Parkman Group

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Parkman Group
Public
IndustryEngineering consultants
FateMerged with Mouchel
Successor Mouchel
Founded1888
Defunct2003
Headquarters Sutton Coldfield, UK
Key people
Richard Archer, (Chairman)

Parkman Group plc was a leading firm of engineering consultants. It merged with Mouchel in 2003.

History

The consulting practice Ward Ashcroft was founded in Liverpool in 1888, [1] predominantly as a water and public health business. In 1948, Brigadier Parkman joined the firm to create Ward Ashcroft and Parkman. By the mid-1960s it had diversified into highways and structural engineering and from the 1970s it had spread its wings internationally, working in Africa and Portugal and later Eastern Europe. The company advised on outsourcing following the rapid expansion of public sector term contracts in the 1980s. From the mid-1990s Parkman, as it was now known, moved into public sector property and housing, starting with the London Borough of Bexley, and in 1996 it won a Queens Award for Export Achievement.

In 2000, the company, previously management and staff-owned, underwent a management buy-out and by 2001 a significant shift took place in the company's turnover as it moved towards public sector outsourcing commissions. In 2001 it was floated on the London Stock Exchange. [1]

In 2002, Parkman was named Financial Times New Company of the Year [2] and the following year it was named as one of the Sunday Times Top 100 Best Companies to Work For. [3]

Parkman Group plc's acquisitions included education consultant Full Circle [4] in May 2002 and lighting design consultancy Atkins Odlin in July 2003. [4]

Mouchel plc and Parkman Group plc announced plans to merge on 21 August 2003: the merger was completed in September 2003, forming the new company, Mouchel Parkman plc. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Mouchel: History
  2. Parkman voted new company of the year
  3. Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to work for 2003
  4. 1 2 UK Business Park: Parkman Archived 2009-12-27 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Mouchel and Parkman merge". Archived from the original on 2009-01-07. Retrieved 2009-09-05.