Thorn EMI

Thorn EMI
Company type	Public
Industry	Music, video, defence equipment
Founded	1979 with the merger of Thorn Electrical Industries and The EMI Group
Defunct	1996
Fate	Demerged and subsequently broken up
Headquarters	London, England
Key people	Sir Richard Cave, Founding chairman; Sir John Reid, Founding chief executive;
Subsidiaries	EMI

Thorn EMI was a major British company involved in consumer electronics, music, defence and retail. Created in October 1979, when Thorn Electrical Industries merged with EMI, it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It demerged back to separate companies in 1996.