as asx mtu industry telecommunications founded 1999 by vaughan bowen headquarters melbourne australia area served australia key people geoff horth chief executive officer scott carter chief operating officer darryl inns chief financial officer products wholesale & retail telecommunications power and gas insurance revenue a 1.12 billion fy15 number of employees 3300 fte 2015 website www.m2.com.au m2 group ltd is an australian retailer and wholesaler of telecommunications services as well as power gas and insurance products . contents 1 history 2 consumer division 3 wholesale division 4 acquisitions 5 merger 6 references history edit established in 1999 m2 group ltd m2 asx mtu is a provider of a range of communication utility and insurance services to australian households and small businesses . headquartered in melbourne m2 has more than 3000 employees in australia new zealand and the philippines . at m2 s 2013 annual general meeting shareholders voted to change the company s name from m2 telecommunications group ltd to m2 group ltd. 1 m2 s business segment includes the commander and engin brands offering a suite of traditional and managed voice and data services and equipment . consumer division edit the consumer segment under the brands of dodo and iprimus offers australian consumers telecommunications services energy and insurance wholesale division edit through the m2 wholesale division the firm provides wholesale fixed line mobile and data telecommunications services to small and medium sized telecommunications service providers and internet service providers . m2 was named by brw magazine as one of australia s 100 fastest growing companies five times between 2003 2008 and in the deloitte technology fast 50 eight times between 2004 and 2013 . 2 acquisitions edit the company has made several acquisitions and maintains a diverse portfolio of brands across a range of market segments . in 2005 it acquired protel communications a small provider of broadband and telephony services citation needed . in 2007 it acquired wholesale communications group 3 tenex 4 southern cross telecommunications citation needed and orion telecommunications . 5 in 2008 it acquired unitel pty ltd and agreed to purchase people telecom . 6 in 2009 m2 acquired selected strategic assets of commander communications . 7 in 2012 m2 acquired primus telecommunications for 192 million . 8 in 2013 the company announced its planned acquisition of dodo for 204 million 9 and eftel which included the aanet engin and clubtelco brands for 44 million . 10 in 2015 m2 acquired callplus for nzd 250 million . 11 merger edit on 28 september 2015 it was reported that m2 group and vocus communications would merge to create the 3rd largest and 4th largest telecom company in new zealand and australia respectively . the resulting company was estimated to be worth us 1.4 billion . 12 after the completion of the merger m2 ceo geoff horth will remain the chief executive of the successor group and m2 shareholders will gain a 56 % ownership of the new entity . 13 the merger has been successful and the company now trades on the asx under vocus . 14 references edit 1 http www.deloitte.com view en au au industries tmt 8c44f654033ea310vgnvcm2000003356f70arcrd.htm acquisition of wcg . itwire . m2 completes acquisition of tenex . m2 telecommunications . m2 telecommunications to buy orion . wireless federation . m2 agrees to acquire people telecom pdf . asx . m2 buys commander smb unit in strategic coup . fairfax . m2 buys primus . fairfax . m2 buys dodo launches takeover bid for eftel . fairfax . m2 closes eftel offer . computerworld . m2 to acquire call plus group & 2talk pdf . stewart robb m. vocus m2 group plan merger wall street journal 27 september 2015 . accessed 3 february 2016 . ryan holly . m2 merger to create nz s 3rd biggest telco nz herald 28 september 2015 . accessed 3 february 2016 . https www.vocus.com.au investors retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title m2 group & oldid 732516674 categories companies based in melbournetelecommunications companies of australiainternet service providers of australiam2 groupcompanies established in 1999hidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from april 2010 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 languages add links this page was last modified on 1 august 2016 at 13 57 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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