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Vertex Vertex is to shed a further 33 jobs at its financial services call centre in Chester. 04-Feb-2008 Vertex is to create 350 temporary jobs at its customer services call centre in Kirkby. 26-Oct-2007 Vertex is to shed 80 jobs at call centres in Prescot and Warrington, in order to transfer IT services work to India. 03-Jul-2007 Vertex is to create 100 new jobs at its customer services call centre in Kirkby, having won an outsourcing contract from an unnamed firm. 04-May-2007 United Utilities is to sell its Vertex Data Science business outsourcing division to a private equity consortium led by Oak Hill Capital Partners for £217m. 16-Jan-2007 Vertex is to create 300 new jobs at its call centre in Bolton, having won a contract from the Department of Work & Pensions. 15-Sep-2006 United Utilities is considering the future of 258 staff at its Vertex outsourcing call centre in Knowsley, as energy company PowerGen is said to be planning to take its work back in-house. 08-Sep-2006 United Utilities has appointed Merrill Lynch to review the strategic options for its Vertex outsourcing business, having received a number of takeover approaches. 14-Jun-2006 Vertex is to set up a call centre for up to 120 staff at the Chester Business Park, having won a £45m mortgage contract from Deutsche Bank, and will also relocate its headquarters and 160 staff from south Manchester to Kings Business Park in Prescot. 16-Mar-2006 Vertex is planning to shed 100 jobs from its technology services operations in Liverpool and Manchester, in order to transfer the work to a new joint venture in India. 16-Jan-2006 Vertex has won a £26m customer service outsourcing contract from Hertfordshire County Council, which will involve the transfer of about 100 Stevenage-based staff. 02-Nov-2005 Vertex is to create 300 jobs at its call centre in Knowsley, having won a new contract to produce gas and electricity bills and statements for PowerGen. 22-Apr-2005 Vertex is to transfer the handling of national rail inquires for Trainline to India next year, casting doubt on the future of 180 jobs at its call centre in Dingwall. 07-Feb-2005 Vertex is to shed 500 full-time and 400 part-time jobs at its call centre in Speke, following a reduction in its outsourcing contract with Vodafone. 10-Dec-2004 Vertex is to create 700 new jobs at its customer service call centres in Speke and Knowsley, while a further 400 jobs will be created in Bolton. 23-Oct-2003 Vertex is creating 90 new jobs at its call centre in Forres, to handle work for the Department for Work & Pensions, Tesco Telecom and an unnamed retail banking organisation. 21-May-2003 Vertex is said to be planning to close its recently-acquired 7C call centre in Pembroke in January with the loss of up to 223 jobs. 13-Dec-2002 Vertex has acquired 7C, the call centre operator with 434 staff at sites in Liverpool, Birkenhead, London, Pembroke and India. 03-Dec-2002 Vertex is to shed 140 jobs at its call centre in Nairn in November, following the loss of a contract with Legal & General. 24-Sep-2002 Vertex has won a £422m 10-year call centre outsourcing contract from Westminster City Council. 17-Jul-2002 Vertex has announced plans to create a further 50 jobs at its outsourcing call centre in Whitehaven. 13-Jun-2002 Vertex is to shed 430 jobs at its call centre in Knowsley as two major contracts are about to expire. 28-Jan-2002 Birmingham City Council is to set up a call centre for up to 170 staff at the Waterlinks House office complex near the Aston Science Park, and the service will be operated by outsourcing specialist Vertex. 11-Jan-2002 Vertex is planning to launch a major recruitment drive to fill 700 jobs at its new £6.5m call centre in Whitehaven, which is due to open in November. 30-Jul-2001 Vertex, the billing company, is in negotiations to set up a call centre in Whitehaven, with the creation of 700 jobs. 22-Dec-2000 Northern Ireland Electricity is linking up with Vertex Data Science to form an outsourcing company called Vertex (Ireland) which will offer data management and other services to NIE and other organisations. 30-Apr-1997 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2008