Border Profiteers
The Border Profiteers List is a database compiling companies which are involved with and profiting from the European border system. The fortification and externalisation of borders is not only driven by political interests but also by being a source of profit for an array of different companies from producers of surveillance equipment and weapons to concrete and food distribution for camps, consultant companies and research facilities.
The Border Profiteers List is a non-exhaustive and growing resource for civil society actors, researchers and activists. An online form to submit contributions to this list will be available here shortly.
As the Border Profiteers List relies on open and public sources we make no warranties about the completeness of information provided in this list. We also do not assume any legal liability or responsibility for outdated, incorrect, or incomplete information. However, we will address reports of outdated, incorrect, or incomplete information as quickly as possible.
A large proportion of the entries is based on research by the Informationsstelle Militarisierung (Information Centre for Militarisation).
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| Registered office | Netherlands - Leiden |
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| Categories | IT |
As Europe's largest armaments group, Airbus offers especially to the military a broad portfolio ranging from combat helicopters and aircrafts, satellite reconnaissance and communication to the operation of drones in for example foreign deployment of the German Federal Armed Forces.
Read more| Registered office | Austria - Vienna |
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| Categories | IT |
The Austrian Institute of Technology, headquartered in Vienna, is the successor organisation to the Austrian Study Society for Atomic Energy. On Wikipedia, AIT is described as one of the largest non-university research institutions in Austria, giving the impression that it is a public institution. In its web presence, however, AIT presents itself as a company and in fact it is a limited liability company with several "subsidiaries", only 50.46% are owned by the state. The rest of the shares are held by the "Association for the Promotion of Research and Innovation" of the Federation of Austrian Industries.
Read more| Registered office | France - Bezons |
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| Categories | IT |
Atos has a €11 billion revenue and more than 111,000 employees in 71 countries.
Read more| Registered office | Germany - Munich |
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| Categories | IT |
Cancom is an IT Service Provider supporting the "digital transformation" of companies and governance with about 4.000 employees.
Read more| Registered office | Germany - Torgau |
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| Categories | IT |
CEVISIO is a provider of "business software and services for German mid-sized companies" based in Torgau, Saxony. It emerged in 2003 as an independent company from the software department of an IT system house.
Read more| Registered office | Sweden - Stockholm |
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| Categories | IT |
Ericsson is a Swedish communications service provider with a long tradition. The company offers government agencies special networks for communication (government radio) and thus fundamentally benefits from the growing exchange of information and data volumes.
Read more| Registered office | Germany - Fürstenfeldbruck |
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| Categories | IT |
The Munich-based company ESG (Elektroniksystem und Logistik GmbH) was founded in the 1960s as a joint spin-off of the companies AEG/Telefunken, Rhode & Schwartz and Siemens. It was initially tasked to plan the electronic components for the German Tornado fighter aircraft (which is also designed for use with nuclear weapons). Further defense contracts followed, mainly from Germany, e.g. for the development of the fire control system for the Gepard anti-aircraft gun tank. Today (as of September 2021), ESG is majority-owned by the investment company Armira Partners GmbH & Co KG, according to de.wikipedia.de .
Read more| Registered office | Spain - Madrid |
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| Categories | IT |
Everis is a global company dedicated to the "disruption" and "digital transformation" of government agencies and enterprises, i.e. helping them move their data and services to "the cloud". Everis has been part of the Japanese NTT DATA Corporation since 2013.
Read more| Registered office | Croatia - Zagreb |
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| Categories | IT |
King ICT is one of the most important Croatian system houses. For a while, it belonged to the Croatian "MAN S" group, which has a total of around 1,500 employees (as of November 2020). King's portfolio is broad and ranges from digital classrooms to cloud and (HR) management services for companies, to traffic monitoring in cities ? for example in Zagreb, where the company is based. King ICT has other branches in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Kosovo, Serbia and North Macedonia and is trying to establish itself as a leading service provider for authorities in the entire region. It also …
Read more| Registered office | Japan - Tokyo |
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| Categories | IT |
NTT-Data is a Japanese Japanese multinational information technology (IT) service and consulting company.
Read more| Registered office | Netherlands - Leusden, Utrecht |
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| Categories | IT |
Pandora Intelligence is a Dutch start-up that specializes on the evaluation of publicly available data (open source intelligence), but also gives the option to include additional non-public data from the respective "customers".
Read more| Registered office | Poland - Warsaw |
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| Categories | IT |
The PIAP (Przemysłowy Instytut Automatyki i Pomiarów), Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements) is categorized by the EU Commission as a "research organization", but it also manufactures products serially, especially robotics and market them globally. Under the URL "antiterrorism.eu" used solely by PIAP, it praises its products for the police and military and lists Pakistan, Belarus, China and other as customers.
Read more| Registered office | Germany - Siegburg |
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| Categories | IT |
Schönhofer Sales & Engineering is a medium-sized company that was founded in 1983 by a former lieutenant colonel in the Bundeswehr and initially specialized on the maintenance of the communication systems of the Bundeswehr.
Read more| Registered office | Switzerland - Neuchâtel |
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| Categories | IT |
Travizory is the start-up of an engineer from Neuchâtel who previously worked at SITA, among others. The company offers software solutions that certify travellers' "harmlessness" (in the sense of the security authorities) and issue visas based on biometric data and artificial intelligence. According to the company's founder, the systems have access to "databases of lost or stolen passports and databases of people wanted by organisations such as the FBI, the CIA, the United Nations or Interpol". According to its own information, 50 countries, airports and airlines already use the company's services (as of May 2021), which allegedly means that 80 …
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