Capgemini, a French multinational professional services and business consulting corporation, has relocated its Rotherham office to Sheffield.
The company has taken 3,750 sq ft offices at ARBA Group's recently refurbished multi-million pound Meadowhall Business Park on Carbrook Hall Road.
With a data centre at the steelworks at Aldwarke, Capgemini develops technology projects and manages IT systems for applications and infrastructures of a client (or a group of clients), and their associated business processes.
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Cate Hames, corporate real estate manager at Capgemini UK, said: "We had been in our offices in Rotherham for over 20 years and it was time for a change.
"Meadowhall Business Park provides a great new location for our employees as it's easily accessible and close to the many amenities at the Meadowhall Shopping Centre."
Other tenants at the popular 70,000 sq ft business park, being marketed by the Sheffield office of Knight Frank, include Tuffnells, GMB union, NG Bailey, Auburn Ainsley Limited, Chique Photography, KitchenEx, Preventx, Wilford Smith, Eaton Commercial Property Consultants Ltd and Galaxy Insulation and Dry Lining (Holdings) Limited.
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Richard Burns, director at ARBA Group, said: "We are delighted to welcome Capgemini to Meadowhall Business Park.
"As a leader in IT services, Capgemini is at the forefront of innovation to address its clients' needs when it comes to the evolving world of cloud and digital, and we know our prime location and modern accommodation including raised floors, data linked open work areas and private offices, will provide a work area fit for the future."
Two of the five refurbished buildings remain at Meadowhall Business Park with available suites from 3,750 sq ft to 15,000 sq ft plus on-site car parking.
Premier Foods, the UK's largest food producer, has once again renewed its long-term IT outsourcing alliance with Capgemini UK plc in a new contract worth an estimated £9m for the five-year period 2014-2019.
The contract covers the Premier Foods IT infrastructure including data centre and technical support for all core business systems.
Systems supported involve hardware at Capgemini data centres in Rotherham and Bristol, with additional support from the company's infrastructure management command centre in Krakow, Poland, and from a Capgemini development centre in Mumbai, India.
Under the contract Capgemini will continue to support the IT infrastructure that underpins the many famous Premier Foods brands such as Hovis, Ambrosia, Mr Kipling, Sharwood's, Batchelors, Quorn, Loyd Grossman, Oxo, Bisto and many others.
Phil McCallum, Director of IT & Infrastructure at Premier Foods, said: "We have built up a very effective working relationship with Capgemini over a number of years.
"The degree of trust and confidence between our two businesses has continued to grow, and I am therefore delighted that Capgemini has been able to offer us a technically and commercially attractive proposition reaching right through to 2019."
Avril Francis, Senior Account Executive at Capgemini UK plc, added: "Our client management and service delivery teams have consistently risen to the challenge of anticipating and meeting Premier Foods' evolving needs, and of demonstrating their commitment to continuous improvement and real collaboration.
"It is great news that their efforts have been rewarded with this important new contract."
Virgin Trains has renewed its mainframe-to-desktop IT outsourcing contract with Capgemini UK plc in a multi-million pound contract for the three-year period to 2013.
Capgemini will manage the entire IT infrastructure that supports core business-critical systems at Virgin Trains, including financial and key operational systems such as train and crew scheduling and rostering, and the catering management system. The systems are based on over 100 Virgin Trains network servers that are now located in two Capgemini secure data centres in Rotherham.
The contract also includes desktop and laptop management and support services for approximately 1,000 Virgin Trains staff at 42 locations across the UK, based on a dedicated team at a Capgemini service centre in Inverness.
Francis Jellings, Head of IT at Virgin Trains, said: "We continue to be impressed by the quality of the Capgemini people working with us and by their ability to work in full collaboration with our own teams. They have an excellent appreciation of our business and IT needs and I am pleased that we are to work with them for a further three years."
David Corr, Account Director for Virgin Trains at Capgemini UK, said: "We have constantly applied a policy of continuous improvement to all aspects of our work for Virgin Trains, with advances in technology and service levels, and we are naturally delighted that our efforts have been rewarded with a further contract period."
Premier Foods, the UK's largest food producer, has awarded to Capgemini UK plc, through the renewal of an earlier contract for support of legacy IT, a five-year project for data centre and technical support of all its core business systems. The contract covers the period 2009-2014 and is expected to be worth approximately £9 million in total. Capgemini UK, which won the contract against bids from other leading multinationals, will deploy its Rightshore strategy, which makes its global resources available to UK customers, on behalf of Premier Foods and their famous brands, which include Hovis, Ambrosia, Mr Kipling, Sharwood, Batchelors, Quorn, Loyd Grossman, Oxo, Bisto and many others. Systems will run on hardware at Capgemini secure data centres in Rotherham and Bristol, with additional support from the company’s infrastructure management command centre in Krakow, Poland, and from a Capgemini development centre in Mumbai, India. Capgemini is also working with Premier Foods on other business projects, including a new business intelligence system based on SAP, and a supply chain track-and-trace project for the company’s Hovis division.
Steelmaker Corus has signed a £26 million agreement for Capgemini to refresh and manage its IT systems for the next five years. The deal involves moving the on-site existing IBM and Fujitsu mainframe services to Capgemini’s datacentres in Bristol and Rotherham as part of its bid to reduce mainframe running costs and improve service levels. Corus has already been using Capgemini for 10 years to manage its IT infrastructure, and the IT services firm will continue to support core process activities at the company’s main UK manufacturing sites including Rotherham. These processes include production, supply chain, stockholding, purchasing, sales ordering and invoicing activities. Capgemini will provide on shore service management using its UK staff, and will offshore operational management to Poland and technical support to India. Computer World UK article
Workplace assessment and psychometric testing group SHL has signed a six-year IT outsourcing deal worth £23m with Capgemini UK. The deal involves utilising Capgemini's secure data centre in Bristol. User and technical support will be moved to Capgemini’s service centres in Katowice, Poland and Mumbai, India respectively, with back-up support from Rotherham in Yorkshire. Capgemini secured the deal by creating the best mix of resources from their global network of facilities. Capgemini website Computerworld UK article
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Premier Foods, the UK's largest food producer, has awarded to Capgemini UK plc, through the renewal of an earlier contract for support of legacy IT, a five-year project for data centre and technical support of all its core business systems. The contract covers the period 2009-2014 and is expected to be worth approximately £9 million in total. Capgemini UK, which won the contract against bids from other leading multinationals, will deploy its Rightshore strategy, which makes its global resources available to UK customers, on behalf of Premier Foods and their famous brands, which include Hovis, Ambrosia, Mr Kipling, Sharwood, Batchelors, Quorn, Loyd Grossman, Oxo, Bisto and many others. Systems will run on hardware at Capgemini secure data centres in Rotherham and Bristol, with additional support from the company’s infrastructure management command centre in Krakow, Poland, and from a Capgemini development centre in Mumbai, India. Capgemini is also working with Premier Foods on other business projects, including a new business intelligence system based on SAP, and a supply chain track-and-trace project for the company’s Hovis division.
