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4. Targeting growth markets

We lead the UK market in business process outsourcing – the long term contracting-out of business processes to help lower costs and improve service delivery.

We focus on the UK and Ireland, where there are significant opportunities for growth.

Competitor rankings UK BPO market*
  2009
%
2008
%
Capita 27.0 25.5
Xchanging 7.0 6.4
Accenture 5.0 6.8
HP Enterprise Services** 5.0 5.5
BT Global Services 4.0 4.1

** HP Enterprise Services was formerly EDS

Total UK BPO market p.a*

Total UK BPO market p.a* chart
*Ovum 2008 and 2009
1. Today £6bn
Private sector £4.2n 70%
Public sector £1.8bn 30%
2. Potential £ 94.2bn
Private sector £62.8bn 66.7%
Public sector £31.4bn 33.3%

Capita market split (% of turnover)

Capita market split pie chart
Public sector 50%
  2009 2008
1. Local government 22% 20%
2. Central government 10% 10%
3. Education 12% 11%
4. Health 3% 2%
5. Transport 3% 5%
Private sector 50%
  2009 2008
6. Life and pensions 18% 16%
7. Insurance 8% 8%
8. Financial services 4% 5%
9. Other corporates 20% 23%