Press Release
F24 AG acquires One Voice AS
F24 AG extends pan-European market leadership by joining forces with One Voice AS
- F24 acquires 100% shares of One Voice AS, the leading provider of incident and crisis Management solutions in the Nordic countries
- F24 increases its existing customer base to 2,500
- Customers benefit from a feature complete full product suite for emergency notification and crisis management
- One Voice AS is F24’s third acquisition within the last six month and successfully accelerates F24’s growth plan as part of the 1st phase of their buy-and-build-strategy
Munich and Trondheim, 27. May 2019
F24 AG further strengthens its leading Pan-European market position in the field of resilience with the acquisition of the Norwegian company One Voice AS, the leading provider of incident and crisis management solutions in the Nordic countries. As a result, F24 increases its existing customer base to 2,500 by adding over 700 customers from One Voice in the Nordic countries and the United Kingdom. Joining forces further strengthens F24’s position in the United Kingdom as a leading provider in the market.
Within the last six month it is F24’s third acquisition. Besides organic growth, collaborating with One Voice successfully accelerates F24’s growth plan as part of the 1st phase of their buy-and-build-strategy. Raymond James acted as exclusive M&A advisor to F24 and the management shareholders, Nordhaven Corporate Finance supported One Voice AS in the process.
Dr. Jörg Rahmer, spokesperson of the F24 executive board and responsible for strategy, product and operations, states: “We are delighted to welcome One Voice AS to the F24 family. One Voice’s main product CIM not only extends our product portfolio but is also a next and significant step on our journey of establishing the leading pan-European crisis management and emergency notification platform.”
The One Voice AS founders Frode Lien Otnes and Kjetil Mollan will fully continue their work and play an important role in shaping the common future. They also re-invest a significant part of their proceeds into F24.
“As a new member of the F24 family, we are delighted to actively shape the future together and to further develop solutions that fully meet the growing requirements of all our customers.” Frode Lien Otnes, One Voice Founder and CEO says.
Kjetil Mollan, Founder and international business director of One Voice adds: “What unites us is, amongst others, our approach to work very closely with our customers. Our aim is and always will be to offer our customers highest quality services – together with the F24 Group we will not only continue but expand it even further.”
With 12 locations across Europe, the Middle East, and South America F24 is now supporting more than 2,500 companies and organisations in more than 100 countries.
Christian Götz, founder and Executive Board member at F24 AG and responsible for Sales, Marketing & PR, HR and Customer Service, states: We are pleased to welcome 700 more customers to F24 Group. Providing our customers with excellent service is our highest aspiration and unites us with One Voice. Together we can achieve even more for our customers – joining forces is crucial in today’s globalized world.”
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About F24
F24 is Europe’s leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider for resilience. More than 5,500 customers worldwide rely on F24’s digital solutions, which support companies and organisations through all areas of resilience. Solutions cover business messaging and service notification, emergency and mass notification, incident and crisis management, as well as governance, risk and compliance.
F24 supports customers in virtually every sector ranging from energy, healthcare, industry, finance, IT, tourism and aviation to a wide variety of public organisations. Many years of international experience have made F24 experts in improving resilience with digital solutions.
The company was founded in 2000 in Munich, where F24 AG’s head office is still located. Today, F24 supports companies and organisations in more than one hundred countries, via more than 20 locations in Europe and beyond. The F24 AG Board of Directors consists of F24 co-founder Christian Götz and the spokesperson Dr. Jörg Rahmer.
In July 2020, Europe’s leading software investor Hg became the majority shareholder in F24 AG. Since then, F24 continues to grow within the second phase of its buy-and-build strategy to further accelerate growth and expand the position as market leader in Europe.
In 2018 F24 was the first company based in Europe to be listed in the Gartner report for Emergency and Mass Notifications Systems (EMNS) and meet the stringent requirements of this prestigious institute. In addition, F24 is included in the Forrester Wave™: Critical Event Management Platforms Q4 2023, which looks at “The 10 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up”. This makes F24 one of the most relevant resilience providers worldwide.
Security is a top priority for F24, which is why the highest and most up-to-date safety standards are in place. In 2010, F24 became the first company worldwide to have their Integrated Management System for Information Security (ISMS) and Business Continuity (BCMS) certified by “The British Standards Institution” (BSI). Since then, F24 AG and most of its subsidiaries have been certified up to ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 22301 standards. In addition to annual audits by an independent accredited institution, successful re-certifications according to the international standards ISO/IEC 27001:2013 and ISO 22301:2019 took place in 2013, 2016, 2019 and 2022.
About One Voice
One Voice AS was founded in Trondheim, Norway, in 2006. The flagship product, CIM, enables companies and organisations to take care of its values and reputation before, during and after an incident, and is a complete management system for security, preparedness and crisis management, which incorporates all the processes from the bottom to the top of the resilience lifecycle.
Demonstrating its inherent flexibility and commitment to the core principles of incident and crisis management, the CIM system is used in organisations and blue-chip companies in demanding industries like energy production, offshore engineering, aviation, food production and transport etc.
Since 2006, One Voice has supported, amongst others, the Norwegian Government building a nationwide crisis management system in public sector, including police, healthcare, education, transportation, regional- and local authorities.