Cogeco

Cogeco Inc.
CGO Inc.
Company typePublic
TSX: CGO
TSX: CCA
IndustryTelecommunications
Founded1957; 67 years ago (1957)
Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada[1]
FounderHenri Audet
HeadquartersMontreal, Quebec, Canada
Key people
ProductsCable TV, Internet, telecommunications, broadcasting
RevenueIncrease CA$2.33 billion (FY19) CA$2.15 billion (FY18)[2]
Increase CA$1.11 billion (FY19) CA$1.01 billion (FY18)[2]
Increase CA$432 million (FY19) CA$351 million (FY18)[2]
Total assetsDecrease CA$6.95 billion (FY19) CA$7.18 billion (FY18)[2]
Number of employees
4,500[3] (2019)
SubsidiariesBreezeline
Websitecorpo.cogeco.com/cca/
www.cogeco.ca

Cogeco Inc. is a Canadian telecommunications and media company. Its corporate offices are located at 1 Place Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec. The company is structured into three strategic business units (SBU); Cogeco Connexion, Breezeline (previously known as Atlantic Broadband), and Cogeco Media.[4] The company provides a range of telecommunication products and services including cable television, radio and television broadcasting, telephony, and Internet services in Ontario and Quebec in Canada, and in thirteen states along the east coast of the United States.[5]

Cogeco Inc. is a publicly traded company (TSX: CGO) and is controlled through multiple voting shares (accounting for 71.29% of votes) by the Audet family's holding company Gestion Audem Inc.[6][7][8] In turn, Cogeco Inc. fully owns Cogeco Media, and owns 82.96% of the voting rights in Cogeco Communications Inc., a separate publicly traded company (TSX: CCA) which owns the Canadian and U.S. cable and telecom operations.[8] The name Cogeco is an acronym for Compagnie Générale de Communication ("General Communications Company").[9]

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