Telindus - Company History

Company History

• 1969 Start of the Group’s activities. John Cordier is appointed Director.
• 1979 The first foreign subsidiary is opened in Luxembourg. New subsidiaries are soon established in France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
• 1985 Telindus is listed on the Stock Exchange.
• 1996 Infrastructure and security service capabilities for various operators are further developed in the late 1990s.
• 2001 Telindus begins to acquire companies across Europe.
• 2006 Telindus is taken over by the Belgacom Group but retains its brand, corporate identity, and autonomy. Belgacom’s Network & System Integration department is incorporated into Telindus.
• 2008 Belgacom narrows Telindus country focus: Belgacom is reducing the number of country offices at its ICT services unit Telindus. The company will maintain offices in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, the UK, Ireland and Spain, but eight other country organisations (Germany, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, Thailand, China) where the units are too small or making losses.
• 2010 On January 4, 2010, Belgacom ends the existence of Telindus as a legal entity and absorbs all of its operations into those of the Group.