Wincanton PLC
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| Traded as | : |
| Industry | Logistics |
| Founded | 1925 |
| Headquarters | Chippenham, United Kingdom |
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Key people
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Steve Marshall (Chairman of the board), Adrian Colman (CEO) |
| Products | Haulage Supply chain management |
| Revenue | £2.180 billion (year - Mar 2011) |
 £53.0 million (year - March 2011)
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| Profit |
-£25.9 million (year - March 2011)
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Number of employees
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16,000 (2013) |
| Website | www.wincanton.co.uk |
Wincanton plc is a British provider of logistics with its origins in milk haulage. The company provides transport and logistics services including specialist automated high bay, high capacity warehouses, and supply chain management for businesses. It also provides container transportation and storage, warehousing solutions and related services such as health and safety, IT services and people transition to numerous industries. Wincanton's specialist markets include retail, consumer goods, construction, dairy, defence, industrial, fuels and energy. It is listed on the and is a former constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Head offices are based in Chippenham, Wiltshire in the United Kingdom.
The company's origins are in Wincanton, Somerset, although the head office is now in the Methuen Park district of Chippenham, Wiltshire.
Wincanton currently directly employs in the region of 17,500 people across the United Kingdom and Ireland through a network of over 200 sites. As of 2016, the Wincanton fleet comprises over 3,400 vehicles including conventional trucks and trailers, as well as a range of specialist equipment including skeletal trailers, tankers and construction vehicles. Until the sale of its final continental European operations on 3 January 2012 it also operated barges and trains, thus providing multi-modal transport.
In 2015, Wincanton sold its records management business (WRM) to Restore for approximately £55.7m to reduce its average net indebtedness, and allow room for growth.
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