Caxton FM announced yesterday that from next month, Kier Facilities Maintenance Services will become a division of Caxton.

Kier FM Services is part of Kier Western and both are part of the Kier Group. Kier FM’s offers planned and reactive maintenance programmes and small works to a number of major companies, most particularly in the retail and service sectors. The transfer includes the shop-fitting and joinery business, which is an integral part of Kier FM Services, which currently has a turnover of over £5million, with 100 employees in South Wales and Southern England.

The transfer of Kier FM Services to Caxton will allow Kier Western to concentrate on its core business, construction.

Roger Coates, General Manager of Kier FM will join the Caxton Board of Directors. Clive Thomas, Chairman and Managing Director of Caxton FM, comments: "I am delighted that we have appointed Roger, who, as a manager, has seen a gradual success of the company. The joining together of Kier FM services and Caxton will be of mutual advantage and together we will make a great team."

Caxton predicts that by the end of 2001, the company, with the help of the Kier FM Service together with other contracts, will have a turnover of £25million.

Anna Lagerkvist