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We are at the leading edge of redefining and transforming services

We create and reshape services that both answer the needs of our clients and deliver quality, responsive services to the public.

Our clients benefit from Capita’s expertise, innovation and extensive resources and infrastructure. When they transfer their administration and customer services to us we sign up to delivering an improved service, at a defined cost, over a long term contract.

We use customer insight and our ability to improve the management of people, processes and IT to achieve a more efficient alignment of resources and a better customer experience.

Our innovative service solutions and record of consistent operational delivery have helped to fuel our growth and position Capita as the leading provider of outsourced and professional support services in the UK and Ireland.

We operate in growth markets

Illustration of 9 growth markets

Capita focuses on and leads the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) market in the UK where there are significant opportunities for growth. We have an active bid pipeline of new business opportunities driven by public and private sector organisations increasingly seeking to gain efficiencies, flexibility and improved service delivery.

Bid pipline*

£3.7bn, 26 bids 2008: £3.1bn, 24 bids

Outsourced and potential UK BPO market

Today £6bn Potential £94.2bn

Market potential chart

* Where we have been shortlisted to the last 4 or fewer. All bids are capped at £500m.

†Ovum 2008 and 2009

We work with clients across the public and private sectors in 9 chosen markets.
And we constantly explore new markets where we can add value. See Targeting growth markets.

Capita market split (% of turnover)

Public sector 50%
1. Local government 22%
2. Central government 10%
3. Education 12%
4. Health 3%
5. Transport 3%
Private sector 50%
6. Life and pensions 18%
7. Insurance 8%
8. Financial services 4%
9. Other corporates 20%
Market split chart

Our scale and breadth of expertise positions us uniquely

36,800 people

Capita has grown steadily over the past 25 years, both organically and through acquisition, and we now have 36,800 people at over 250 business sites across the UK, Europe and India.

We use our expertise, infrastructure and scale to drive down costs and add value to our clients’ operations.

Our extensive network of business centres – onshore, nearshore and offshore in India – allows us to offer our clients flexible service solutions that meet their customers’ expectations and help them stay at the forefront of their markets.

Our business centre network:

  • 52 Onshore: UK
  • 5 Nearshore: Ireland, Channel Islands, Europe
  • 5 Offshore: India

Our clients are served by our 5 divisions:

  • – Life & Pensions Services
  • – Integrated Services
  • – Insurance & Investor Services
  • – Professional & Services
  • – ICT, Health & Business Services

See Building scale and capacity and optimising our infrastructure.

A consistent business model drives our growth

£3.7bn Bid pipeline

Our straightforward business model focuses on generating growth, both organically and through acquisitions.

Organic growth is generated by a centralised major sales team alongside sales teams in each of our businesses. We seek to secure long term business relationships, adding value to our clients’ operations while generating high quality recurring revenues and delivering a fair return for Capita.

15 major contracts and extensions worth a total of £1bn were secured in 2009 (2008: 17 contracts, total of £1.24bn).

Acquiring small to medium sized companies allows us to add further expertise or scale to our operations or helps us to enter new markets. We smoothly integrate the acquired business into our operation, generating synergies and additional value for the Group.

Total spent on 12 acquisitions in 2009: £177.5m (2008: £147.4m spent on 12 acquisitions).

See Generating profitable growth.

We create value for all our shareholders

Clear KPI Targets

We seek to build long term, mutually beneficial relationships capable of creating value for all our stakeholders – our shareholders, clients, employees, suppliers and the communities in which we work.

With strong financial controls, careful risk management and effective governance, we work to a clear set of KPI targets to grow the Group at a rate at which we can consistently deliver what we promise and create a sustainable business.

Our performance in 2009 illustrates the continued success of our consistent business model.

See How we have performed in 2009.