MeteoGroup
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| Private | |
| Founded | 1986 |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
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Number of locations
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United Kingdom, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Belgium, Poland, United States, Singapore, Switzerland, Philippines, Italy, Ireland, Turkey, Canada |
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Key people
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Donat Retif (Executive Chairman and CEO) |
| Parent | General Atlantic |
| Website | www.meteogroup.com |
MeteoGroup is a private weather organisation based in Europe, with forecasting offices in 17 countries and customers worldwide. It is owned by global growth equity firm General Atlantic.
MeteoGroup has offices in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Belgium, Poland, US, Canada, Singapore, Switzerland, Turkey, Philippines, Italy and Ireland.
MeteoGroup provides bespoke weather information to professional markets that transport, marine, agriculture, energy and the media.
MeteoGroup has a portfolio of weather apps: WeatherPro, MeteoEarth and Magical Weather.
In 1986, Meteo Consult B.V, was set up in the Netherlands by Harry Otten, a Dutch TV weather presenter. It was one of the first European private sector weather businesses.
At 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. 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. As a result, Meteo Consult grew in both the media and B2B markets.
In the early 1990's Meteo Consult started expanding outside of the Netherlands and also into marine services. The company began working with a major international energy and petrochemical company to develop an on-board routing system for the shipping market. SPOS, its proprietary weather routing system, is now a market leader and is installed on over 2,000 vessels worldwide.
In 1993 Meteo Consult set up its first business outside the Netherlands when a joint venture for the German market was established in Berlin. In 1998 the joint venture came to an end and its wholly owned German subsidiary MC-Wetter was established.
Further European expansion quickly followed. 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 Meteo Consult acquired a majority shareholding in MeteoGraphics, a graphics business specialising in visualising weather. Also based in Berlin, MeteoGraphics works closely with the German subsidiary of MeteoGroup.
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