abe industry conglomerate founded april 2003 headquarters barcelona spain key people salvador alemany chairman francisco reyn s vicechairman ceo products motorway toll road concessions television networks transportation telecommunications revenue 4 889 million 2014 1 operating income 1 868 million 2014 1 profit 655 million 2014 1 number of employees 16 500 average 2014 website www.abertis.com abertis infraestructuras s.a. spanish pronunciation a ertis imf aest uk tu as is a spanish conglomerate corporation . the company runs over 8 000 kilometres of motorways in europe and america . abertis manages toll roads and telecommunication infrastructures . abertis is part of the ibex 35 index and is being traded on the madrid stock exchange . its headquarters are in barcelona catalonia spain . contents 1 history 2 structure 2.1 freeway management companies 2.2 telecommunications companies 2.3 others 3 references 4 external links history edit in april 2003 acesa infraestructures a business founded in 1967 as autopistas concesionaria espa ola s.a. merged with aurea concessiones de infraestructures a business founded in 1971 as autopistas de mare nostrum into which dragados had spun off its own toll roads to form abertis . 2 in december 2003 abertis acquired retevision a leading spanish radio and television distribution business . 3 in june 2004 abertis acquired iberpistas another spanish toll road operator . 4 in december 2005 abertis acquired the french toll road operator sanef . 5 an attempt initiated in april 2006 to acquire atlantia formerly autostrade the leading italian toll road operator was aborted in january 2008 after opposition from the italian government . 6 abertis intends to sell some of its stake in the company . 6 on may 19 2008 abertis along with citi infrastructure investors of new york city submitted a 12.8 billion proposal to lease the pennsylvania turnpike in the u.s. state of pennsylvania for 75 years . 7 however the consortium withdrew the offer on september 30 2008 as they felt the proposal would not win approval in the state legislature . 8 in 2011 metropistas an abertis subsidiary won the concession for the pr 22 and pr 5 toll roads in puerto rico . 9 in 2012 abertis acquired arteris a group managing nine toll road concessions in brazil . 10 structure edit freeway management companies edit abertis infraestructuras acesa aumar iberpistas aucat aulesa avasa autema sanef autopistas de puerto rico arteris invicat t nels metropistas coviandes ausol gco elqui rutas del pac fico autopista central autopista los libertadores autopista del sol autopista de los andes telecommunications companies edit cellnex telecom retevisi n tradia adesal hispasat others edit abertis foundation abertis chairs references edit a b c annual results 2014 . abertis . retrieved 28 may 2015 . history administrator s notice regarding retevision permanent dead link abertis and iberpista get merger process underway sanef purchase of 75 % of sanef s capital by a consortium led by abertis the best shareholders for sanef s strategic plan . market wired . 14 december 2005 . retrieved 2015 05 28 . a b barrett jane ; o leary elisabeth 29 january 2008 . abertis throws in towel on merger with atlantia . reuters . archived from the original on 7 february 2008 . retrieved 2008 02 05 . nussbaum paul may 20 2008 . spanish firm submits highest turnpike bid . the philadelphia inquirer . p. a01 . wright robert september 30 2008 . consortium pulls out of 12.8 bn turnpike deal . financial times . london . puerto rico selects the abertis goldman sachs consortium as preferred bidder for a toll road concession . abertis newsroom . 21 june 2011 . retrieved 2015 05 28 . abertis takes the high road to brazil . ft. 18 september 2013 . retrieved 29 may 2015 . external links edit official website v t e ibex 35 companies of spain abengoa abertis acs amadeus it group arcelormittal banco bilbao vizcaya argentaria banco popular espa ol banco sabadell banco santander bankia bankinter bolsas y mercados espa oles caixabank dia enag s ferrovial fomento de construcciones y contratas gamesa corporaci n tecnol gica gas natural grifols iberdrola inditex indra sistemas international airlines group jazztel mapfre mediaset espa a comunicaci n obrasc n huarte lain red el ctrica de espa a repsol sacyr vallehermoso t cnicas reunidas telef nica viscofan retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title abertis & oldid 742573829 categories 2003 establishments in spaincompanies based in barcelonacompanies established in 2003construction and civil engineering companies of spainconglomerate companies of spainmultinational companies headquartered in spainprivate road operatorstelecommunications companies of spaintransport companies of spainibex 35companies listed on the madrid stock exchangespanish brandshidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2016articles with permanently dead external linksofficial website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages catal deutschespa oleuskara fran aisitalianonederlandsportugu s edit links this page was last modified on 4 october 2016 at 14 15 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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