Our History
The Homeserve family tree keeps growing; you just need to read through our history to see how far we've come.
Only de-merged from South Staffordshire Water in 2004, Homeserve Group plc is the parent group for all of our businesses.
Since being floated on the London Stock exchange, we've added a number of businesses to the Homeserve family; choosing complimentary companies that strengthen our service.
This is our journey…
- 1853
- The South Staffordshire Waterworks Company was set up to provide pure water to the inhabitants of the towns of the Black Country
- 1991
- The South Staffordshire Waterworks Company became a public company and was listed on the London Stock Exchange as South Staffordshire Water
- 1992
- A new holding company was set up and listed on the London Stock Exchange - South Staffordshire Water Holdings Plc
- 1993
- South Staffordshire Water set up a joint venture with Richard Harpin - Fastfix
- 1994
- The first plumbing and drainage policies were sold under the name of ‘Home Service Scheme'
- 1996
- The first mailing business was bought and later renamed Mail Solutions
- 1997
- We bought Insight Surveys and renamed the company OnSite
- 1999
- The company changed its name to South Staffordshire Group Plc to reflect the growth of the non water businesses
- 2000
- Homeserve Claim Management began life as Home Hotline
- 2001
- Company reclassified to the FTSE Support Services sector
- We launched Doméo, a joint venture in France
- 2002
- We acquired Regency, Highway and Middleton Maintenance
- 2003
- Home Service USA is launched, taking the Homeserve vision of insurance warranty and repair networks to the world.
- 2003
- We acquired Servowarm
- 2004
- The water supply business was demerged and the company changed its name to Homeserve plc
- We sold Mail Solutions and acquired Sergon BRM (now called Homeserve Property Repairs)
- 2005
- All the UK businesses were re-branded as Homeserve and adopted the new red logo
- We sold OnSite and Middleton Maintenance and acquired Chem-Dry, UK's leading disaster restoration, recovery and cleaning service to the domestic and commercial premises
- We also acquired Improveline this year.
- 2006
- We acquired Pilkington Glazing and launched our new consumer facing Emergency Repairs service.
- 2007
- Homeserve announces the Acquisition of Multimaster in its Warranties division
- Homeserve announces the Acquisition of Anglia NW Ltd within the Property Repairs division