Ascom (company)

Ascom Holding AG
Company typePublic
SIXASCN
Industry
Founded1987; 38 years ago (1987)
Headquarters Baar (ZG)
Key people
Nicolas Vanden Abeele (CEO)[1]
RevenueCHF 286.7 million (2024)[2]
Number of employees
1415 (31 December 2024)[2]
Websitehttps://www.ascom.com

Ascom Holding AG is a Swiss company providing communication and collaboration solutions for the acute care, long-term care and enterprise sectors. Its solutions are based on intelligent integrations with software and hardware that are open source and compatible with third-party solutions.[3] The company has subsidiaries in 19 countries and a workforce of some 1415 employees worldwide.[2]

Ascom registered shares (symbol ASCN) are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange in Zurich. Ascom (Schweiz) AG is a subsidiary with former company names Hasler AG, Hasler Ascom AG and Ascom AG.[4]

Ascom services are based on VoWiFi, IP-DECT, Nurse Call, paging technologies, smartphones, apps and software suites for healthcare and enterprise organizations. Founded in the 1950s as TATECO (an abbreviation of Tore Andersson, Tele Control) based in Gothenburg, Sweden, Ascom Wireless Solutions is part of Ascom Holding, listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange.

The former division Ascom Network Testing was sold on 30 September 2016 to Infovista.[5]

The former Autelca division of Ascom Holding provided ticket vending machines to railways in Great Britain under the name Ascom EasyTicket.

References

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  1. ^ Nicolas Vanden Abeele appointed new ascom CEO. ascom.com, January 26, 2022. Retrieved January 31, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Ascom reports 2024 full year results. ad-hoc announcement, 12 March 2025. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
  3. ^ "Integrated Workflow Intelligence | Ascom". Ascom Global Website. 2020-11-17. Retrieved 2025-08-04.
  4. ^ Information provided by Moneyhouse
  5. ^ Giorgio V. Müller: Ascoms "letzter" Fehlschlag - Résumé einer fehlgeschlagenen Diversifizierung. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 14 February 2017, p. 28.