green.ch
| green.ch AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1995 |
| Seat | Lupfig , Switzerland |
| management | Franz Grüter ( Chairman of the Board of Directors ) and Roger Süess ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 120 |
| sales | 81 million CHF (2010) |
| Branch | ICT / telecommunications |
| Website | www.green.ch |
| Green Datacenter AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 2010 |
| Seat | Lupfig , Switzerland |
| management | Franz Grüter ( Chairman of the Board of Directors ) and Roger Süess ( CEO ) |
| Branch | Data center services |
| Website | www.greendatacenter.ch |
green.ch is a Swiss ICT and Internet service provider with headquarters in Lupfig . The company with 125 employees and an annual turnover of 81 million francs (as of 2010) is the fifth largest Internet provider in Switzerland after Swisscom , Cablecom , Sunrise Communications and Salt Mobile .
The enterprise
The company was founded in 1995 when the IT department of the Swiss Farmers' Association under the direction of Guido Honegger began offering internet services under the name agri.ch. As one of the first providers, the company turned to end users in Switzerland and contributed to the popularization of the Internet. In 1999 agri.ch was sold to the British telecommunications group Cable & Wireless . The green.ch company was created in 2001 through a management buyout .
In 2008, Solution25 AG, based in Central Switzerland, took over the company and merged it with the subsidiary TIC The Internet Company - initially under the name green.ch The Internet Company and later only green.ch. Green.ch was part of the Luxembourg Altice Group until February 2018 , and the Swiss management also had a stake until October 2016. On February 12, 2018, the purchase of all shares by InfraVia Capital Partners, a private equity firm specializing in infrastructure investments, was completed. The company is managed by Roger Süess, Franz Grüter, who is Chairman of the Board of Directors.
subsidiary company
Today the green.ch group consists of two companies, green.ch AG and Green Datacenter AG. While green.ch AG operates as an internet service provider and web host and serves the private and corporate customer market, Green Datacenter AG operates the group's data center business. The data center services are aimed at larger SMEs and large companies. Among others, Hewlett-Packard , Six and ABB are among the customers of Green Datacenter AG.
The company's fourth data center was built in Lupfig from 2010 to 2012 together with ABB. It is the world's first data center of this size to be fully equipped with direct current technology and in 2013 earned the company the Watt d'Or award from the Swiss Federal Office of Energy for its energy efficiency . In October 2014 the company opened another data center in Lupfig and in May 2016 acquired a high-security data center on the outskirts of Zurich from Zurich Insurance Company AG (Zurich). On September 17, 2019, the company opened the first high-performance data center (high density) in Lupfig, which serves international cloud providers as a Swiss data location.
Awards
- Watt d'Or (2013)
- Swiss ICT Public Award (2012)
literature
- Dirk Brenken: Alpenglühn on the World Wide Web. Internet provider in Switzerland. In: c't 10/1998. Verlag Heinz Heise , May 7, 1998, p. 120 , accessed on October 23, 2011 .
- Erich Moechel: Argumentators instead of frivolous self-expression. The aim of the Swiss Internet party is "grassroots" plebiscites, their roots are in the peasant class. In: Telepolis . Heinz Heise Verlag, November 4, 1998, accessed October 23, 2011 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Moneycab: Green.ch AG. (Moneycab), November 9, 2016, accessed on November 14, 2016 (German).
- ↑ 2010 telecommunications statistics from the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) of April 3, 2012
- ↑ WWW offer of the SBV ( Memento of June 7, 1997 in the Internet Archive ), agri.ch of June 7, 1997
- ↑ agri.ch AG in the commercial register.
- ↑ Erhard Rüttimann: Inquired - Guido Honegger. What does ... Guido Honegger actually do? In: IT market online. Netzmedien AG, January 31, 2011, accessed on October 23, 2011 .
- ↑ Christoph Hugenschmidt: green.ch sold and merged with TIC. In: inside-it.ch. Huron AG, April 14, 2008, accessed December 9, 2011 .
- ↑ Green.ch company profile , accessed on December 3, 2013.
- ↑ Luzerner Zeitung AG 6006 Lucerne: Change of hands at Green . ( luzernerzeitung.ch [accessed on April 26, 2018]).
- ↑ Franz Grüter, CEO green.ch. Moneycab, May 3, 2013, accessed December 3, 2013 .
- ↑ Our management team. Retrieved on April 26, 2018 (Swiss Standard German).
- ↑ HP moves into the green.ch data center in Lupfig. Online PC - Das Computer-Magazin, June 16, 2010, accessed on May 29, 2014 .
- ↑ inside-it.ch: Six Group enables Green to expand its next data center. Retrieved April 26, 2018 .
- ↑ ABB relocates IT infrastructure to green.ch data center. NZZ, December 9, 2013, accessed on May 29, 2014 .
- ↑ It's so green for the data company "Green". Aargauer Zeitung, March 30, 2011, accessed on May 29, 2014 .
- ↑ ABB, HP and Green.ch open the world's largest DC data center. GREEN Byte, June 1, 2012, accessed May 29, 2014 .
- ↑ Energy price for Postbus Brugg and Green Datacenter Lupfig. Aargauer Zeitung, January 10, 2013, accessed on May 29, 2014 .
- ↑ Switzerland's largest data center is now in Aargau . In: az Aargauer Zeitung . ( aargauerzeitung.ch [accessed on April 26, 2018]).
- ↑ inside-channels.ch: Green.ch buys Schlieremer RZ from Zurich. Retrieved April 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Ringier AG 8008 Zurich: high-performance data center in Aargau . ( blick.ch [accessed on October 22, 2019]).