About Quadriga

Your trusted partner

Quadriga works with the hospitality industry, from luxury to budget properties, delivering a growing portfolio of products and content that provide hotel guests with information, entertainment and connectivity, (WiFi and wired) across the property. With the network at the centre of these solutions, Quadriga’s expertise and knowledge in digital IP systems, developed over the last 10 years, supports the hospitality industry with a comprehensive range of network services. This includes network optimisation and integration alongside design, build and delivery capabilities.

As the hospitality business expands globally, Quadriga has commenced an aggressive global growth strategy and is now able to offer solutions to its customers in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, India and key parts of Africa. This is being achieved through a combination of Quadriga’s own operations and a distribution model into selected countries and territories.

In a rapidly changing technology environment, which drives higher guest expectations and more commercial demands for added value and operational efficiencies, Quadriga is working towards a new future. With the ambition to be the global single business partner for its customers, Quadriga sees their network at the very centre and as technologies converge will work with them to manage the evolution of their network and provide unequalled guest information, entertainment and connectivity services for their guests.
With over 30 years experience, Quadriga will continue to leverage its capabilities and deep knowledge of the hospitality sector to create solutions and products that meet ever evolving customer demands.

History

1928 Jules Thorn established the Electric Lamp
1938 Thorn rental business branded DER
1968 Thorn merges Radio Rentals with DER, now world's largest TV rental company
1979 Thorn acquired EMI Ltd - company becomes Thorn EMI
1992 Thorn transforms European Pay-TV with Guestlink breakthrough
1995 Thorn Business to Business (BTB) - separate Strategic Business Unit in Thorn plc
1996 Thorn EMI de-merged
1998 Thorn plc acquired by Nomura's Principal Finance Group. Quadriga brand launch
1999 Quadriga fully segregated from Thorn
2001 Quadriga launches Genesis - the world's first fully digital IP in-room system
2002 Quadriga ownership transferred to Terra Firma Capital Partners 1LLP
2003 Quadriga introduces Network Monitor
2004 Quadriga launches Movies 24 Interactive
2005 Quadriga launches Genesis on any Network for coax, Cat5 and Cat6
2006 Quadriga launches Genesis with Digital TV and new sales and marketing capability
2006 Over 100,000 fully digital Genesis rooms installed
2007 Quadriga ownership transferred to a privately owned blue chip financial investor
2008 Quadriga launches Internet World including Tiered Bandwidth Services, Entertainment World, and new Branding & Promotional capabilities
2009 Quadriga launches Sensiq – Creating unique guest communications portals for hotels
2009 Over 210,000 fully digital Genesis rooms installed
2010 Quadriga – the single answer for guest communications for the hotel industry
2011 Quadriga acquires SmoovieTV
2011 Quadriga expands into the America acquiring NxSystems, LLC to form NXTV Quadriga

Quick Facts
  • Trusted by hotels for over 30 years
  • 360,000 rooms
  • Over 210,000 digital rooms
  • 120,000 internet rooms
  • 80,000 Cat5 installed rooms
  • 130,000 Coax installed rooms
  • More than 30,000 IPTV guest rooms
  • Working in more than 50 countries