KPN completes sale of foreign Getronics-parts

KPN has the January announced sale of its it service provider Getronics International was completed. The Dutch branch, which last year was renamed to KPN Corporate Market, falls outside of the deal and is still in the hands of KPN.

Getronics International is in two parts sold; Getronics Europe and APAC are now in the hands of the German company Aurelius, even if KPN is still a minority interest. Getronics LATAM is in its entirety sold to the investment company OpenGate Capital. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Had KPN already know that with the acquisition no jobs would be lost.

In August of last year, KPN is already known in the Netherlands to say goodbye to the brand Getronics, thus the name, from October last year until the past belonged. KPN announced at the time of the activities of the company under his own name, to continue. The sale has no consequences for the former Getronics activities in the Netherlands: the branch remains part of KPN, called KPN Corporate Market.

A zegsvrouw of KPN confirmed already Tweakers.net international customers with their headquarters in the Netherlands, even after the sale of Getronics operated continue to be used by the business branch of KPN.

KPN Getronics in 2007, took over, made last year, is known heavily in the it company want to cut. Of the four to five thousand jobs between 2011 and 2015 at KPN disappear, the half at Getronics deleted. Most of the jobs going to India. KPN said earlier that compulsory redundancies ‘does not exclude’. In 2009, there disappeared also all 1400 jobs at Getronics.