CTS Eventim is a German company in the leisure-events market, with ticketing and live entertainment, headquartered in Bremen.[1] It is one of the 50 companies comprising the MDAX index.
History
CTS Computer Ticket Service GmbH was founded by Munich-based concert promoters Marcel Avram and Matthias Hoffmann on 4 November 1989. It was acquired in 1996 by Klaus-Peter Schulenberg.[2][3] Schulenberg took the company partially public on 1 February 2000 on the Frankfurt stock exchange.[4] That same year, the company entered into the live entertainment market with the partial acquisitions of several German concert promoters, such as Marek Lieberberg Konzertagentur, Peter Rieger Konzertagentur, Semmel Concerts, Argo Konzerte, FKP Scorpio, and Dirk Becker Entertainment.[5]