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Moneypenny creates new role to boost ESG priorities

Outsourced communications provider, Moneypenny, has appointed Sophie Hughes-Saunier to the newly created role of ESG Coordinator. Hughes-Saunier has been at Moneypenny since February 2014, working in the SME clients team. She has a particularly strong passion for environmental matters and ...

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Serco’s Rupert Soames to step down as CEO at the end of the year

Serco CEO, Rupert Soames, has confirmed to the Board his intention to retire from the Company in September 2023, at which point he will have served Serco for over nine years. Soames will step down both from his role as ...

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Webinar: Outsourcing to help win the race for talent

There are over one million positions lying vacant in the UK job market – the most since records began. With recruitment potentially taking months, this places even more pressure on existing staff to ‘pick up the slack’ and on FMs ...

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Sodexo reports strong half-year results

Sodexo’s results for first half Fiscal 2022 show Group revenue was 10,262 million euro, up +19.4%, with strong recovery coming through in all segments that were severely impacted by Covid. Group organic revenue growth was +16.7%, back up to 95% ...

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VestedUK launches to the FM and hospitality sectors

VestedUK, a new organisation spearheading the Vested contracting model has launched, which will offer support to facilities management and hospitality businesses, and those looking to work in a more collaborative way with their supply chain or service provider. A collaboration ...

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Sigma Group appoints Group CEO to drive growth

Sigma Group, a provider of outsourced solutions to blue chip retailers, leisure, office and hospitality businesses, has appointed experienced business leader David Dignam as Group CEO. In the newly created position, Dignam will lead the Sigma Group executive team, ensuring ...

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Insourcing vs outsourcing debate: What’s best for business?

The insourcing of FM services is growing in popularity. The report ‘Rebuilding Capacity: The case for insourcing public contracts’ from the University of Liverpool, recommends it for providing service flexibility and the ability to allocate resources where they are needed. ...

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Source of strife

Outsourcing has had somewhat of a bad press this year. Here Valerie Bonnin, Director at Incendium Consulting explains why she thinks it still works and how to avoid its pitfalls The demise of big firms such as Carillion has left ...

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The benefits and challenges of the TFM model

According to AMA’s ‘Facilities Management Outsourcing Market Report – UK 2016-2020’ the TFM sector was forecast to reach over £21 billion by 2020. This has resulted in greater demand for ‘bundled service’ and TFM contracts. However, it has been argued ...

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Redefining value

Phil McClennon, CEO of Leadec, explains why the outsourcing market must become a race to the top if the industry is to thrive and grow in difficult times With several high-profile outsourcing businesses hitting the headlines for all the wrong ...

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