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History and key milestones
| 2008 | The LogicaCMG group of companies transition to "Logica", in order to provide a common identity for the whole organisation. |
| 2006 | LogicaCMG acquires WM-data AB |
| 2006 | LogicaCMG acquires Unilog SA |
| 2005 | LogicaCMG acquires 60 per cent controlling interest in Edinfor SA, the IT business of Energia de Portugal |
| 2005 | LogicaCMG celebrates its critical role in the successful Cassini-Huygens mission to Titan, Saturn's largest moon |
| 2005 | LogicaCMG opens new Waterton offices in Bridgend, expanding its outsourcing services operation in Wales |
| 2004 | LogicaCMG secures 25% market share in global multimedia messaging market |
| 2004 | WM-data acquires Novo Group of Finland |
| 2004 | Unilog acquires Avinci in Germany |
| 2003 | LogicaCMG wins £80 million contract for Skynet 5 management systems from UK MoD |
| 2003 | LogicaCMG wins £70 million contract for new patient record system at University College London Hospital |
| 2003 | LogicaCMG secures IT service partner status with Shell |
| 2002 | Merger completed between Logica and CMG to create LogicaCMG |
| 2002 | Logica wins 10 year £200 million deal to develop and manage all of the IT systems for the UK ’s Crown Prosecution Service |
| 2001 | Logica wins ten year, £120 million contract with UK Health & Safety Executive |
| 2001 | Logica delivers systems for the world’s first third generation mobile messaging platform |
| 2001 | New Electricity Trading Arrangements IT systems successfully go live |
| 2000 | Logica largest ever acquisition – pdv in Germany for £370 million |
| 2000 | CMG largest ever acquisition – Admiral plc in the UK for around £1 billion |
| 2000 | Logica acquires Contigo in The Netherlands |
| 1999 | Logica enters FTSE 100 index of the UK ’s largest listed companies |
| 1999 | Logica's largest acquisition to date - Team 121 for £74.5 million |
| 1999 | Logica celebrates 30 years of producing global solutions |
| 1999 | Logica opens office in Brazil |
| 1998 | Edinfor shares floated on stock exchange |
| 1998 | Logica makes seven acquisitions during the year: Delog Consiel Quaestor Administra Cim/Hardi Carnegie Group Aethos Communication Systems DDV Group FCC Folprecht |
| 1998 | Logica achieves £1billion market cap |
| 1998 | Logica Aldiscon awarded Irish company of the year |
| 1997 | Logica opens office in India |
| 1997 | Logica wins first contract deregulating US electricity market |
| 1997 | Logica acquires Aldiscon in £51 million deal |
| 1996 | Unilog acquires Axime Ingenierie for £18.4 million |
| 1996 | Logica wins contract to develop the Electricity Pool 1996 deregulation system |
| 1996 | Logica awarded Tier One status as a supplier of IT services by Ford UK |
| 1996 | Logica goes ‘live’ with the Bank of England’s Real time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system |
| 1995 | Logica opens new offices in Czech Republic and New Zealand |
| 1995 | CMG shares floated on London and Amsterdam stock exchanges |
| 1994 | Logica's twenty fifth birthday |
| 1994 | NOTABENE project goes live for Dutch PTT to introduce itemised billing for the entire Dutch telephone network |
| 1993 | Dr. Martin Read appointed as Managing Director and Chief Executive |
| 1993 | World’s first short message service centre delivered to Telia in Sweden |
| 1991 | Advanced Image Processor Terminal, developed for UK MoD for use in Gulf War, wins British Computer Society technical achievement award |
| 1991 | Edinfor founded |
| 1990 | Logica wins largest ever defence contract - £30 million development involving over 100 people |
| 1990 | Logica co-founder Philip Hughes retires |
| 1989 | WM-data began work on Swiss stock exchange electronic trading system |
| 1988 | New ERNIE developed by Logica goes live in Blackpool |
| 1988 | Unilog shares floated on Paris stock exchange |
| 1987 | Installation of London Underground automated ticketing system developed |
| 1985 | WM-data shares floated on Swedish stock exchange |
| 1984 | CHAPS (Clearing House Automated Payments System) |
| 1984 | BT Customer Service System (BT/CSS) £1bn total implementation, representing largest computer project undertaken in Europe and the largest integrated database in the world |
| 1983 | Logica voted Company of the Decade by Computing |
| 1983 | Logica shares floated on London Stock Exchange |
| 1972-3 | Logica designs SWIFT network |
| 1971 | First battlefield simulation system for RARDE developed by Logica |
| 1971 | Logica develops Gas Council's telemetry system for monitoring and controlling the UK National Gas Grid |
| 1969 | Logica founded, CMG opens first overseas office in The Netherlands |
| 1969 | WM-data founded |
| 1968 | Unilog founded |
| 1964 | CMG founded |