Ziggo is the largest cable television company, Internet service provider and Digital TV provider in the Netherlands. The company is the result of the merger between Multikabel, @Home Network, and Casema and launched officially on May 16, 2008. Private equity firms Cinven and Warburg Pincus bought the three companies.
In 2000 Multikabel was bought by Cinven; until then, the company had been mostly government-owned. In 2005 the company was sold again to Warburg Pincus.