Ziggo

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Ziggo Group Holding

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legal form BV
founding 2008
Seat Utrecht , NetherlandsNetherlandsNetherlands 
management Baptiest Coopmans ( CEO )
Number of employees 4,650
sales € 923.4 million
Branch Cable operator
Website www.ziggo.nl
As of December 31, 2014

Ziggo is the largest cable network operator in the Netherlands . It was created in May 2008 from the merger of Multikabel , @Home Network and Casema ; The company is based in Utrecht . Ziggo supplies around 3 million households (2.2 million with cable television, 1.7 million with digital Internet broadband connection and 1.3 million with telephone connection).

history

The public company was listed on NYSE Euronext from March 2012 through the end of 2014 . The largest shareholders of the parent holding Zesko until 2013 were the holding companies of Cinven and Warburg Pincus . The major shareholders placed their remaining shares on April 26, 2013; the majority of the company is now in free float . Bernard Dijkhuizen was CEO until the end of 2013. At the beginning of January 2014, the former CEO of Deutsche Telekom AG , René Obermann , took over this position.

The media group Liberty Global made a takeover offer for Ziggo in 2013, which was initially rejected as being too low. In January 2014, Liberty Global announced the acquisition of Ziggo.

In May 2014 Baptiest Coopmans, the previous managing director of UPC Nederland , became the new CEO of Ziggo. René Obermann left the company. When he took office, Coopmans announced that it would merge UPC Nederland with Ziggo. After the integration is complete, the new company will be called "Ziggo". In November 2014, the integration of Ziggo into the corporate structure of Liberty Global was completed.

At the end of December 2014, the company was delisted and converted into a BV

Trivia

Ziggo is the namesake of the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam .

With effect from January 1, 2015, Ziggo became the new main sponsor of the soccer club Ajax Amsterdam .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ziggo: Management
  2. a b ZIGGO GROUP HOLDING BV - Annual Report for Year Ended December 31, 2014
  3. dpa: Obermann should be the boss of Ziggo. heise online, March 7, 2013, accessed on November 12, 2013 .
  4. Management Board. Ziggo, accessed February 3, 2014 .
  5. Reuters: Cable operator Ziggo rejects purchase offer from Liberty. Wirtschaftswoche, October 16, 2013, accessed on October 18, 2013 .
  6. Joint press release. (PDF; 117 KB) Ziggo and Liberty Global, January 27, 2014, accessed on February 4, 2014 .
  7. Liberty Global doet overnamebod op Ziggo. Volkskrant , January 27, 2014, accessed February 4, 2014 (Dutch).
  8. ^ Ziggo: Geschiedenis
  9. Ziggo completes delisting and converts to a Dutch private limited company , December 22, 2014
  10. ^ Ziggo new main sponsor of Ajax. November 7, 2014, archived from the original on November 10, 2014 ; accessed on November 7, 2014 (English).