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Directors’ report
The board and the managing director of Atea Holding AB herewith issue the annual report
and consolidated accounts for the financial year 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2002.
All amounts are in thousands of SEK, unless stated otherwise.
Ownership circumstances
Atea Holding AB is owned by:
WM-data AB 48.8125%
3i Group plc 20.0526%
3i Europartners III A LP 17.6608%
3i Europartners III B LP 6.7454%
3i Nordic 2002 SA 4.3537%
Board and management 2.3750%
Information on business
Group
Atea is the Nordic countries’ leading company for advice, sales, distribution and integration
of IT-products.
In accordance with the business concept, Atea is simplifying and rationalising its customers’
management of IT-products throughout their life cycle. Through the Atea Value
Chain, Atea offers an overall concept for IT-product provision. The value chain includes
everything from analysis and advisement, deliveries and installation through to recycling
or scrapping of worn-out IT-products – in short, the entire life cycle for a company’s ITproducts.
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Parent company
The parent company’s business is owning and administrating companies which produce
IT-products and IT-services.
Important events during the financial year
Group
Despite a general decline in the market, Atea has succeeded in balancing new products
and services for existing and new customers, and continued to work on rationalisation of
its own business.
2002 was the first complete financial year in Atea’s history. The result was affected by
the poor state of the market, but was nevertheless satisfactory. During the year there was
an emphasis on developing the Atea Value Chain business platform and other products
and services, especially in the fields of analysis and advisement and Infrastructure
Products.
Atea recorded high growth in the Public Sector business area in all countries. Public
Sector Customers see the possibility of rationalising their processes and reducing their
IT-costs using Atea’s services.
During 2002 Atea also secured and increased its market leadership in Licence Management,
and now has a 20–25% share of Microsoft’s turnover in the Nordic countries.
During the year Atea formed a new subsidiary. The name of the company is X IT IT
Broker AB. It is planned that the company be a sales channel within the Atea group for
reconditioned used products.