Press Release

5 May 2011

New name for MITIE’s security business

The security business of MITIE, the strategic outsourcing company, has changed its name to MITIE Total Security Management, it announced today. 

MITIE Total Security Management is one of the UK’s largest security businesses, with 12,000 people protecting the premises and personnel of 4,000 clients at over 10,000 sites in the UK and Europe. 

Its new name reflects MITIE’s integrated approach to security provision, via its consultancy, innovation and delivery model, which offers clients higher service levels with greater cost efficiencies. 

Bob Forsyth, managing director of MITIE Total Security Management said: 

“Total security management has been our ethos for over a year now; taking our clients’ risks and threats into consideration and moving away from the traditional commoditised approach and using innovation at every opportunity.

“We are making a step change in the security industry with TSM and our belief in this approach is so strong we have changed our name.” 

MITIE has made significant investment in innovation over the last year with the formation of an expert security risk and business resilience team. I

t has also appointed Brett Lovegrove, former head of counter-terrorism at the City of London Police, as a strategic advisor for to the business and for MITIE TSM clients. 

In April 2011 MITIE opened a new multimillion hi-tech centre, MiTec, in Northern Ireland, which is one of the UK’s most advanced security hubs and exemplifies its TSM approach. 

MiTec’s features include round-the-clock remote CCTV monitoring and maintenance, vehicle and asset tracking, employee screening services, intruder/fire alarm monitoring, disaster response and contingency management, building management system alarm monitoring and various command and control applications.


Media contacts 

Chris Watts, Bell Pottinger
T: 020 7861 2859  E: cwatts@bell-pottinger.co.uk 

Erica Lockhart, Investor, Public & Media Relations Manager, MITIE Group PLC
T: 0203 123 8675  E: erica.lockhart@mitie.com


Notes for editors 

1. For more information about MITIE TSM please visit http://www.mitie.com/security 

2. For more information about Mitec please visit www.mitie.com/mitec or view the social media news release with video and images here: http://blogit.realwire.com/New-hi-tech-security-hub-to-protect-UK-businesses-opens


What is MITIE? 

We’re the strategic outsourcing company. What does that mean in practice? We manage facilities, properties and assets for our clients across the UK and beyond.

We work with our clients in three ways; some take full advantage of our whole range of expertise, others may only need one aspect of what we do:

Strategy and consultancy
+ Facilities and project management
+ Service delivery

Our strategic input can add value at the highest level by helping clients to manage their assets, while our practical management expertise can save customers money and reduce their carbon emissions. We work with a vast number of clients in every industry across both the public and private sectors and deliver the broadest range of services that can be found in one place: from integrated facilities management to engineering maintenance to lifecycle energy management and much more.

There’s a lot more to MITIE than you probably think. We’re a big company with big ambitions – a leading FTSE 250 support services business, with more than 56,000 people, revenues in excess of £1.7bn, and a reputation for being the best.

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