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Orange Acquires Wanadoo SA

On September 30, 2004, Orange acquired communications company Wanadoo SA

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Orange’s 1st transaction in the Communications sector.
  • This is Orange’s 1st transaction in France.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2004-09-30
Target Wanadoo SA
Sector Communications
Buyer(s) Orange
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Wanadoo SA

Issy les Moulineaux, France
Wanadoo SA is a provider of broadband services in France.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Orange

Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Category Company
Founded 1990
Sector Communications
Employees126,909
Revenue 40.3B EUR (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Orange retail store in central Barcelona, Spain.
Orange retail store in central Barcelona, Spain.

Orange provides a range of fixed telephony and mobile telecommunications, data transmission, Internet, multimedia, and other value-added services to consumers, businesses, and other telecommunications operators under the Orange brand worldwide. Orange was founded in 1990 and is based in Paris, France.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 15
Sector: Communications M&A 1 of 6
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 12
Country: France M&A 1 of 7
Year: 2004 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2002-12-25 Ziggo

Groningen, Netherlands

Ziggo is a cable operator in the Netherlands, providing analogue and digital television, broadband and telephony services to consumers and businesses. Ziggo was founded in 2007 and is based in Groningen, Netherlands.

Sell €665M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2005-10-21 Orange Slovensko a.s.

Bratislava, Slovakia

Orange Slovensko is the leading GSM mobile telephony operator in Slovakia.

Buy $628M
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