Halma plc
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| Type | Public limited company |
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| LSE: HLMA | |
| Industry | Technology |
| Founded | 1894 |
| Headquarters | Amersham, England, UK |
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| Revenue |  £1,338.4 million (2020)[1] |
| £279.2 million (2020)[1] | |
| £184.4 million (2020)[1] | |
| Website | www |
Halma plc is a British global group of safety equipment companies that makes products for hazard detection and life protection based in Amersham, England.[2] It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
History[]
The company was established in 1894 in Ceylon as The Nahalma Tea Estate Company Limited.[3] It switched to rubber production in 1937 and became The Nahalma Rubber Estate Company Limited.[3] During the early 1950s the company's rubber estates were nationalised by the Sri-Lankan government, and in 1956 the company became Halma Investments Limited, thereby severing its connections with both tea and rubber and becoming an investment and industrial holding company.[3]
In the early 1970s the company began a sequence of acquisitions in the mechanical, electrical and electronic engineering sectors. The company was renamed Halma Limited in 1973 and registered as a public limited company in 1981, becoming Halma plc.[3] In 1984, the company acquired Apollo Fire Detectors, the largest manufacturer of smoke detectors in the UK.[4]
The company undertook three acquisitions in the second half of 2019, including Ampac, another fire detection business, and two further acquisitions in the medical sector in early 2020.[5]
Operations[]
The company is organised as follows:[6]
- Process safety
- Infrastructure safety
- Medical
- Environmental & Analysis
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Annual Report 2020" (PDF). Halma. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- ^ "Halma". Construction.co.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Halma history – Halma plc". halma.com. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
- ^ "Fire Detection Solutions, Apollo Fire Detectors Ltd – Our History". www.apollo-fire.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
- ^ "Halma aided by acquired assets". Investors Chronicle. 19 November 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- ^ "Sectors – Halma plc". halma.com. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
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