"The Great Northern Telegraph Company (GNTC) was founded in June 1869. Its foundation was aresult of a merger between three recently established telegraph companies and was initiated by thefamous industrial mogul C.F. Tietgen. Tietgen was the leading person behind a wave of mergers inDenmark in the 1870s and 1880s. This concentration of businesses led to the foundation of some ofthe biggest and most important Danish enterprises of the 20th century. GNTC was known to be thepride of Tietgen and the philosophy of the firm was ambitious: to create a worldwide telegraphcompany. ..." - http://www.stornotime.dk/StornoIfolgeIversen.pdf, 13.10.2019
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