Atea (company)

Atea ASA, previously Ementor, is a Nordic IT infrastructure company. It is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.

The company sells, installs, and supports products from Citrix, VMware, Apple, Cisco, HP, Microsoft, Lenovo, IBM, Readdle and others.

As of July 2019, the company employs about 7,400 people and operates in 87 cities in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.From 1 January 2009, the company was named Atea.On 22 December 2009 Atea AS acquired the Norwegian company Uni. Uni is specialized in wireless and wired infrastructure, as well as computer lab.

1968 – Merkantildata is founded

1985 – Merkantildata is listed on Oslo Stock Exchange

1989 – The infrastructure company Merkantildata grows through acquisitions and mergers in Norway and the Nordic region to become one of the Nordic region's largest IT companies

1995 – Acquisition of MBS Fjerndata

1996 – Acquisition of Tiki Data

2000 – The companies Ementor and Eterra are launched

2000 – Acquisition of Avenir AS (no) and the Nordic business of Getronics

2003 – The companies Ementor, Eterra and Merkantildata merge and take the name Ementor

2005 – Sale of Avenir and Managed Services

2005 – Sale of Ementor's operating department to ErgoGroup in October

2006 – Merger with Topnordic and acquisition of Atea

2007 – Acquisition of Tre65, Informatics and Fønix Data

2008 – Ementor expands to the Baltics when purchasing Sonex

2008 – Acquisition of Tomato and Kongsberg Systec

2009 – Ementor Group with subsidiaries changes name to Atea – Ementor Norge AS becomes Atea AS

2010 – Acquisition of Umoe IKT and Dropzone

2011 – Acquisition of Confuto, FotoPhono and Sunnmøre Kommunikasjon

2012 – Acquisition of IT Partner and Total Storage Solutions

2013 – Acquisition of Itale

2014 – Acquisition of Datatech AS

2014 – Acquisition of Imento AS