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i-FM turns 20

21st July 2020

We are celebrating our 20th anniversary this year, and to mark that we have produced a couple of articles that will delight anyone who is interested in how FM became the marketplace that we know today.

i-FM Top 50: 15 years of change

14th April 2016

Remember Stiell, MacLellan, Workplace Management, Mowlem, Citex, CBX? Do you know what became of them, how the FM service provider landscape became what it is today?

Features - Search found 9 features

The sleeping giant awakes

2nd April 2024

OCS, a business operating in FM long before anyone thought up that term, has been given a new lease of life. Here, we track the path that culminated in the group’s 2023 ‘rebirth’.

What next for Interserve?

16th November 2018

The group is very much in the news these days, mainly for the wrong reasons. As it continues to grapple with stabilisation and recovery, we've been looking back at its path over the past couple of decades.

The ISS story

12th March 2018

i-FM charts the history of ISS to see how a small Danish security business became one of the biggest service companies on the planet.

BIFM: a long and winding road

23rd January 2018

The latest in our occasional history series looks at the path of the British Institute of Facilities Management, definitely a case of moving forward though with a fair few potholes and switchbacks along the way.

Creating Incentives

30th November 2017

i-FM looks back through the archives to explore the story behind Incentive FM and its leader Jeremy Waud, one of the FM sector’s most enduring figures.

Apleona: tracking the path from cleaning to FM

1st November 2017

Apleona appeared on the UK FM scene in mid 2017. Who is this company with the unusual name and where did they come from?

A brief history of Carillion

10th October 2017

Recently, Carillion reported pre-tax losses of £1.153m for the first half of 2017. It is the latest chapter in the sometimes tumultuous history of one of the FM market's most active businesses.

The Complicated Lineage of SGP

31st March 2014

SGP Property & Facilities Management is a fine example of business evolution in the FM marketplace. For all the big names that have always been themselves, there are plenty of others that grew and changed through the busy M&A scene typical of UK FM.

10 Years of Rentokil

7th March 2014

Rentokil Initial has been in the news with the £250m sale of its FM business to Interserve, which in a way signals the close of a remarkable and not always comfortable decade of change.