{"id":1609,"date":"2015-03-30T22:52:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T21:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/preprod.b-consulting.com\/en\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2016-05-30T22:59:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T21:59:28","slug":"interoute-jumps-on-the-acquisition-trail-with-new-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/2015\/03\/30\/interoute-jumps-on-the-acquisition-trail-with-new-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"Interoute jumps on the acquisition trail with new investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The new Board commits to accelerating acquisitions as Interoute targets \u20ac1bn in revenues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>London on 30 March 2015<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Interoute, owner operator of Europe\u2019s largest cloud services platform, has announced that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aleph.com\/\">Aleph Capital Partners<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crestview.com\/\">Crestview Partners<\/a>\u00a0have entered into a share purchase agreement with minority shareholder Emirates International Telecommunications (EIT) with respect to the acquisition of a 30% stake in Interoute\u2019s business. Completion is expected to occur by the end of April 2015. Interoute anticipates that the backing of the new investors will enable the company to make more acquisitions and build its business in the UK, USA and across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2002 Interoute has been building, operating and extending the largest cloud technology platform in Europe. It now encompasses over 67,000 km of lit fibre, 12 data centres and 31 collocation centres, with connections to 195 additional third-party data centres. The company employs 1,450 people worldwide.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gareth Williams, CEO Interoute, said \u201cInteroute seeks to more than double its revenues in the next 5 years, underpinned by demand for its enterprise networked cloud services. Adding new markets, capabilities and additional customers to experience these services will be the focus of the acquisitions. We are thrilled to have found ambitious tech-savvy partners who want to help us reach that goal\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Hugues Lepic, CEO of Aleph Capital, said \u201cThis transaction is a good example of how Aleph Capital aims to partner with high-quality management teams and stakeholders to unlock value growth. Interoute is already a leader in the European fibre and cloud infrastructure market, but with our help there are opportunities for the company to enter a new and exciting phase. We are looking forward to working closely with the Interoute management team and the Sandoz Family Foundation to achieve this.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Brian Cassidy, a Partner at Crestview Partners, said \u201cGareth Williams and his team have done a tremendous job managing Interoute, and the company is poised to capitalise on both the increasing demand for bandwidth and cloud-based services. We see a lot of consolidation opportunities in the fibre and cloud markets in Europe, which Interoute should participate in.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>About Interoute<\/h3>\n<p>Interoute Communications Ltd is the owner operator of Europe\u2019s largest cloud services platform, which encompasses over 67,000 km of lit fibre, 13 Virtual Data Centres, 12 hosting data centres and 31 collocation centres, with connections to 195 additional third-party data centres across Europe. Its full-service\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.interoute.com\/enterprise\">Unified ICT<\/a>\u00a0platform serves international enterprises, as well as every major European telecommunications incumbent and the major operators of North America, East and South Asia, governments and universities. These organisations find Interoute the ideal\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.interoute.com\/partners\">partner<\/a>\u00a0for computing, connectivity and communications and developing new services. Its Unified ICT strategy has proved attractive to enterprises looking for a scalable, secure and unconstrained platform on which they can build their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.interoute.com\/unified-ict\/communications\">voice<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.interoute.com\/enterprise\/video-services\">video<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.interoute.com\/unified-ict\/computing\">computing<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.interoute.com\/unified-ict\/connectivity\">data<\/a>\u00a0services, as well as service providers in need of high capacity international\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.interoute.com\/service-provider\/ip-transit\">data<\/a>transit and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.interoute.com\/service-provider\/infrastructure\">infrastructure<\/a>. With established operations throughout mainland Europe, North America and Dubai, Interoute also owns and operates dense city networks throughout Europe\u2019s major business centres.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interoute.com\/\">www.interoute.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Board commits to accelerating acquisitions as Interoute targets \u20ac1bn in revenues London on 30 March 2015 Interoute, owner operator of Europe\u2019s largest cloud services platform, has announced that\u00a0Aleph Capital Partners\u00a0and\u00a0Crestview Partners\u00a0have entered into a share purchase agreement with minority shareholder Emirates International Telecommunications (EIT) with respect to the acquisition of a 30% stake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2015-en","category-interoute-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}