Facilities management is primarily a type of organizational function that helps to enhance the productivity of business through efficient integration of place, people, technology, and process. It further involves optimum maintenance of buildings, properties, and inventory. Due to significant technological developments, facility managers adopt advanced facility management software to ensure cost reduction and improved business productivity and operation worldwide.

The market has a huge potential worldwide as it ensures state-of-the-art operational functionality that binds people, processes, places, and technology together across the residential and commercial environment. According to Fortune Business Insights, the global market of facility management is expected to reach USD 1.62 trillion by 2027 while exhibiting a CAGR of 4.05 between 2020 and 2027. Moreover, several companies are focusing on adopting modern technologies such as artificial intelligence, automation, and data monitoring to thrive on the lucrative opportunities.

To maximize profitability and gain new spending skills in today’s competitive market space, companies need to focus more on their core business functions and outsource their non-core activities to convenience management service providers. Office spaces are much more than their physical location. They are the centre of activity that requires careful handling of all moving parts. Each single activity must be coordinated to avoid conflict or hiccups.

Through this article we will look at top twenty FM providers in the UK market for the year 2021 with our data backed insights.

S No	FM Supplier Company	Annual Revenues (In Million)	No. of Live Contracts	Total Contract Value (TCV) (In Millions)
1	Mitie	£3997.0	65	£5550.2
2	Compass Group	£1500.0	50	£1597.9
3	G4S Facilities Management	£278.5	12	£1210.6
4	EMCOR UK	£371.2	14	£384.6
5	Sodexo UK	£1363.9	31	£1034.1
6	Serco	£1792.1	13	£1571.5
7	CBRE Group	£1298.4	24	£440.3
8	ISS Facility Services	£1164.1	26	£519.6
9	Atalian Servest	£619.1	19	£420.0
10	OCS Group UK	£429.8	15	£413.9
11	JLL	£366.4	4	£122.0
12	Vinci Facilities	£367.0	9	£394.2
13	Amey FM	£282.4	6	£576.3
14	Bouygues	£246.6	5	£155.4
15	NG Bailey Facilities Services	£243.9	7	£164.6
16	Churchill Services	£232.3	40	£57.6
17	Arcus FM	£178.3	14	£322.7
18	Kier Facilities Services	£147.5	8	£421.0
19	Robertson FM	£94.4	6	£204.7
20	Incentive FM	£84.9	16	£77.7
***TCV is the overall contract value for all contracts that may run for next few years and the figures are based on publicly available information and are part of Baachu database. ***Annual revenues are for UK Market and have been taken from the information made public by the respective organization.

 

Mitie

Founded in 1987, Mitie Group Plc is a British strategic outsourcing and energy services company. It provides infrastructure consultancy, facilities management, property management, energy and healthcare services. Headquartered in London, it has more than 200 offices across the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Mitie is one of the leading facilities Management and professional services company and offers specialized services that include Security, Engineering Services, Cleaning, Landscaping, Energy and Property Consultancy, Property Maintenance, and Custody Support Services.

By Successfully servicing, maintaining, managing and improving buildings and infrastructure for a large number of customers across public & private sectors, the company helps national and local businesses in the UK to improve their facilities and ultimately help them achieve their strategic gaols.

With revenues of £3997.0 Million, it was the largest Facilities Management company in the UK in 2021. The annual revenues saw an increase over the previous year.

Compass Group

Compass Group plc is a British multinational contract foodservice company headquartered in Chertsey, England. It is the largest contract foodservice company in the world employing over 500,000 people. It serves meals in locations including offices and factories, schools, universities, hospitals, major sports and cultural venues, mining camps, correctional facilities and offshore oil platforms. Compass Group is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It is also a Fortune Global 500 company.

In 2021, the company generated a revenue of £1500.0 Million in the UK Market. The company is one of the formidable forces in the global market as well as it serves meals across locations such as hospitals, cultural venues, universities, schools, factories, and offices.

G4S

G4S is a British multinational private security company headquartered in London, England. The company was set up in 2004 when London-based Securicor amalgamated with Danish firm Group 4 Falck. The company offers a range of services, including the supply of security personnel, monitoring equipment, response units and secure prisoner transportation. G4S also works with governments overseas to deliver security services.

G4S is the world’s largest security company measured by revenues. It has operations in more than 85 countries. With over 533,000 employees, it is one of the largest European and African private employer.

G4S Facilities Management UK clocked annual revenues of £278.5 Million in the UK Market.

EMCOR

EMCOR UK is the country’s leading authority in high-performance, sustainable, integrated facilities and workplace management. With an employee strength of more than 4,000, the company delivers sustainable services, innovation, data and technology solutions that reimagine and enhance the design, performance and productivity of working environments. The company provides services for total facilities / workplace management, energy management, stores / logistics, catering / vending, building fabric, projects, waste, landscaping, consultancy, helpdesk / front of house, voice and data, networks, fire / security, process engineering, manned guarding, and cleaning services.

EMCOR UK recorded £371.2 Million in annual revenues for the UK Market.

 

Sodexo

Sodexo is one of the leading facility management and food services companies based in France. The company has its presence in over 80 countries, along with an overall employee strength of 4,28,237 and increasing. In 2020, the company registered revenues worth €22.0 billion. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Sodexo introduced a supportive service for organizations to upgrade their operational processes known as Rise with Sodexo. The company has been aggressively adopting innovative strategies to strengthen its footprint in the global market.

Sodexo UK clocked annual revenues of £1363.9 Million from the UK Market.

Serco

Serco Group plc is a British company with headquarters based in Hook, Hampshire, England. Serco primarily derives income as a contractor for the provision of government services, most prominently in the sectors of law & order, health, transport, justice, immigration, defence and citizens services.

The majority of Serco’s turnover is generated from UK operations, but the company also operates in Continental Europe, the Middle East, the Asia Pacific region (including Australia), and North America. Serco manages over 500 contracts worldwide, employing over 50,000 people. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

The annual turnover of the company for the year 2020 was £1.79 Billion which was up from its 2019 turnover of £1.38 Billion.

CBRE Group

CBRE Group, Inc. is an American commercial real estate services and investment firm. The abbreviation CBRE stands for Coldwell Banker Richard Ellis. It is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm based on 2021 revenue.

CBRE provides advice to major multinational and global corporate occupiers of commercial real estate who are seeking to outsource facilities management strategy and delivery, with specific emphasis on regional, multi-regional and global corporate solutions. The company has adopted a professional model with supply chain independence to create a flexible workplace which meets the evolving needs of the business. The firm was founded in 1906 and has an employee strength of more than 7000 across UK.

The annual turnover of the company for the year 2019 was £1.29 Billion which was up from its 2018 turnover of £1.28 Billion.

ISS

ISS is one of the largest and highly regarded facility services providers across the globe, employing more than 500,000 people in around 50 countries and serving almost a quarter of a million business customers. The company specializes in five service streams including catering, cleaning, property services, support services and security.

ISS facility services provides single, bundled and fully integrated facility services solutions to the corporate, Public and Private sectors across United Kingdom, with specialist food hygiene, transport, hotel and leisure divisions. Facilities Management is provided through its Integrated solutions business, which also specializes in change management.

The company recorded an annual turnover of £1.16 Billion for the year 2020 which was slightly lower than £1.23 Billion clocked in 2019.

Atalian Servest

One of the pioneers of the global market, Atalian Servest is a U.K.-based facility management company that provides solutions ranging from cleaning to catering. Founded in 1988, Servest was acquired by the French group Atalian in 2018. The UK business delivers solutions to clients in the retail, leisure, public, commercial, construction, transport and logistics sectors-deploying specialist services that can be bundled or integrated to suit specific needs.

 In April 2021, the company partnered with Alcumus, a leading provider of supply chain management solutions in the U.K. The partnership is aimed at pre-qualifying contractors to ensure safety and ethical work culture.

The company recorded an annual turnover of £619.1 Million for the year 2020 which was slightly lower than £653.6 Million recorded in 2019.

OCS Group

OCS Group UK is trusted by hundreds of clients throughout the UK to deliver specialist, innovative sustainable solutions and to address complex facilities management issues. The companies as a facilities management services provider offers more than Eighty services including Cleaning, Catering, Security, Maintenance, Horticulture, Waste Management among others.

These services can be delivered individually or as part of a fully integrated FM Solution. OCS manages and delivers services to organisations across the public and private sectors.

The company recorded an annual turnover of £429.8 Million for the year 2020 which was slightly lower than £432 Million recorded in 2019.

JLL

Jones Lang LaSalle (LLP) is a global commercial real estate services provider having its base in the United Kingdom. The company has its offices across 80 countries and is ranked 179th on the Fortune 500 list. In 2020, LLP generated revenue worth USD 16.6 billion and consisted of a strong workforce of around 91,000. In March 2021, JLL announced a multi-faceted transaction with Roof stock, an online marketplace in the dynamic single-family rental (SFR) sector.

The UK operations generated a revenue of £366.4 Million in 2020 with a staff strength of 3470 which was lower than the previous year which had recorded £443 Million in annual revenues.

Vinci Facilities

Vinci Facilities is part of Vinci Group which is among the world’s largest construction services group. Vinci Facilities brings together the group’s expertise in the built environment and combines the customer services of retailers, the critical environment processes of healthcare and distinctive use of LEAN principles to deliver efficient and sustainable facilities management solutions.

The company works with a philosophy of creating and maintaining great places for people to work and live. The company proactively works on customer inputs and feedback to provide a set of FM options tailored to provide the best results for every client.

The company recorded an annual turnover of £367 Million for the year 2021 which was much higher than £302.1 Million recorded in 2020.

Amey FM

Amey is a leading infrastructure services and engineering company. Its unique engineering and operations experience, together with data driven insight from its consulting business, delivers better results for its clients. The company is the trusted partner of Government – both national and local – managing assets and complex projects that are vital to the sustainable growth of the country.

Amey provides a comprehensive range of facilities management services to a large proportion of the government’s estate as well as to departments, agencies, non-departmental bodies, schools and the private sector.

The company recorded an annual turnover of £282.4 Million for the year 2020 which was slightly higher than £280.7 Million recorded in 2019.

Bouygues

Bouygues (U. K.), a subsidiary of Gallic giant Bouygues, provides full-service construction, engineering, and design contracting services throughout the UK. Bouygues UK targets the health care, education, and residential sector, including affordable and social housing, PRS, private for sale homes, mixed-use, care homes and student accommodation. Bouygues UK businesses include Bouygues Energies Services, which provides engineering and service capabilities committed to designing, building, operating and maintaining infrastructure, buildings and industrial facilities, while Bouygues Travaux Publics build tunnels, engineering structures and road, port and rail infrastructures and VSL is a specialist contractor with a worldwide presence, providing innovative construction solutions founded on its well-proven systems and sound in-house engineering.

The company recorded an annual turnover of £246.6 Million for the year 2020 which was much higher than £230.8 Million recorded in 2019.

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