Global Solutions Ltd.: Who, Where, How Much?

(Unless otherwise stated, information here is from the company website)

GSL employs 8000 staff in the UK, South Africa and Australia.

Annual turnover in 2003 was £291.5m – up 17.7% from 2002. In 2003, 32% of revenue came from PFI contracts and 50% from PPP contracts1.

Board of Directors Stephen Brown – Chief Executive David Banks – Chief Operating Officer Anders Wallin – Human Resources Director Sandra Major – Legal Director and Company Secretary Chris Elliot – Financial Director

Auditors: PricewaterhouseCoopers

UK address: GSL Head Office Farncombe house Broadway Worcestershire WR12 7LJ England

Tel: +44 (0)1386 858585 Email: press.office@gslglobal.com

Australia address: Level 16 499 St Kilda Road Melbourne Vic 3004

Postal Address: PO Box 7190 St Kilda Road Melbourne 8004

Tel: 00 61 3 9864 4044 Fax: 00 61 3 9866 8568

Website: www.gslpl.com.au/

South Africa address: 17 Kent Road (cnr. Jan Smuts Ave) Dunkeld Gardens Dunkeld West, 2196 Johannesburg

Tel: +27 11 341-0600 Fax.: +27 11 341-0604 E-mail: gslsolutions.sa@gslglobal.com

www.gslglobal.com/network.asp 'GSL Network' has links to all GSL/Group 4 websites (including Group 4 in Azerbaijan, India and Russia) and other sites with information about 'outsourcing'.

Subsidiaries2 (100% owned unless otherwise stated)

   * GSL UK Limited (formerly Group 4 Falck Global Solutions Ltd)
   * GSL Joint Ventures Ltd (formerly Group 4 Falck Joint Ventures Ltd)
   * GSL Overseas Holdings Ltd (formerly Group 4 Falck Overseas Holdings Ltd)
   * GSL Utility Services Ltd (formerly Group 4 Falck Utility Services Ltd)
   * Accuread Ltd (51%)
   * GSL (Australia) Pty Ltd (formerly Group 4 Falck Global Solutions Pty Ltd) (Registered in Australia)
   * GSL Custodial Services Ltd (formerly Group 4 Correction Services Pty Ltd) (Registered in Australia)
   * Medical Transport Services Pty Ltd (Registered in Australia)
   * GSL Solutions (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd (formerly Group 4 Correction Services SA (Pty) Ltd) (Registered in South Africa)
   * GSL Correction Services (Bloemfontein) (Pty) Ltd (formerly Group 4 Correction Services Bloemfontein SA (Pty) Ltd) (81%) (Registered in South Africa) 

Joint Ventures

   * GSL Carillion Ltd (50%) (formerly Group 4 Carillion Ltd)
   * North Wiltshire Schools Ltd (50%)
   * White Horse Education Partnership Ltd (50%)
   * Education Care and Discipline Ltd (50%)
   * ECD (Cookham Wood) Ltd (50%)
   * Education Care and Discipline Three Ltd (50%)
   * ECD (Onley) Ltd (50%)
   * GSL Carillion (Fazakerly) Ltd (50%) (formerly Group 4 Carillion (Fazakerly) Ltd)
   * Fazakerly Prison Services Ltd (50%)
   * GSL Carillion (Onley) Ltd (50%) (formerly Group 4 Carillion (Onley) Ltd
   * Onley Prison Services Ltd (50%)
   * Accommodation Services (Holdings) Ltd (40%)
   * Integrated Accommodation Services Plc (40%)
   * UK Court Services (Manchester) Holdings Ltd (33%)
   * UK Court Services (Manchester) Ltd (33%)
   * Albion Healthcare (Oxford) Holdings Ltd (25%)
   * Albion Healthcare (Oxford) Ltd (25%)
   * ast London Lift Investments Ltd (50%)
   * East London Lift Company Ltd (30%)
   * East London Lift Accommodation Services Ltd (30%)
   * Australian Correction Facilities Pty Ltd (50%) (Registered in Australia)
   * Bloemfontein Correctional Contracts (Pty) Ltd (20%) (Registered in South Africa) 

Companies GSL describes as Partners are listed on www.gslglobal.com/about_gsl/partners.asp . They include, among others, Carillion, the construction company formally known as Tarmac; Aramark, which manages catering in prisons and detention centres3; and the Home Office.

GSL is wholly owned by Englefield Investment and Electra Partners Europe.

Englefield Investment Michelin House 81 Fulham Road London SW3 6RD Tel: +44 (0)207 5914200 Fax: +44 (0)207 5914222 www.englefieldcapital.com/

Electra London Office Electra Partners Europe Ltd 65 Kingsway London WC2B 6QT England Tel +44(0)20 7831 6464 Fax +44(0)20 7404 5388

Paris Office Electra Partners Europe S.A. 31, rue de Lisbonne 75008 Paris France Tel +33 1 53 83 79 10 Fax +33 1 53 83 79 20

Frankfurt Office Electra Europe GmbH & Co. KG An der Hauptwache 5 60313 Frankfurt am Main Germany Tel +49(0)69 299 236 0 Fax +49(0)69 299 236 99

www.electraeurope.com/

References 1. 2003 annual report, p.32.

2. Information from 2003 annual report.

3. For an article about Aramark's monopoly in prisons, see http://libcom.org/hosted/caps/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=419.