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i-FM celebrates 25 years
A quarter century has passed since a small but dedicated team launched the UK’s first online news and information service for facilities management.
i-FM turns 20
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
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?
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25 years on, and still the first thing you read
Fiona Perrin looks back — with a dose of nostalgia — on what makes i-FM the industry’s daily must-read.
A future of change built on a history of change
When i-FM launched just before the turn of the millennium, modern facilities management was already around 25 years old, writes Martin Pickard.
There and back: the Macro story
Committed to the ‘managing agent’ model of service delivery, Macro looked a bit out of step with the times in its early days. But it was soon proving there is a demand for the management-only approach; and it is still proving that to this day.
The sleeping giant awakes
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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