Piriform

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Piriform Ltd.

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legal form Limited Company
founding September 15, 2005
Seat London , UKUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom 
management Guy Saner, Lindsey Whelan
Number of employees 100-150
sales US $ 25-50 million
Branch Software development
Website https://www.ccleaner.com/de-de

Piriform Ltd. is a software company based in London , UK . Piriform developed optimization software and system tools for Windows , Mac OS X and mobile devices - Operating Systems . According to the company, the main product CCleaner has been installed more than two billion times worldwide (this can include program updates). Guy Saner is the founder and CEO of the company. The company has been part of the Czech Avast group of companies since mid-2017 .

The word piriform means pear-shaped (from the Latin pirum for pear ).

Products

Piriform was best known for its PC optimization software CCleaner ; the defragmentation tool Defraggler also comes from this software manufacturer. Other products are the data recovery tool Recuva and Speccy , with which hardware and software information from the computer can be read out. In August 2013, the latest product Agomo was released , which enables computers to be optimized remotely using CCleaner technology.

All Piriform programs are available both as free, support- free freeware and in commercial versions.

Head office

Piriform Ltd. is registered with around 800 other companies at 78 York Street in London's West End . At this address the company offers “virtual offices” at 78 York Street . 78 York Street accepts phone calls and forwards incoming mail. According to the company's own information, the actual company headquarters are located at 17 Cavendish Square, a business center with fully prepared and supervised offices.

In addition, Piriform claims to have an office in New York City and others in Eastern Europe.

Website

In the period from June 2012 to June 2014, the page piriform.com was in the Alexa ranking of the world's most popular websites in the range from 1,200 to 600.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b from Piriform ( Memento of May 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at bizzy.co.uk, accessed on May 27, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b Piriform company profile at www.companiesintheuk.co.uk, accessed June 2, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b Company profile of Piriform ( Memento from May 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at www.zoominfo.com, accessed on May 26, 2014.
  4. ↑ About Piriform Ltd ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from www.companycheck.co.uk, accessed July 2, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / companycheck.co.uk
  5. ↑ a b Downloads from Piriform ( Memento from April 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on www.computerbild.de, accessed on July 2, 2014.
  6. ↑ CCleaner (Mobile App) on beste-apps.chip.de, accessed on July 2, 2014.
  7. ↑ About , www.piriform.com, accessed November 6, 2017.
  8. ↑ Oliver Nickel: Ccleaner developer becomes part of Avast Software . In Golem.de , July 20, 2017, accessed on September 18, 2017
  9. ↑ CCleaner announces Agomo, a cloud-based PC maintenance tool , TWCN Tech News, August 18, 2013, accessed July 2, 2014.
  10. ↑ Product overview on www.piriform.com under For Home and For Business
  11. ↑ Virtual London Office Services , www.78w1.com, accessed June 9, 2014.
  12. ↑ a b Offices , www.piriform.com, accessed on May 26, 2014.
  13. ↑ Serviced Offices: 17 Cavendish Sq - W1G 0PH ( Memento from March 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), www.executiveoffices.co.uk, June 9, 2014. Archive ( Memento from March 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) from 25. March 2014.
  14. ↑ How popular is piriform.com? ( Memento from June 27, 2014 on WebCite ), www.alexa.com, archived June 28, 2014.