Interoute Reaches Agreement to Acquire Easynet, Adding Scale, Skills and Capability to One of Europe’s Leading ICT Providers

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Interoute, owner-operator of one of Europe’s largest networks and a global cloud services platform, announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire European managed services provider Easynet, subject to certain customary closing conditions. The transaction places an enterprise value of £402 million on Easynet. On a pro forma basis, after giving effect to the acquisition, Interoute would have had total revenue of over €700 million in the twelve months ended 30 June 2015.

The acquisition will enable enterprise, government and service provider customers of the merged group to access a full suite of the combined companies products and services. In addition to increased products and services, the acquisition will bring an enhanced and expanded set of skills and capability to serve both companies’ existing customers and new prospects across the world.

Interoute was recently recognised as a Leader in Gartner’s 2015 Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Enabled Managed Hosting, Europe¹ report.

Interoute provides a range of Unified Connectivity, Computing and Communications products and services to multinational and national enterprises, such as UEFA, the European Space Agency, SCA and Saxo Bank, global telecommunications operators and internet content providers. Easynet has an impressive client base spanning global enterprises and public sector entities, as well as national clients.

Gareth Williams, Interoute’s CEO commented, “These are exciting times for Interoute and our customers as we create a leading, independent European ICT provider. It’s the next step in our acquisition strategy and moves us much closer to our goal of being the provider of choice to Europe’s digital economy.”

Mark Thompson, CEO of Easynet, commented, “I believe this acquisition will bring great benefits to both Interoute’s and Easynet’s customers. The combined companies can offer broader and deeper connectivity options, as well as an expanded portfolio of products and services, and the acquisition will further expand an already market-leading cloud hosting capability in Europe.”

^{1 Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Enabled Managed Hosting, Europe – Tiny Haynes, Gianluca Tramacere, and Gregor Petri, June 30, 2015}

About Interoute

Interoute is the owner-operator of one of Europe’s largest networks and a global cloud services platform which encompasses 12 data centres, 14 virtual data centres and 31 colocation centres, with connections to 195 additional third-party data centres across Europe. Its full-service Unified ICT platform serves international enterprises and many of the world’s leading service providers, as well as governments and universities. Interoute’s Unified ICT strategy provides solutions for enterprises seekingconnectivity and a scalable, secure advanced platform on which they can build their voice, video, computing and data services, as well as service providers in need of high capacity international data transit and infrastructure. With established operations throughout Europe and USA, Interoute also owns and operates 24 connected city networks within Europe’s major business centres. www.interoute.com

About Easynet

Easynet is a leading managed service provider with over twenty years’ experience delivering integrated networks, hosting and unified communications solutions to national, international and global customers. Enhancing these core areas of expertise is a range of complimentary services including colocation, security, voice and application performance management. Easynet has established relationships with key vendors, government bodies and industry standard accreditors and operates to a number of recognised industry standards, including ISO9001, ISO14001, OHSAS18001, ISO20000 and ISO27001. Easynet is also one of a select number of managed service providers approved and appointed by the Government Procurement Service to assist the UK Government in its mission to create a network of networks. Easynet’s mission is to deliver integrated solutions that enable an organisation to collaborate more effectively, operate more efficiently and improve customer engagement by connecting people, sites and machines in a secure and reliable way. Customers include Sports Direct, EDF, Bouygues, Anglian Water, Bridgestone, Levi Strauss and Campofrio Food Group.

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