Cogeco

Cogeco Inc. is a Canadian telecommunications and media company. Its corporate offices are located at 5 Place Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec. The company operates Cogeco Communications Inc. which is structured into three strategic business units (SBU); Cogeco Connexion, Atlantic Broadband, and Cogeco Media.[4] The company provides a range of telecommunication products and services including cable television, radio and television broadcasting, telephony, and Internet services in Ontario and Quebec in Canada, and in eleven states along the east coast of the United States.[5] Cogeco Inc. is a publicly traded company and is controlled (71.29%) by the Audet family's holding company Gestion Audem Inc.[6][7][8] The Cogeco corporations are listed with the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: CGO and TSX: CCA). The name Cogeco is an acronym for Compagnie Générale de Communication ("General Communications Company").[9]

Cogeco Inc.
Public
Traded asTSX: CGO
TSX: CCA
IndustryTelecommunications
FoundedTrois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada (1957)[1]
FounderHenri Audet
HeadquartersMontreal, Quebec, Canada
Key people
  • Philippe Jetté (President & CEO)
  • Patrice Ouimet (Senior Vice President & CFO)
ProductsCable TV, Internet, Telecommunications, Broadcasting
Revenue CA$2.33 billion (FY19) CA$2.15 billion (FY18)[2]
CA$1.11 billion (FY19) CA$1.01 billion (FY18)[2]
CA$432 million (FY19) CA$351 million (FY18)[2]
Total assets CA$6.95 billion (FY19) CA$7.18 billion (FY18)[2]
Number of employees
4,500[3] (2019)
SubsidiariesAtlantic Broadband
Websitecorpo.cogeco.com/cca/
www.cogeco.ca

History

In June 1957, Henri Audet (1918-2012) who had left the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), and had become president and managing director of Télévision St. Maurice Inc., was awarded a broadcasting license by the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC) to operate a television station in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. The call sign would be CKTM-TV,[9] and it would become an affiliate of the CBC French-language network Société Radio-Canada (SRC). Télévision St. Maurice Inc. was later renamed Cogéco Radio-Télévision Inc., a subsidiary of Cogeco Inc. He would also become chairman and president of La Belle Vision Inc.,[10] which was in 1972, Cogeco's first acquisition.[11][12] Henri Audet was chairman and CEO of Cogeco Inc. between 1976 and 1993, and later in the year 1996, was named President Emeritus of Cogeco Inc. and Cogeco Cable Inc.[13]

Over time the company divested itself of all its on-air broadcast television assets. In 1989, the company obtained its initial presence in Ontario by acquiring cable systems in Burlington and Oakville and in 1996 expanded further in Ontario by acquiring an additional 25 cable systems (303,000 customers for CA$350 million) from Rogers Communications.[14] Between 1998 and 2001, Cogeco increased its footprint in both Quebec and Ontario with the acquisition of an additional 19 cable systems.[11] In a turn of events, in 2009 and again in 2010, Rogers invested substantially in both Cogeco Inc. and Cogeco Cable Inc.,[15][16] resulting in some speculation surrounding the two rivals.[17]

In 2011, the company increased its radio station assets by acquiring Corus Québec, a subsidiary of Corus Entertainment,[18] and in 2018 acquired additional radio stations from RNC Média, giving it a total of twenty-two radio stations in Quebec and one in Ontario.[11] Also that year, the company purchased Métromédia for CA$41 million to later sell it in 2018 to Bell Media for an undisclosed amount.[19]

In February 2012, the company also sold its cable system Cabovisão in Portugal to the European media group Altice.[20]

In July 2012, the company expanded into the U.S. market by acquiring the cable system operator Atlantic Broadband.[11] In December that same year, it acquired Peer 1 Hosting, an internet infrastructure provider,[21] and later in October 2015, merged it with its Cogeco Data Services, forming a new subsidiary called Cogeco Peer 1.[22]

In January 2018, Cogeco Communications Inc. announced that its US subsidiary Atlantic Broadband had completed the acquisition of the cable systems owned by Harron Communications which were operating under the brand name MetroCast[23] for US$1.4 billion,[24] making the company the eight largest hybrid fibre coaxial cable operator in North America.[25]

In February, 2019 the company announced that it had sold Cogeco Peer 1 to Digital Colony, a global investment firm for CA$720 million.[26]

Corporate governance

As of 3 December 2019, the Cogeco Inc. ISS Governance QualityScore is 7. The pillar scores are Audit: 1; Board: 4; Shareholder Rights: 10; Compensation: 1.

Corporate governance scores are provided to Yahoo Finance by Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores denote a decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 denotes the lowest governance risk, while a score of 10 denotes the highest governance risk.[27]

Board of directors

The current board of directors as of March 2020:[28]

  • Louis Audet, Executive Chair
  • Colleen Abdoulah, Director
  • James C. Cherry, Lead Director
  • Pippa Dunn, Director
  • Joanne Ferstman, Director
  • Lib Gibson, Director
  • Philippe Jetté, Director
  • Carole J. Salomon, Director
  • Bernard Lord, Director
  • David McAusland, Director

Executives

Senior leadership team as of March 2020:[29]

  • Philippe Jetté, President and Chief Executive Officer, Cogeco Inc. and Cogeco Communications Inc.
  • Frank van der Post, President, Atlantic Broadband
  • Christian Jolivet, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
  • Marie-Hélène Labrie, Senior Vice President and Chief Public Affairs and Communications Officer
  • Luc Noiseux, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology and Strategy Officer
  • Patrice Ouimet, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Other members of the leadership team as of March 2020:[30]

  • Elizabeth Alves, Vice President, Enterprise Strategy and Social Responsibility
  • Philippe Bonin, Vice President Finance
  • Nathalie Dorval, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Copyright
  • Chantal Frappier, Vice President, Internal Audit
  • Martin Grenier, Vice President, Procurement
  • Stéphane Lacombe, Vice President, Information Technology
  • Marie Ginette Lepage, Vice President, Wireless Solutions and Innovation
  • Andrée Pinard, Vice President and Treasurer
  • Jérôme Prat, Vice President, Total Compensation and Human Resources Systems
  • Liette Vigneault, Vice President, Talent and Employee Experience
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See also

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