Neuf Cegetel

Neuf Cegetel, S. A. was a publicly quoted French telecommunications company, in 2005 from the merger of Neuf, a subsidiary of Louis Dreyfus Group, and Cegetel, a subsidiary of Vivendi group, emerged. The company was acquired by the mobile operator SFR 2008 and 2009 merged with this.

Background

LDCOM from 1998 (later under the name of Neuf ) actively pursued the consolidation of the French fixed-line market. Cegetel was founded in 1996 by the Vivendi group (initially as SFR Cegetel under one roof with the mobile operator SFR, which was split off later.) And had built through a partnership with the SNCF an extensive network The two companies merged in May 2005 In September 2006, Neuf Cegetel took over the subsidiary of AOL in France for € 288 million. ; AOL France at that time had 500,000 customers and 500 employees. To finance this acquisition and the further growth took place in 2006, the IPO of the company.

During the year 2008, Neuf Cegetel also from the Vivendi Group attributable French mobile operator SFR bought up to 100 % and then merged with SFR and formed the core of its fixed-line business; the Neuf Cegetel brand thus disappeared from the market.

Shareholders

Shareholders of Neuf Cegetel by SFR before buying through a public tender offer and subsequent squeeze -out were in June 2008:

  • 40.7 %: SFR
  • 35.0%: Groupe Louis Dreyfus
  • 12.0%: Suez
  • 5.0%: Wendel Investissement and Alpha
  • 2.2%: Artemis
  • 2.0%: Goldman Sachs
  • 2.0%: PAI partners

Swell

  • Telecommunications companies
  • Former company (France)
  • Boulogne- Billancourt
Types of business entity International Securities Identification Number Wendel (group)
599183
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