Saba Park Services UK Limited explained
| Saba Park Services UK Limited |
| Industry: | Transport industry |
| Hq Location City: | Watford |
| Hq Location Country: | England |
| Operating Income: | €71 million |
| Income Year: | 2016 |
| Parent: | Infra Park S.A.S. |
Saba Park Services UK Limited formerly known as Indigo Park Services UK Limited is a parking facilities company based in Watford.
It is owned by Infra Park S.A.S. That is owned 37% by Ardian, 37% by Crédit Agricole and 25% by Vinci SA.[1] The parent company was offered for sale in February 2017 with the price expected to be around 3 billion euros. It operates a parking network in more than 500 cities and 17 countries with 530,000 parking spaces in the Iberian Peninsula, Britain and Turkey.[2] Its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization were 71 million euros in 2016 on sales of 201 million euros. [3]
Operations
- University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff - a 15 year contract. It made a profit of £2.8 million in 2016 from this contract, from charges and fines. 80 staff who have been fined challenged the fines in court. [4] The staff also claimed that just finding a space used up to an hour a day of their time and that their earnings may be insufficient to cover the fines.[5] In July 2017 the doctors and nurses lost the case and were required to pay £128 per ticket issued, leading to a number of them handing in their notice. The hospital employs 6000 staff but only has 1800 parking spaces.[6]
- Ninewells Hospital- a 30 year lease.[7] Three nurses were ordered to pay the company more than £4,000 in September 2017 for a total of 30 unpaid fines at the hospital.[8]
- It offers “premier parking” at most of the car parks it operates on behalf of Govia Thameslink Railway north of the Thames.[9]
- Edenbridge Town railway station[10]
- Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust which it took over October 2022.[11]
- Lister Hospital, Stevenage, UK. [12]
Notes and References
- Web site: Indigo, a world leading parking provider. Park Indigo. 22 May 2017.
- News: China's Shougang among bidders for parking space company Indigo: Les Echos. 22 May 2017. Reuters. 15 May 2017.
- News: Spanish car park owner Empark up for sale -sources. 18 May 2017. Reuters. Arno. Schuetze. Stefano. Berra. 18 May 2017.
- News: Hospital parking firm makes £2.8million in just 12 months from just one car park. 22 May 2017. Daily Mirror. 20 May 2017.
- News: Cardiff NHS hospital staff lose parking tickets case. BBC . 17 July 2017. 17 July 2017.
- News: NHS staff 'broken' after court orders them to pay thousands of pounds in hospital car park fines. Victoria Ward. Daily Telegraph. 17 July 2017. 17 July 2017.
- News: Did the SNP government end hospital parking charges?. 22 May 2017. The Ferret. 21 May 2017.
- News: Parking firm wins court battle against nurses accused of ignoring fines. 12 October 2017. Nursing Standard. 19 September 2017.
- News: Passengers pay premium for a parking space. 22 May 2017. The Times. 4 February 2017.
- News: New parking charges cause upset and dismay in Edenbridge. 22 May 2017. Oxted Today. 7 May 2017.
- News: Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro scrap parking charges call . 17 November 2022 . Falmouth Packet . 29 October 2022.
- Web site: Car Parking . 2024-06-25 . East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust . en-GB.
