Fact sheet

VT Group manages assets and provides services that our customers consider critical to their own activities. Our 12,000 people deliver these services world-wide, primarily for governments and their agencies, with the majority of the business being located in the United Kingdom and the United States.

The common thread running through our business is our ability to work in partnership with our customers and supply chain. Through mutual understanding, aligning objectives and sharing risk and reward, we are able to create solutions and deliver services that are focused on meeting our customers needs and exceeding their expectations.

Corporate Head Office Southampton, UK
US Head Office Atlanta, GA
Stock exchange London Stock Exchange
RIC code VTG
Turnover 1 £1,095.7 million (2008: £845.4 million)
Underlying profit before taxation 2 £86.6 million (2008: £61.6 million)
Adjusted earnings per share 33.9p (2008: 24.1p)
Order book £4.5 billion
Employees Over 12,000
  1. Includes share of turnover from equity accounted joint ventures and associates.
  2. Underlying profit before taxation (and underlying operating profit) excludes amortisation of intangibles arising from business combinations (£23.0m; 2008: £9.9m), share of joint venture taxation (£2.3m; 2008: £5.0m), fair value movements arising from derivatives (£0.8m; 2008: £1.2m.) and exceptional items (£28.3m; 2008: £nil).

Our Management

Michael Jeffries, Chairman
Paul Lester, Chief Executive
Chris Cundy, Group Commercial Director
David Daquino, Chief Executive Officer, VT Services Inc
John Davies, Group Managing Director 
Philip Harrison, Group Finance Director
Matthew Jowett, General Counsel
Jo Robbins, Group HR Director 
Simon Withey, Group Managing Director

Our Locations

In the United Kingdom, VT has over one hundred offices, ranging from Cornwall to Northern Scotland. Our Head Office is located in Sounthampton, Hampshire. We are also based at more than a hundred locations in the United States, with our American operations managed from our Head Office in Atlanta, Georgia.

In addition to the UK and US, we also operate in South America, Europe and Asia, the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

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