How it started
History
Aggreko was founded in The Netherlands by Luc Koopmans in 1962. It moved to Scotland in 1973. In 1984, it was acquired by Christian Salvesen plc, a Scottish transport and logistics company.
In 1997, the business demerged from Christian Salvesen and then listed on the London Stock Exchange.
In December 2001, its chief executive Chris Masters departed the business. He was succeeded by Phil Harrower who had worked his way up in the company from a junior salesman. Harrower was killed in a train collision in the USA where he was based in December 2002.
In 2003, it appointed Rupert Soames as its new chief executive who served for 11 years until 2014.
Aggreko acquired all the activities, other than those relating to large gas turbines, of General Electric Energy Rentals for around $212m in December 2006.
From Wikipedia’s article on Aggreko, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2