Luxist (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
From the LA Times Hot Properties: --A 13,500-square-foot home in Tarzana with a tennis court and koi pond, an underground garage that fits 16 cars is being put up for auction. It was once listed at $9.775 million and cost more than $7.5 million to build. The minimum bid will start at $2.1 million on Dec. 5. The property website is here. --Personal trainer Bob Harper of "The Biggest Loser"...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Forget the Queen’s Speech. It was Paul Pindar, the chief executive of Capita Group, who provided a more rousing take on the public finances yesterday. “When you look at [central government], which is now spending in excess of £620 billion a year, much of it is spent on administrative process,” he said. “In my 22 years at Capita, it is at the most inefficient and the fattest...
My Bandra Blogs Mumbai Classifieds (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
About Capita India: Capita India is the Indian operation of the Capita Group Plc, the UK’s biggest business process outsourcing company. Following the acquisition of PPMS (Mature Life& Pensions) from the Prudential Group in 2008, Capita now has more than 3,000 staff in four sites across India, including Andheri, Vikhroli, Thane and Pune. These sites support [...]
Laptophobia (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Druvaa yet again registers key customer wins for its enterprise laptop backup solution - Druvaa inSync. The recent customer wins include Capita, Prudential-ICICI, Larson & Tubro and a Large Anti-Virus specialist. Capita Group deployed inSync as an enterprise wide solution for its 10,000 strong remote and mobile workforce replacing Veritas NetBackup. Just recently the same solution was adopted...
voluntaryXchange (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
Snippets has a table that shows real GDP per capita of a group of related countries: click a button, and there they are. Hat tip to Jerry. Technorati Tags: real,gdp,per capita
OPENRevenues (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
31 July 2009, London … Civica Group Ltd, a market leader in software-based solutions that help to improve service delivery and efficiency, has announced that Civica UK Limited, the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, has acquired the IBS OPENSystems Revenues and Benefits business (“OPENRevenues”) from Capita Group Plc. The business has been renamed Civica OPENRevenues. Based...
Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 24/07/2009
As part of the Tory re-branding exercise, Bloomberg reported on 1st July: David Cameron, whose Conservative Party is on course to win power in the U.K. in the next year, said he wanted the government to broaden its base of contractors away from large companies including Capita Group Plc. “At the moment in the [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 23/07/2009
Good business model and sound management team should see the outsourcing company flourish.
computing (Free subscription) | 23/07/2009
Martin Courtney, Computing , Thursday 23 July 2009 at 16:35:00 Recession or not, business processing outsourcing companies are going from strength to strength UK business process outsourcing (BPO) specialist Capita Group saw its pre-tax profit for the six months ended 30 June 2009 reach £142m, up 18 per cent compared with the same period in 2008, with revenue up 11 per cent to £1.3bn....
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 23/07/2009
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Outsourcing firm Capita Group [s; uk:cpi] said Thursday that its first-half net profit rose to 98.7 million pounds, from 84.2 million pounds at the same point a year ago. Sales climbed to 1.3 billion pounds, from 1.2 billion pounds a year ago. "The majority of our businesses across the Group have performed well and we have secured new and renewed major contracts worth...
The Letting Agent (Free subscription) | 26/06/2009
Gas Safe Register replaced the CORGI gas register in Great Britain and the Isle of Man on 1 April 2009 Gas Safe Register replaced the CORGI gas register in Great Britain and the Isle of Man on 1 April 2009 There is only one gas safety register that you need to use. Look for the yellow Gas Safe Register triangle not the orange CORGI registration badge. Anyone carrying out work on gas must be registered...
BrandFaqs: The Brand Blog (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
Many Western companies have recently sold or closed back-office facilities in India, reversing a decade-long trend as companies look to slash costs and eliminate headaches during the recession, according to the Wall Street Journal. Citigroup Inc. and insurance firms AXA SA and Aviva PLC, among others, have sold offshore computer-programming shops and other operations to companies in India over the...
Insurance Daily (Free subscription) | 04/06/2009
Helix UK Limited, which provides administration and support services to the insurance industry and related businesses, has appointed a new chief executive officer. David Pearson assumed his role in May having previously held various senior posts within the Capita Group, including chief executive officer of Capita London Market Services and managing director of Lambourn Insurance Services. Commenting...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 04/06/2009
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- U.K. outsourcing company Capita Group must sell part of the software business IBS that it acquired last year, the Competition Commission confirmed Thursday. The competition authority said Capita must dispose of the side of the business that provides revenues and benefits software to local authorities. If no suitable sale is achieved, the Competition Commission said it will...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 01/04/2009
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The U.K. competition body said Wednesday that it has provisionally concluded that Capita Group's acquisition of IBS OPENSystems could damage competition in the market for the supply of revenues and benefits software to local authorities in the U.K. The Competition Commission said that it will now consult on appropriate ways to address the loss of competition, which could...
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