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Amey has confirmed plans to set up a new 46,000 sq ft support services office at Colmore Plaza in Birmingham. 28-Sep-2009 Amey is in negotiations to set up a 70,000 sq ft design office for its support services business at Colmore Plaza in Birmingham. 04-Aug-2009 AmeyLafarge is to shed up to 50 jobs from its £350m Hertfordshire Highways contract, following a reduction in funds allocated by Hertfordshire County Council. 27-Nov-2006 Amey has acquired Owen Williams, the Birmingham-based technical services company with 800 staff in four countries, for undisclosed terms. 20-Feb-2006 Amey has sold its Amey Vectra technical and environmental consulting business to Volvere for £2m. 28-May-2003 Amey, the support services group with 9,000 staff, is to be acquired by Grupo Ferrovial of Spain for £81m, which will enable Amey to resume its place in the Tube Lines consortium. 17-Apr-2003 Amey is shedding a further 250 jobs in its construction and maintenance business, and a London office is closing. 28-Jan-2003 Amey Rail is planning to recruit up to 100 army leavers a year from the Royal Signal Corps, in order to ease the shortage of signal and telecoms engineers in the rail sector. 04-Dec-2002 Amey has selected John Laing as preferred bidder for its portfolio of PFI investments, and negotiations are taking place for the development of a strategic partnership between the two companies. 20-Nov-2002 Amey is planning a £10m restructuring programme in order to reduce costs and shed 300 jobs, and has also announced plans to raise up to £150m from the sale of its equity investments. 11-Sep-2002 Amey is to set up a new Shared Resources Centre in Portsmouth, which will involve the relocation of up to 400 staff involved in accounts, payroll, procurement, human resources and IT. 06-Feb-2002 Amey has won a £36m outsourcing contract to provide IT systems to Northern Ireland's public libraries, and will start installing equipment in May. 31-Jan-2002 Amey has acquired a 51% stake in MNN Holdings, the parent company of the Crown Business Communications video technology business, for £9.1m. 27-Jun-2001 Amey is forming a joint venture with Arrowcroft to provide property management services to large companies under the name of Amcroft. 08-Feb-2001 Amey is planning to restructure its support services business in order to reduce costs and focus on specific market sectors, which will involve decentralising some head office functions. 10-Jan-2001 Amey is expanding its facilities management business into Ireland with the acquisition of a 33% stake in Irish Facilities Management. 13-Dec-2000 Amey has sold its Donelon tunnelling business to Amalgamated Construction for undisclosed terms, in order to focus on facilities management. 16-Nov-2000 Amey is to invest £2m in the development of a £10m City Academy in Middlesbrough, which will involve the creation of a centre for learning excellence for 1,200 students. 13-Oct-2000 Amey is raising £42m in a share placing in order to fund the acquisition of a 50% stake in BCN Data Systems, the developer of technology to monitor security systems and cash machines, for £14m. 13-Sep-2000 Amey is to build a new specialist hospital for the Northern Birmingham Mental Health Trust, in a £155m Private Finance Initiative deal. 17-Aug-2000 Amey Rail has acquired Datel, the developer of railway information management systems, for undisclosed terms. 27-Apr-2000 Amey Rail is to relocate its Swindon headquarters to Bristol. 11-Nov-1999 Amey Rail has announced a series of measures to improve its services to Railtrack, including a satellite navigation system to pinpoint problems on the rail network. 23-Sep-1999 Amey is acquiring Comax, the support services business spun off from the government's defence research agency, for £86m, as part of a strategy to move away from its traditional construction activities. 02-Jul-1999 Amey is looking to spend about £90m on acquisitions as it continues to shift its focus away from construction and towards business support services such as human resources and IT. 24-Mar-1999 Amey is acquiring Enviresponse, the environmental disaster recovery specialist, for £1.1m. 17-Feb-1999 Amey has announced an £82m hostile takeover bid for Servisair, the provider of ground support services at airports, and this could prompt rival bids from companies such as John Menzies and Go-Ahead. 23-Jan-1999 The Ministry of Defence has awarded a contract worth up to £500m to a consortium that includes Amey, Kvaerner and Hyder for the redevelopment and maintenance of its Whitehall headquarters. 09-Jan-1999 Centrica has awarded a £65m contract to Amey for the management of its business support services throughout the country, including security, catering, portering and postal services. 06-Jan-1999 Amey is to merge its building, civil engineering and special projects operations into one division in order to save £1m and allow them to work together. 05-Nov-1998 Try Homes is acquiring Amey Homes, the south-east based housebuilder, for £4.8m. 17-Sep-1998 Amey has created a new division called Amey RailTec that will specialise in providing solutions for the rail maintenance sector. 01-Sep-1998 Amey has withdrawn from a contract with Railtrack to maintain tracks in the Bristol area, as the two companies have failed to agree terms. 03-Jul-1998 Amey has acquired N Jones, the asbestos management company, for £2.5m. 07-May-1998 Amey is in discussions to create a consortium to bid for concessions to operate sections of the London Underground infrastructure, and is also said to be looking to sell off its Amey Homes housebuilding business. 24-Mar-1998 Amey has linked up with SECO/DGF of France to win a £130m track renewals contract for Railtrack's Great Western region. 16-Jan-1998 Amey Facilities Management has had its headquarters raided by the Ministry of Defence police's fraud squad, who are investigating one of the company's maintenance contracts at a MoD site. 10-Jan-1998 Amey has acquired a 25% stake in Amey Railway Holdings from its management for £3.48m. 06-Aug-1997 Amey has won a £40m three-year contract to manage and maintain major roads in Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Essex and Hertfordshire. 25-Feb-1997 Autolink Concessionaires, a company owned jointly by Amey, Sir Robert McAlpine and Taylor Woodrow Construction, has won a £370m contract to build and operate a motorway linking the M6 at Carlisle with the A74 south of Glasgow. 08-Jan-1997 Amey Construction and Sir Robert McAlpine have won a £175m contract to build the 28km Croydon Tramlink light rail network, which is due to open in late 1999. 26-Nov-1996 Amey Construction has won £13m of contracts at Manchester Airport, including runway resurfacing. 23-Oct-1995
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