Atea (company)

Atea ASA, previously Ementor, is a Nordic IT infrastructure company. It is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.

Atea ASA
Allmennaksjeselskap
Traded asOSE: ATEA
IndustryIT infrastructure
Founded1968
HeadquartersOslo, Norway
Key people
Steinar Sønsteby (CEO)
Revenue34.7 billion kr (FY 2018)
Number of employees
7400
Websitewww.atea.com

The company sells, installs, and supports products from Citrix, VMware, Apple, Cisco, HP, Microsoft, Lenovo, IBM, Readdle and others.

As of July 2019, the company employs about 7,400 people and operates in 87 cities in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.[1]

From 1 January 2009, the company was named Atea.[2]

22 December 2009 Atea AS acquired the Norwegian company, Uni. Uni is specialized in wireless and wired infrastructure, as well as computer lab.[3]

History

  • 1968 – Merkantildata is founded
  • 1985 – Merkantildata is listed on Oslo Stock Exchange
  • 1989 – The infrastructure company Merkantildata grows through acquisitions and mergers in Norway and the Nordic region to become one of the Nordic region's largest IT companies
  • 1995 – Acquisition of MBS Fjerndata
  • 1996 – Acquisition of Tiki Data[4]
  • 2000 – The companies Ementor and Eterra are launched
  • 2000 – Acquisition of Avenir AS (no) and the Nordic business of Getronics
  • 2003 – The companies Ementor, Eterra and Merkantildata merge and take the name Ementor
  • 2005 – Sale of Avenir and Managed Services
  • 2005 – Sale of Ementor's operating department to ErgoGroup in October
  • 2006 – Merger with Topnordic and acquisition of Atea
  • 2007 – Acquisition of Tre65, Informatics and Fønix Data
  • 2008 – Ementor expands to the Baltics when purchasing Sonex
  • 2008 – Acquisition of Tomato and Kongsberg Systec
  • 2009 – Ementor Group with subsidiaries changes name to Atea – Ementor Norge AS becomes Atea AS
  • 2010 – Acquisition of Umoe IKT and Dropzone
  • 2011 – Acquisition of Confuto, FotoPhono and Sunnmøre Kommunikasjon
  • 2012 – Acquisition of IT Partner and Total Storage Solutions
  • 2013 – Acquisition of Itale
  • 2014 – Acquisition of Datatech AS
  • 2014 – Acquisition of Imento AS

References

  1. "About Atea – Atea". About Atea – Atea. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
  2. "Ementor-gruppen endrer navn til Atea". Google Patents. Retrieved 21 October 2008.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), atea.no. Retrieved 30 January 2010
  4. "MD kjøper Tiki". Digi.no (in Norwegian). 4 December 1996. Retrieved 23 July 2019.


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