October 17, 2005 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Claranet Group, Europe's largest private IP services provider, has acquired Artful, a leading French web hosting services provider. The move strengthens Claranet’s position as a European IP services and outsourced managed hosting leader. "With this strategic acquisition the Claranet Group allows Artful to strengthen its technical offering and expand its portfolio of services across Europe to improve the service it gives its customers." said Olivier Beaudet, managing director of Artful.
Artful provides applications such databases, intranets, extranets, web sites and enterprise systems including Citrix and Oracle. The company boasts an impressive customer list including Universal Music, Airbus, Veolia environment, Olympique de Marseille, Vivendi Universal, L'occitane and Sojasun. Artful and Claranet's customers will benefit from a larger infrastructure with increased investment in developing and managing complex solutions across the group.
"Claranet continues to develop its value added offering to deliver leading IP solutions and make sure its customers have access to the industry's best technologies. The acquisition of Artful is in line with our strategy of expanding our portfolio of services and build on the group's revenues and profits." said Nicolas Prouteau, managing director of Claranet France.
