In November 2019, MeteoGroup was integrated into US weather services company DTN (also owned by TBG AG) and was rebranded as DTN, establishing a DTN European headquarters in Utrecht, Netherlands. In 2018 MeteoGroup was acquired by TBG AG, a private venture capital firm based in Zurich, Switzerland. Some have claimed there has been a reduction in accuracy of BBC forecasts as a result. On 6 February 2018 BBC Weather changed supplier from the government Met Office to MeteoGroup, after being required to put its weather services out to tender. According to its press release, this expanded MeteoGroup's global operations to 14 countries, making it one of the largest weather companies in the world with almost 400 employees and combined annual turnover of more than €50 million. In September 2013, MeteoGroup acquired mminternational (Europe) AG, a major Swiss-German weather company. In July 2012, MeteoGroup Singapore was launched, initially focusing on providing weather products and services to the Southeast Asian shipping and offshore markets. In the summer of 2017 MeteoGroup withdrew from the US transportation business, ending all relationships with their US sales force. The company now forms part of MeteoGroup Offshore, a dedicated division supplying meteorological and oceanographic products and services to the offshore industry.Īt the end of 2011 MeteoGroup Italia was set up in Italy. In May 2011, MeteoGroup acquired Nowcasting International Limited, an Ireland-based company specialising in technology for offshore weather forecasting. In 2010 MeteoGroup expanded into the United States and launched MeteoGroup USA. A new business was launched in France in April 2009 (MeteoGroup France), bringing the number of European MeteoGroup operations to eight. MeteoGroup España was launched in 2006 with an office in Madrid and, in 2007, MeteoGroup opened new weather operations in Poland (MeteoGroup Polska) and Sweden (MeteoGroup Scandinavia). Meteo Consult has retained its original brand name alongside the strapline 'A MeteoGroup Company'. In September 2006, the business was re-branded as MeteoGroup, which brought together all its businesses under a single brand. This acquisition broadened PA Group's diversified information services for international markets, helping the company to enter new markets. The Press Association and Meteo Consult had worked together since 1997 in a successful joint venture in the UK, PA WeatherCentre Ltd, now MeteoGroup UK, combining the meteorological skills of Meteo Consult with the packaging and delivery skills of the Press Association. In May 2005, a majority shareholding in Meteo Consult B.V was acquired by the PA Group, an international group of news, containing information and communications businesses which include the Press Association, the national news agency of the UK and Ireland. Also based in Berlin, MeteoGraphics works closely with the German subsidiary of MeteoGroup. In 1998 Meteo Consult acquired a majority shareholding in MeteoGraphics, a graphics business specialising in visualising weather. In 1996 Meteo Consult became a majority shareholder in Meteo Services in Belgium (now MeteoGroup Belgium) and in 1997 a joint venture was established with the Press Association in the UK - PA WeatherCentre. In 1998 the joint venture came to an end and its wholly owned German subsidiary MC-Wetter was established.įurther European expansion quickly followed. In 1993 Meteo Consult set up its first business outside the Netherlands when a joint venture for the German market was established in Berlin. SPOS, its proprietary weather routing system, is now a market leader and is installed on over 2,000 vessels worldwide. The company began working with a major international energy and petrochemical company to develop an on-board routing system for the shipping market. In the early 1990s Meteo Consult started expanding outside of the Netherlands and also into marine services. As a result, Meteo Consult grew in both the media and B2B markets. Meteo Consult lobbied the Government of the Netherlands for fair and equal data access, and for the opening of weather markets to the private sector. It was one of the first European private-sector weather businesses.Īt that time, the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute dominated all the Dutch markets and access by private companies to essential meteorological data and models was severely restricted. In 1986, Meteo Consult B.V, was set up in the Netherlands by Harry Otten, a Dutch TV weather presenter.
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