Telus Corporation (also shortened and referred to as ''Telus Corp.'') is a Canadian multinational

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, headquartered in Vancouver, BC, which is the parent company of subsidiaries— Telus Communications,

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, Telus Health, Telus Agriculture and Telus International. Telus offers a range of

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, and security products and services. It is listed with the Toronto Stock Exchange (

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. Telus Communications Inc. offers telephony, television, data and

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services;

, offers wireless services; Telus Health operates companies that provide health products and services; and Telus International operates worldwide, providing multilingual customer service outsourcing and digital IT services.

Overview

Telus Corporation is the parent company of Telus Communications,

, Telus Health, and Telus International. Telus Health, which was formerly known as Emergis, an e-Business was acquired by Telus Corporation in 2007 for $763 million. Telus Health was divided into three segments—'Telus Health Solutions, Telus Assyst Real Estate, and Telus Financial Solutions.

Inception

The

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(AGT), had served as the major

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provider for the province of

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from 1906—when it was first established by the Liberal Party of Alberta under the tenure of then Premier of Alberta, Alexander Cameron Rutherford, until the 1990s—when then Premier

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began the privatization process. NovaTel's liabilities eventually cost the government more than $600 million. The initial public offering of the newly established Telus' shares, represented the largest in Canadian history up to this time. The following year the provincial government divested its remaining ownership interest in TELUS for $870 million. By 1996, the former brand names, ED TEL and AGT had been retired. All Telus products and companies adopted the TELUS brand name. Telus merged with British Columbia Telephone Company (BC Tel) in 1999. The merged company kept the TELUS brand name. The headquarters of BC Tel in

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became the headquarters of the merged Telus Corporation, and the company moved its corporate headquarters to Vancouver after completion of the Telus Garden complex.

Subsidiaries

TELUS Communications

TELUS Corporation's principal subsidiary is the wholly owned Telus Communications Inc.

TELUS Health

In the summer of 2018, Telus acquired a "chain of medical clinics" for over $100 million. Telus also spent more than "$2 billion on digital health ventures." This included purchasing the "electronic medical record software" used by half of Canada's doctors. By March 2019, Telus had "become the biggest health-care information technology company in Canada". Telus has also partnered with the UK-based software developer and operator,

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, to launch a Telus Health app in Canada—digital chatbot capable of checking symptoms— in a cost and revenue sharing initiative.

TELUS International

Telus International is the global arm of Telus Corporation, providing global contact center and business process outsourcing services to corporations in the financial services, consumer electronics and gaming, telecommunications, energy and utilities industries. Telus International has contact centers in the

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), and Eastern Europe (

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), where it is known as Telus International Europe.

Finances

For the fiscal year 2019, Telus Corporation reported earnings of CA$5.554 billion, with an annual revenue of CA$14.658 billion, an increase of 8.8% over the previous fiscal year. Telus Corp operates the largest telecommunications company (Telus Communications Inc.) in Western Canada and the second largest in Canada.

Corporate governance

According to

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, Telus Corporation received an Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) governance risk score of 5 out of 10, as of 3 December 2019.

Board of directors

The current board of directors as of September 2022 R.H. (Dick) Auchinleck, the Chairman of Telus Corporation's board of directors, has been lead director since 2014, when Brian Canfield stepped down. Auchinleck, who has served on the Telus board since c. 2004, had previously been CEO at Gulf Canada Resources. * Darren Entwistle, President and CEO * Hazel Claxton, Audit Committee, Human Resources & Compensation Committee * Kathy Kinloch, Corporate Governance Committee, Human Resources & Compensation Committee * David Mowat, Chair of the Audit Committee * Raymond T. Chan, Pension Committee, Human Resources & Compensation Committee * Tom Flynn, Audit Committee, Pension Committee * Christine Magee, Human Resources & Compensation Committee, Pension Committee * Marc Parent, Pension Committee, Human Resources & Compensation Committee * Lisa de Wilde, Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee, Pension Committee * Mary Jo Haddad, Chair of the Human Resources & Compensation Committee, Corporate Governance Committee * John Manley, Corporate Governance Committee, Human Resources & Compensation Committee * Denise Pickett, Audit Committee, Corporate Governance Committee * W. Sean Willy, Audit Committee, Corporate Governance Committee * Victor Dodig, Director

Executive team

The current executive teams as of September 2022 * Darren Entwistle, President and CEO * Doug French, Executive Vice-President & Chief Financial Officer * Navin Arora, Executive Vice-President, Business Solutions * Tony Geheran, Executive Vice-President and Chief Customer Officer * Zainul Mawji, President, Home Solutions * Sandy McIntosh, Executive Vice-President, People & Culture and Chief Human Resources Officer * Jeff Puritt, Executive Vice-President and TELUS International President and CEO * Jill Schnarr, Chief Communications Officer * Jim Senko, Executive Vice=President, Mobility Solutions * John Raines, President, TELUS Agriculture * Michael Dingle, Chief Operating Officer, TELUS Health * Andrea Wood, Chief Legal & Governance Officer

References

External links

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