Press release
September 5, 2007
TeliaSonera to acquire DataInfo
TeliaSonera AB increases its holding in DataInfo Oy to 100 percent from 43.7.
DataInfo allows TeliaSonera to offer small and medium-sized enterprise customers
in Finland new ways to purchase the IT and communications solutions they need as
ready-made service entities. The parties have agreed not to disclose the value
of the transaction.
According to the agreement concluded today, TeliaSonera Finland Oyj increases
its holding in DataInfo Oy to 100 percent from 43.7 percent by acquiring the
remaining shares in the company.
TeliaSonera is focusing more strongly on small and medium-sized enterprise
customers. DataInfo allows TeliaSonera to offer them new ways to purchase IT and
communications solutions as easy-to-use service entities.
"Companies' demand for service-based, easy-to-use and easy-to-buy entities is
growing, and we see significant growth potential in this software-as-a-service,
or SaaS, business in our home markets", says Juho Lipsanen, President and head
of TeliaSonera's business area Integrated Enterprise Services. "The national and
local competence of the DataInfo chain is a strength that we wish to support and
utilize more broadly."
To the DataInfo chain, deeper cooperation with TeliaSonera represents additional
resources and an opportunity to both reach new customers and serve the present
customers more comprehensively.
"As part of TeliaSonera, the DataInfo Solutions chain will be the leading
national provider of total communications and IT solutions for SMEs in Finland.
Our goal is to help companies to improve their efficiency and productivity by
means of service-based solutions," says Jorma Maaninka, Chairman of the Board of
Directors of DataInfo Oy and head of TeliaSonera's SME business in Finland.
DataInfo Oy
DataInfo Oy is a Finnish service provider established in 1989. It specializes in
the implementation of information, communication and office solutions, and its
main target group consists of small and medium-sized enterprises and public
corporations. DataInfo Oy belongs to the DataInfo Solutions chain. Its
operations include both DataInfo Oy's own business in five key locations and the
DataInfo Solutions business of independent entrepreneurs that are members of the
DataInfo chain. The chain has 29 outlets throughout Finland. The net sales of
the chain amount to over EUR 120 million, and the companies belonging to the
chain employ over 300 experts.
For further information journalists can contact:
TeliaSonera's Press Office +46-(0)8-713 58 30 or
Jorma Maaninka, Chairman of the Board, DataInfo Oy, tel. +358 40 3022429
TeliaSonera is the leading telecommunications company in the Nordic and Baltic
region, with strong positions within mobile communications in Eurasia, Turkey
and Russia. At the end of 2006, TeliaSonera launched mobile services in Spain.
We provide reliable, innovative and easy-to-use services for transferring and
packaging voice, images, data, information, transactions and entertainment. In
2006, TeliaSonera's net sales amounted to SEK 91 billion, and at the end of
March 2007 the total number of customers exceeded 100 million in 15 countries.
The TeliaSonera share is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and the Helsinki
Stock Exchange, and the company is included in the Dow Jones Sustainability
Index. Simplicity and service are important tools for us in creating
profitable growth and value for our customers and shareholders. Read more at
www.teliasonera.com.
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