In 1967 GEC (the General Electric Company Ltd) acquired Associated Electrical Industries (AEI), which included Metropolitan-Vickers, amongst other companies. Following the acquisition, GEC created a subsidiary to bring together its businesses involved in switchgear with those that had been part of AEI. By 1969 this new company, GEC Switchgear Ltd, included parts of GEC, AEI, the English Electric Co., JG Statter and Co and Switchgear and Cowans.