Business Stream contract flows

Water retailer Business Stream has signed a threeyear contract worth £10 million covering hundreds of Veolia sites in England.

Veolia, a resource management company, formed a separate partnership with Edinburgh-headquartered Business Stream ahead of the English retail water market opening up to competition in April last year.

In line with the partnership, the £10m contract is expected to help more than 300 water and energy users reduce their consumption and waste, manage risk, increase sustainability, reduce costs and recover the maximum value from their waste streams. It includes Veolia’s sites at Luton Airport.

Jo Dow, chief executive of Business Stream, which is a subsidiary of Scottish Water with its own board and management team, said: “Our partnership with Veolia is enabling us to enhance our offering to customers and we are now looking forward to building on our relationship by providing retail water services to Veolia’s sites.

“We will be working with them to deliver savings and to generate water efficiencies across their English estate.” John Abraham, Veolia’s chief operating officer – UK municipal water and Ireland, added: “Our combined experience aims to provide the expertise to make resource management easier, leaving our customers free to focus on their day-to-day business.

“We’re very happy to be working with Business Stream whilst simultaneously building on our joint offering to customers.”

Scotland’s non-domestic market, which covers all premises across private and public sector organisations, opened to competition in April 2008.