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AA The AA is to relocate its Bristol-based driving school operation and 100 of the 125 jobs to its St Patrick's House call centre in Cardiff in June. 04-Feb-2008 Saga is to merge with the AA motor breakdown services business to create a combined group worth £6.2bn with 11,100 staff. 26-Jun-2007 The AA is to restructure two insurance call centres in Newcastle and Cardiff with the loss of 100 management and administrative jobs. 22-Aug-2005 The AA is to close its call centre in Maidstone with the loss of 150 jobs, in order to transfer the work Birmingham. 24-Jun-2005 The AA has announced a £50m IT outsourcing deal with IBM, which will involve setting up new help desks, transferring up to 60 staff and moving 200 servers into IBM data centres. 02-Mar-2005 The AA is to shed almost 400 jobs in Basingstoke and Farnborough, with administration, finance, marketing and PR being hardest hit. 05-Nov-2004 The AA is to close its tyre fitting units and most of its vehicle servicing centres with the loss of 900 jobs, while 50 sites and 400 staff will be transferred to Nationwide Autocentres. 12-Oct-2004 Centrica has agreed to sell the AA motoring organisation to a company formed by CVC Capital Partners and Permira Advisers for £1.7bn. 02-Jul-2004 The AA is to close its call centre in Erskine, but the 237 staff will be offered work at other Centrica offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh. 28-Apr-2004 The AA is launching a new leasing company called AA Vehicle Management, in order to offer contract hire and personal leasing to customers of AA Business Services. 07-Oct-2003 The AA is planning to close its 28 vehicle fleet maintenance workshops and transfer the work to the AA Service Centre network acquired from Halfords last year. 08-Nov-2002 The AA has appointed Itis, the automotive telematics company, to handle its Roadwatch telephone traffic information service, in a deal worth up to £2m a year in revenues. 14-Oct-2002 The AA is closing down its network of 522 roadside telephones, as most breakdown calls are now made by mobile phone. 19-Sep-2002 The AA is to create 120 new jobs at its call centre in Newcastle upon Tyne to deal with customers for its new credit card. 21-Feb-2002 Inchcape and the AA are to invest £4m in the creation of a new and used car sales joint venture early next year. 04-Dec-2001 The AA is investing £4m in the acquisition of an undisclosed stake in Thefirstresort.com, the packaged holiday website. 21-Mar-2001 The AA has bought petrolbusters.com for £0.25m, which will enable it to direct motorists to the cheapest garages. 09-Nov-2000 Virgin is planning to move into home and motor insurance in partnership with the AA. 23-Aug-2000 The AA has put its Fanum House office building in Bristol up for sale, and staff will be relocated to other sites in September. 03-Aug-1999 Centrica has agreed to buy the AA vehicle breakdown organisation for £1.1bn, and jobs are expected to be lost when the two companies start sharing support services such as call centres. 06-Jul-1999 Centrica is in negotiations to acquire the AA's vehicle recovery business. 24-Jun-1999 Vodafone is linking up with the Automobile Association to trial a location system based on GSM phones in the Cambridge area. 29-Apr-1999 The Automobile Association is to close its call centre in Leeds in September with the loss of 195 jobs, but hopes that some of the staff will join its growing teleworking team. 24-Apr-1999 The Automobile Association is considering plans to move away from its mutual structure, which could involve an acquisition by a company such as Ford, or joint ventures and partnerships. 20-Apr-1999 Trafficmaster has agreed a five-year contract to supply live traffic information to the Automobile Association from its national network of roadside sensors. 05-Feb-1999 The AA is to set up three motoring breakdown supercentres in Cheadle, Halesowen and Thatcham with the creation of 150 jobs, but 390 jobs will be lost at existing sites in Stanmore, Maidstone, Bristol and Belfast. 15-Jan-1999 The AA is selling its Home Assistance business to Aon Risk Services for undisclosed terms and closing its 142 high street shops with the loss of about 850 jobs, as part of a strategy to focus on its roadside assistance services. 06-Aug-1998 Scottish Power is considering plans to scrap its trading alliance with the AA, as the motoring organisation is said to be losing interest in selling financial services alongside energy products. 15-May-1998 The Automobile Association is linking up with Scottish Power to offer domestic energy supplies to its 6m members. 19-Jun-1997 The Automobile Association is considering ending the membership of the 4% of customers that are responsible for 28% of call-outs, or alternatively giving them the option of paying for additional callouts. 26-Feb-1996 AA Insurance is to set up its own direct underwriting operation and hopes it will lead to discounts of up to 10% for customers moving away from other telephone insurers. 24-Feb-1996 The AA were called out to a record 4.85m breakdowns in 1995. 12-Jan-1996 Vodafone and the AA are to jointly develop in-car information systems, with a new trafiic information service being launched in January. 24-Oct-1995 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2008