Iron Mountain has completed the merger process with Recall in Spain

Following the acquisition of this company announced in May 2016

The objective is to achieve a leadership position in the field of information management and protection.

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Iron mountain, a world leader in information custody and management, has completed Spain the merger process with Recall, after the acquisition of this company announced in May 2016 and whose global value amounted to 2 billion dollars.

 

The merger between Iron Mountain and Recall In Spain it was signed on December 12.

 

The acquisition by Iron mountain It includes all of the worldwide operations of Recall, including all its facilities, vehicles, employees and customers and excluding the sale of business units, as required by regulatory authorities in the United States, Canada and Australia. The operation places Iron Mountain Spain positioned to achieve leadership in the management and protection of business information sector.

 

After the acquisition, the number of companies that trust Iron Mountain Spain It has 2.000 clients, among which are 60% of the companies belonging to the IBEX 35. Its 16 custody and information management centers spread throughout the national territory offer unbeatable geographic coverage in the Spanish market, in which it operates. since 1999.

 

 

 

After the acquisition, the number of companies that trust Iron Mountain Spain amounts to 2.000 clients, among which are 60% of the companies belonging to the IBEX 35.

 

 

 

Iron mountain, founded in 1951, is the trusted guardian for more than 220.000 organizations around the world, guarding billions of information assets, from critical business data to countless works of art, national moments or collective memories. The company has more than 8,5 million square meters spread across 1.400 facilities in 46 countries.

 

Ignacio Chico, General Director of Iron Mountain Spain, comments: “To Iron Mountain Spain the acquisition of Recall It has represented taking a giant step. Not only have we increased our client portfolio, now counting most of the IBEX35 companies among them, but we have expanded our geographical coverage dramatically. In this way, we achieve our goal of becoming the trusted guardians of our clients' most important assets by expanding both our services and our presence, thus better responding to their information management and storage needs in a business environment that, Increasingly, it faces a growing number of regulations, continuous security threats and the need to turn data into value for companies.

 

Iron Mountain Spain has reached the figure of 25 million file cabinets kept in the different warehouses that the company has in Spain; an amount of information that, printed on sheets in DIN A4 format, would be equivalent to 3.770.000 kilometers, or 9,8 times the distance that separates the Earth and the Moon.