Hi,
Founded in 1954 as part of British and Commonwealth Shipping
Started in Manchester as Manchester Handlingthen added additional airports as the opportunities arose. Changed name to Servisair in about 1965.
Went into BHX when they bought Ogden Aviation around 1982 (stand to be corrected on the date).
Opened first 'international' operation in Rotterdam around 1980 (again, will be corrected on the date). Portugal and then Spain followed and then they went into Dublin, Irleand before moving onto Scandinavia - Stockholm and Gothenberg in 1996, followed by Oslo and then Copenhagen. An American opoeration was then opened up.
The business went through various ownerships including Bricom, then a Swedish company with a VERY long name; the Bank of Sweden (when the afore mentioned Swedish company went into administration; a plc on the London market. Servisair plc was then bought off the market by Penauille Poly Services - a French company. PPS then bought GlobeGround off Lufthansa and merged the 2 busineses into Servisair GlobeGround; PPS were then taken over by CFF, another French company who have now changed the name back to just Servisair. CFF, are a French listed company - core business is metals recycling.
Now one of the top 3 Global independent ground handling companies.
They currently have about 140 airports mainly in Europe, North America and Canada; 21,000 staff and over 700 customers.
In 2006 handled 1.65 million aircraft movements; 102 million passengers; 1 million tonnes of air freight and re-fuelled over 1.1 million aircraft.
HQ is in Manchester with a US main office in Dallas.
Their web site is
www.servisair.com.
I have no idea which airlines Servisair currently handle in BHX but there is athread somewhere on pprune about who handles who where.
Hope this gives you a bit of background.
Good luck with your new career.
GH