8.2 With Barclays Bank: BARIC Computing Services Ltd.
The company had an increasingly close relationship with Fujitsu from the early 1980s, culminating in Fujitsu becoming sole shareholder in 1998. It also had a strong market share with UK local authorities and (at that time) nationalized utilities including the water, electricity, and gas boards. Although it had significant sales overseas, ICL's mainframe business was dominated by large contracts from the UK public sector, including Post Office Ltd, the Inland Revenue, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Ministry of Defence. New ventures included marketing a range of powerful IBM clones made by Fujitsu, various minicomputer and personal computer ranges and (more successfully) a range of retail point-of-sale equipment and back-office software. In later years, ICL diversified its product line but the bulk of its profits always came from its mainframe customers. The company's most successful product line was the ICL 2900 Series range of mainframe computers. It was formed through a merger of International Computers and Tabulators (ICT), English Electric Computers (EEC) and Elliott Automation in 1968.
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International Computers Limited ( ICL) was a British computer hardware, computer software and computer services company that operated from 1968 until 2002.
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