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IBM Transport for London has awarded a £56m contract to operate the city's congestion charge from 2009 to IBM, which is expected to involve the transfer of 400 staff from Capita. 29-Oct-2007 IBM is forming a joint venture with Somerset County Council and Taunton Deane Council to provide a range of services to both councils and other organisations, including human resources, property, procurement and IT services. 03-Oct-2007 IBM is said to be cutting up to 64 jobs at the Virgin Media call centre in Swansea. 13-Sep-2007 IBM Global Services is expected to create almost 100 new jobs in Greenock, having won a global IT support outsourcing contract from Xerox. 22-Aug-2007 NTL has announced plans to shed 6,000 jobs from its 17,000-strong workforce, including the outsourcing of 1,500 staff in Liverpool, Swansea and Teesside to IBM. 10-May-2006 IBM has announced plans to shed 13,000 jobs across Europe, which could affect some of the 2,800 staff at its site in Greenock and 22,200 at other sites throughout the UK. 06-May-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 IBM has been selected as preferred bidder for a contract worth at least £500m to provide IT services to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. 31-May-2004 Procter & Gamble is to transfer 150 human resources staff in North Tyneside to IBM, as part of a 10-year global services outsourcing deal. 12-Sep-2003 IBM is to establish the Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity at Cardiff Business School later this year. 02-Apr-2003 IBM is to transfer 650 staff and its computer manufacturing plant in Greenock to US contractor Sanmina-SCI, as part of a strategy to outsource some of its global manufacturing capacity. 08-Jan-2003 IBM is to outsource its PC manufacturing operations in the US and Scotland to Sanmina-SCI, which will include the transfer of 80 staff at Greenock. 11-Jan-2002 IBM is seeking a suitable site in Liverpool for an IT service centre for 100 staff to handle a contract with Royal & Sun Alliance, and the deal involves the transfer of 285 R&SA employees at sites including Horsham, Bristol and Halifax. 17-Dec-2001 IBM is setting up a regional headquarters at the Thorpe Park business park on the outskirts of Leeds, and the building is expected to house around 400 staff after completion in March 2002. 19-Jul-2001 NTL has announced a £1.4bn deal to outsource its IT operations to IBM, which will involve the immediate transfer of about 500 staff. 25-May-2001 Pearson is forming a joint venture with IBM to develop interactive learning services for the home, and trials will take place in the US and a number of European countries. 23-Apr-2001 IBM is planning to create a further 150 jobs at its new human resources call centre department in Portsmouth, which already employs more than 200 people. 04-Apr-2001 CGNU is to terminate the Norwich Union contract with IBM in August and transfer its data centre to Norwich, which will involve the loss of more than 200 IT jobs in Perth. 26-Feb-2001 AstraZeneca is to outsource its global IT infrastructure to IBM in a £1.2bn deal, which will involve the transfer of up to 1,200 staff. 02-Feb-2001 Bank of Scotland is outsourcing its computer operations to IBM, in a £700m deal that will involve the transfer of about 500 staff. 29-Jun-2000 Solectron is to establish a New Product Introduction centre in the Greenock area having won a contract to develop printed circuit boards for IBM, and the facility will be staffed by about 65 IBM engineers. 18-Aug-1999 Sage, the accountancy software company, is forming an alliance with IBM to provide services on the internet, and it aims to hook its 2m business customers up to the web. 12-May-1999 ICI has announced a seven-year deal to outsource its global computing infrastructure to IBM. 19-Mar-1999 IBM is to relocate its Havant-based call centre to Greenock in Scotland, which will involve the transfer of up to 125 jobs. 20-Jan-1999 Safeway has developed a hand-held personalised shopping device in conjunction with IBM that will enable customers to order goods from anywhere and collect them from the store later. 17-Dec-1998 Sema is leading a consortium that has won a $500m contract to supply IT services for the Olympic Games, thereby replacing IBM. 08-Dec-1998 The Affinity consortium, which includes EDS and IBM, has won a contract to update the computing systems at the social security department. 06-Nov-1998 Cable & Wireless Communications has awarded a £1.8bn 10-year deal to IBM for the outsourcing of its central management systems, which will involve the transfer of about 950 staff and the creation of an additional 400 jobs. 03-Sep-1998 IBM is to set up a £12m multilingual direct marketing call centre at its Greenock site in Scotland, creating 500 jobs. 14-Jul-1998 General Accident is ordering 4,000 network computers from IBM, the largest sale of NC machines so far in Europe, in order to reduce maintenance costs, increase flexibility and ensure year 2000 compliance. 08-Jan-1998 IBM is considering plans to open a telephone-based service centre for its European computer business in Northern Ireland. 16-Sep-1997 Asda, the retailer, has awarded a £200m 7-year contract to IBM for the outsourcing of all its internal computing operations, one of the largest such deals ever made in the UK. 02-May-1997 IBM is buying Data Sciences, the computer services spin-off from Thorn EMI, for £95m, which means that the company's planned stock market flotation has been cancelled. 05-Mar-1996 Superscape VR, the virtual reality software company, has announced a deal in which IBM will market its products throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with North and South American countries to follow. 14-Feb-1996 JBA Holdings, the software company, is linking with IBM to develop object orientation methods, with the project being based in Germany. 31-Jan-1996 IBM is to take over Sun Alliance's main computer mainframe and other computer operations, in order to save £60m over five years. 08-Nov-1995 Cable & Wireless Europe is seeking a role in the proposed global telecoms alliance between IBM and Stet, which aims to supply a range of networked telecom and computer services to international business. 23-Oct-1995 National Westminster Bank has sold the K3 subsidiary of Management Computing Services to IBM UK for £7m. 21-Oct-1995 IBM is to expand its customer help centre at its Greenock computer plant, creating 200 jobs. 19-Sep-1995 IBM is to expand its customer help centre at its Greenock computer plant, creating 200 jobs. 19-Sep-1995 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007