APCOA Parking is Europe’s longest-established full-service parking services contractor, and is known within the parking industry for its many innovations over the years.

These include the first use of licence plate recognition systems linked to online booking for car parking at airports; the introduction of chip coin car park payment systems which can be linked directly with local retailers for promotional purposes; and the parking industry’s only in-house training programmes which have achieved Institute of Learning Management (ILM) accredited certification.

In the UK, APCOA employs around 1300 people, and its customer base includes local authorities, town and city councils, airport authorities, rail companies, shopping centres, department stores, ferry companies, port authorities, NHS trusts, in other words almost all types of organisation which need to supply parking or to enforce parking regulations.

APCOA was the Overall Winner in the 2006 British Parking Awards, whose panel of judges cited its achievement as “….the single most outstanding example of excellence in the UK parking industry during the past year”.

APCOA was Highly Commended four times in the 2007 British Parking Awards, having been short-listed for five entries.  APCOA was also responsible for nominating the 2007 “Parking Person of the Year”.