Serco
| Serco Group plc
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| legal form | Public Limited Company |
| ISIN | GB0007973794 |
| founding | 1929 |
| Seat | Richmond upon Thames |
| management | Kevin Stanley Beeston |
| Number of employees | 47,000 (2007) |
| sales | 2,548.2 million £ (2006) |
| Branch | Services for companies and the public sector |
| Website | www.serco.com |
Serco Group plc is a UK services company listed on the London Stock Exchange . Serco was listed in the FTSE 100 index until 2013 , but had to leave it in September 2013 after a capital decline. Its headquarters are in the London borough of Richmond upon Thames .
Serco was founded in 1929 as the UK division of Radio Corporation of America under the name "RCA Services Limited" and provided services to the film industry . The company was renamed "Serco Limited" in 1987 and changed its name to Serco Group plc when it went public in 1988.
Serco is active in Europe, the Middle East, East Asia, Australia and North America, but still generates most of its sales in the UK. Most of the customers come from the public sector . The company's growth is based primarily on the trend towards outsourcing services. Serco's activities include technical support for the UK Ministry of Defense , IT support services , air traffic control , satellite control and road traffic management systems as well as the operation of correctional facilities in Australia, Germany, New Zealand and the UK.
Serco is also active as a railway company . The company operates Merseyrail Electrics and Northern Rail in northern England and the Great Southern Railway in Australia. Serco operated the Copenhagen Metro together with Ansaldo STS , with the company selling its shares on January 1, 2008. From April 2015 Serco also runs as for the next 15 years Caledonian Sleeper designated night train services between London and Scotland . In Australia, the federal government there has commissioned Serco with the administration and operation of 11 immigration detention centers (as of 2018) as part of its migration and asylum policy in Australia , and the company has been involved in numerous scandals in the past.
The previous German subsidiary Serco GmbH, which emerged from ELEKLUFT and co-operates the privatized prison in Hünfeld , was renamed steep GmbH on July 1, 2012 following a management buy-out.
Web links
- Official website of the Serco Group
- Company profile on Yahoo.com
- Video about the different services offered by Serco
Individual evidence
- ↑ TMCNet: Serco Group - Final Results
- ^ Railway Gazette: Serco wins 15-year Caledonian Sleeper franchise. May 28, 2014 , accessed February 10, 2015
- ↑ Outsourcing NDIS contact centers to Serco 'an accident waiting to happen' . dated April 23, 2918, on theguardian.com. Retrieved August 7, 2018
- ↑ Serco- Seriosly? , on disabilityserviceconsulting.com.au. Retrieved August 7, 2018
- ↑ Website of the steep GmbH ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
