The contract sees G4S Events providing up to 470 staff per event to International Rugby Fixtures and high profile concerts held at the stadium. Services include crowd management, provision of hospitality stewards, turnstile management, car parking, response teams and stadium safety stewards.

Mark Laidlaw, Stadium Manager at Murrayfield Stadium explains: “We have worked with the management team at G4S Events for over ten years and felt that introducing a long term contract would enable both parties to further invest in the development and training of the security and stewarding staff working for us at the ground.”

Mark Hamilton, Managing Director, G4S Events adds: “Scottish Rugby’s long term commitment to our services enables us to offer a bespoke stewarding and security programme to the organisation. We can recruit new staff with confidence from the local area, in the knowledge that we can offer them long term job prospects and development opportunities.”

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About G4S Events
G4S Events is Europe’s leading independent provider of event security and crowd management services providing security, event stewarding and consultancy services to conferences, exhibitions, community, sporting and live music events.

For further information on G4S Events go to www.g4s.com/uk-events

About G4S Secure Solutions (UK)
G4S Secure Solutions (UK) employs 18,500 people throughout the UK, working with a wide range of public sector and commercial clients, including 51 FTSE 100 companies.  The company provides specialist security solutions to over 5,000 customers across a range of sectors including: government, utilities, financial institutions, leisure and tourism, and transport.

For more information on G4S Secure Solutions (UK) visit www.g4s.com/uk

About G4S plc
G4S is the world's leading security solutions group, which specialises in outsourcing of business processes in sectors where security and safety risks are considered a strategic threat.
G4S is the largest employer quoted on the London Stock Exchange and has a secondary stock exchange listing in Copenhagen.
G4S has operations in over 110 countries and over 585,000 employees.

For more information on G4S, visit www.g4s.com