Telus Corporation

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Telus Corporation
TELUS
Company type Public
ISIN CA87971M1032
Industry Telecommunications Information Technology Consulting Health Safety Security Agriculture
Predecessor Alberta Government Telephones (AGT) and British Columbia Telephone Company (BC Tel)
Founded1990
Headquarters510 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Darren Entwistle, President and CEO
Doug French, CFO
Products HSPA+, LTE, 5G
RevenueIncrease2.svg CA$14.66 billion (FY19)
CA$14.37 billion (FY18)
Increase2.svg CA$2.98 billion (FY19)
CA$2.84 billion (FY18)
Increase2.svg CA$1.78 billion (FY19)
CA$1.62 billion (FY18)
Total assets Increase2.svg CA$7.98 billion (FY19)
CA$3.06 billion (FY18)
Number of employees
108,500 (2023) [1]
Subsidiaries
Website www.telus.com

Telus Corporation (also shortened and referred to as Telus Corp.) is a Canadian publicly traded holding company and conglomerate, headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, which is the parent company of several subsidiaries: Telus Communications Inc. offers telephony, television, data and Internet services; Telus Mobility, offers wireless services; Telus Health operates companies that provide health products and services; and Telus International operates worldwide, providing multilingual customer service outsourcing and digital IT services. Telus has a long history and is listed with the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: T).

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Overview

Telus Corporation is the parent company of Telus Communications, Telus Mobility, Telus Health, and Telus International. Telus Health, which was formerly known as Emergis, an e-Business was acquired by Telus Corporation in 2007 for $763 million. [2] Telus Health was[ when? ] divided into three segments—'Telus Health Solutions, Telus Assyst Real Estate, and Telus Financial Solutions.[ citation needed ]

Inception

The Alberta Government Telephones (AGT), had served as the major telephone provider for the province of Alberta from 1906—when it was first established by the Liberal Party of Alberta under the tenure of then Premier of Alberta, Alexander Cameron Rutherford, until the 1990s—when then Premier Don Getty began the privatization process. [3] :250 NovaTel's liabilities eventually cost the government more than $600 million. [3] :250 [4] :35 The initial public offering of the newly established Telus' shares, represented the largest in Canadian history up to this time. The following year the provincial government divested its remaining ownership interest in Telus for $870 million. [5] By 1996, the former brand names, ED TEL and AGT had been retired. All Telus products and companies adopted the TELUS brand name. [5]

Telus merged with British Columbia Telephone Company (BC Tel) in 1999, with the merged company keeping the TELUS brand name. The headquarters of BC Tel in Burnaby, BC became the headquarters of the merged Telus Corporation, and the company moved its corporate headquarters to Vancouver after completion of the Telus Garden complex.

Subsidiaries

Telus Communications

Telus Corporation's principal subsidiary is the wholly owned Telus Communications Inc. [6] :47 Only serving customers in Canada, services include data, internet, voice, TV subscriptions, alarm monitoring, and wireless services. It also has mobile phones, tablets, and smart watches. [7] Telus Communications merged its mobility and home service divisions in 2023, creating Telus Consumer Solutions. [8]

Telus Health

In the summer of 2018, Telus acquired a "chain of medical clinics" for over $100 million. Telus also spent more than "$2 billion on digital health ventures." [9] This included purchasing the "electronic medical record software" used by half of Canada's doctors. [9] By March 2019, Telus had "become the biggest health-care information technology company in Canada". [9] Telus has also partnered with the UK-based software developer and operator, Babylon, to launch a Telus Health app in Canada—digital chatbot capable of checking symptoms— in a cost and revenue sharing initiative. [9]

Telus International

Telus International is the global arm of Telus Corporation, providing global contact center and business process outsourcing services to corporations in the financial services, consumer electronics and gaming, telecommunications, energy and utilities industries.[ citation needed ]

Telus International has contact centers in the Philippines, the United Kingdom, Central America (Guatemala and El Salvador), and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria and Romania), where it is known as Telus International Europe.[ citation needed ]

Finances

For the fiscal year 2019, Telus Corporation reported earnings of CA$5.554 billion, with an annual revenue of CA$14.658 billion, an increase of 8.8% over the previous fiscal year. Telus Corp operates the largest telecommunications company (Telus Communications Inc.) in Western Canada and the second largest in Canada. [10]

YearRevenue
in mil. CA$
Net income
in mil. CA$
Total Assets
in mil. CA$
Price per share
in US$
Employees
2019 [11] 14,6581,78037,97514.7800 [10] 65,600 [11]
2018 [12] 14,3681,62033,05719.3650 [10] 58,000 [13]
2017 [14] 13,4081,57831,05316.5700 [10] 53,630 [13]
2016 [15] 12,7994,22927,72918.9350 [10] 51,250 [13]
2015 [16] 12,5024,26226,40613.8250 [10] 47,640 [13]
2014 [17] 12,0024,21623,21718.0200 [10] 43,700 [13]
2013 [18] 11,4044,01821,56617.2200 [10] 43,400 [13]
2012 [19] 10,9213,85920,44516.2850 [10] 42,400 [13]
2011 [20] 10,3973,66519,93113.3875 [10] 41,000 [13]
2010 [6] 9,7923,56819,62410.8900 [10] 34,800 [13]

Corporate governance

According to Yahoo Finance, Telus Corporation received an Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) governance risk score of 5 out of 10, as of 3 December 2019. [21]

Board of directors

The current board of directors as of September 2022 [22]

R.H. (Dick) Auchinleck, the Chairman of Telus Corporation's board of directors, has been lead director since 2014, when Brian Canfield stepped down. Auchinleck, who has served on the Telus board since c. 2004, had previously been CEO at Gulf Canada Resources. [23] [24]

Executive team

The current executive teams as of September 2022 [25]

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This is a timeline of Telus Corporation, a publicly traded Canadian multinational holding company offering a range of telecommunications, health, safety, and security products and services. The company operates Telus Communications Inc., which offers telephony, television, data and Internet services, Telus Mobility, a division that offers wireless services, Telus Health, which operates companies that provide health products and services, and Telus International which operates worldwide, providing multilingual customer service outsourcing and digital IT services.

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