Logica
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | IT services, IT consulting |
| Founded | 1969 |
| Headquarters | Reading, United Kingdom |
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Key people
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Serge Godin (Executive Chairman) George D Schindler (President and CEO) |
| Services | IT, business consulting and outsourcing services |
| Revenue | £3,921 million (2011) |
| £54.5 million (2011) | |
| Profit | £27.2 million (2011) |
| Parent | CGI Group |
| Website | www.cgi.com |
Logica was a multinational IT and management consultancy company headquartered in Reading, United Kingdom and a wholly owned subsidiary of CGI Group.
Formerly listed on the and a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index, Logica was acquired by the Canada-based CGI Group in August 2012 for £1.7 billion in cash.
It had offices in London and a number of major cities across England, Wales and Scotland, as well as in other countries around the world.
Logica was founded by Len Taylor, Philip Hughes, Pat Coen, Steve Feldman and John McNeil as a systems integration business in 1969. Early projects included the control system for the natural gas grid in the UK in 1971 and the design of the SWIFT network for international money transfers in 1973.
In 1974, Logica, together with the French company SESA, set up a joint venture, Sesa-Logica, to undertake the European Informatics Network development. This project, undertaken with the support of partners throughout Europe and with the assistance of Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, Massachusetts, brought the core datagram technology of the Arpanet, now the Internet, to Europe for the first time, and established a network linking research centres in a number of European Countries, including CERN, the French research centre INRIA and the UK’s National Physical Laboratory.
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