Gemalto
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| Naamloze vennootschap | |
| Traded as | Euronext: GTO |
| Industry | Electronics |
| Predecessor | |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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Key people
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Alex Mandl (Chairman), Philippe Vallee (CEO) |
| Products | Smart cards and related software and services, card terminals |
| Revenue | €3.122 billion (2015) |
| €423 million (2015) | |
| Profit | €304 million (2015) |
| Total assets | €4.422 billion (end 2015) |
| Total equity | €2.490 billion (end 2015) |
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Number of employees
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> 14,000 (2016) |
| Website | www.gemalto.com |
Gemalto is an international digital security company providing software applications, secure personal devices such as smart cards and tokens, and managed services. It is the world’s largest manufacturer of SIM cards.
The company was founded in June 2006 when two companies, Axalto and Gemplus International, merged. Gemalto's 2015 revenue was €3.122 billion. It is listed on both Euronext Amsterdam and Euronext Paris under the symbol GTO.
Gemalto N.V. is a public company incorporated in the Netherlands. It is headquartered in Amsterdam, and has subsidiaries and group companies in several countries. Globally, Gemalto has over 14,000 employees, 118 offices; 17 production sites, 45 personalization centers, and 27 R&D centers in 49 countries.
In June 2006, smart card providers Gemplus and Axalto merged to become Gemalto (Portmanteau of the original company names.) Axalto was a Schlumberger IPO spin-off in 2004. Between the merger and 2015, Gemalto completed a series of acquisitions: the Leigh Mardon’s personalization center (Taiwan), Multos International, NamITech in South Africa, NXP mobile services business, the mobile software solution provider O3SIS, Trusted Logic (the secure software platform provider), Serverside (personalization of bank cards with digital images generated by end users), XIRING’s banking activity, Netsize (a mobile communications service and commerce enabler), Valimo Wireless, a provider in mobile authentication, the internet banking security specialist Todos AB in Sweden, Cinterion the German specialist of machine-to-machine (M2M), SensorLogic (an M2M service delivery platform provider), Plastkart in Turkey, Ericsson’s mobile payment platform IPX and Buzzinbees, the automatic SIM activation expert.
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