The Security Company In Charge Of The Olympics Has A Long History Of Pissing People OffReported by Business Insider on Friday, 15 June 2012 (on June 15, 2012)
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 Chances are you might not have heard of G4S. But you should have.
The company is the largest private security company in the world and this summer in London, more than 10,000 of its personnel will be providing surveillance and security for the Olympic Games.
But don't let the numbers fool you though. G4S certainly has more than its fair share of critics and controversies.
-G4S can trace its origins back to 1901, when Marius Hogrefe started the guarding company Kjøbenhavn Frederiksberg Nattevagt in Denmark-
Source: G4S
-It's now based in the UK and has operations in over 125 countries on six continents.-
Source: G4S
-With 657,000 employees, it's one of the largest private employers in the entire world.-
A planned acquisition of Dutch cleaning firm ISS — which would have meant the firm employed some 1.2 million people, second only to Walmart — failed after a lack of shareholder support.
Source: G4S
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