We are very pleased to announce that EI.WHS Limited has joined us within SPIE in the U.K.

EI.WHS is a specialist electrical and instrumentation services provider within the industrial market. Its markets include power generation, onshore and offshore oil and gas and specialist manufacturing. It has a long established culture and core engineering skills similar to our own. The business employs circa 326 people.

The busniess is headquartered in the North East of England and supports its long term customers from five locations in the UK. Turnover for the year ended 31st May 2009 was £48m and this is anticipated to grow strongly in the future.

Grahame Ludlow, Chairman and Cheif Executive Officer, SPIE Matthew Hall, feels "as a sister company to SPIE Matthew Hall, EI.WHS will play, under its own brand, a significant role in the ongoing development of SPIE's activities in the U.K. I am delighted to welcome such a quality business and all of it's employees into the SPIE family and look forward to an exciting future working alongside each other."