MITIE Group

Mitie Group PLC

Type	Public (: )
Industry	Facilities Management
Founded	1987
Headquarters	Bristol, UK
Key people	Roger Matthews, Chairman Phil Bentley, CEO
Revenue	£2,231.9 million (2016)
Operating income	£128.9 million (2016)
Net income	£77.5 million (2016)
Number of employees	62,674 (2016)
Website	www.mitie.com/

Mitie Group PLC is a British strategic outsourcing and energy services company. It provides infrastructure consultancy, facilities management, property management, energy and healthcare services. It has a head office in Bristol and more than 200 smaller offices throughout the UK and Ireland. It is listed on the and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

Mitie was founded by David Telling and Ian Stewart as MESL in 1987. It was first listed on the in 1988. It merged with Highgate & Job in 1989 and was renamed the Mitie Group.

Their strategy of growth through acquisition has seen Mitie acquire several businesses over the past few years and in 2006 it acquired Initial Security, a leading security business. Following on in 2007 Mitie acquired Robert Prettie & Co. Ltd for £32.7m and incorporated the specialist plumbing, heating and mechanical services business into their Property Services division. In 2008 Mitie continued its acquisitions strategy through the acquisition of Catering Partnership, and DW Tilley. The purchase of DW Tilley allowed Mitie to extend their roofing services nationwide. 2009 saw the acquisition of Dalkia Facilities Management for £130m to bolster its Technical Facilities Management capability and an expansion into Social Housing with the purchase of Environmental Property Services (EPS) for £38.5m. In 2010, Mitie acquired the integrated facilities management business of Dalkia in Ireland.

Mitie made its first acquisition in the health and social care sector in October 2012 when it spent £111 million on homecare firm Enara. In April 2013 Mitie's chief executive, Ruby McGregor-Smith, was made non-executive director to the board of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). In February 2014, Mitie introduced its new visual identity.

Mitie stands for Management Incentive Through Investment Equity. Mitie's business model was originally about taking 51% equity stakes in start-up businesses that fell into its broad fields of activity. The management of the new business typically invested the remaining capital and if certain targets were met they were able to sell the balance of the business to Mitie after a fixed period for a sum based on the profits achieved (an earn out). Payment was made in a mixture of cash and Mitie shares. The managers usually remained with Mitie after the earn out.