MeteoGroup Switzerland
| MeteoGroup Schweiz AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1990 |
| Seat |
Rüte Switzerland
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| management | Bénédict Vuilleumier ( Managing Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors ) |
| Number of employees | about 100 |
| Branch | Weather service , film and video film production |
| Website | www.meteogroup.com |
The MeteoGroup Switzerland AG is an end in 1990 by Jörg Kachelmann based weather service -Unternehmen. Meteomedia AG has been operating under the mminternational brand since May 2013 . It has been part of the MeteoGroup weather service since September 2013 and was renamed MeteoGroup Schweiz AG on March 20, 2014.
organization
The various companies were initially organized under the umbrella of Jörg Kachelmann Produktions AG , based in Appenzell . From 1995 to 2013, Meteomedia AG was based in Gais in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden . Meteomedia AG and MeteoGroup Schweiz AG have been based in Appenzell since 2013 .
Company profile
Together with partners, the company operates a network of around 900 private weather stations in Germany and Switzerland alone, the establishment of which is paid for by the local communities, companies, associations and sponsors. The company offers private and business customers weather forecasts, severe weather warnings, historical weather data and meteorological reports. Weather reports are created and visualization systems are developed for the media.
Shareholder structure
Company founder Jörg Kachelmann held 49 percent of the shares until 2013, 38 percent of the investor Frank B. Werner (editor-in-chief of Euro and Euro am Sonntag ), the former SonntagsBlick editor-in-chief Peter Balsiger 9 percent. The remaining shares were attributable to employee papers without voting rights. The majority of the voting rights was held by Kachelmann.
At the end of August 2013, Meteomedia was taken over by MeteoGroup .
Since March 20, 2014, the name Meteomedia has disappeared from the weather market and has finally been incorporated into MeteoGroup.
Services
Meteomedia also founded the storm warning system WIND and was represented as a group of companies under the name Unwetterzentrale , in Switzerland as Meteocentrale , in Germany ( Meteomedia GmbH , Bochum), Canada and the USA ( WeatherOK Inc. , Weatherman Inc. ). The US company WeatherOK and the Canadian company Weatherman have not been part of MeteoGroup since 2013.
- Switzerland
- The Swiss online weather portal meteocentrale was founded in 2006 by Meteomedia AG and in 2009 reached more than 50 million page views. The portal focuses on severe weather warnings.
- Germany
- The Severe Weather Center Germany , based in Bochum , with a team of meteorologists, ensures a 24-hour supply of authorities, companies and other interested parties with precise weather warnings. On the website of the Severe Weather Center, information about affected areas and the type and severity of the expected severe weather is available to everyone. A special feature of the Meteomedia severe weather centers is the warning based on a polygon warning principle: In contrast to a rigid warning grid, warning areas can be individually defined and areas (e.g. postcode areas, districts), lines (e.g. railway lines, power lines) defined as required ) or geographic coordinates (e.g. construction sites, industrial plants) are warned individually. The storm center is supported by public insurers and was developed in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Technology (ISST).
In addition, MeteoGroup maintains portals in the following countries, on which it offers point forecasts and severe weather warnings:
| country | Name of the portal | founding year |
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| Belgium | Meteo info | 2010 |
| Denmark | Vejrcentral | 2010 |
| France and French overseas territories | Vigilance Météo | 2010 |
| Luxembourg | Meteocentral | 2010 |
| Netherlands | Noodweercentrale | 2010 |
| Italy | Meteoallerta | 2011 |
| Liechtenstein | meteocentrale Liechtenstein | 2011 |
| Sweden | Väder alarm | 2011 |
| Spain | Alertas Tiempo | 2011 |
| Austria | Weather alarm Austria | 2012 |
See also
Web links
- MeteoGroup website
- Nike Heinen: The weatherman's network. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 30, 2009.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Entry of "MeteoGroup Schweiz AG" in the commercial register of Appenzell Innerrhoden
- ↑ Imprint / Terms of Use. In: website of the meteocentrale
- ^ Entry of "Meteomedia AG" in the commercial register of the Canton of St. Gallen
- ↑ Entry of “Jörg Kachelmann Produktions AG” in the commercial register of the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden
- ↑ Weather stations. ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: MeteoGroup website. Retrieved April 3, 2014
- ↑ Useless PR campaign in Hofheim. In: Website of the Federation of Tax Payers Hessen e. V.
- ↑ Thomas Knellwolf: Unrest in the meteorologist's home. In: Tages-Anzeiger . August 13, 2010
- ↑ United forces on the weather market: Merger of MeteoGroup and mminternational. In: MeteoGroup website (press release)
- ↑ Meteomedia operates under the name and brand MeteoGroup. ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: MeteoGroup website (press release)
Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '57.6 " N , 9 ° 29' 10.7" E ; CH1903: seven hundred and fifty-four thousand six hundred eleven / 250000