Atos drops ‘Origin’ in the name

Atos Origin continues as Atos and takes Siemens IT Solutions & Services in its ranks. As a result of the integration disappear worldwide 1750 points at the Siemens-division; to the extent known, there would be no Dutch jobs in between.

The acquisition of Siemens IT Solutions & Services was in december already announced and last week completed. As a result of the acquisition deal, Atos Origin and Siemens under one flag further as Atos. The precise consequences of the acquisition, the company has for employees will be announced Monday, but in december it was already known that there is worldwide 1750 jobs at the Siemens-division would disappear. According to spokeswoman Erica Prince in the Netherlands 250 employees from Siemens to Atos, but who have so far known it has not to fear for their jobs.

Atos will pay Siemens 850 million for its managed services division, and Siemens takes on his turn, a share of 15 percent in Atos. In addition spends Siemens over the next seven years are ict services to Atos, reports Computable. With the repeal of ‘Origin’ disappears the Dutch part of the company name: Atos Origin was formed in 2000 by a merger between the French Atos and the Dutch Origin, which was then part of Philips. Since 2005, Philips has no share in the ict-service provider.