Today, ISS A/S announced interim operational and financial results for Q3 and the first nine months of 2012. Revenue for the first nine months of 2012 was up by 2% to £6.3 billion. Organic growth was 1.7% in the period Operating profit before other items amounted to £341 million  for the first nine months of 2012 compared with £343 million for the same period in 2011 Operating margin increased in Q3 to 6.4% bringing the operating margin for the first nine months of 2012 to 5.4% Net Profit for Q3 was £22 million compared with a loss of £17 million for the same period in 2011. F...

MITIE, the FTSE 250 outsourcing and energy services company, has secured a contract to provide integrated facilities management (FM) for British Sky Broadcasting Group (Sky), the UK’s largest entertainment and home communications company. The contract, with a total value in excess of £100m over a five-year period, will see MITIE deliver services across Sky’s estate in the UK and Ireland, commencing in January 2013. As well as its two main campuses in London and Scotland, MITIE will work at 12 regional offices, two data centres and dozens of POP sites (internet exchange points...

International total facilities management provider OCS has been awarded the contract to provide security services for Regent Arcade Shopping Centre in Cheltenham, which is managed by DTZ. The three-year contract is for manned guarding services at the 185,000 sq ft site, where OCS already provides cleaning services following a successful retender earlier this year. The Regent Arcade Shopping Centre is Cheltenham’s premier retail destination with more than 60 shops, six restaurants, 500 parking spaces and welcomes more than 100,000 shoppers every week. Richard Ralph, Senior Surveyor at DTZ,...

Xtralis®, the world’s leading provider of early detection and visual verification safety and security solutions has established a new headquarters in Molfsee, Germany to serve as a base of operations for its rapidly growing business in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (DACH). The headquarters is the former home to HeiTel Digital Video, now a division of Xtralis. The headquarters will hold key engineering and development, training, marketing and sales staffs to support the full line of Xtralis solutions. The Xtralis leadership team located in Molfsee includes HeiTel Division Managing Direc...

Following its recent success at the 2012 Security Excellence Awards, where it won the Inspiration in HR Award, Corps Security has further demonstrated its commitment to excellence and professionalism within its industry by introducing a new scheme that will provide valuable information to its front line officers. ‘Securing Excellence’ is an innovative e-learning programme that uses on-demand video based modules to bring employees fully up-to-date on a whole host of relevant topics. The brainchild of Corps Security’s HR department and developed in conjunction with subject matter expert...

CheckMySystems Ltd. - the CCTV health and operation monitoring software specialist - has signed-up electronic security product provider IPX360 Solutions Inc. to act as its agent for 'CheckMyCCTV' in the North American market. This is a major step forward in CheckMySystems' desire to bring the software to an international audience following its successful UK launch. The CheckMyCCTV application, to be offered by IPX360 Solutions Inc. across the US and Canada, is designed to automatically identify and report specific video surveillance system faults as soon as they are detected. Typical issue...

When a security incident occurs, organisations need to have a robust means of coordinating response. This was a key discussion at the recent forum held by manned security specialists, First Security, where delegates learnt more about the company’s new communication platform designed to ensure robust and efficient security provision at all times. The event, the third of a continual series of forums held by the company to support the exchange of industry best practice was held at Somerset House, where First Security provides services, and welcomed over sixty delegates to take part in indus...

Capping off a remarkable year for The Shield Guarding Company Limited UK, an award winning national security company in the UK and a fully owned conglomerate of India’s respected brand Tops Security Limited, one of its esteemed clients, the South Bank Employers Group (SBEG) has won the Gold Certificate of Merit, for its unparalleled work in reducing antisocial behaviour, street drinking and begging, in the Waterloo, Blackfriars and South London area at the prestigious Tilley Awards 2012, the national award from the UK’s Home Office. SBEG now enters the public voting for the Tilley Awards 2...

Securitas will take measures to enable better alignment with future customer needs and expectations, and continues the company’s journey with investments in technology and enhanced technical capabilities. The decisive factor in coming years will be a critical mass of knowledge and the ability to create innovative solutions that provide greater benefits for customers in an increasingly demanding security market. A cost-savings program has been initiated at Security Services North America and at Security Services Europe. The Mobile and Monitoring divisions and the Security S...

Europa’s successful partnership with Capital Shopping Centres has been further enhanced with the addition of another shopping centre to the existing portfolio of malls receiving facilities management services. A £2.8million four year deal with the Broadmarsh shopping centre in Nottingham to provide cleaning, security and control room services has been added to the existing long-term contract that now sees Europa provide facilities management services to 11 Capital Shopping Centres sites. As a result of this new deal Europa now work in partnership with Capital Shopping Centres a...