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 D+S communication center management is a corporation based in Hamburg providing customer management and related services to corporations of different sizes.

History
D+S was founded in 1984.

In 2000 it went public.

In 2008 Apax Partners invested in D+S Europe. Moreover they published a voluntary public tender offer for all other shareholders irrespective of the number of shares they held.

In 2009 Apax Partners and D+S Europe announced a squeeze-out for all shares still held by minority shareholders. The public trading officially ended in June 2010.

In 2012 D+S Europe outsourced its IT to Atos.

In 2012 German financial investor CMP Capital Management-Partners GmbH bought the core business of D+S Europe. Apax Partners commissioned Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy to supervise the sales of the call center divison.

In 2018 D+S was taken over by Ströer Media.

Subsidiaries
D+S runs two subsidiaries, D+S 360° media world GmbH and Webservice First GmbH. The latter started in 2017 a joint-venture with Novomind.