Anchor Group Services, the national outsourced support services provider, announced today that Karl Hydes has joined the firm to further develop their growing portfolio of regional and national accounts. Karl Hydes comes with a wealth of experience within the Industry, having spent the last several years at Savills UK and Churchill Contract Services, where Karl was instrumental in developing the Operational offerings to Public and Private sector clients across the UK. Karl joins Anchor as Operations Director to continue Anchor’s recent success providing outsourced support services to many...

Nationwide facilities management specialists Oltec fm are delighted to announce that they have been awarded a 3 year contract to supply facilities management services to both Waverley Mall and Rutherglen Exchange shopping centres in Edinburgh and Glasgow respectively. The contract was awarded by retail estate and asset management giant Moorgarth Properties and expands Oltec fm’s Shopping Centres portfolio in Scotland. Moorgarth began in 2003, with an existing real estate portfolio of 31 properties and an ambition to grow. Christian Dalby, Moorgarth Head of Facilities Management, comment...

Incentive FM Group, the leading independent facilities services company, has acquired a third M&E business in a move that will increase the geographical reach, scale and range of its Incentive Tec business. Weston Electrical Services (WES Group) will work as part of the existing Incentive Tec team, bringing the total number of multi skilled mobile engineers the Group now operates to over 140 nationwide with a further 80 site based technicians, and a turnover in excess of £30m from its M&E business. In addition, WES Group also provides a range of specialist fire and security services, ...

Cordant Services, part of Cordant Group, has been awarded a five-year contract to provide an integrated facilities management and flexible warehouse resource solution for Ideal Shopping Direct across the multi-channel retailer’s two sites in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. Under the terms of the deal, Cordant Services will deliver various security, cleaning, waste management, catering and reception services at Ideal Shopping Direct’s premises in Newark Road, which includes a contact centre, offices and a fulfilment centre, as well as at its premises in Sabre Way. The company will also pro...

Universal Security, the boutique security services provider based in the City of London, has become a Recognised Service Provider working alongside the Living Wage Foundation. The Living Wage commitment will see Universal Security offer a Living Wage option for each request for tender. This will mean that even more organisations can consider paying all their contracted staff a wage that meets the cost of living. Recognised Service Providers also commit to pay the real Living Wage to all staff working for their core business. The London Living Wage is currently £9.75 per hour and covers al...

Working in collaboration with Easy Web Recruitment, Louise McCree, founder of effectivehr, will  be delivering a free webinar targeted specifically at security professionals. The one hour webinar, on 20th September 2017, is targeted at any senior leaders and HR professionals and will focus on recruitment, engagement and retention strategies. The webinar, from 10:30-11:30am BST, will cover the following stratergies: • Benchmarking and how to stay ahead of the competition • Engaging your people • What do to if you don’t have the right people • Improving your approach to recruit...

Mitie’s security business has secured an extended multi-million pound contract with DP World Southampton (DPWS) – one of the top container terminals in the UK. The contract employs more than 70 Mitie staff onsite and is led by a specialist aviation and transport team. The three-year contract extension will see Mitie providing manned security guarding services, including site, vehicle and foot patrols, access control for restricted areas, front of house reception duties and CCTV monitoring. Mitie’s specialist aviation and transport team manage an impressive portfolio of regulated indu...

Cordant Security has appointed a senior business development professional to drive the next phase of its growth. Julie Hulme joins the business as Head of Sales with a remit to build on the company’s strengths within the retail and logistics sectors, whilst identifying new market opportunities. Julie has held a number of senior roles within the security sector, spending 15 years with Reliance Security, including time growing and managing its shopping centre portfolio, and was Head of Sales for the Strategic and Commercial Division at G4S. She is currently a Committee Member of the BIFM No...

Facilities Management Specialist Oltec fm has been awarded the contract to provide all outsourced security and manned guarding support to the in-house security team at Manchester Metropolitan University. The new contract expands Oltec's current role at the university, establishing Oltec fm as the new incumbent security supplier supporting the in-house security team across all its duties, including security patrols, CCTV monitoring, library security, residential security and special events. Oltec fm, founded in 1974, provides integrated building and facilities management services to a range o...

In two significant developments, Industry Qualifications (IQ) has appointed Richard Diston MSc as Sector Manager for Security Risk and Resilience, and Stuart Galloway, as interim Quality Manager. The appointment of Richard comes at a time when IQ is remodelling its approach to both sector engagement and quality assurance. It has been a long term aspiration of the company to increase the prominence of sectors within its operational structure, and Richard joins Laurence Clarke MSc, Health and Social Care and Cosmetic Procedures and Monica Jirh BA, Management and Administration in taking a sec...