Premiere Global Services
| Premiere Global Services, Inc. | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Incorporated |
| founding | 1991 |
| Seat | Atlanta , United States |
| management | Boland T. Jones, Chairman and CEO |
| Number of employees | 2,250 |
| sales | $ 567 million |
| Branch | communication |
| Website | www.pgi.com |
| As of December 31, 2014 | |
The Premiere Global Services, Inc. (brand name PGi ) is a global provider of communications services in the areas of virtual teamwork and conferences. The products essentially include audio, video and web conferences . PGi also offers software-as-a-service and cloud computing solutions for small, medium and large companies in 24 countries.
Every month nearly twelve million people around the world use the company's products for meetings and virtual teamwork. Customers include around 50,000 companies and 90 percent of the Fortune 500 .
history
In 1991, today's CEO and Chief Executive Officer Boland T. Jones founded Ptek Holdings, Inc. The merger of Premiere Technologies and Xpedite Systems resulted in Premiere Global Services in February 1998 .
The official name change from Ptek Holdings, Inc. to Premiere Global Services, Inc. took place on January 3, 2005. Premiere Global Services has recorded growth right from the start: sales rose from 381 million US dollars in 2003 to around 600 million US dollars in 2009.
Premiere Global Services is headquartered in Atlanta , Georgia. The company employs more than 2,300 people in offices around the world, including London, Tokyo, Sydney, Hong Kong, Paris, Frankfurt, New York, Chicago, Dublin and Austin.
In 2010 the new corporate brand PGi was introduced. The company still trades on the New York Stock Exchange NYSE as Premiere Global Services, Inc., but PGi is used as the name in all communications.
On December 8, 2015, PGI was taken over by Siris Capital Group .
Acquisitions and partnerships
- March 2005 - Acquisition of Citizens Communications , a US conference provider.
- June 2005 - Acquisition of Intelligent Meetings , a US audio and web conferencing provider.
- August 2005 - Acquisition of Netspoke , a US audio and web conferencing provider.
- January 2006 - Acquisition of Accucast , a US email communications provider.
- September 2006 - Acquisition of eNunciate , a Canadian audio and web conferencing provider.
- November 2006 - Acquisition of ECT , an Australian audio and web conferencing provider.
- November 2007 - Takeover of Meet24 , a conference and web teamwork provider from the Nordic region.
- August 2008 - Acquisition of Soundpath Conferencing Services , a US audio and web conferencing provider.
- February 2009 - Acquired LINK Conference Service, LLC , an audio and conference provider based in Seattle.
- November 2009 - The Mansell Group , a US e-mail communications provider, takes over the e-marketing business of Premiere Global Services.
- February 2010 - Premiere Global Services announces a partnership with AVi-SPL . Video conferencing solutions are offered as part of the partnership.
Products and Services
The proprietary products and the partner products include applications for web conferencing and telephone meetings as well as solutions for automated productivity improvement.
Conferences and teamwork
Premiere Global Services offers a variety of products for telephone conferencing, web conferencing, video conferencing and event conferencing services. In addition, the company offers various third-party web conferencing products through strategic partnerships with leading communication technology providers.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Premiere Global Services, Inc. 2014 Form 10-K report
- ↑ Premiere Global Services, Inc .: Annual Report 2009. (PDF; 36.7 MB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 30, 2010 ; Retrieved November 9, 2010 . 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.
- ↑ http://www.cbronline.com/news/xpedite_confirms_receipt_of_merger_proposal_1
- ↑ Ptek Holdings Changes Name to Premiere Global Services, Inc .; Company Transfers Listing to NYSE, symbol 'PGI' ( Memento from July 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ http://atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2008/10/13/focus6.html
- ↑ http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/earnings/earnings.asp?ticker=PGI:US ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.hoovers.com/company/Premiere_Global_Services_Inc/hrjxxi-1.html
- ↑ PGi Announces Completion of Acquisition by Siris Capital Group , at www.prnewswire.com , accessed April 7, 2017
- ↑ http://www.mansellgroup.com/about-us-pr-premiere.asp
- ↑ http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100225006476&newsLang=en
