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MITIE Group PLC

09 January 2013

 



9 January 2013

MITIE Group PLC

MITIE awarded £30m contract with Hammersmith & Fulham Council

MITIE, the FTSE 250 strategic outsourcing company, has been awarded a £30m contract with Hammersmith & Fulham Council.

MITIE's painting business will deliver a borough-wide cyclical planned maintenance programme in a contract valued at £10m per annum for three years.   

The works, commencing in March 2013, comprise of external and communal decorative repairs and redecorations for over 7,500 homes.

The contract includes maintenance of the external fabric and fixtures of the buildings, such as windows, doors, roofs, walkways, external walls and cladding. Works to communal areas also include the testing and repair or replacement of electrical installations.

Residents will benefit from a well-maintained and refreshed environment in which to live, work and play.

MITIE will invest in the community, working with the Council to create local employment opportunities, including hiring up to 10 apprentices and two resident liaison officers.  

MITIE's Real Apprentice scheme will also be utilised to help long term unemployed residents back into the workforce.

Ruby McGregor-Smith CBE, Chief Executive of MITIE Group PLC, said: "We are delighted to be working in partnership with Hammersmith & Fulham Council to deliver repairs, painting and redecoration across 7,500 homes in the area.

"We are committed to providing the highest quality of service to the Council and its residents."

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For further information, contact:

Bell Pottinger
Rebecca Lloyd-Wright	D: [phone] M: [phone] E: [e-mail]

Notes for editors

What is MITIE?

We're the strategic outsourcing and energy services company. What does that mean in practice? We manage facilities, energy and properties for our clients across the UK and beyond.

We work with our clients in three ways; some take full advantage of our whole range of expertise, others may only need one aspect of what we do:

Strategy and consultancy

+ Facilities and energy management

+ Service delivery

Our strategic input can add value at the highest level by helping clients to manage their assets, while our practical management expertise can save customers money and reduce their carbon emissions.  We work with a vast number of clients in every industry across both the public and private sectors and deliver the broadest range of services that can be found in one place: from integrated facilities management to engineering maintenance to lifecycle energy management and much more.

There's a lot more to MITIE than you probably think. We're a big company with big ambitions - a leading FTSE 250 support services business, with more than 74,000 people, revenues of £2.0bn, and a reputation for being the best.

Visit us at www.mitie.com and our image library at www.flickr.com/photos/mitie_group_plc

 

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