector, or sell it through its retail sector.

Newly merged company continued the film interests Thorn EMI had acquired over the preceding decade; these had included the former Associated British Picture Corporation, and their facilities at Elstree Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood.

Thorn EMI released films on video from various film companies including Orion Pictures, New Line Cinema, and Universal in the 1980s.