Quadient

History

• 1924 Founding of Neopost Limited
• 1929 Founding of SMH, Société des Machines Havas
• 1930 Acquisition of Neopost by Roneo
• 1935 Creation of Neopost brand name
• 1970 Acquisition by C.G.E. of SMH-Adrex
• 1979 Acquisition by C.G.E. of Friden
• 1980 Acquisition by C.G.E. of Roneo and Hadewe
• 1981 Attached to Alcatel, subsidiary of C.G.E.
• 1992 Foundation of Neopost Group
• 1997 A group of investors, advised by BC Partners and in association with management, took control of Neopost
• 1999 Neopost was floated on the Premier Marché of Euronext Paris on 23 February at a price of €15 per share
• 2002 Acquisition of Stielow and Hasler
• 2003 Neopost completed the integration of companies acquired in 2002, sold Stielow’s non-core label printing and print finishing businesses, and strengthened its operating structures
• 2005 Acquisition of BTA Digital Works, a software company
• 2006 Neopost adopted modified and the tagline "We value your mail" at the beginning of 2006.
• 2007 Acquisition of PFE, a supplier of high volume folder-inserters and Valipost
• 2008 Acquisition of RENA, addressing systems supplier and NBG-ID, integrator of RFID technology
• 2009 Acquisition of Satori Software, a postal address quality management software company
• 2009 Acquisition of Kontur Documents Systems and Scani
• 2011 Acquisition of GBC – Fordigraph, an Australian distributor of document finishing and mailing products
• 2012 Acquisition of GMC Software Technology – a Swiss-based provider of customer communications management products
• 2012 Acquisition of Human Inference, a Dutch provider of contact data quality services
• 2013 Acquisition of DMTI Spatial – a Canadian provider of location-based service provider
• 2014 Acquisition of Data Capture Solutions Ltd, a document management business
• 2019 The company was renamed Quadient
• In March 2020, Quadient sold ProShip, Inc. to FOG Software Group, a division of Constellation Software