ABB – from local company to global conglomerate

ABB is preparing to sell the power grid division, one of its most important businesses, to the Japanese conglomerate Hitachi. We take a look back at ABB's rich history that begun in 1891 in Baden, in the northern canton Aargau. (SRF, swissinfo.ch)

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