Charter Security, leading providers of  security services across London and the South East, today announced  that it will be relocating its headquarters to Canary Wharf on 10  December 2012. Established for 35 years Charter has always had offices  in the East of London and been based in Cambridge House in Barking  since 2000. Claire Lambert, Charter’s managing director said, “With our ‘New  Generation’ Charter team, and our increasing corporate and commercial  opportunities we took the decision to move closer to London. From our  new premises in Canary Wharf we will b...

International security and protection specialist Pilgrims Group has been awarded the prestigious Security Excellence Award (SEA) for its industry leading training for UK government employees due to be posted overseas, sometimes to politically unstable countries. In a ceremony held at the London Hilton on Park Lane, Pilgrims’ COO David Freear and Training Manager Sam Mostyn accepted the SEA’s ‘Security Training Initiative of the Year’ for its SAFE and SAFE Plus schemes, a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) led, cross government training programme. The training, designed to help sav...

ISS will provide cleaning services to Aleris, one of the leading private players within healthcare in the Nordic countries. To begin with the contract covers a number of Aleris’ locations in the Stockholm region. ISS has signed a three-year agreement for cleaning services with private healthcare provider, Aleris. In addition to the locations in Stockholm, Aleris has several facilities around Sweden which means there is opportunity to expand the contract. Aleris also has operations in Norway and Denmark. Cleaning is an important part of healthcare and with this contract ISS has consolidated...

Please see a summary of the results below. To download a PDF of the entire results announcement, please click here. Strong organic growth and a strategic acquisition in healthcare. 2012 £m 2011 £m Growth % Revenue 1,026.6 971.7 5.6 Operating profit before other items* 52.9 51.6 2.5 Profit before tax and other items* 48.8 47.9 1.9 Profit before tax 37.7 43.3 (12.9) 2012 p 2011 p Growth % Basic earnings per share before other items* 10.5 10.4 1.0 Basic earnings per share 8.0 9.4 (14.9) Dividend per share 4.6 ...

MITIE, the FTSE 250 strategic outsourcing and energy services company, is pleased to announce it has partnered with Working Knowledge, a social enterprise dedicated to tackling youth unemployment and providing thousands of young people with practical skills to succeed in business. The partnership will see MITIE employees take on roles as Business Experts in ‘Dragons Den’ style enterprise projects with Working Knowledge. The projects aim to prepare young people for the world of work by raising their aspirations, building confidence, and providing invaluable employability skills. O...

2012 has been an outstanding year for the Corps Monitoring Centre (CMC) and to build on its success Corps Security has announced the appointment of Andy Goldstone as its new CMC business development manager for the south-west. Goldstone has been tasked with enhancing the CMC’s presence and driving demand for its market leading remote monitoring services in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Dorset, as well as Hampshire, Herefordshire and South Wales. He will also be responsible for contributing to the business development strategy for the CMC and will help to manage i...

MITIE Group PLC is delighted to announce it has been named as one of the top ten private sector organisations for ethnicity in the workplace by Race for Opportunity and Opportunity Now, the race and gender campaigns from Business in the Community (BITC). MITIE was commended by BITC for several current initiatives including some around recruitment and career progression, workplace policies and practices, plus its work in the community. In particular, MITIE’s network of diversity ‘champions’ was recognised as an excellent example of making a difference on gender and race, both i...

International total facilities management provider OCS has retained the contract to provide facilities services for the Howard Shopping Centre in Welwyn Garden City. The three-year contract is for security, cleaning, pest control, horticulture and window cleaning at the 240,000 sq ft site, where OCS has been providing facilities services for several years. The Howard Shopping Centre has 58 retail units, a 725-place multi-storey car park and welcomes more than 8 million visitors a year. The centre opened in 1990 and is named after Sir Ebenezer Howard, founder of the Garden City movemen...

Industry heavyweights have joined forces on a research project that seeks to develop an alternative cost effective lightweight material structure for increased blast and ballistic survivability. BAE Systems, QinetiQ, AIGIS Blast Protection, TPS, Permali Gloucester Ltd, MIRA, Sigmatex and the University of Nottingham have formed LiMBS (Lightweight Material & Structures for Blast and Ballistic Survivability). Co-funded by the government-backed Technology Strategy Board, LiMBS aims to develop enhanced lightweight cost effective multi-layer/ multi-material structures to resist shock, pressur...

Paul Eskriett joins Shield with a wealth of security and leadership experience gained during 30 year career with the City of London Police. During his time with the police force, Paul liaised regularly with businesses, local authorities, emergency services, security services and the military. At Shield, Paul’s role will focus on identifying Government and Local Authority Contracts, as well as Police Support Opportunities across the UK. He will also implement initiatives to increase the company’s profile within the finance sector. Paul’s appointment includes joining The Shield Guarding C...