In May 2005, a majority shareholding in Meteo Consult B.V was acquired by the PA Group, an international group of news, containing information and communications businesses which include the Press Association, the national news agency of the UK and Ireland. Also based in Berlin, MeteoGraphics works closely with the German subsidiary of MeteoGroup. In 1998 Meteo Consult acquired a majority shareholding in MeteoGraphics, a graphics business specialising in visualising weather. 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 the joint venture came to an end and its wholly owned German subsidiary MC-Wetter was established.įurther European expansion quickly followed. In 1993 Meteo Consult set up its first business outside the Netherlands when a joint venture for the German market was established in Berlin. SPOS, its proprietary weather routing system, is now a market leader and is installed on over 2,000 vessels worldwide. ![]() The company began working with a major international energy and petrochemical company to develop an on-board routing system for the shipping market. In the early 1990s Meteo Consult started expanding outside of the Netherlands and also into marine services. As a result, Meteo Consult grew in both the media and B2B markets. 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. It was one of the first European private-sector weather businesses.Īt 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. In 1986, Meteo Consult B.V, was set up in the Netherlands by Harry Otten, a Dutch TV weather presenter. ![]() In November 2019, MeteoGroup was integrated into US weather services company DTN (also owned by TBG). In 2018, MeteoGroup was acquired by TBG AG. In 2013, MeteoGroup was acquired by General Atlantic. MeteoGroup had a portfolio of weather apps: WeatherPro, MeteoEarth and Magical Weather. MeteoGroup provided weather information to markets that included transport, marine, agriculture, energy and the media. ![]() MeteoGroup was a private weather forecasting organisation based in Europe, with offices in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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