Acquisition of netdirekt brings the company closer to German, Austrian and Swiss market and customers.
LeaseWeb, a web hosting provider, today announced the acquisition of netdirekt, a web hosting provider. The company claims that its goal is to offer its solutions and services directly across the German-speaking markets and to become the leading web hoster in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
It mentions that Frankfurt is by far the most important network node in Germany and its internet exchange is one of the top three in Europe, alongside Amsterdam and London, enabling the company to offer its international customers a strong internet infrastructure. Frankfurt is also its gateway to Eastern European and Middle Eastern countries.
The company says that Wiethold Wagner, Managing Director of its new branch in Germany and former owner and Managing Director of netdirekt, will take over management of the business in the region. The acquisition of netdirekt means that German-speaking customers now have local access to the company's services providing them with support in their own language from data centers in Frankfurt and Wuppertal. It adds that as part of the company's ongoing international strategy, it will also open a data center in North America in early 2011 in order to increase its global customer base.
It articulates that the company was founded in 1997. Headquartered in Amsterdam, it offers dedicated and co-located hosting, virtualization, cloud offerings, tailored IT infrastructure solutions and much more. The company has a bandwidth capacity of more than one and a half terabit per second (1.5 Tbps) in Europe and North America. Its customers include Heineken, Starbucks, Kelkoo and Wikimedia. netdirekt was founded in 1996 and currently has around 3,000 customers and manages a total of 6,000 servers. The total number of business and retail customers served by the company after the acquisition is more than 12,000 with 36,000 servers in its network.
"This step represents a significant milestone for us and our priority for 2011 will be the successful integration of netdirekt into LeaseWeb and to create new job opportunities in addition to retaining all current netdirekt employees," commented Ivo Roomer, Manager of M&A integration for LeaseWeb. Roomer continued, "Thanks to our international focus and local presence, customers will be able to benefit from the provision of secure and top quality hosting services from LeaseWeb with direct regional support."
"Competition in the German web hosting market is certainly one of the most toughly contested globally and is about to go through a marked period of consolidation. This makes the move from LeaseWeb even more of an accolade for us in that it demonstrates the potential seen in netdirekt. Our extremely flexible structure, solid financial basis, strong international focus and our bundled know-how puts us in an ideal position to take on the competition," said Wiethold Wagner. He added, "Both LeaseWeb and netdirekt have always relied on close customer proximity as the basis of their business success. We will stick to this strategy in future to ensure we meet the needs of our customers as well as fueling further growth and market share."
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