Best Union becomes Vivaticket
A single partner to face new challenges together and allow our users to drive innovation.
Vivaticket
Vivaticket is the ideal strategic partner for the organisation and management of your events.
With twenty years of experience in the field and relying on the most innovative technological solutions, Vivaticket offers a wide range of services to support any event that will allow you to improve both your performance and your results.
The group has been an established player in the sector for years, thanks also to a client portfolio that includes the main organisers of sporting events, live shows, trade fair bodies, theme parks, theatres and cultural events. Offer your customers a unique and unrepeatable experience.
1999
On September 23rd, Best Union Company SpA was established in Bologna.
EBC, a company specialised in event management and ticketing activities, and a software house, are 50/50 shareholders.
The founders are Luca Montebugnoli and Luana Sabattini, EBC’s partners.
2000
In July, the company Jumpy, belonging to Fininvest Group, acquires 20% of the company through a capital increase operation.
2005
In 2005, new investors entered the share capital: Pavarotti International, owned by Maestro Luciano Pavarotti, acquires 20% of the shares, Giorgio Seragnoli’s King S.p.A. acquires 15% of the share capital.
2008
The 20 May, Best Union Company S.p.A., the only company in the sector, is listed on the Italian Stock Exchange. In the same year, 65% of Team 2015, active in the management of reception services for exhibitors and visitors, is acquired.
2009
In April, Best Union Company S.p.A acquires OmniTicket Group, a leading international company in access control and ticket distribution for the leisure, entertainment and culture markets.
2010
Best Union acquires 100% of Ticketweb.it, active in the promotion, sales and booking of tickets, as well as 100% of Amit’s shares, a company operating in the ticketing and management of automated box offices.
2011
In April, Best Union acquires 55% of Teleart, a company specialised in the visiting experience and the collaboration with exhibition events. In April, it also acquired 100% of Charta, a leading company in event management.
2013
In July, Best Union acquires 100% of Enta Ticketing Solution Ltd, a London-based company operating in the ticketing sector with an important customer base in the theatre industry.
2014
In May, Best Union acquires 100% of IREC shares, a company based in Poitiers and Paris, specialised in ticketing technologies and access control in the culture and entertainment industries.
2016
Best Union acquires 100% of Enta Australasia, a leading company in ticketing and CRM solutions, and the ticketing business unit of Zucchetti Regulus.
2017
In July, Best Union acquires 100% of Bookingshow Ticketing shares, a company based in Foggia, Italy, operating on the Italian market in the field of online and retail ticketing.
2018
In June 2018, Best Union Company S.p.A. is delisted from the Italian Stock Exchange and takes on a new challenge focusing more and more on the B2C market, launching an important rebranding operation involving all the group’s companies: Best Union becomes Vivaticket.
2019
Investcorp and the top management bought 100% of the shares of Vivaticket with the aim to become one of the largest ticketing company in the world.
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