Edited sentence: 3 company in the FTSE index were left with virtually nothing.Also used was the hugh cash mountain war chest left within the company at the time of Lord Weinstock's retirement.The realignment strategy failed drastically as the new GEC (now re-named Marconi Plc) failed to win any significant market share.The rump of Marconi Plc was saved by the Banks but the shareholders and employees of this once great No.Under the stewardship of George Simpson, GEC / Marconi Plc grossly overpaid to acquire telecommunication and internet related companies to fit its major realigment strategy, selling off its solid bedrock businesses to fund this.When the dot.com bubble burst in 2001 and the bottom fell out of the telecommunications market, Marconi was heavily exposed and was subsequently brought to its knees, resulting in the biggest destruction of shareholder value ever witnessed by a FTSE 100 company