Yorkshire based Lexia Solutions Group has today, Tuesday 17 July 2007, announced the acquisition of Life Environmental Services Ltd. and its four specialist companies, making it one of the UK’s leading environmental solutions groups for all aspects of asbestos abatement, demolition, project management, training, consultancy, property reinstatement and land remediation work.
Life Environmental Services is the holding company for four companies: Blues Consultants Ltd, Crossways, Crossways Labs and Envacs Data Ltd.
The acquisition of Life Environmental Services, will take Lexia Solutions Group’s annual turnover to £50 million and will increase staff numbers to 475. Life Environmental Services and its four specialist environmental solutions companies will also add new and diverse capabilities to Lexia.
Jason Davy, managing director of Lexia Solutions Group, said: “Today’s acquisitions present a significant and exciting new chapter in our growth. Working with an industry leader like Life Environmental Services and its four subsidiaries will enable the group to provide a first class, one-stop-shop range of solutions in a variety of challenging environments.
“The management teams within these companies will remain unchanged and will continue to be operated under the same brands. The only change will be that their customers will now be able to benefit from the additional range of services and products available through the Lexia Solutions Group.”
Formed in 2007, Life Environmental Services, now a wholly owned subsidiary of Lexia Solutions Group, will continue to have its head office in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire.
The company will become the specialist health and safety division of Lexia Solutions Group of companies. The subsidiaries of Life Environmental Services, and now Lexia, is:
