Gemalto
| Gemalto NV
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| legal form | Public company (Netherlands) |
| ISIN | NL0000400653 |
| founding | June 2006 |
| Seat |
Amsterdam , Netherlands
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| management | Philippe Vallée (CEO) |
| Number of employees | 15,000 |
| sales | 3.1 billion euros (2016) |
| Website | www.gemalto.com |
| Status: 2016 | |
The Gemalto NV , a Netherlands corporation dedicated to the production of, chip and magnetic stripe cards such as SIM cards for mobile phones , credit cards , electronic passports , health cards , corporate cards, Maestro cards employs etc.. The company is active in over 180 countries and employs over 15,000 people, 1,500 of whom are engineers and technicians. The annual budget for research and development is around 110 million euros. In December 2017, Gemalto was acquired by the French defense company Thales accepted.
history
The company, which was created in 2006 through the merger of Gemplus International ( Luxembourg ) and Axalto ( Netherlands ), is the world's largest provider of chip cards, with a global market share of around 50%, but only 30% in Europe. In Germany the competitors Giesecke & Devrient , Safran Morpho and Bundesdruckerei are stronger.
Gemalto is one of the first supporters of the FIDO alliance , which has been developing the Universal Second Factor (U2F) industry standard for generally applicable two-factor authentication since 2013 .
2014 took over the Gemalto US -Unternehmen Safenet for 890 million dollars and 2015, the Swiss manufacturer of security and identification solutions, such as passports or SuisseID that in Aargau domiciled Trüb AG for an undisclosed purchase price. The company is now registered in the commercial register under the name Gemalto AG with its registered office in Aarau .
At the end of 2017, Gemalto was taken over by the French defense company Thales for 4.8 billion euros . Atos had previously offered € 4.3 billion for Gemalto, but the offer was rejected as undesirable.
share
Major shareholders in 2007 were the Texas Pacific Group , a US venture capital venture, with a stake of almost 15% , and the Quandt family with a 10% stake. In July 2013, around 77% of the shares were in free float.
The shares were traded on Euronext , among others . On June 24, 2013 Gemalto was added to the AEX index . A delisting took place on May 29, 2019.
Business focus
- 59% (994 million euros) SIM cards for cell phones, mobile communication
- 23% (392 million euros) EC and credit cards, payment transactions
- 12% (203 million euros) passports, company ID cards, health cards, identification and security, customer cards
- (59 million euros) telephone booths
- (50 million euros) card readers
Year 2010 error
After the turn of the year 2009/10, the chips of around 30 million German EC and credit cards no longer worked. The fault was a programming error on the part of Gemalto, which prevented the chips from correctly processing the year 2010.
Encryption hacked by NSA and GCHQ
In February 2015, The Intercept reported that the NSA and GCHQ were able to spy on data from Gemalto data centers that allowed them to decrypt and read what is considered to be secure communications in cellular networks.
On February 25, 2015, Gemalto announced that the keys were unlikely to have been stolen. Only the office network is said to have been compromised.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ gemalto.com: The Board
- ↑ gemalto.com: Financial highlights 2016
- ↑ heise.de: Thales takes over Gemalto
- ↑ gemalto.com: Gemalto to acquire SafeNet, the worldwide leader in data and software protection
- ↑ Brühwiler, Peter: Trüb AG - The manufacturer of the Swiss ID becomes Dutch. In: aargauerzeitung.ch . AZ Medien , February 10, 2015, p. 1 , accessed on July 26, 2017 (German).
- ↑ https://ag.chregister.ch/cr-portal/auszug/auszug.xhtml?uid=CHE-209.980.200
- ↑ Thales wins race for chip card manufacturer Gemalto. Retrieved December 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Tina Kaiser: That can save lives in an emergency. Olivier Piou, head of the world's largest chip card manufacturer Gemalto, on the future of the health card and the fear of German customers about plastic money. Die Welt , July 5, 2007, accessed June 23, 2013 .
- ↑ https://www.cortalconsors.de/Wertpapierhandel/Aktien/Kurs-Snapshot/Profil/Untern Firmenprofil/NL0000400653-GEMALTO-NV-AANDELEN-EO- 1
- ↑ http://www.debeurs.nl/Forum/Topic/1300931/Gemalto_GEMALTO-Binnenkort-nieuw-in-de-AEX.aspx
- ↑ https://www.gemalto.com/press-site/Documents/2019/2019-04-23-Gemalto-shares-will-be-delisted-on-29-May-2019.pdf
- ^ French company to blame for 2010 errors. Spiegel Online , January 6, 2010, accessed June 23, 2013 .
- ↑ The Great SIM Heist. Retrieved February 19, 2015 .
- ↑ Gemalto: Encryption keys from SIM cards not stolen. Retrieved February 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Gemalto presents the findings of its investigations into the alleged hacking of SIM card encryption keys by Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the US National Security Agency (NSA). Retrieved February 25, 2015 .