Batalas History

Providing training and expert advice for over 40 years

Batalas and its productivity training division John Evans were formed in the same year, 1962. As early entrants to their specialist fields both organisations have played their part in assisting both governments and organisations to adopt new policies and practices which have impacted the public and private sector environments.

Some key moments in the history of both companies.

Batalas
1962	Company formed in Romsey, Hampshire, UK to provide support to companies adopting AQAP quality systems
1984	Batalas acquired by Handley-Walker consulting group
1988	Batalas became IRCA approved training organisation
1988-91	International offices opened in USA, Australia, India & Hong Kong. Joint ventures formed with MCG (Brazil), Szenzor (Hungary) and Berenschot (Netherlands)
1988-93	Batalas became leading consultancy in DTI (UK) initiative to implement BS 5750/ISO9000 in UK industry
1992	Handley-Walker and P-E International merge, Batalas re-branded as P-E Batalas
1994	P-E Batalas became IEMA approved training organisation
1997	P-E Batalas provides training & consultancy to support major EU funded ISO 9001 projects in Eastern Europe
1999	Batalas became privately owned as part of management buy-out
2000-2	Batalas works with EU to support quality infrastructure improvement in EU accession states
2003-4	Batalas joins with Unicon to promote quality within Marmara Research Centre (Turkey) as part of World Bank funded commercialisation programme
John Evans
1962	John Evans formed John Evans & Associates specialising in providing time study services to industry
1964-71	Major influence in creating professional status for work study engineers. Supported professional institutes in promoting structured approach to productivity improvement
1970's	John Evans led government based initiative to install incentive schemes as part of wages policy
1979	John Evans merged with Inbucon, a major UK consultancy specialising in job evaluation
1979-82	Developed database of maintenance work standards for largest land transport organisation in Europe
1981	Became Institute of Management Services approved training centre
1983	Introduced computer-aided production engineering system (CAPES) to manufacturing industry
1983-87	Developed production planning system & work standards for Boeing Corporation in USA
1988-97	Worked with Welsh Development Agency to improve productivity of commercial organisations in Wales
1996-97	Assisted in re-organisation of Moscow post office operations
1999	John Evans acquired by Batalas
2004	New team leader development programme combining productivity and supervisory skills introduced at BMW