services founded 2000 in current merged form ; 1983 lancashire enterprises 1964 arm services headquarters farington lancashire england key people alan petersen chairman products outsourced and managed services for local authorities government departments and utility companies . revenue 1 200 million 1 number of employees 14 000 website www.enterprise.plc.uk enterprise plc was a support services company originally based in farington in lancashire england . its core markets were local authorities and utility sectors . it has recently been integrated into ferrovial s uk company amey plc. contents 1 history 2 operations 2.1 public sector 2.2 utilities 3 references 4 external links history edit the company was established in 2000 by way of a merger between lancashire enterprises founded in 1983 and arm services founded in 1964 . 2 in 2007 a management buyout backed by the 3i investment group took place and the group was removed from the london stock exchange . 3 on september 21 2007 the company acquired the entire stock of accord plc making it one of the uk s leading companies providing outsourced or partnered services to both the local authority and utilities markets . 4 5 on 21 february 2013 ferrovial through ferrovial services reached an agreement with international investor 3i to acquire enterprise one of the uk s leading providers of services to utilities and the public sector for a firm value of 385 million pounds around 443 million euro . 6 operations edit public sector edit a full range of direct infrastructure and facilities management services are delivered to local authorities across the uk and enterprise has built a strong track record in the modernisation and transformation of public services . the public sector business is focused on the delivery of local authority services through partnership joint venture arrangements and traditional term contracts . it has relationships with over 60 local authorities . 7 enterprise was one of the first private companies to develop a full joint venture company with a local authority liverpool city council enterpriseliverpool delivering the full range of street based services throughout the city . joint and strategic ventures also exist with amongst others manchester city council liverpool city council peterborough city council wolverhampton city council solihull mbc city of london corporation and the london boroughs of westminster islington ealing and redbridge . enterprise liverpool van on hanover street the company operates throughout the uk with over 100 offices . 8 the head office is in farington near leyland in lancashire and key offices are also located in london manchester west midlands gloucester peterborough liverpool and the south west . the company also has operations and relations with local authorities across wales and northern ireland enterprise has two separate joint ventures to provide services on behalf of the ministry of defence . 9 utilities edit enterprise operates as a facilities and infrastructure service support partner to major utility companies in the water gas and electricity sectors . key clients include severn trent water united utilities national grid and uk power networks . in the water industry enterprise offers a wide range of services for the repair and maintenance of both the clean and dirty water networks and all related asset and facilities management . enterprise works with or has worked with all the major water companies in the uk . in the power and electricity sector the company provides network maintenance services throughout the electricity distribution industry across the uk and in the gas sector the company provide mains and service replacements together with asset and facilities management . references edit sam f. mid year update pdf . enterprise plc. history . enterprise plc. enterprise in talks over 947m offer from 3i reuters enterprise plc acquires accord plc dead link acquistion sic of accord . enterprise plc. archived from the original on 4 december 2015 . retrieved 4 december 2015 . sam f. ferrovial enhances its services business with the acquisition of enterprise for 385 million pounds 443 million euro . enterprise plc. local government . enterprise plc. company information . enterprise plc. one contract provide the full range of facilities management and fm services ; the other provides the full range of housing repair and maintenance services . carillion enterprise win 500m mod maintenance contract external links edit official site v t e culture and infrastructure of the borough of south ribble transport blackpool to liverpool line blue bus of penwortham manchester to preston line east lancashire line transpennine express preston park and ride lancaster canal tramroad railway stations bamber bridge leyland lostock hall disused stations farington hoole longton bridge midge hall new longton and hutton penwortham cop lane todd lane junction education academy worden all hallows rc high school ashbridge school balshaw s ce high school brownedge st mary s rc high school hutton grammar school leyland st mary s rc high school lostock hall academy penwortham girls high school penwortham priory academy runshaw college walton le dale arts college & high school wellfield high school sport bamber bridge f.c. county ground history cuerdale hoard leyland hundred samlesbury witches business enterprise plc media the bee politics council elections 1999 2003 07 11 idle toad constituencies south ribble ribble valley retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title enterprise plc & oldid 714689706 categories business services companies of the united kingdomstreetworkscompanies based in lancashirecompanies established in 20003i group companiessouth ribblehidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from december 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 april 2016 at 07 45 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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