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January was busy for MAN Commercial Protection ltd. As members of the UKCMA were delighted to hold the UKCMA Meeting in January at our headquarters. This was well attended by fellow members and industry providers. Also in January we received confirmation that we are now SIA Approved Contractors in 4 scopes with adding CCTV to our current Key holding, Door Supervision and Security Guarding. This is valid until December 2011. We have now been ACS for four years. The 24 Hour CONTROL Room was also upgraded with extra screens and more remote sites added to our system.

In January we passed our 3 day ISO 9001:2000 Audit. We have been accredited in this standard for 8 years. On the event side we have been busy at the LG Arena and NIA with Drake, JLS and Usher concerts. We covered events at the York Hall including Boxing and a Red Bull corporate event. Also we covered Events for Stratford Upon Avon town council functions. In the retail side of the business extra work was taken on for Jack Wills.

We were delighted to add Grey Paul Maserati to our Keyholding Portfolio. We now have numerous High Profile car dealerships including Bentley Birmingham, Sytner, Vertu, Toyota Solihull, Mini and BMW amongst our varied selection of keyholding sites.

The static side of the business was also very busy in January. A new contract was taken on with Chancery 2 Ltd. We also assisted MTC In Walsall and Thomas Vale in Derby. New Birmingham City Council contracts to our existing sites. We were also pleased to welcome back Redrow homes.

MAN Commercial Protection Ltd are pleased to announce that from the 1st January 2011 we have signed a two year contract with the Four X Leisure Entertainment centres in Lockmeadow Maidstone, Eureka Leisure II Ashford, West India Quay and Great North Finchley. We have also secured new sites in London that will commence in the coming months.

Below you can find some photos of the new Four X Leisure sites:

December was a busy month for MAN. We had staff at the LG Arena and the NIA with Faithless, Taste of Chaos, Bullet for my Valentine, Pendulum, 30 Seconds to Mars, JLS and two sold out nights for Kings of Leon. The Door supervision side of the business also had a busy month with work in Oswestry for the Christmas Light switch on and a variety of events at the Black Country Museum.

We continued our work with Sky TV and having teams on site for Friday Fight night. We also supplied teams for Boxing events at York Hall, Bethnal Green a variety of corporate events and the televised Moconi Cup which was held over four nights. On top of this cover was provided for the Return of the magnificent seven show which was a sky televised broadcast and Boxing events in Glasgow.

The Static teams were busy in December also with work including Lovells, Collins & Beckett, Thomas Vale Construction, Jack Wills Retail, Floors 2 Go, Inter & Sector Security and ICU Technology.

MAN Commercial Protection were busy in July submitting tenders and presentations. We are actively seeking acquisitions and will be making an exciting announcement on this very soon.

MAN took on more Key Holding contracts including Paul Rigby Volvo, North One Television, FM Security and ISC Techno logistics. We also took on an further 10 Nikaro sites as we increase our 24 hour service throughout the UK.

We also took on more Safe Estate mobile response sites. We provided extra mobile response for Sytner Solihull and Tarmac Leicester. We took on new work with Benfield Construction and assisted Rugby School and Oscott College with their summer events.

We supplied cover at Nailcote Hall and Stratford Civic Hall for private functions. On the Event side we supplied staff at T in The Park, Sonisphere Festival, Wakestock Festival, Global Gathering, Silverstone and Fairford Airshow.

We have also been chosen to supply cover again in September for Acorns charity Midnight Walk.

In July we received an excellent testimonial from Nikaro for our Nurse Escorts along with a H&S award from Wilmott Dixon.

MAN will also be sponsoring Carillion plc "ivorgoodsite " school children days in September at the Carillion New Birmingham Library site.

MAN Commercial Protection has had an exciting start 2010 as we have been awarded the static guarding contract for the new Birmingham central library re- build. This state of the art project is being led by Carillion for Birmingham City Council and will last almost 3 years. The company is supplying static guarding, mobile response and live camera feeds to our 24 hour control room.

January has been a busy month for the company and its manned guarding section; we have been awarded new contracts with existing clients such as Lovell, Wates Construction, and Armoury demolition. We would also like to welcome back Thomas Vale a construction company we have worked with on several previous projects.

Our retail section has this month taken on two more Smyths toy stores in Walsall and Cardiff with more being announced next month.

MAN Commercial Protection ventured into a new project with DHL late in 2009 where the company were sending in specialist security search and survey teams to distribution depots to deal with loss prevention and general site security. This project proved to work well and as a result this has been extended to another site with a planned project expansion throughout the year.

MAN Commercial the Brand
The company has now received approval documentation to register its logos, company name and associated information as registered trademarks which will further protect the company’s interests.

It has become apparent that clients are expecting more of the security guard regarding roles and responsibilities, which has led the company to research client requirements and career development paths for all staff members. We have been trialling a career development plan based on health and safety training and first aid qualification which although in its infancy has been extremely successful. This month we have completed the training and qualification of 40 members of staff in the City and Guilds level 2 Security Practitioner course, a course with its foundation in health and safety knowledge andawareness as well as Emergency Procedures. In addition to this 20 staff have completed the First Aid at Work course and another 20 the CSCS qualification in health and safety for the construction industry. All of the training has taken place at the training facility with in the company’s new HQ which has also hosted seminars, meetings and training for the SIA, BSIA and UKCMA.

MAN Commercial Sponsor the Taylor Woodrow 5 aside Team. MAN Recently sponsored Taylor Woodrow in a Football Tournament by providing them with shirts for the event. The Event was a great success with many goals being scored!

IAAF World Half Marathon and the EDF Birmingham Half Marathon - This major event was held in Birmingham on Sunday October 11th and MAN Commercial Protection in Partnership with Firewalker Events was tasked with managing the entire security operation.

Both companies’ provided in excess of 300 staff each, manning road blocks residential parking areas and strategic points around the course. The staff were also deployed around the Broad Street area to look after athlete registration, media centres, stages and merchandise.

Although the manning levels were high the major concern of the operation was the deployment logistics, and getting each member of staff on position at designated times. So a fleet of mini buses were detailed to deal with this and throughout Saturday night and early Sunday morning all staff were deployed.

The race director carried out a final course inspection at 0700hrs and a few final adjustments the course was secured ready for the IAAF World Marathon.

At 0900hrs the elite women’s race set off on time followed by the men’s race at 0930hrs and then the Birmingham Marathon runners at 1000hrs. All went well through out the event and all races were completed without incident resulting in a successful collaboration of both companies’ staff.

Both Iain McCallister (Managing Director) and Craig Cullwick (Event Operations Manager) would like to pass on their thanks to all members of staff who worked on the event for the patience, enthusiasm and thoroughly professional approach to the their roles on the event.

Having settled into our new premises in July, August and September proved once again to be extremely busy. The events were still on going and there was increase in static and retail security contracts.

Our events manager Craig Cullwick had his hands full throughout August with music festivals and sporting events. The company supplied large numbers of staff to the following events;

SONISPHERE – A new rock festival staged for the first time at Knebworth, we supplied 65 staff a day to G4S supporting their security operation by providing our specialist response teams for the arena and campsite security and safety staff for the campsites.

GLOBAL GATHERING – Once again MAN Commercial Protection provided security staff to the two day dance extravaganza at the Long Marston airfield in Stratford.

V FESTIVAL – One of the major events of the summer music festival season, and this year the company supplied 160 staff per day, carrying out a variety of tasks including bar security, campsite security, access control and as usual running stage 3 (The Arena).

August Bank Holiday weekend saw the company cover approximately 400 shifts over four varying events. We again supplied for Creamfields in Liverpool covering all the bars, arena response and access search areas. We all supplied a specialist team to deal with ticket touts and bootleg merchandise which proved to very successful. We were also supplying staff to Manchester Pride and the Matthew Street festival in Liverpool as well as response teams at Lancashire County Cricket Club for the one day internationals.

As we moved into September we were still on the road supplying specialist ticket tout team to Bestival on the Isle of Wight, again another successful operation. The company also took on the Bunkfest which is a large folk festival held in Wallingford Oxford as well as supplying security staff to the Coldplay gig in Manchester. We are now into the new football season and we have been supplying staff to both Aston Villa and Birmingham City. After the traditional break we are now back in the season of professional boxing and we have continued our relationship with the York Hall Bethnal Green and are providing for all their major events.

Static Security
We have now expanded our coverage with existing construction industry clients and have taken on a variety of projects for Wates Construction, Wates Living Space, Lovells, Inspace, and Thomas Vale. We have also had a number of new clients such as Solihull Health Care, Birmingham City Council, and Plumbase were we are supplying static security. As well as these we have also taken on three new sites for Virtue Motors in Worcester, Redditch, Basildon and Cheltenham.

Retail Security
This is an area which the company continues to expand in and have recently been involved in a large project for Swedish furniture stores IKEA. We have also taken on a contract to provide retail security to Smiths toy store in Birmingham.

DHL
We have recently been involved with trialling a security project for DHL, which involves a security team arriving unannounced at sites and carrying out random staff, vehicle and site searches and identifying site security issues. The company will then assist in developing site security policies and procedures and monitoring there introduction into existing working practices.

The last few months have been extremely busy for MAN Commercial Protection with the planned relocation of the office and the start of the main music and sporting event season.

As a preferred supplier of event staff to G4S Events, we have supplied over 180 members of staff covering more than 500 shifts at events such as Oasis (Heaton Park Manchester), Download 2009 (Donnington), and Take That (Old Trafford Cricket Club). This weekend (10th-13th July) the Company will be supplying 120 staff to T in the Park at Kinross Scotland.

The Company also supplied 40 staff per day to Showsec International for the Download 2009 festival.

We have once again successfully supplied staff to assist in the running of Oswestry Town Councils summer music event and the same for Solihull Borough Council. Theses two events we have now been supplying for several years and have led to an excellent working relationship with both Councils.

We have continued to provide security staff to Frank Warren Promotions and have recently completed shows in Belfast, London and two in Glasgow as well as supplying security staff to Sky Sports on all their boxing shows. On July the 18th we will be providing security for the Amir Khan World Title fight at the MEN arena.

Our relationship with the York Hall London has been further cemented and we have supplied staff for a wide variety of events including Boxing, Thai Boxing, MMA and other private functions.

As the contracted supplier of security to the NIA and LG arenas in Birmingham we have supplied for numerous shows including, Girls Aloud, Nickleback, Pink, Beyonce and many more.

MAN Commercial are pleased to announce that we have achieved the British Standards 18001 in Health and Safety and 14001 in Environmental Health. This involved an immense amount of work for many staff and has seen all our health and safety systems change. The result is that our new policies and procedures should improve the end service to our clients with staff training, risk assessments and more robust quality management systems.

Since the implementation of licensing the security industry has seen many changes and recently new qualifications and standards have been introduced. MAN Commercial Protection are committed to achieving these new standards so we have now under the direction of Skills For Security commenced the security practioner program a new NVQ based qualification for all security operators.

With the first staff all ready registered it is our aim to qualify all members of staff within the next year. This in conjunction with the above standards that have been achieved should improve the service to existing clients but assist us in marketing an improved service.

The Company have moved on with existing construction industry clients with us now manning four sites UK wide for Taylor Woodrow as part of the TESCO refurbishment program. We have welcomed new clients such as Inspace, and broadened our portfolio with Wates, Carillion and Lovells.

It is an exciting time for the Company with new office premises, improvements to quality management systems and desire by the management team to further expand and improve the business as a whole.

MAN Commercial Protection is pleased to announce that they are now a member of the Nikaro National Keyholding Group and are now a representative in the Warwickshire and West Midlands area.