Indigo Park Services UK Limited

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]

References
  1. "Indigo, a world leading parking provider". Park Indigo. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  2. "China's Shougang among bidders for parking space company Indigo: Les Echos". Reuters. 15 May 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  3. Schuetze, Arno; Berra, Stefano (18 May 2017). "Spanish car park owner Empark up for sale -sources". Reuters. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  4. "Hospital parking firm makes £2.8million in just 12 months from just one car park". Daily Mirror. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  5. "Cardiff NHS hospital staff lose parking tickets case". BBC. 17 July 2017. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  6. Victoria Ward (17 July 2017). "NHS staff 'broken' after court orders them to pay thousands of pounds in hospital car park fines". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  7. "Did the SNP government end hospital parking charges?". The Ferret. 21 May 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  8. "Parking firm wins court battle against nurses accused of ignoring fines". Nursing Standard. 19 September 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
  9. "Passengers pay premium for a parking space". The Times. 4 February 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  10. "New parking charges cause upset and dismay in Edenbridge". Oxted Today. 7 May 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
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