Atos
French IT corporation
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| October 2024 | The French government planned to acquire Atos' advanced computing division for €500 million, potentially reaching €625 million with earn-outs, to protect strategic technologies and stabilize the company. |
| July 4 2024 | Atos announced a restructuring plan involving conversion of about €2.8 billion of debt into equity, with creditors contributing €233 million of new equity, aiming to complete all restructuring operations by the end of 2024. |
| June 2024 | Discussions about a rescue deal with a consortium led by Onepoint broke down, and Atos began negotiations with bondholders about a new restructuring deal. |
| May 2024 | Atos was considering four competing bids to inject new money into the firm, with its share value having dropped 97% and having had four chief executives in two years. |
| April 2024 | Atos reported total debts of almost €5 billion and began exploring financial restructuring options to stabilize its finances. |
| February 2024 | Negotiations with Daniel Křetínský to sell Atos ended in failure. |
| November 2023 | The Eviden brand's proposed division was still not approved by the board of directors, leaving it a wholly owned subsidiary of Atos. |
| April 2023 | Atos launched the Eviden brand as part of a €5 billion carve-out strategy, repositioning its focus on data centers, hosting, digital workplaces, unified communications, and business process outsourcing. |
| 2022 | Negotiations began with Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský to sell Atos for about $2 billion. |
| February 2021 | Atos terminated acquisition talks with DXC Technology after proposing a $10 billion deal that would have included the company's debt. |
| June 2020 | Atos collaborated with GENCI and CEA to unveil the 'Joliot-Curie' supercomputer, designed to support academic and industrial open research initiatives. |
| April 2020 | Atos retained only a 3.82% stake in Worldline after gradually selling its shares. |
| 2019 | Atos divested from Worldline, its payment subsidiary, as part of a strategic move to become a 'digital pure player'. |
| December 2019 | Atos acquired Maven Wave, a US-based Google Cloud Premier Partner specializing in cloud and mobile applications, data analytics, experience design, and cloud infrastructure. |
| November 1 2019 | Elie Girard succeeded Thierry Breton as CEO of Atos, following Breton's appointment as EU commissioner. |
| 2018 | Atos provided official sponsorship and technical services for the European Championships in Glasgow, delivering timing, scoring, and results management. |
| October 2018 | Atos acquired Syntel, a company operating in banking, financial services, healthcare, retail, and insurance sectors, to accelerate its expansion in North America. The acquisition was valued at total cost (including debt). |
| April 2018 | Atos announced a global partnership with Google Cloud to develop secure artificial intelligence systems, establishing collaborative AI labs in London, Dallas, Munich, and Paris. |
| 2017 | Press Association reported that Atos was due to be paid over £700m for five-year contracts, significantly more than the original estimate of £512m. |
| February 2017 | Atos was appointed as the first official sponsor of the Glasgow 2018 European Championships, securing a £2.5 million contract for timing, scoring, and results services. |
| 2016 | Atos continued to undertake work for the DWP in assessing Personal Independence Payment (PIP) applications. |
| 2015 | Atos served as the official sponsor of the 2015 Southeast Asian Games held in Singapore, demonstrating the company's involvement in major international sporting events. |
| 2015 | Atos sold its OH Assist business to CBPE Capital. |
| 2015 | Atos concluded its operation of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)'s Work Capability Assessment in the United Kingdom. |
| 2014 | Atos was an official supporter of the 2014 Commonwealth Games held in Glasgow, Scotland. |
| 2014 | Atos Healthcare rebranded its occupational health business to OH Assist, reserving the Atos Healthcare brand for the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) contract. |
| 2014 | The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) negotiated an early exit from the Work Capability Assessment contract with Atos due to concerns about the quality of their work. |
| December 19 2014 | Atos announced the acquisition of Xerox's IT Outsourcing business, which significantly expanded their North American business operations. The acquired unit had 9,800 employees operating across 45 countries and generated substantial revenue in Q3 2014. |
| October 2014 | Atos announced plans to buy out or squeeze out the remaining shareholders and bondholders of Bull. |
| August 2014 | Atos announced it had successfully acquired a controlling stake in Bull SA. |
| May 2014 | Atos launched a tender offer to acquire a controlling stake in Bull SA. |
| June 26 2013 | Protest group 'Glasgow Against Atos' occupied a Commonwealth Games venue to demonstrate against Atos's sponsorship of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. |
| 2012 | Atos earned £700 million in revenue from the UK public sector, out of £7.2 billion in total worldwide sales. |
| 2012 | Atos acquired the French software company blueKiwi and began rolling out their ZEN social networking software across the organization as part of the Zero Email initiative. |
| 2012 | Atos announced the creation of a new company called Canopy, with Philippe Llorens as CEO. |
| August 31 2012 | Activists and disabled people held a demonstration outside Atos headquarters in London, which ended in a confrontation with the police during the first week of the Paralympics. |
| 2011 | UK-based disability campaign groups called for a boycott of the 2012 Summer Paralympics due to Atos' sponsorship and its Work Capability Assessments contract. |
| 2011 | Between 2011 and 2014, 2,380 people died soon after being found fit for work through Atos Healthcare's disability benefit assessments. |
| 2011 | Atos introduced the Zero Email initiative, banning internal email communications except for customer and prospect interactions. |
| November 2011 | Atos and Ufida International Holdings formed the joint venture Yunano, investing €5.7 million, with Atos holding 70% and UFIDA 30%, headquartered in Bezons, France. |
| July 2011 | Atos finalized the acquisition of Siemens IT Solutions and Services, and reverted the company name to Atos. |
| December 2010 | Atos Origin agreed to acquire the IT subsidiary of Siemens for €850 million, with Siemens taking a 15% stake in the enlarged Atos for a minimum of five years. |
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