Press Release

12 February 2008

MITIE expands its interior fit-out business

To continue to meet the demand for its services, MITIE’s interior fit-out business has created a new contracts team, to ensure the efficient management of its existing and new projects as the business continues to grow. 

MITIE started its interior fit-out business as part of its property services offering in 2002. Since then, the business has grown from just two to over 90 people with annual revenues in excess of £50 million. 

The business, which provides large-scale fit-out and refurbishment services to public and private sector clients, carries out multi-million pound projects for clients including Land Securities, JP Morgan and Standard Life. 

The new contracts team, headed up by Andy Donoghue and Steve Argent, is comprised of dedicated specialists combining construction experience with financial expertise. 

Commercial Manager Andy has over 20 years’ experience of quantity surveying for fasttrack commercial interior fit-out projects, having successfully managed projects ranging in value from £1 million to £15 million for clients including UBS, HBOS and Addleshaw Goddard.

Contracts Manager Steve has been working in the construction industry for the last 15 years and has successfully delivered high quality fast-track fit-outs for blue chip clients such as Deloitte, Marks & Spencer and D2 Private. 

The new team is working on projects such as the structural commercial refurbishment of Clareville House in SW1 for Helical Bar PLC, and the fit-out of two floors of office space in the heart of London for Deutsche Bank. 

Matthew Quill, Joint Managing Director from MITIE’s fit-out business commented: “Our sustained growth within the fit-out market has necessitated the creation of a third contracts team, to ensure that we can continue to deliver quality services on time, within budget and with minimal impact to the environment. Andy and Steve will lead the new team in providing the world-class services that our clients rightly expect, with the wealth of industry experience across our business standing us in great stead to continue our growth rate going forwards.” 

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For further information, contact: 

David Revis, Investor Relations and PR Manager, MITIE Group PLC
T: 020 7034 7306, M: 07979 702465, E: david.revis@mitie.co.uk 

Donna Fooks-Bale, Communications Manager, MITIE Property Services (UK) Ltd
T: 01454 275880, M: 07920 298127, E: donna.fooks-bale@mitie.co.uk 

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About MITIE
MITIE is a people business, made up of over 44,000 talented and driven people, all working in one of our key areas of expertise: facilities, property and engineering services. 

They bring us passion and we invest in their potential. So when we say that MITIE is a company of world-class people delivering world-class services, we really mean it. The result? 20 years of growth, annual revenues of over £1.2bn, and a reputation for being the very best at what we do.

MITIE installs, manages and maintains, making buildings and their facilities, smarter, greener, safer and better run. We do this for some of the country’s biggest private and people + passion public sector organisations, but what’s really different about us, is that we put as much effort into getting the details right for a simple plumbing job as we do to managing an entire office complex. 

MITIE is all about having the right people for every job, and the right attitude to getting it done. Simple, really, but it makes all the difference.