Locaweb is the Web Hosting Leader in Latin America
June 22 , 2010We are proud to announce that Locaweb has been confirmed as the top web hosting company in Brazil and in Latin America, with 15.69% and 9.14% market share, respectively. The data are from the IDC LA IT Services Tracker 2009, in the Hosting Infrastructure Services category. This survey is conducted twice a year by IDC Brazil. The results are a confirmation of the leadership that has long been achieved in the company’s home country of Brazil, where Locaweb has a 23.29% share of the .br ccTLD, according HostMapper, a local Internet market research company.
The company had approximately 75.3 USD in revenues in 2009, a 28.8% growth over 2008, at the same time as it consolidated its regional leadership. “We are living a great moment, and our investments show that we are bigger and more confident”, says Gilberto Mautner, Locaweb’s CEO.
According to Gilberto, the results are the outcome of the company’s repositioning, which includes plans for investing 111 million BRL (approximately 62.8 million USD) in the business over the next seven years, and investments made in 2009 in a new cutting edge data center and in the expansion of the product portfolio that amounted to 49.2 million BRL (27.9 million USD). The first and second modules of the new data center are already operational, and the its total projected capacity is 25,000 servers onde all the modules are built.
With the company’s Miami data center and Montevideo (Uruguay) customer support center, Locaweb began its international operations in 2009 with the goal of bringing its products to all Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas. The total investment in the operation will be approximately 2.1 million USD by the end of 2010, with a goal of having 5% of the group’s revenue coming from the international division by 2012.
Locaweb offers a wide array of corporate solutions, which include Cloud Computing, E-Commerce, and E-mail Marketing, as well as being the absolute leader in the Web Hosting market in Latin America. “We are very happy with the numbers we’ve achieved. We currently have over 200 thousand customers, including very large Brazilian and multinational companies such as Pfizer, Pepsi, BIC, TAM, Vivo and Grendene. Our customers enjoy full service and support, from any one of our regional offices in Brazil (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre) and abroad (Miami and Montevideo).”, says Mautner.
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