Risk management and security provider Pilgrims has reported its client base grew by an impressive 39% in 2010, reporting the highest number of new sales the company has seen in its thirteen year history.  The demand for Pilgrims’ services from blue chip clients operating globally in turbulent, high risk environments has more than doubled growth in the company’s Consultancy Division.  This success is also a reflection of taking on key personnel such as Richard Lovell-Knight and Gabriel Carter. Pilgrims’ Manned Guarding Division also continued strong growth. Geopolitical uncertainty an...

Britain’s top 100 private companies with the biggest sales have been revealed in this year’s Sunday Times Deloitte Top Track 100.  International facilities services provider OCS has again successfully appeared in the listings and has ranked 75th this year. Cahal Dowds, Head of Private Markets & Advisory Corporate Finance, UK at Deloitte, title sponsor of the league table, commented, “Large private companies are playing an increasingly important role in the UK’s economy, and it is great to see the strength of this year’s league table. While current macroeconomic conditions leave...

Emprise Services plc, leading support services provider, and Brainwave, children’s charity, on 21st June sent circa 200 people on a 5km treasure hunt around London to raise funds for a child with Cerebral Palsy. Emprise is part of the Brainwave Guardian Scheme through which Emprise has sponsored Chase, a little boy from London who has cerebral palsy, to receive a year’s home based therapy. The Brainwave Walk for Kids proved to be a hugely successful day for the charity after raising over double the target amount.  Emprise and Brainwave had aimed to raise enough to sponsor Chase for a fu...

Q1 Labs, the global provider of total security intelligence solutions,  highlights data within the recent 2011 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) as an indicator of  the problem of first-generation Security Information Event Management, (SIEM) and its failure to alert administrators to potential security problems. “It’s shocking that 41 percent of the breaches investigated within the report already had good evidence of the incident within the victim’s log that went unnoticed,” explains Chris Poulin, CSO for Q1 Labs. “In many of these cases an intelligent SIEM would h...

Securitas has agreed to acquire 50 percent plus one of the shares in the security services company Al Sharika Al Muatfawika Likhadamat Al Amin Wa Al Himaya in Jordan. The seller is the Jordanian Company JoSecure, fully owned by King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau (KADDB). Enterprise value is estimated to MSEK 23 (MJOD 2.5). The company has annual sales of approximately MSEK 20 (MJOD 2.2) and approximately 800 employees, which makes it the second largest security services company inJordan. The security services market inJordanis very fragmented and is expected to grow fast. The...

In the build up to May’s Champions League final at Wembley Stadium, Integrated Security Consultants (ISC) provided security for a number of key events that took place across London. ISC enacted a detailed plan to protect both the Men’s and Women’s UEFA Champions League trophies on their numerous appearances, including a trip to City Hall, a display in the centre of Trafalgar Square, an appearance at Fulham FC on the evening of the game against Liverpool, and to finish off, appearances in Hyde Park for the UEFA Champions Festival that took place between the 21st and 28th May. ISC’s Op...

Corps Security has announced its intention to support the Commando Spirit Appeal on behalf of the Royal Marines Charitable Trust Fund (RMCTF) and raise £45,000 over the next three years. As one of the leading armed forces charities, RMCTF works to support those wounded and injured, as well as those still serving, by funding decompression activities, homecoming events and memorials. It also provides through-life support to those who have left the Royal Marines or have lost loved ones in service. Over the next 18 months more Royal Marines than ever will be operationally deployed – 75 per ce...

Esoteric Ltd, a leading counterespionage and electronic sweeping company, has achieved another gold industry award from the National Security Inspectorate (NSI) – this time for its 24/7 countermeasures service for the detection of electronic eavesdropping devices, “E-Room”.  E-Room incorporates a real-time monitoring sensor, permanently installed into any room where confidential conversations are to take place. The sensor monitors the frequencies in the room and alerts users if frequencies change, indicating that a threat may exist from an electronic device such as a GSM bug, a mobile ...

MITIE, the strategic outsourcing and energy services company, has today announced the launch of PeopleCert, a new employee screening service comprising a range of background checks for pre-employment and on-going screening.  The launch of this new offering is in line with MITIE’s total security management business’ holistic, risk based-approach to security and demonstrates another area in which MITIE continues to think and act innovatively. Bob Forsyth, Managing Director for MITIE's total security management business, commented: “We continue to build on our total security management...

G4S Secure Solutions (UK) (‘G4S’)  is calling for retailers to be extra vigilant as a wave of new figures reveals margins are under increasing pressure as a result of a surge in shoplifting and declining sales volumes.   Recently published figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) highlight the worst fall in sales in 16 years while recently commissioned research from G4S reveals the average value of shoplifted items has increased by over 52% in the last 12 months.  With many households reducing spending as a result of a decrease in ‘real’ incomes, as a result of pay freeze...