kingdom based real estate management company . for the japanese corporate group see nec . this article has multiple issues . please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral . please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable independent third party sources . may 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message a major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject . it may require cleanup to comply with wikipedia s content policies particularly neutral point of view . please discuss further on the talk page . may 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . may 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message nec group type private limited company headquarters birmingham united kingdom key people paul thandi chief executive products venue management revenue 139.9 m 06 7 1 operating income 44.6 m 06 7 1 net income 12.3 m 06 7 1 owner lloyds banking group number of employees 2 000 1 parent lloyds development capital subsidiaries genting arena national exhibition centre international convention centre website www.necgroup.co.uk the nec group is one of the world s largest venue management companies . citation needed contents 1 operations 2 privatisation 3 assets 4 references 5 external links operations edit the nec group operates the national exhibition centre nec the international convention centre icc the genting arena formerly the lg arena and the barclaycard arena formerly the national indoor arena . it also manages a range of support services including the ticket factory catering company amadeus ; and the hospitality brand amplify . in recent years when the group has launched three additional internationally focused businesses ; nec group international offering venue management consultancy services memoryhaus to develop event content and eight feet tall a specialist sponsorship and media sales consultancy for the live events industry . employing more than 1 000 on a permanent basis with a further 700 casual workers the nec group also claims to deliver more than 2.1 billion annual impact to the regional economy and supports the full time equivalent of 29 000 jobs . citation needed privatisation edit on 16 january 2015 lloyds development capital ldc a subsidiary of lloyds banking group acquired the nec group from birmingham city council for 307 million . the deal transferred the nec group into private ownership for the first time . the council retained the freehold of all the venues . assets edit national exhibition centre genting arena formerly called the lg arena international convention centre barclaycard arena formerly called the national indoor arena resorts world birmingham the ticket factory amadeus food amplify hospitality nec group international memoryhaus eight feet tall references edit a b c d review pdf . nec group . retrieved 22 april 2008 . dead link external links edit http www.necgroup.co.uk this article about a company of the uk is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title nec group & oldid 725583746 categories hotel and leisure companies of the united kingdomcompanies based in birmingham west midlandslloyds banking groupunited kingdom company stubshidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2010articles lacking reliable references from may 2015all articles lacking reliable referenceswikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest from may 2015articles with a promotional tone from may 2015all articles with a promotional toneengvarb from august 2014use dmy dates from august 2014pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from june 2015vague or ambiguous time from june 2015all stub articles 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 16 june 2016 at 15 47 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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