Tenovis
Tenovis ( previously German private telephone company, Telephonbau and standard time, T & N, Tele Norma and Bosch Telecom) was a large German telecommunications company with more than 5,400 employees. He maintained offices in Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Tenovis had its head office in Frankfurt am Main, the product portfolio consisted of communications solutions, including telephony, call center, Business Recovery Center ( remote data centers ), customer relationship management, voice messaging, networking and services for companies and government agencies. Pillar of the company were self-developed telephone systems with up to 32,000 extensions, as well as their installation, support and rentals.
In November 2004 Tenovis was acquired by Avaya Inc., a U.S. telecommunications company.
History
Origin of the company was founded in 1899 as a leasing company for telephone systems in Frankfurt / Main, German private telephone company H. Fuld & Co. In 1932, Fuld & Co the Hanoverian nucleus of the phone Factory Actiengesellschaft, formerly J. Berliner. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists, the company was " arisiert " and bore the name Telefonbau and Standard Time Lehner & Co. (abbreviated T & N). The left part of the name is a derived word combination. The company built for the imperial post exchanges ( Autodial " offices " ) and PBX ( telephone work ) and provided the railroad with the railroad (normal time ) for the station clocks. The central normal timer was then at the head office of the company in the Ackermannstraße in Frankfurt am Main. It was the forerunner of today's atomic clocks at the PTB in Braunschweig. T & N has held numerous patents, inter alia, also for 40 years built case voters, the pulsed fell down by a weight during the election, and was reared on the connection end with an engine.
In the 1980s, renamed Tele Norma was. Up to this point the AEG -Telefunken AG largest T & N shareholder was. With a turnover of over 2 billion DM world, the highest number of employees reached 18,000 employees. With the economic decline of AEG -Telefunken whose shares were acquired by Robert Bosch GmbH. In 1987, the company became a wholly owned Bosch subsidiary and from early 1995, initially, and later performed as Bosch Telecom Norma as Bosch Telecom GmbH.
In April 2000, the Robert Bosch GmbH sold the telecommunications sector for 400 million U.S. dollars to the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR ). The area at that time employed 9,000 people and was renamed part of the sale in Tenovis. The safety technology, however, remained as Bosch Security Systems, Inc. today in the Bosch Group.
2002 generated 6,000 employees generated sales of 950 million euros in 2003 achieved Tenovis with 5,500 employees, 890 million euro turnover. After considerable downsizing and the sale of the production Tenovis was acquired in November 2004 for 635 million U.S. dollars from the American telecommunications company Avaya. Tenovis employed at this time in Europe 5,400 employees. Overall, KKR had degraded 40 % of the employees.
The company changed its name after the takeover in German speaking countries as Avaya, in April 2006 the company Avaya has changed. The company has been significantly redesigned to integrate into the Avaya Group, including by setting up subsidiaries, were transferred to the business areas such as installation and service, spinning off of assets and through further staff reductions. Mid-2006 had 4,500 employees Avaya Europe.
Advertising
The company was the first that made a product placement in the Second German Television: the trailer for the ZDF Sport Studio starts with the theme song and the dark screen, the ink a clock that was always a Tele Norma - clock appears with the Rhombuslogo and the letters T and N on each other, later beside each other. When these indirect advertising noticed the TN logo was covered with the ZDF logo, as everyone knows viewers today.