Wincanton (company)
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| legal form | Public limited company |
| ISIN | GB0030329360 |
| founding | 1925 |
| Seat | Chippenham , UK |
| management | Martin Read, Chairman, Adrian Colman, CEO |
| Number of employees | 17,586 |
| sales | 1.142 billion GBP approx. 1.276 billion EUR |
| Branch | logistics |
| Website | www.wincanton.co.uk |
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Wincanton PLC is a British logistics company based in Chippenham in the southern county of Wiltshire . Wincanton provides all services along the supply chain , from the supply of raw materials to the recycling of residual materials. With around 30,000 employees and an annual turnover of 1.93 billion pounds (2.76 billion euros; as of 2007), it was one of the largest logistics service providers in Europe in 2007. In 2013 sales were just 1.1 billion pounds and the number of employees halved to 16,000.
history
The company was founded in 1925 under the name Wincanton Transport & Engineering Ltd (WT&E), at that time a subsidiary of the West Surrey Central Dairy Company Ltd and was primarily active in the maintenance and equipment of milk processing machines and systems. In the 1970s, WT&E was split into the machine division and the transport division Wincanton Transport Ltd (WTL), which mainly dealt with the loading and transport of petroleum products and milk. After further restructuring and acquisitions, including in particular the Glass Glover Group in 1993 and P&O Trans European in December 2000 , the company was listed on the London Stock Exchange in May 2001 . Numerous other takeovers from competitors followed. Wincanton has been listed in the FTSE 250 index since 2006 .
Some areas of Wincanton have since been sold to different buyers.
Subsidiaries
Group subsidiaries are u. a.
- Pullman Fleet Services ( Doncaster ): Vehicle leasing and maintenance
- Wincanton Records Management ( Rainham / Essex and Blanchardstown near Dublin / Ireland): Service provider for file and data management
- Consilium ( Runcorn , Chippenham and Paris): logistics consultancy
Shareholder
Major shareholders of Wincanton PLC are (as of May 2019):
- Aberforth Partners, 17.3%
- Columbia Threadneedle Investment, 15.91%
- Schroder Investment Management, 7.36%
- Tellworth Investments, 4.24%
- Unicorn Asset Management, 3.96%
- M&G Investment Management Ltd (subsidiary of Prudential plc ), 3.80%
- Polar Capital, 3.74%
See also
Web links
- Wincanton PLC website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Annual Report 2018/19 (English), www.wincanton.co.uk, accessed on June 2, 2019.
- ↑ Major Shareholders , at www.wincanton.co.uk , accessed June 2, 2019