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Axiata Group Berhad

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legal form Corporation
ISIN MYL6888OO001
founding June 12, 1992
Seat Kuala Lumpur , MalaysiaMalaysiaMalaysia 
management Dato 'Sri Jamaludin Ibrahim
Number of employees 25,000 (2010)
sales 15.4 billion RM (2010)
Branch telecommunications
Website www.axiata.com

Axiata Group Berhad (until April 2009 TM International Berhad ) is a telecommunications company from Malaysia .

On July 12, 1992, Telekom Malaysia International Sdn. Bhd. (TMI) was founded as part of Telekom Malaysia (TM). Celcom , the mobile communications division of Telekom Malaysia, was outsourced to TMI in the 1st quarter of 2008 and the company was spun off from the parent company TM. The company's shares were traded on Bursa Malaysia on April 28, 2008 . The name was changed to Axiata Group Berhad in March 2009.

The company is listed in the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI share index of Bursa Malaysia. It has more than 160 million network users and more than 25,000 employees in Asia. (As of 2010)

Axiata Group is the majority owner of the following subsidiaries in various markets in South / Southeast Asia: Celcom Axiata (Malaysia), Smart Axiata (Cambodia) (created from the merger of Hello Axiata & Smart), Robi Axiata (Bangladesh, takeover of Bharti Airtel in 2016), XL Axiata (Indonesia, takeover of Axis), Dialog Axiata (Sri Lanka), NCell Axiata (Nepal, takeover of the former TeliaSonera subsidiary in 2016). There are also minority holdings in mobile communications companies in India ( Idea Cellular ) and Singapore ( M1 ). In addition, Axiata has spun off a separate subsidiary, which mainly leases radio towers to third parties and the group’s mobile communications companies, edotCo. Furthermore, in a corporate division called Axiata Digital Services, holdings in various online companies such as Elevenia, 11Street or Yonder are managed and their own digital activities are set up (as of March 2017).

The main owner is the holding company of the Malaysian government Khazanah Nasional and the Malaysian state pension fund EPF (as of March 2017).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b axiata.listedcompany.com: Annual Report 2010 (PDF; 4.6 MB)