History and key milestones

2011 The Economist recognises Logica's emission monitoring solutions as one of ten game changing solutions
2011 Logica Partners with Microsoft on Cloud Business Productivity for Large Enterprises
2011 European Commission praises Logica's role in open innovation
2011 Logica appointed as gold consultancy partner by the Carbon Disclosure Project
2011 Logica acquires Grupo Gesfor to strengthen support for European clients across Spain and LATAM
2011 Logica secures the Galileo Satellite Navigation Programme
2011 Logica recognised by Carbon Disclosure Project Leadership Index - fourth year running
2008 The LogicaCMG group of companies transition to "Logica", in order to provide a common identity for the whole organisation.
2006 LogicaCMG acquires WM-data AB
2006 LogicaCMG acquires Unilog SA
2005 LogicaCMG acquires 60 per cent controlling interest in Edinfor SA, the IT business of Energia de Portugal
2005 LogicaCMG celebrates its critical role in the successful Cassini-Huygens mission to Titan, Saturn's largest moon
2005 LogicaCMG opens new Waterton offices in Bridgend, expanding its outsourcing services operation in Wales
2004 LogicaCMG secures 25% market share in global multimedia messaging market
2004 WM-data acquires Novo Group of Finland
2004 Unilog acquires Avinci in Germany
2003 LogicaCMG wins £80 million contract for Skynet 5 management systems from UK MoD
2003 LogicaCMG wins £70 million contract for new patient record system at University College London Hospital
2003 LogicaCMG secures IT service partner status with Shell
2002 Merger completed between Logica and CMG to create LogicaCMG
2002 Logica wins 10 year £200 million deal to develop and manage all of the IT systems for the UK ’s Crown Prosecution Service
2001 Logica wins ten year, £120 million contract with UK Health & Safety Executive
2001 Logica delivers systems for the world’s first third generation mobile messaging platform
2001 New Electricity Trading Arrangements IT systems successfully go live
2000 Logica largest ever acquisition – pdv in Germany for £370 million
2000 CMG largest ever acquisition – Admiral plc in the UK for around £1 billion
2000 Logica acquires Contigo in The Netherlands
1999 Logica enters FTSE 100 index of the UK ’s largest listed companies
1999 Logica's largest acquisition to date - Team 121 for £74.5 million
1999 Logica celebrates 30 years of producing global solutions
1999 Logica opens office in Brazil
1998 Edinfor shares floated on stock exchange
1998

Logica makes seven acquisitions during the year:

  • Delog Consiel
  • Quaestor
  • Administra Cim/Hardi
  • Carnegie Group
  • Aethos Communication Systems
  • DDV Group
  • FCC Folprecht
1998 Logica achieves £1billion market cap
1998 Logica Aldiscon awarded Irish company of the year
1997 Logica opens office in India
1997 Logica wins first contract deregulating US electricity market
1997 Logica acquires Aldiscon in £51 million deal
1996 Unilog acquires Axime Ingenierie for £18.4 million
1996 Logica wins contract to develop the Electricity Pool 1996 deregulation system
1996 Logica awarded Tier One status as a supplier of IT services by Ford UK
1996 Logica goes ‘live’ with the Bank of England’s Real time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system
1995 Logica opens new offices in Czech Republic and New Zealand
1995 CMG shares floated on London and Amsterdam stock exchanges
1994 Logica's twenty fifth birthday
1994 NOTABENE project goes live for Dutch PTT to introduce itemised billing for the entire Dutch telephone network
1993 Dr. Martin Read appointed as Managing Director and Chief Executive
1993 World’s first short message service centre delivered to Telia in Sweden
1991 Advanced Image Processor Terminal, developed for UK MoD for use in Gulf War, wins British Computer Society technical achievement award
1991 Edinfor founded
1990 Logica wins largest ever defence contract - £30 million development involving over 100 people
1990 Logica co-founder Philip Hughes retires
1989 WM-data began work on Swiss stock exchange electronic trading system
1988 New ERNIE developed by Logica goes live in Blackpool
1988 Unilog shares floated on Paris stock exchange
1987 Installation of London Underground automated ticketing system developed
1985 WM-data shares floated on Swedish stock exchange
1984 CHAPS (Clearing House Automated Payments System)
1984 BT Customer Service System (BT/CSS) £1bn total implementation, representing largest computer project undertaken in Europe and the largest integrated database in the world
1983 Logica voted Company of the Decade by Computing
1983 Logica shares floated on London Stock Exchange
1972-3 Logica designs SWIFT network
1971 First battlefield simulation system for RARDE developed by Logica
1971 Logica develops Gas Council's telemetry system for monitoring and controlling the UK National Gas Grid
1969 Logica founded, CMG opens first overseas office in The Netherlands
1969 WM-data founded
1968 Unilog founded
1964 CMG founded

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