The company, which focuses on transaction processing and print-related outsourcing services, claims it is the UK’s fourth largest business process outsourcing company of its kind due to its October 2003 acquisition of three business from rival Hays Group. That acquisition gave Astron operations in England, Poland, India, and Sri Lanka, as well as boosting its revenue to over 180m pounds ($329m) and adding 2,700 staff.
More recently, the company acquired UK-based Edotech Ltd, a customer communications outsourcing company, for 130m pounds ($238m) in March 2004. Astron employs 4,100 staff across 70 sites. Over half of the company’s business is now outside the United Kingdom, with offices situated in Austria, France, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, India, and Sri Lanka.
