NTT Communications to Acquire 86.7% Stake in e-shelter
March 02 2015 - 7:30PM
Business Wire
Will become EU’s 3rd largest data center
operator by leveraging strong European presence of Germany’s
top data center operator
NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and
international communications business within NTT (NYSE:NTT),
e-shelter, the top operator of data center services in Germany, and
ABRY Partners, a private equity investment firm, jointly announced
that NTT Com will acquire 86.7% of e-shelter’s issued shares. The
acquisition will vault the NTT Com group into the no. 3 position
for data center space in Europe.
e-shelter is currently managing nearly 90,000 square meters of
data center space in four major cities in Germany, as well as
Zurich, Switzerland and Vienna, Austria. One of its main
facilities, Campus Frankfurt 1, Europe’s largest data center
with some 60,000 square meters of data center space, comprises
five free-standing buildings constructed specifically as
data centers.
The acquisition will further strengthen NTT Com’s EU
capabilities to meet increased demand for data center and cloud
services, as well as provide increasingly efficient services to
migrate customer systems to the cloud. The EU data center market is
growing at 9% per year, according to the research firm Gartner,
Inc.
NTT Com currently operates data centers in the UK, France,
Germany and Spain which e-shelter’s six locations in central Europe
will complement perfectly.
NTT Com President and CEO Akira Arima said: “e-shelter is a
growing company offering high-quality, highly extensible data
center capabilities. We have been impressed by their ability, under
the strong leadership of CEO Rupprecht Rittweger, to maintain their
position as a leading data center operator not only in Germany, but
the competitive EU market as a whole. We look forward to expanding
our share of the EU’s overall ICT market in partnership with this
potent company. Globally, NTT Com supports many of the world’s
best-known corporations with top-quality services from data centers
located in global economic centers. We will continue to invest in
data centers to help our clients secure their data.”
As a new member of the NTT Com group, e-shelter will benefit
from access to NTT Com’s world-class global data center, cloud and
network service infrastructure. The company will also enjoy
enhanced financing capabilities for accelerated capital investment
in the continental EU region, where it aims to fulfill the diverse
ICT needs of its large customers.
According to e-shelter CEO Rupprecht Rittweger: “As our
multinational customers expand beyond EU borders, and undergo rapid
ICT evolutions, they are increasingly demanding globally seamless
ICT solutions. To meet their demands ahead of our competitors, we
believe that the best way to ensure e-shelter’s growth and
development is in partnership with NTT Com, which has a commanding
presence in Asia and is a leading provider of ICT services
worldwide. At the same time, we look forward to strengthening NTT
Com’s global ICT infrastructure and market share with our strong
presence in Europe.”
Customers of e-shelter data center services include major
multinational enterprises in fields including finance,
communication networks, ICT services, government, healthcare and
digital media. e-shelter operates a comprehensive range of data
center infrastructure and services, including land and buildings as
well as facilities and collocations services, enabling it to
respond flexibly to growing demand and changing customer
requirements. The company’s infrastructure includes its own 120 MW
electrical substation for stable, energy-efficient power
supply.
Following the acquisition, significant minority stake will be
retained by Investa Holding GmbH, a German real estate developer in
which e-shelter founder and CEO Rupprecht Rittweger owns a
controlling interest. Currently, Investa owns 51% of e-shelter’s
issued shares and the remaining shares are owned by ABRY Partners,
one of the most experienced and successful media, communications
and business-information services focused private equity investment
firms, and other minority shareholders. NTT Com will provide more
than half of e-shelter’s new board of directors.
NTT Com operates more than 130 secure data centers worldwide. In
addition, NTT Com provides a wide range of globally standardized
services, including platforms for hosting, network and security
services. Nexcenter services support and enhance the quality of
customer ICT systems, offer customer-tailored options and
solutions, and help to minimize ICT management costs and improve
customer ROI.
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Media ContactsNTT CommunicationsKota Yamashita/Mizuki
Takida, +81-3-6700-4010hodo-cp@ntt.comore-shelterMelanie Rittweger,
+49-69-7801-2331press@e-shelter.de
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