Norsk Data is this month to team up with the Thomainfor division of Thomson-CSF SA (CI No 1,599), making the merged company the second largest independent maintenance organisation in Europe: the UK alliance, to be called ServiceTeam, is to be majority-held by Norsk Data which will run the operation; Norsk Data’s UK subsidiary has been subsisting on services and consultancy, which accounted for 60% of turnover in 1990, with hardware sales down to 40%; the deal brings Norsk Data 100 ex-Thomainfor customers and a large resource of third party maintenance expertise; in return Thomainfor gets a stronger base in the UK; it has the Norsk service business in France, Switzerland and Benelux (CI No 1,622).
