Global Solutions Ltd.: Who, Where, How Much?

(Unless otherwise stated, information here is from the company website)
GSL employs 8000 staff in the UK, South Africa and Australia.
Annual turnover in 2003 was £291.5m – up 17.7% from 2002.
In 2003, 32% of revenue came from PFI contracts and 50% from PPP contracts1.
Board of Directors
Stephen Brown – Chief Executive
David Banks – Chief Operating Officer
Anders Wallin – Human Resources Director
Sandra Major – Legal Director and Company Secretary
Chris Elliot – Financial Director
Auditors: PricewaterhouseCoopers
UK address:
GSL
Head Office
Farncombe house
Broadway
Worcestershire
WR12 7LJ
England
Tel: +44 (0)1386 858585
Email: press.office@gslglobal.com
Australia address:
Level 16
499 St Kilda Road
Melbourne Vic 3004
Postal Address:
PO Box 7190
St Kilda Road Melbourne 8004
Tel: 00 61 3 9864 4044
Fax: 00 61 3 9866 8568
Website: www.gslpl.com.au/
South Africa address:
17 Kent Road (cnr. Jan Smuts Ave)
Dunkeld Gardens
Dunkeld West, 2196
Johannesburg
Tel: +27 11 341-0600
Fax.: +27 11 341-0604
E-mail: gslsolutions.sa@gslglobal.com
www.gslglobal.com/network.asp 'GSL Network' has links to all GSL/Group 4 websites (including Group 4 in Azerbaijan, India and Russia) and other sites with information about 'outsourcing'.
Subsidiaries2 (100% owned unless otherwise stated)
 * GSL UK Limited (formerly Group 4 Falck Global Solutions Ltd)
 * GSL Joint Ventures Ltd (formerly Group 4 Falck Joint Ventures Ltd)
 * GSL Overseas Holdings Ltd (formerly Group 4 Falck Overseas Holdings Ltd)
 * GSL Utility Services Ltd (formerly Group 4 Falck Utility Services Ltd)
 * Accuread Ltd (51%)
 * GSL (Australia) Pty Ltd (formerly Group 4 Falck Global Solutions Pty Ltd) (Registered in Australia)
 * GSL Custodial Services Ltd (formerly Group 4 Correction Services Pty Ltd) (Registered in Australia)
 * Medical Transport Services Pty Ltd (Registered in Australia)
 * GSL Solutions (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd (formerly Group 4 Correction Services SA (Pty) Ltd) (Registered in South Africa)
 * GSL Correction Services (Bloemfontein) (Pty) Ltd (formerly Group 4 Correction Services Bloemfontein SA (Pty) Ltd) (81%) (Registered in South Africa) 
Joint Ventures
 * GSL Carillion Ltd (50%) (formerly Group 4 Carillion Ltd)
 * North Wiltshire Schools Ltd (50%)
 * White Horse Education Partnership Ltd (50%)
 * Education Care and Discipline Ltd (50%)
 * ECD (Cookham Wood) Ltd (50%)
 * Education Care and Discipline Three Ltd (50%)
 * ECD (Onley) Ltd (50%)
 * GSL Carillion (Fazakerly) Ltd (50%) (formerly Group 4 Carillion (Fazakerly) Ltd)
 * Fazakerly Prison Services Ltd (50%)
 * GSL Carillion (Onley) Ltd (50%) (formerly Group 4 Carillion (Onley) Ltd
 * Onley Prison Services Ltd (50%)
 * Accommodation Services (Holdings) Ltd (40%)
 * Integrated Accommodation Services Plc (40%)
 * UK Court Services (Manchester) Holdings Ltd (33%)
 * UK Court Services (Manchester) Ltd (33%)
 * Albion Healthcare (Oxford) Holdings Ltd (25%)
 * Albion Healthcare (Oxford) Ltd (25%)
 * ast London Lift Investments Ltd (50%)
 * East London Lift Company Ltd (30%)
 * East London Lift Accommodation Services Ltd (30%)
 * Australian Correction Facilities Pty Ltd (50%) (Registered in Australia)
 * Bloemfontein Correctional Contracts (Pty) Ltd (20%) (Registered in South Africa) 
Companies GSL describes as Partners are listed on www.gslglobal.com/about_gsl/partners.asp . They include, among others, Carillion, the construction company formally known as Tarmac; Aramark, which manages catering in prisons and detention centres3; and the Home Office.
GSL is wholly owned by Englefield Investment and Electra Partners Europe.
Englefield Investment
Michelin House
81 Fulham Road
London
SW3 6RD
Tel: +44 (0)207 5914200
Fax: +44 (0)207 5914222
www.englefieldcapital.com/
Electra
London Office
Electra Partners Europe Ltd
65 Kingsway
London
WC2B 6QT
England
Tel
+44(0)20 7831 6464
Fax
+44(0)20 7404 5388
Paris Office
Electra Partners Europe S.A.
31, rue de Lisbonne
75008 Paris
France
Tel
+33 1 53 83 79 10
Fax
+33 1 53 83 79 20
Frankfurt Office
Electra Europe GmbH & Co. KG
An der Hauptwache 5
60313 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Tel
+49(0)69 299 236 0
Fax
+49(0)69 299 236 99
www.electraeurope.com/
References
1. 2003 annual report, p.32.
2. Information from 2003 annual report.
3. For an article about Aramark's monopoly in prisons, see http://libcom.org/hosted/caps/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=419.
	 	
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