Maarssen, 21 March 2023. The GlobalCapital’s Sustainability Linked Loan of the Year Award has been presented to Eurofiber. This prestigious award was assigned after a poll among financial market parties.
Eurofiber received the award for the EUR 1.5 billion debt facilities, which were placed in June 2022. The facilities and the related hedging have sustainability incentives in alignment with Eurofiber’s sustainability program, which includes, among other things, measures that will lead to a 50% CO2 reduction by 2025, furthering the company’s stated goal to be 100% climate proof by 2030, as well as measures regarding gender balance.
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"We are very pleased and proud of this award. It is a recognition from the market of our right strategic direction in which we integrate our sustainability program with the rapid fiber roll-out in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany," said CFO Edze Tollenaar.
About Eurofiber
Eurofiber has been a provider of industry-leading open digital infrastructure since 2000. Utilizing our own fiberoptic network and datacenters, we provide smart, open, future-proof cloud infrastructure and connectivity solutions to companies, government bodies and non-profit organizations. Customers have complete freedom to choose the services, applications and providers they need, allowing them to tap into the full potential of digital innovation. Eurofiber has a 66,000 km fiberoptic network in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany. This network is expanded by 50 km per week on average. Eurofiber companies Dataplace, FullSave and Eura DC operate eleven datacenters in the Netherlands and France. Supplementing that vital infrastructure, we also offer interconnectivity between nearly all carrier-neutral datacenters in The Netherlands and Belgium through the DCspine platform. Eurofiber is laying the foundation under the digital society, which is why the Dutch government has assigned Eurofiber the status of ‘vital infrastructure’.
Eurofiber is supported by its shareholders Antin Infrastructure Partners, a leading private equity firm focused on infrastructure investments, and the PGGM Infrastructure Fund, an open-ended core infrastructure fund with investments in OECD countries.
The Eurofiber Group consists of: Eurofiber, Eurofiber Cloud Infra (including DCspine, MatrixMind and Dataplace (The Netherlands)), FullSave, Lumos, Netiwan, Eurafibre, ATE and Eura DC (France). Earlier this month, Eurofiber announced its intention to acquire French B2B telecom providers Appliwave and Avelia. Eurofiber participates in joint ventures Vattenfall Eurofiber (Germany) and Unifiber (with Proximus, Belgium) and has an investment partnership with German NGN Fiber Network.