Our group history

gategroup

Always evolving, never slowing down

Proud of our origins and continuously innovating as ONE gategroup.
gategroup history
1931
Swissair founded with in-house catering business.
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1992
Gate Gourmet founded through reorganization and restructuring of Swissair catering.
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1994
A period of steady growth with acquisitions in Europe, Latin America, Asia and U.S. begins.
SAS Service Partners acquired.
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1999
Gate Gourmet merges with Dobbs International Services.
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2002
Swissair Group sells Gate Gourmet to investment firm Texas Pacific Group.
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2003
Gate Gourmet acquires remaining 70% shares of Iber-Swiss catering from Iberia.
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2007
Acquisition strategy to diversify the business and include other services to the airline industry beyond catering. In 2007 deSter was acquired.
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2008
gategroup brand introduced
as the umbrella brand to represent Gate Gourmet and 10 other companies.
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2009
gategroup is listed on SIX Swiss Exchange.
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2010
gategroup acquires Cara Airline Solutions in Canada and expands footprint in India with Skygourmet.
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2011
gateOPEX, global program for Operational Excellence launched.
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2012
gateretail launched, providing onboarding sales management.
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2013
gategroup expands presence
in Oceania with Australian Qantas Catering and Pacific Flight Catering in New Zealand.
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2015
Gateway 2020 Strategy introduced.
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2016
HNA Group acquires gategroup.
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2017
gategroup acquires control over its competitor Servair from Air France.
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2018
Temasek and RRJ Capital join HNA Group as investors.
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2019
Temasek and RRJ Capital became co-shareholders, each owning 50% of the company shares.
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2020
gategroup acquires the European operations of LSG Group.
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2021
As a response to the pandemic challenges, a new gategroup vision 2025 was introduced, paving the way for expansion into adjacent business
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2022
Steady growth in food solutions customers opens access to a much broader market.
WARNING
For Fraudulent websites in India

It has come to our attention that a fake and fraudulent entity is unlawfully using our name and likeness in India to mislead individuals and solicit investments. This entity has been using a variety of URLs claiming to be part of gategroup – however we would like to clarify that gategroup does not operate any website or platforms in India at this time, nor presently has any agent(s) in India and any representation to the contrary is false and fraudulent.

We have taken immediate steps to address this situation and have notified the cyber-crime cell in India regarding the misuse of our good name and are reporting these websites to the relevant domain registrar as they come to our attention and demanding that they be suspended. We are actively cooperating with the authorities and are working towards shutting down this scam. gategroup has zero tolerance for such scams, and we are distressed to see that our good name and reputation has been used to intentionally deceive members of the public.

If you would like to report a possible fraudulent website, please use our Integrity Line reporting tool here: