Enviego joins forces with BUPA

 

18 April 2001

 

Enviego, the UK's most comprehensive lifestyle managementservice has formed an important new link with BUPA, the market leader in healthand care in the UK.

 

Enviego aims to enhance the overall employee satisfactionof an organisation by improving the work life balance, wellbeing and health ofeach and every employee. The service significantly reduces the time spent ontedious but necessary personal and domestic tasks.

 

The link with BUPA offers Enviego clients two new servicesin the health and care arena: Enviego Health Information provided by BUPA - a24-hour phone line staffed by fully qualified nurses who can give healthinformation and medical guidance completely confidentially and EnviegoChildcare Services provided by BUPA - a high quality childcare search and selectionservice.

 

Tom Shorten, managing director of Enviego said:"Given these two valuable services provided by BUPA, Enviego is set tobecome the leading provider of integrated and personalised advice, information,products and services to people for whom there are just not enough hours in theday. Our vision is to provide a facility that is easily accessed by phone or onthe web."

 

Tom Shorten, an ex-investment banker set up Enviego justover a year ago. He benefited from lifestyle management services whilst workingin the US and saw the need for such a service in the UK.

 

Enviego's target markets are those companies for which thebattle for talent is particularly acute. These are likely to be human capitalintensive businesses such as investment banks, professional services and IT;both large and medium sized in regions of dense populations.

 

BUPA is responsible for the health and care of staff inmany of Britain's largest companies. Its knowledge and experience of the issuesfacing people in very demanding jobs has enabled BUPA to develop a wide rangeof health and care solutions that allow employers to offer innovative andattractive benefits to recruit and retain staff and reduce sickness and absencefrom the workplace.

 

Tom said: "Working in collaboration with BUPAreinforces the world-wide potential for Enviego in this burgeoning market. Inaddition to providing the sort of lifestyle services that enhance the bettermanagement of health and life, will also be the entry point to provide a totalholistic HR solution.

 

"The decision by BUPA to work with ENVIEGO is aconsiderable credit to the recognised potential of the company. We now have theopportunity to accelerate significantly our growth and market leadership in theentire sector."

 

Alison Platt, deputy managing director of BUPA Membershipsaid: "BUPA recognised that combining its strengths with those of Enviegowill result in the creation of innovative and invaluable services to companiesand their staff."