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Liberty Global

 
Hoover's Profile: Liberty Global, Inc.
(NASDAQ (GS):LBTYA)
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Liberty Global, Inc.
12300 Liberty Blvd.
Englewood, CO 80112
CO Tel. 303-220-6600
Fax 303-220-6601

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.lgi.com
Employees: 22,300
Employee growth: 1.4%

Liberty Global may call the US home, but most of its subscribers enjoy the company's services from international living rooms. Through its operating subsidiaries, the company provides cable TV programming and content distribution, telephone service, and Internet access to more than 16 million subscribers in 15 European, Asian, and Latin American countries. Its core market is western Europe, where it does more than half of its business through subsidiary UPC Holding, and in Belgium, through a controlling stake in Telenet Holding. Chellomedia is the company's European programming business; the company also offers satellite TV in select markets.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $10,561.1M
One year growth: 17.3%
Net income: ($788.9)M

Officers:
Chairman: John C. Malone
President, CEO, and Director: Michael T. Fries
SVP and Co-CFO: Charles H. R. (Charlie) Bracken

Competitors:
BT
Eutelsat
SES Group

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Liberty Global Inc.
Type Public (NASDAQLBTYA, NASDAQLBTYB, NASDAQLBTYK)
Founded 2005
Headquarters Meridian, Colorado, USA
Schiphol-Rijk, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Key people John C. Malone - Chairman of the Board
Michael T. Fries - President and CEO
Industry Media, Telecommunications
Products broadband internet, cable television, telephony, direct broadcast satellite
Revenue $5.2 billion for the 6 months ended June 30, 2009, $10.5 billion for the 12 months ended December 31, 2008
Employees 22,000
Website www.lgi.com

Liberty Global (NASDAQLBTYA, NASDAQLBTYB, NASDAQLBTYK) is an international media company and one of the largest broadband providers outside the United States of America. The company is born from a fusion of Liberty Media and UGC (UnitedGlobalCom).

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Markets

Europe

It serves 10 countries in Europe, and is the largest cable operator in countries like Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary and Czech Republic.

  • Telenet (Belgium) (> 50% ownership)
    • Television
    • Sites
      • Zita
      • 9lives
      • GarageTV
      • PCTV
      • TV.be
      • vandaag.be (today.be, news site)
    • Hostbasket
    • Telenet Solutions

America

Liberty Global's operations in the Americas consists of Liberty Cablevision, a provider of pay TV, internet, and telephone services in Puerto Rico and VTR Chile, a Chilean cable provider of television, telephone and internet services.

Through Chellomedia it has a 50% stake in MGM Networks in the USA.

Asia and Australia

Liberty Global's portfolio also includes a > 55% interest in AUSTAR and a > 38% stake of J:COM, a Japanese cable company operating television, telephone, and internet services. Liberty Global also own 20% of Showtime Australia.

References

  1. http://www.lgi.com
  2. http://www.lgi.com/PDF/LGI%20Factsheet%20Q2%202009.pdf
  3. http://www.upc.at
  4. http://www.telenet.be
  5. http://www.upc.cz
  6. http://www.upc.cz
  7. http://www.upc.hu
  8. http://www.upc.ie
  9. http://www.upc.nl
  10. http://www.upc.pl
  11. http://www.upc.ro
  12. http://www.upc.sk
  13. http://www.cablecom.ch/en/
  14. http://www.upcbusiness.com
  15. http://www.chellomedia.com
  16. http://www.vtr.net
  17. http://www.libertypr.com
  18. http://www.austar.com.au
  19. http://www.jcom.co.jp/english

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