page_title: Logica
section_title: LogicaCMG
hierarchical_section_title: Logica / History / LogicaCMG
caption_attribution_description: English: Logica office parking signs....note the Welsh translations..
context_page_description: Logica plc was a multinational IT and management consultancy company headquartered in London and later Reading, United Kingdom.
  Founded in 1969, the company had offices in London and in a number of major cities across England, Wales and Scotland, as well as in other countries around the world. It was responsible for many telecommunications infrastructure projects, such as the design of the SWIFT network for international money transfers, the Euronet packet-switching network, and the Bay Area Rapid Transit in San Francisco. Following the acquisition of CMG in 2002, the company was known as LogicaCMG from then until 2008, when it changed its name back to Logica. The company's main business at that point was in providing consulting, systems integration, and IT outsourcing in both the public and private sectors.
  Logica was acquired by Canada-based CGI Group in 2012 and the Logica brand name ceased being used in 2013.
context_section_description: The merger of Logica (60 percent) with British company CMG (40 percent) to form LogicaCMG on 30 December 2002 united an established technology firm (Logica) with an established consulting firm (CMG).
  In December 2003, LogicaCMG’s software controlled the doomed Beagle 2 probe after separation from the Mars Express orbiter.
  During the mid-2000s the company embarked on a series of acquisitions of Continental European firms.  In 2005, LogicaCMG purchased 60 percent of the Portuguese company Edinfor (and in March 2008 purchased the remaining portion). In 2006, LogicaCMG purchased the French company Unilog for £631 million and the Swedish company WM-data for £876 million. 
  The company suffered some embarrassment in 2006 when laptops containing police payroll data were stolen from LogicaCMG and an outsourcing contract with Transport for London for IT services was terminated early after disputes over payments and service level agreements.
  By 2007, the firm had some 39,000 employees and offices in 36 countries, and was one of Europe's largest IT services and outsourcing firms.  Its largest locations in terms of employees counts were France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, in that order.  Its most profitable sales regions were the UK, France, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia.
  On 20 February 2007, LogicaCMG Telecom Products was sold for £265m (US $525m) to private investors Atlantic Bridge Ventures and Access Industries, and became known as Acision.
  Following a profit warning in 2007, shareholders became increasingly skeptical about the wisdom of the European acquisitions strategy, and Martin Read was forced out as CEO by these shareholders.
caption: LogicaCMB logo and parking signs at Wales offices, 2006
exif: {"Image Make": "", "Image Model": "", "Image XResolution": "532", "Image YResolution": "532", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image DateTime": "2006:12:09 20:24:57", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered", "Image ExifOffset": "146", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "448", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "13387", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2832", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2128", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "324", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Custom"}