Halma plc

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Halma plc
Company type Public limited company
LSE:  HLMA
FTSE 100 component
Industry Technology
Founded1894;131 years ago (1894)
Headquarters Amersham, England, UK
Key people
ProductsFire and gas detection, medical devices, water analysis, safety locks
RevenueIncrease2.svg £2,034.1 million (2024) [1]
Increase2.svg £424.0 million (2024) [1]
Increase2.svg £268.8 million (2024) [1]
Number of employees
8,000 (2025) [2]
Website www.halma.com

Halma plc is a British global group of safety equipment companies that makes products for hazard detection and life protection based in Amersham, England. [3] It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

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History

The company was established in 1894 in Sri Lanka as The Nahalma Tea Estate Company Limited. [4] It switched to rubber production in 1937 and became The Nahalma Rubber Estate Company Limited. [4] During the early 1950s the company's rubber estates were nationalised by the Sri Lankan government, and in 1956 the company became Halma Investments Limited, thereby severing its connections with both tea and rubber and becoming an investment and industrial holding company. [4]

In the early 1970s the company began a sequence of acquisitions in the mechanical, electrical and electronic engineering sectors. The company was renamed Halma Limited in 1973 and registered as a public limited company in 1981, becoming Halma plc. [4] In 1984, the company acquired Apollo Fire Detectors, the largest manufacturer of smoke detectors in the UK. [5]

The company undertook three acquisitions in the second half of 2019, including Ampac, another fire detection business, and two further acquisitions in the medical sector in early 2020. [6]

Operations

The company is organised as follows: [7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Annual Report 2024" (PDF). Halma. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  2. ↑ "Who we are". Halma. Retrieved 9 February 2025.
  3. ↑ "Halma". Construction.co.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Halma history – Halma plc". halma.com. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  5. ↑ "Fire Detection Solutions, Apollo Fire Detectors Ltd – Our History". www.apollo-fire.co.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
  6. ↑ "Halma aided by acquired assets". Investors Chronicle. 19 November 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  7. ↑ "Sectors – Halma plc". halma.com. Retrieved 26 June 2019.


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