News on 24 November 2000
Faceo, the new facilities management joint venture created
by Alstom and Thomson-CSF (see News story), plans
rapid growth in the UK.
Tim Clark, Managing Director of Faceo Facility Management UK Ltd (which
begins trading next month) is aiming for turnover of £20m next year,
rising to between £35m and £40m the year after which would
put the company in the same bracket as MacLellan (£40.5m) and Pall
Mall (£39m). Clark's ambitions are clearly greater though as he
cites Carillion (£77m), Amec Facilities £80m) and Johnson
Controls IFM (£206m) as competitors
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The
co-presidents of Faceo, Serge Delon (left) and Serge Clemente.
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The UK business will build on the contracts of Alstom FM
which has been servicing Alstom group companies in the UK for around 18
months as well as securing work with a number of external clients including
Group 4 and Marconi. Alstom FM currently turns over about £4m from
work at five major locations with two more coming on stream next year.
"Our focus is naturally the industrial sector but
we also provide soft services," said Clark. He expects relationships
to start with the technical infrastructure and broaden from there. Clark
is clear that Faceo will be able to support core business directly: "We
can demonstrate our ability to maintain key process plant and equipment."
Faceo's business development director Antoine Chiriaco told i-FM that
although acquisition was not a priority, the company was "opportunist."
Explaining the reasons behind the launch he said that the French market
is now growing fast along with Italy and Spain. FM accounts for just 5%
of the service market in France, said Chiriaco, with Dalkia
, Elyo and Altys
(a subsidiary of Sodexho) among the leading players.
