Odyssey Training has been sold to SGS Australia

Brisbane – CFI is pleased to announce that it acted as financial advisor to Professional Development and Microsoft training provider Odyssey Training in its acquisition by SGS Australia.

Odyssey Training deliver short courses for frontline staff and are dedicated to providing you with the skills you need to enhance your competitiveness whether that be with Microsoft Office courses, Professional Development courses or Leadership Courses. We provide in-house training at our dedicated public training venues in Melbourne and Brisbane and on-site for private groups across Australia. Odyssey Training also offers live interactive online training where you can learn from the comfort of your own home. Duration of courses range from as short and sharp 3 hour courses up to multiple full day courses.

They also a corporate in-house training session at your clients venue to suit individual needs. Over 450 customised training courses and 700 scheduled training courses each year. As a major outsource partner for local and national projects across the private and public sectors, Odyssey Training have developed and improved the lives of over 85,000 Australians.

The buyer, SGS Australia established its first operations in Australia in 1949 with the first major location in Sydney. The head office then relocated to Perth in 2008 and now forms part of the Perth Airport Estate.

SGS Australia now have a network of more than 50 offices and laboratories with over 1,700 employees across Australia. Each state has numerous sites that contain a variety of business lines, all of which provide a wide range of testing, inspection, verification and certification services throughout the entire country.

Australia houses the SGS Global Competency Centre for coal sampling, traffic technology and energy efficiency in white goods. Our environmental laboratories, offer a range of soil, water and plant testing to ensure that future mine sites meet their environmental requirements.

This transaction closed 24 October 2017.