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Capita Group Capita Group has acquired ABS Network Solutions, the Crawley-based business networking solutions firm with 56 staff, for £14m. 14-Oct-2008 Capita is to take over the running of the national gas registration scheme next year, which is expected to involve the transfer of 250 staff from CORGI offices in North Hampshire and elsewhere. 27-Jun-2008 Capita is to shed about 300 jobs at its business services call centre in Glasgow, in order to outsource administration work to India. 29-May-2008 Capita Group has acquired HFR Holdings and Lancaster Insurance Services for £16m, in order to expand its business into classic car insurance. 01-Apr-2008 Capita is to acquire ComputerLand, the Nottingham-based IT services firm, for £29m. 12-Mar-2008 Capita is to shed 41 jobs at its life and pensions business support operation in Belfast. 23-Jan-2008 Capita Group is to close its business services site at Wythall in Worcestershire with the loss of 375 jobs, in order to transfer work to Glasgow and India. 21-Jan-2008 Marsh is to outsource its insurance broking support and processing services to Capita Group, with the transfer of up to 650 Norwich-based staff. 14-Jan-2008 Capita is to set up offices totalling 60,000 sq ft at Lee House and Churchgate House in Manchester city centre. 17-Dec-2007 Prudential is to outsource some of its life and pensions administration work to Capita, in a £772m deal that will involve the transfer of 3,000 staff in Reading, Stirling and India. 29-Nov-2007 Capita has signed a £270m ten-year contract to provide customer support services for Co-operative Insurance, with the transfer of 800 Manchester-based staff. 16-Oct-2007 Capita Group is to acquire Higham Dunnett Shaw, the pensions administration firm with 260 staff in London, Edinburgh, Telford and Leeds, for £15m. 06-Sep-2007 Capita Group is to acquire the trust and company administration business of PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Channel Islands for £13m. 30-Jul-2007 Resolution, the insurance company, has awarded a £580m customer services and IT outsourcing contract to Capita Group, which will involve the transfer of 1,500 staff in Glasgow and 450 staff in Birmingham in August. 31-May-2007 Capita is to expand the 300-strong workforce at its television licensing call centre in Darwen with an additional 45 staff. 18-Apr-2007 Capita Group has acquired CMGL, the provider of outsourced claims and insurance management services with 440 staff in London, Cheltenham, Birmingham and overseas, from Sovereign Capital Partners for £32m. 03-Apr-2007 Capita is to close its Aspen House call centre in Colchester by September, with the loss of up to 180 jobs, following a decision by Norwich Union to bring its claims handling in-house. 03-Apr-2007 Capita is to shed 19 jobs at its property services division at Kingmoor Park in Carlisle, including architects and building surveyors. 02-Apr-2007 Capita has acquired a further 150,000 sq ft of warehouse space for its document management business at Darlington's Lingfield Point business park, which could lead to the creation of 30 jobs. 16-Feb-2007 Capita Group has acquired Harry Weeks Travel & Leisure Group, the Orpington-based travel software company with 70 staff, for £21m. 05-Feb-2007 Capita has won a £230m outsourcing contract to provide back-office services for Swindon Council, which will involve the transfer of 400 staff. 02-Feb-2007 Capita is to close its file storage facility at Willand in Devon in January 2007 with the loss of 74 jobs, as part of a strategy to consolidate its Department of Work & Pensions file stores onto one site in Heywood, Lancashire. 27-Nov-2006 Capita Business Services is to create up to 50 new jobs at its computer support operation on the Wyvern Business Park in Derby. 27-Nov-2006 Co-operative Insurance Society is to outsource administration and customer service work for 5m insurance policies to the Capita Group in 2007, with the transfer of up to 900 Manchester-based staff. 13-Nov-2006 Capita is to expand the workforce at its TV licensing call centre in Darwen, Lancashire, from 210 to about 340. 28-Sep-2006 Prudential is to outsource 450 sales and administration call centre jobs in Belfast to Capita Group. 18-Aug-2006 Capita is to set up a new 40,000 sq ft office at Donegall Square in Belfast to help service its BBC outsourcing contract. 14-Aug-2006 Capita Group is to acquire Sinclair Henderson, the Exeter-based investment fund administration business with 90 staff, from Iimia Investment Group for an initial £10m. 19-Jun-2006 The BBC has selected Capita Group as preferred supplier for a £100m outsourcing contract, which will involve the transfer of about 260 human resources jobs to a centre in Belfast. 20-Feb-2006 Birmingham City Council has awarded a £424m IT outsourcing contract to Capita, which will involve the transfer of up to 450 council staff to a joint venture company. 05-Dec-2005 Capita Group has acquired Lonsdale Travel, the Derby-based travel management company with 220 staff, for £10m. 10-Nov-2005 Capita has acquired BDML Connect, the personal lines insurance company, for £26m. 26-Jul-2005 Capita Group has acquired Brownsword, the provider of claims investigation services, for £5m. 18-Nov-2004 Capita Group is to start recruiting 200 new staff for a call centre in Gloucester, in order to operate the government's new Child Trust Fund. 16-Aug-2004 Capita Group is to shed 200 call centre jobs in Sheffield, as internet service provider Wanadoo is transferring work to Middlesbrough and India. 24-May-2004 Dixons has outsourced its Sheffield-based customer service centre to Capita Group, with the transfer of 800 staff. 13-Apr-2004 Capita Group has won a £430m contract to manage Child Trust Funds, which will involve the transfer of 100 jobs from The Children's Mutual and the creation of 100 new jobs in Gloucester. 01-Apr-2004 Capita Group is to acquire Aon Health Solutions, the workplace health risk management company with 232 staff, for undisclosed terms. 25-Mar-2004 Capita Group has acquired Symonds Group, the provider of consultancy, project management and design services to the property market with 700 staff, for an initial £30m. 17-Feb-2004 Capita has won a £125m contract to manage a compensation fund for the personal injury claims of miners, which will involve the transfer of more than 1,250 staff from Aon. 17-Feb-2004 Capita is in discussions with Edinburgh City Council about plans to introduce a congestion charge scheme in the city centre. 09-Dec-2003 Capita is to set up a 50,000 sq ft office at Lingfield Point in Darlington in August, with the relocation of up to 400 staff from Mowden Hall. 03-Apr-2003 Capita is planning to acquire Aurora, the company established to settle the outstanding business of Independent Insurance, for undisclosed terms. 20-Dec-2002 Capita Group has acquired Cost Auditing, the London-based provider of legal cost auditing services for the insurance sector, for up to £7.9m. 03-Dec-2002 Capita Business Services has indicated that up to 1,000 jobs could be created at its new call centre in Coventry, which has been set up to handle a £230m contract for London's new road transport charging scheme. 15-Nov-2002 Capita is to close offices in Darlington, Birmingham and Aldershot by March 2003, with the loss of about 50 jobs, in order to centralise its TV licensing operations in Darwin, Lancashire. 09-Oct-2002 Capita Group is creating more than 200 jobs at a former cotton mill in Darwen, which has been transformed into a TV licensing call centre to handle its new contract from the BBC. 22-Jul-2002 Capita Group is setting up a new administration office and call centre in Bristol's Temple Street to manage its 10-year contract for the BBC's licence system. 04-Jul-2002 Capita Group has acquired three businesses specialising in absence related cost management services from the Wynchgate Group for £19m, in order to expand its HR Service division. 21-Jun-2002 Capita Group has acquired three human resources businesses with 220 staff from PricewaterhouseCoopers for £14m, including Human Resources Outsourcing, Interim Management and Executive Search & Selection. 14-May-2002 Capita Group has acquired City Financial Group, the provider of unit trust administration services, for up to £4.6m. 15-Apr-2002 Capita Group has acquired Resource Management, the London-based provider of social workers, for £7.1m. 19-Mar-2002 Capita has been selected as preferred bidder for a £230m contract to run London's proposed road congestion charging scheme, which if approved will involve the introduction of customer service centres and payment systems in shops and kiosks. 21-Dec-2001 Capita Group has acquired the Industrial Society's workforce training and development business, which runs about 150 courses and trains 50,000 people a year, for up to £24m. 18-Dec-2001 The BBC has awarded a £500m contract to Capita for the collection of TV licence fees over the next ten years, which will involve the transfer of up to 15,000 Bristol-based staff from Consignia to Capita. 14-Dec-2001 Capita Group has acquired Moorgate Registrars, the Chelmsford-based registrar, for £2m, in order to expand its shareholder services business. 11-Dec-2001 Capita is to acquire McLarens from McLarens Toplis for £33m, in order to provide claims management outsourcing services to the insurance industry. 30-May-2001 Capita is to buy the corporate trustee business of Royal & Sun Alliance for £24m, and will also acquire the remaining 68.5% of the Myshares software business for £2m. 18-May-2001 Capita has been selected as preferred bidder for a £100m government contract to operate the Connexions smart card system, which is designed to encourage 16 to 19-year-olds to stay in education. 09-May-2001 Capita has won a £40m contract to provide IT staff to BAA, and has also secured new outsourcing contracts from Naafi and Haringey Education Authority. 18-Apr-2001 Capita has bought the remaining 74% of Eastgate, the supplier of outsourcing services to the insurance industry, for £14m. 03-Nov-2000 Capita has won a £400m government contract to set up and run the new Criminal Records Bureau. 26-Jul-2000 Capita is to acquire IRG, the share registration service, for £100m, in order to expand its back-office administration services into the private sector. 12-Apr-2000 Capita is forming an alliance with Microsoft to develop new online services for schools, including a system to allow parents to monitor the progress of their children. 22-Feb-2000 Capita has acquired the LHR teaching staff agency for £12m, in order to strengthen its support services business. 06-Jan-2000 Capita is to set up a £2.1m national computer call centre in Coventry to handle work outsourced by local councils, and 120 jobs will be created. 28-Jul-1999 Capita Group has acquired MPM Adams, the project management company, for £4m. 13-May-1999 Capita is moving into the insurance sector by acquiring a 20% stake in Eastgate, the provider of outsourcing services to the insurance industry, for £27m. 27-Mar-1999 Capita Group has acquired Sector Holdings, the treasury and financial management advisory service, for £11m, in order to expand the range of services offered to local authorities. 14-Oct-1998 Capita Group has raised its stake in Equitable Holdings, the debt recovery concern, from 49% to 66% at a cost of £4m. 20-Jul-1998 Capita Group is acquiring a 60% stake in Tozer Gallagher, the quantity surveyor, for £4m. 16-Sep-1997 Capita has won a £10m contract to supply white collar support services to the Isle of Wight Community Health Care NHS Trust. 17-Apr-1996 Rubicon is buying Calder Group, maker of magnets, castings, aluminium alloys and lead products, for £94m. 20-Oct-1995 Capita Group is to take over the non-clinical activities of St Mary's Hospital Trust on the Isle of Wight, in a deal of over £25m. 06-Oct-1995 More from the Computers & Electronics sector Related pages: Abacus Group EDS International 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