Southern Company Services
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| Subsidiary of Southern Company | |
| Industry | Electric Utility |
| Founded | 1963 |
| Headquarters | Birmingham, Alabama, USA |
Key people | Mark Lantrip, Chief Executive Officer and President |
| Products | Shared Services |
Number of employees | 4,536 (2008) |
| Website | http://www.southerncompany.com/ |
Southern Company Services, Inc., headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is the shared services division of Southern Company. Formed in 1963, as Southern Services, the company provides administrative and operational services to all of Southern Company's operating divisions. The company also provides engineering services to Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power and Mississippi Power.
History
Southern Services was formed in 1963 as a shared services department for Southern Company's five electric operating divisions. The idea was first conceived by Eugene A. Yates, Southern Company's first President, although not implemented until much later. The division was originally headquartered in what is now the First Commercial Bank Building in the Birmingham suburb of Mountain Brook, Alabama until it moved to the Inverness suburb in the late 1980s. The division also has a large office in Atlanta, Georgia.