Orange Business Services
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| Subsidiary | |
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Technology consulting Technology services Information and communications technology |
| Predecessor | Equant (November 2000) Global One (January 2000) |
| Founded | 1 June 2006 (as Orange Business Services) |
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Key people
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(CEO, Orange S.A.) Thierry Bonhomme, (CEO, Orange Business Services |
| Revenue | €6.4 billion (2015) |
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Number of employees
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21,000+ |
| Parent | Orange S.A. |
| Website | www.orange-business.com |
Orange Business Services, the business services arm of Orange S.A., is a global integrator of communications products and services for multinational corporations.
It offers integrated communications products and services to global enterprises in cloud computing, unified communications and collaboration; which manage and integrate the complexity of international communications.
Orange Business Services was founded on 1 June 2006, through a rebranding and consolidation of the existing France Telecom businesses of Equant and Wanadoo.
It operates in over 220 countries and territories and employs over 30,000 employees in 166 countries.
In May 2000, the Orange brand, through a complicated set of mergers and divisions, was acquired and eventually retained by Orange S.A., then a fully owned subsidiary of France Télécom. The chain of mergers that led to the May 2000 acquisition are as follows;
The inception of Orange brand was In 1990 in United Kingdom with the formation of "Microtel Communications Ltd" - a consortium initially formed by Pactel Corporation (American), British Aerospace (BAe, now BAE Systems), Millicom and Matra (French); and later, to be wholly owned by BAe. In July 1991, the Hong Kong-based conglomerate - Hutchison Whampoa through a deal with BAe, acquired a controlling stake of 65% in Microtel, who by then had won a license to develop a Personal communications network (PCN) network in United Kingdom.
Subsequently, Hutchison renamed Microtel to Orange Personal Communications Services Ltd, and on 28 April 1994, Orange brand was launched in the UK mobile phone market . A holding company structure was adopted in 1995 with the establishment of Orange plc. In April 1996, Orange went public and floated on the and NASDAQ, majority owned by Hutchison (48.22%), followed by BAe (21.1%). In June 1996, it became the youngest company to enter the FTSE 100, valued at £2.4 billion. And by July 1997 Orange had gained one million customers.
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