Cogeco
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. 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 eleven states along the east coast of the United States.
| Company type | Public |
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Traded as | TSX: CGO TSX: CCA |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1957 Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada |
| Founder | Henri Audet |
| Headquarters | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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| Products | Cable TV, Internet, telecommunications, broadcasting |
| Revenue | CA$2.33 billion (FY19) CA$2.15 billion (FY18) |
| CA$1.11 billion (FY19) CA$1.01 billion (FY18) | |
Net income | CA$432 million (FY19) CA$351 million (FY18) |
| Total assets | CA$6.95 billion (FY19) CA$7.18 billion (FY18) |
Number of employees | 4,500 (2019) |
| Subsidiaries | Breezeline |
| Website | corpo www |
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. 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. The name Cogeco is an acronym for Compagnie Générale de Communication ("General Communications Company").