Our History
Having 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 new businesses to the HomeServe Family and partnered with a number of organisations to offer a full home solution to our customers.
Our journey so far:
- 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.
- HomeServe signs a Marketing Agreement with FirstEnergy Solutions in the US providing access to an additional 1.1m households
- 2008
- HomeServe reaches 8 million policies globally.
- HomeServe announces the signing of a three year marketing agreement with Progress Energy Inc. in the US to market policies for water heater repair and replacement to its 2.6m electricity customer households.
- HomeServe announces a ten year marketing agreement with Endesa Energia S.A in Spain, who supply 9.2m households.