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| TOP 50 CONTRACTORS by contracting turnover | ||||||||
| Company | Contracting £000 | Year end | Housing £000 | Property £000 | Services £000 | Other £000 | Total turnover £000 | |
| 1 | Bovis Lend Lease | 3,931,034 | Jun-00 | - | - | - | - | 3,931,034 |
| 2 | Balfour Beatty* | 2,504,000 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | 99,000 | 2,603,000 |
| 3 | Amec | 2,475,300 | Dec-00 | - | 184,800 | 1,356,700 | 15,800 | 4,032,600 |
| 4 | Skanska Construction | 1,300,000 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 1,300,000 |
| 5 | Mowlem | 1,153,000 | Dec-00 | - | 8,000 | 226,000 | 127,000 | 1,514,000 |
| 6 | Carillion | 1,129,400 | Dec-00 | - | - | 614,200 | 249,300 | 1,992,900 |
| 7 | Kier Group | 937,400 | Jun-00 | 97,400 | - | - | - | 1,034,800 |
| 8 | HBG/Edmund Nuttall | 929,300 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 929,300 |
| 9 | Laing | 854,200 | Dec-00 | 567,700 | 61,100 | - | 91,400 | 1,574,400 |
| 10 | Newarthill | 575,053 | Oct-00 | - | 7,720 | - | 58,127 | 640,900 |
| 11 | Taylor Woodrow | 500,900 | Dec-00 | 1,519,300 | 141,900 | - | 82,600 | 2,244,700 |
| 12 | Mansell* | 457,001 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 457,001 |
| 13 | Interserve | 453,100 | Dec-00 | 1,900 | - | 465,800 | 8,500 | 929,300 |
| 14 | Birse Group | 414,919 | Apr-00 | - | 4,409 | - | 4,095 | 423,423 |
| 15 | Wates Construction | 400,758 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 400,758 |
| 16 | Ballast | 390,153 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 390,153 |
| 17 | Costain Group | 386,300 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 386,300 |
| 18 | Norwest Holst* | 381,767 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 381,767 |
| 19 | Alfred McAlpine | 374,075 | Dec-00 | 463,405 | 10,057 | 131,451 | 2,050 | 981,038 |
| 20 | Bowmer & Kirkland * | 366,837 | Aug-00 | - | - | - | - | 366,837 |
| 21 | NG Bailey | 358,521 | Feb-00 | - | - | - | - | 358,521 |
| 22 | Galliford Try | 355,427 | Jun-00 | 102,947 | - | - | - | 458,374 |
| 23 | Montpellier | 339,171 | Sep-00 | 18,703 | - | - | 3,430 | 361,304 |
| 24 | Miller | 318,117 | Dec-00 | 158,678 | 79,684 | - | - | 556,479 |
| 25 | Morgan Sindall | 317,605 | Dec-00 | 107,709 | 172 | - | 229,350 | 654,836 |
| 26 | Keller Group | 312,954 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 312,954 |
| 27 | Drake & Scull* | 295,692 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 295,692 |
| 28 | Willmott Dixon* | 275,031 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 275,031 |
| 29 | Morrison Construction | 246,881 | Mar-00 | - | 134,360 | 128,584 | - | 509,825 |
| 30 | MJ Gleeson | 241,115 | Jun-00 | 106,969 | 1,523 | - | - | 349,607 |
| 31 | McNicholas Construction | 236,926 | Mar-00 | - | - | - | - | 236,926 |
| 32 | Henry Boot* | 226,787 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 226,787 |
| 33 | Shepherd Building Group | 212,144 | Jun-00 | - | - | - | 242,556 | 454,700 |
| 34 | J Murphy & Sons | 164,800 | Dec-99 | - | - | - | - | 164,800 |
| 35 | RG Carter Holdings* | 160,149 | Dec-99 | - | - | - | - | 160,149 |
| 36 | Fitzpatrick | 157,938 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 157,938 |
| 37 | O’Rourke | 157,931 | Mar-00 | - | - | - | 29,217 | 187,148 |
| 38 | Simons Group | 151,192 | Mar-00 | - | 35,381 | - | - | 186,573 |
| 39 | Staveley Industries | 140,100 | Apr-00 | - | - | 54,500 | 87,300 | 281,900 |
| 40 | Osborne* | 135,059 | Mar-00 | - | - | - | - | 135,059 |
| 41 | Crest Nicholson | 133,100 | Oct-00 | 357,100 | 65,000 | - | - | 555,200 |
| 42 | May Gurney Group* | 130,110 | Mar-00 | - | - | - | 130,110 | |
| 43 | Peterhouse | 129,209 | Dec-00 | - | - | 199,969 | - | 329,178 |
| 44 | Severfield-Rowen | 128,930 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 128,930 |
| 45 | John Sisk | 122,188 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 122,188 |
| 46 | Sunley Turriff Holdings | 116,077 | Dec-99 | - | - | - | - | 116,077 |
| 47 | Dean & Dyball | 115,373 | Sep-00 | - | - | - | - | 115,373 |
| 48 | Seddon Group* | 113,556 | Dec-99 | - | - | - | - | 113,556 |
| 49 | McNicholas plc* | 111,794 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 111,794 |
| 50 | Tolent Construction | 111,096 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 111,096 |
| Total | 25,929,471 | 3,501,811 | 734,106 | 3,177,204 | 1,329,725 | 34,672,316 | ||
| TOP 50 CONTRACTORS by contracting operating profit | |||||||||
| Company | Contracting £000 | Year end | Housing £000 | Property £000 | Services £000 | Other £000 | Interest etc*** £000 | Total pre-tax profit** £000 | |
| 1 | Balfour Beatty* | 72,000 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | 41,000 | (19,000) | 94,000 |
| 2 | Bovis Lend Lease | 60,970 | Jun-00 | - | - | - | - | - | 60,970 |
| 3 | Amec | 55,000 | Dec-00 | - | 14,100 | 60,500 | 6,800 | (54,600) | 81,800 |
| 4 | HBG/Edmund Nuttall | 27,300 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | - | 27,300 |
| 5 | Carillion | 26,600 | Dec-00 | - | - | 17,900 | 8,900 | (40,400) | 13,000 |
| 6 | Skanska Construction | 24,000 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 9,800 | 33,800 |
| 7 | Mowlem | 19,000 | Dec-00 | - | 1,600 | 6,800 | (6,100) | (4,200) | 17,100 |
| 8 | Keller Group | 17,706 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | (2,259) | 15,447 |
| 9 | Alfred McAlpine | 17,282 | Dec-00 | 53,722 | 1,907 | 6,263 | (7,029) | (5,981) | 66,164 |
| 10 | Henry Boot* | 12,474 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | (236) | 12,238 |
| 11 | Interserve | 11,200 | Dec-00 | - | - | 39,000 | - | (16,000) | 34,200 |
| 12 | Norwest Holst* | 11,020 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 4,850 | 15,870 |
| 13 | Morrison Construction | 10,717 | Mar-00 | - | 11,823 | 5,495 | - | (1,204) | 26,831 |
| 14 | Severfield-Rowen | 10,565 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | (241) | 10,324 |
| 15 | Bowmer & Kirkland * | 8,336 | Aug-00 | - | - | - | - | 5,816 | 14,152 |
| 16 | Mansell* | 7,274 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | (107) | 7,167 |
| 17 | J Murphy & Sons | 6,641 | Dec-99 | - | - | - | - | 1,185 | 7,826 |
| 18 | Kier Group | 6,500 | Jun-00 | 13,200 | - | - | - | (2,000) | 17,700 |
| 19 | O'Rourke | 6,474 | Mar-00 | - | - | - | (46) | (399) | 6,029 |
| 20 | McNicholas Construction | 5,582 | Mar-00 | - | - | - | - | 424 | 6,006 |
| 21 | Willmott Dixon* | 5,208 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | (1,425) | 3,783 |
| 22 | RG Carter Holdings* | 5,098 | Dec-99 | - | - | - | - | 3,200 | 8,298 |
| 23 | Morgan Sindall | 4,542 | Dec-00 | 2,715 | 892 | - | 8,716 | (1,505) | 15,360 |
| 24 | Seddon Group* | 4,387 | Dec-99 | - | - | - | - | 260 | 4,647 |
| 25 | Galliford Try | 4,338 | Jun-00 | 12,719 | - | - | (3,075) | (1,271) | 12,712 |
| 26 | Fitzpatrick | 4,249 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 1,721 | 5,970 |
| 27 | Peterhouse | 4,207 | Dec-00 | - | - | 14,145 | - | (5,306) | 13,046 |
| 28 | Drake & Scull* | 3,587 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 430 | 4,017 |
| 29 | MJ Gleeson | 3,333 | Jun-00 | 8,178 | 6,456 | - | - | (1,860) | 16,107 |
| 30 | Taylor Woodrow | 3,300 | Dec-00 | 207,500 | 48,800 | - | 2,200 | 30,000 | 291,800 |
| 31 | Miller | 3,117 | Dec-00 | 13,103 | 16,157 | - | - | (11,823) | 20,554 |
| 32 | Staveley Industries | 2,800 | Apr-00 | - | - | (1,700) | 2,700 | (1,400) | 2,400 |
| 33 | Osborne* | 2,666 | Mar-00 | - | - | - | - | - | 2,666 |
| 34 | NG Bailey | 2,663 | Feb-00 | - | - | - | - | 4,393 | 7,056 |
| 35 | Wates Construction | 2,621 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 2,948 | 5,569 |
| 36 | May Gurney Group* | 2,550 | Mar-00 | - | - | - | - | 84 | 2,634 |
| 37 | Montpellier | 2,306 | Sep-00 | - | - | - | - | (275) | 2,031 |
| 38 | Simons Group | 2,158 | Mar-00 | - | (1,156) | - | - | 575 | 1,577 |
| 39 | Shepherd Building Group | 1,755 | Jun-00 | - | - | - | 18,745 | - | 20,500 |
| 40 | McNicholas plc* | 1,347 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | (122) | 1,225 |
| 41 | Tolent Construction | 1,207 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 160 | 1,367 |
| 42 | Dean & Dyball | 1,019 | Sep-00 | - | - | - | - | 35 | 1,054 |
| 43 | Crest Nicholson | 900 | Oct-00 | 46,400 | 11,200 | - | - | (10,400) | 48,100 |
| 44 | John Sisk | 596 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 648 | 1,244 |
| 45 | Newarthill | (427) | Oct-00 | - | 393 | - | 4,301 | 5,075 | 9,342 |
| 46 | Sunley Turriff Holdings | (1,492) | Dec-99 | - | - | - | - | 700 | (792) |
| 47 | Costain Group | (1,500) | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 8,000 | 6,500 |
| 48 | Birse Group | (4,607) | Apr-00 | - | 1,965 | - | 1,333 | (28,424) | (29,733) |
| 49 | Ballast | (5,693) | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 8,580 | 2,887 |
| 50 | Laing | (88,900) | Dec-00 | 64,300 | 13,200 | - | 27,400 | (10,300) | 5,700 |
| Total | 383,976 | 421,837 | 127,337 | 148,403 | 105,845 | (131,854) | 1,055,545 | ||
| TOP 25 CONTRACTORS IN FM by FM turnover | |||||
| Company | FM turnover £000 | Operating profit £000 | Operating margin % | Activities included in turnover figures | |
| 1 | Amec | 1,356,700 | 60,500 | 4.5 | road, rail and utilities, building services, design and environmental |
| 2 | Jarvis | 725,779 | 41,570 | 5.7 | road, rail, building services, accommodation services sector (figure |
| 3 | Balfour Beatty† | 710,000 | na | na | road and rail maintenance, building services |
| 4 | Amey | 700,163 | 39,748 | 5.7 | infrastructure maintenance, building services, support services, etc |
| 5 | Carillion | 614,200 | 17,900 | 2.9 | building services, roads and rail maintenance; Crown House loss |
| 6 | Interserve | 465,800 | 39,000 | 8.4 | building services, industrial and infrastructure services, formwork |
| 7 | MitieGroup | 346,514 | 19,240 | 5.6 | building services, FM, general repair and maintenance |
| 8 | Mowlem | 226,000 | 6,800 | 3.0 | facilities services and environmental |
| 9 | Peterhouse | 199,969 | 14,145 | 7.1 | infrastructure maintenance, building services, safety and |
| 10 | Lorne Stewart | 192,146 | 3,143 | 1.6 | building services, mechanical and electrical, FM |
| 11 | Ringway Group | 181,341 | 6,435 | 3.5 | roads maintenance and associated |
| 12 | Drake & Scull† | 136,300 | na | na | building services and maintenance |
| 13 | Morrison Construction | 128,584 | 5,495 | 4.3 | infrastructure maintenance, building services, FM |
| 14 | First Engineering | 114,440 | 5,697 | 5.0 | rail maintenance |
| 15 | Planned Maintenance | 104,187 | 2,151 | 2.1 | building maintenance and management. |
| 16 | Accord | 94,587 | 3,963 | 4.2 | highway maintenance, build maintenance, municipal services |
| 17 | Connaught | 77,611 | 2,237 | 2.9 | interior services, facilities services, property maintenance |
| 18 | Pipeline Constructors | 74,805 | 187 | 0.2 | utility and civils maintenance |
| 19 | Mansell† | 60,000 | na | na | building maintenance |
| 20 | McNicholas plc† | 55,897 | na | na | civils and utility maintenance (estimated) |
| 21 | Staveley Industries | 54,500 | (1,700) | (3.1) | building services and management |
| 22 | Galliford Try | 40,000 | na | na | general facilities management (figure is company estimate) |
| 23 | Kier Group | 36,500 | na | na | facilities management, (primarily for local authorities, etc) |
| 24 | Willmot Dixon† | 33,750 | 1,256 | 3.7 | property services and maintenance |
| 25 | Osborne† | 32,200 | na | na | housing and infrastructure maintenance |
| Total (average margin) | 6,761,973 | 267,767 | 3.7 | ||
| Average margin 1999 | 5.0 | ||||
| Average margin 1998 | na | ||||
| TOP 25 HOUSEBUILDERS by housing turnover | ||||||||
| Company | Housing £000 | Year end | Contracting £000 | Property £000 | Services £000 | Other £000 | Total turnover £000 | |
| 1 | Wimpey | 1,702,000 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 1,702,000 |
| 2 | Persimmon | 1,582,764 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 1,582,764 |
| 3 | Taylor Woodrow | 1,519,300 | Dec-00 | 500,900 | 141,900 | - | 82,600 | 2,244,700 |
| 4 | Barratt Developments | 1,259,500 | Jun-00 | - | - | - | - | 1,259,500 |
| 5 | Berkeley Group | 868,948 | Apr-01 | - | 78,541 | - | - | 947,489 |
| 6 | Wilson Connolly | 701,100 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 701,100 |
| 7 | Bellway | 634,301 | Jul-00 | - | - | - | - | 634,301 |
| 8 | Wilson Bowden | 568,800 | Dec-00 | - | 158,000 | - | - | 726,800 |
| 9 | Laing | 567,700 | Dec-00 | 854,200 | 61,100 | - | 91,400 | 1,574,400 |
| 10 | Westbury | 491,465 | Feb-01 | - | - | - | - | 491,465 |
| 11 | Alfred McAlpine | 463,405 | Dec-00 | 374,075 | 10,057 | 131,451 | 2,050 | 981,038 |
| 12 | Redrow Group | 396,700 | Jun-00 | - | 8,994 | - | - | 405,694 |
| 13 | Crest Nicholson | 357,100 | Oct-00 | 133,100 | 65,000 | - | - | 555,200 |
| 14 | Bovis Homes | 304,996 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 304,996 |
| 15 | Countryside Properties | 259,260 | Sep-00 | - | 40,201 | - | - | 299,461 |
| 16 | Fairview Holdings | 256,800 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 256,800 |
| 17 | Prowting | 244,750 | Feb-01 | - | - | - | - | 244,750 |
| 18 | Bloor Holdings | 230,600 | Jun-00 | - | - | - | 124,068 | 354,668 |
| 19 | Miller | 158,678 | Dec-00 | 318,117 | 79,684 | - | - | 556,479 |
| 20 | McCarthy & Stone | 147,000 | Aug-00 | - | - | - | - | 147,000 |
| 21 | Linden | 143,419 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | 143,419 |
| 22 | Cala Group | 136,661 | Jun-00 | - | 15,568 | - | - | 152,229 |
| 23 | MJ Gleeson | 106,969 | Jun-00 | 241,115 | 1,523 | - | - | 349,607 |
| 24 | Galliford Try | 102,947 | Jun-00 | 355,427 | - | - | - | 458,374 |
| 25 | Kier Group | 97,400 | Jun-00 | 937,400 | - | - | - | 1,034,800 |
| Total | 13,302,563 | 3,714,334 | 660,568 | 131,451 | 300,118 | 18,109,034 | ||
| TOP 25 HOUSEBUILDERS by housing operating profit** | |||||||||
| Company | Housing £000 | Year end £000 | Contracting £000 | Property £000 | Services £000 | Other £000 | Interest etc*** £000 | Total pre-tax profit** £000 | |
| 1 | Persimmon | 219,712 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | (21,296) | 198,416 |
| 2 | Taylor Woodrow | 207,500 | Dec-00 | 3,300 | 48,800 | - | 2,200 | 30,000 | 291,800 |
| 3 | Wimpey | 170,200 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | (24,100) | 146,100 |
| 4 | Berkeley Group | 168,882 | Apr-01 | - | 17,808 | - | - | (8,576) | 178,114 |
| 5 | Barratt Developments | 152,000 | Jun-00 | - | - | - | - | (8,100) | 143,900 |
| 6 | Wilson Bowden | 103,500 | Dec-00 | - | 24,200 | - | - | (7,000) | 120,700 |
| 7 | Bellway | 95,607 | Jul-00 | - | - | - | - | (6,462) | 89,145 |
| 8 | Wilson Connolly | 90,500 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | (7,400) | 83,100 |
| 9 | Westbury | 71,604 | Feb-01 | - | - | - | - | (9,412) | 62,192 |
| 10 | Bovis Homes | 70,691 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | (3,622) | 67,069 |
| 11 | Fairview Holdings | 68,606 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | (965) | 67,641 |
| 12 | Redrow Group | 65,935 | Jun-00 | - | 1,792 | - | - | (573) | 67,154 |
| 13 | Laing | 64,300 | Dec-00 | (88,900) | 13,200 | - | 27,400 | (10,300) | 5,700 |
| 14 | Alfred McAlpine | 53,722 | Dec-00 | 17,282 | 1,907 | 6,263 | (7,029) | (5,981) | 66,164 |
| 15 | McCarthy & Stone | 51,000 | Aug-00 | - | - | - | - | 2,500 | 53,500 |
| 16 | Crest Nicholson | 46,400 | Oct-00 | 900 | 11,200 | - | - | (10,400) | 48,100 |
| 17 | Bloor Holdings | 34,755 | Jun-00 | - | - | - | (4,672) | - | 30,083 |
| 18 | Prowting | 32,729 | Feb-01 | - | - | - | - | (5,185) | 27,544 |
| 19 | Countryside Properties | 25,506 | Sep-00 | - | 4,098 | - | - | (5,426) | 24,178 |
| 20 | Linden | 16,914 | Dec-00 | - | - | - | - | (1,491) | 15,423 |
| 21 | Kier Group | 13,200 | Jun-00 | 6,500 | - | - | - | (2,000) | 17,700 |
| 22 | Miller | 13,103 | Dec-00 | 3,117 | 16,157 | - | - | (11,823) | 20,554 |
| 23 | Galliford Try | 12,719 | Jun-00 | 4,338 | - | - | (3,075) | (1,271) | 12,712 |
| 24 | MJ Gleeson | 8,178 | Jun-00 | 3,333 | 6,456 | - | - | (1,860) | 16,107 |
| 25 | Cala Group | 2,052 | Jun-00 | - | 945 | - | - | - | 2,997 |
| Total | 1,859,315 | (50,130) | 146,563 | 6,263 | 14,824 | (120,743) | 1,856,093 | ||
| TOP CONTRACTORS by Operating Margin (pre-exceptional) | ||
| 1 | Severfield-Rowen | 8.2% |
| 2 | Keller Group | 5.7% |
| 3 | Henry Boot* | 5.5% |
| 4 | Alfred McAlpine | 4.6% |
| 5 | Morrison Construction | 4.3% |
| 6 | O’Rourke | 4.1% |
| 7 | J Murphy & Sons | 4.0% |
| 8 | Seddon Group* | 3.9% |
| 9 | Peterhouse | 3.3% |
| 10 | RG Carter Holdings* | 3.2% |
| 11 | HBG/Edmund Nuttall | 2.9% |
| 12 | Norwest Holst* | 2.9% |
| 13 | Balfour Beatty* | 2.9% |
| 14 | Fitzpatrick | 2.7% |
| 15 | Interserve | 2.5% |
| 16 | McNicholas Construction | 2.4% |
| 17 | Carillion | 2.4% |
| 18 | Bowmer & Kirkland * | 2.3% |
| 19 | Amec | 2.2% |
| 20 | Staveley Industries | 2.0% |
| 21 | Osborne* | 2.0% |
| 22 | May Gurney Group* | 2.0% |
| 23 | Willmott Dixon* | 1.9% |
| 24 | Skanska Construction | 1.9% |
| 25 | Mowlem | 1.7% |
| 26 | Mansell* | 1.6% |
| 27 | Bovis Lend Lease | 1.6% |
| 28 | Morgan Sindall | 1.4% |
| 29 | Simons Group | 1.4% |
| 30 | MJ Gleeson | 1.4% |
| 31 | Galliford Try | 1.2% |
| 32 | Drake & Scull* | 1.2% |
| 33 | McNicholas plc* | 1.2% |
| 34 | Tolent Construction | 1.1% |
| 35 | Miller | 1.0% |
| 36 | Dean & Dyball | 0.9% |
| 37 | Shepherd Building Group | 0.8% |
| 38 | NG Bailey | 0.7% |
| 39 | Kier Group | 0.7% |
| 40 | Montpellier | 0.7% |
| 41 | Crest Nicholson | 0.7% |
| 42 | Taylor Woodrow | 0.7% |
| 43 | Wates Construction | 0.7% |
| 44 | John Sisk | 0.5% |
| 45 | Newarthill | (0.1%) |
| 46 | Costain Group | (0.4%) |
| 47 | Birse Group | (1.1%) |
| 48 | Sunley Turriff Holdings | (1.3%) |
| 49 | Ballast | (1.5%) |
| 50 | Laing | (10.4%) |
| Average margin | 1.7% | |
| Excluding Laing | 2.0% | |
| Average margin 1999 | 2.0% | |
| Average margin 1998 | 1.8% | |
| TOP 25 HOUSEBUIDERS by housing operating margin (pre-exceptional) | ||
| 1 | McCarthy & Stone | 34.7% |
| 2 | Fairview Holdings | 26.7% |
| 3 | Bovis Homes | 23.2% |
| 4 | Berkeley Group | 19.7% |
| 5 | Wilson Bowden | 17.6% |
| 6 | Redrow Group | 16.7% |
| 7 | Bellway | 15.1% |
| 8 | Westbury | 14.6% |
| 9 | Persimmon | 13.9% |
| 10 | Prowting | 13.4% |
| 11 | Wilson Connolly | 12.9% |
| 12 | Barratt Developments | 12.1% |
| 13 | Linden | 11.8% |
| 14 | Taylor Woodrow | 11.7% |
| 15 | Crest Nicholson | 10.5% |
| 16 | Wimpey | 10.0% |
| 17 | Countryside Properties | 9.9% |
| 18 | Bloor Holdings | 8.5% |
| 19 | Alfred McAlpine | 7.4% |
| 20 | Miller | 5.8% |
| 21 | MJ Gleeson | 5.1% |
| 22 | Galliford Try | 3.1% |
| 23 | Cala Group†† | 2.0% |
| 24 | Kier Group | 1.9% |
| 25 | Laing | 1.0% |
| Average margin | 12.4% | |
| Average margin 1999 | 13.2% | |
| Average margin 1998 | 11.7% | |
| Contractors and housebuilders by employees’ Average pay | ||||
| 2000 (wages only) £000 | 1999 (wages only) £000 | Change % | ||
| 1 | Linden | 35.2 | 31.8 | 11.0 |
| 2 | Styles & Wood | 33.6 | 29.5 | 14.1 |
| 3 | Fitzpatrick | 32.3 | 29.3 | 10.4 |
| 4 | John Sisk | 31.8 | 28.9 | 9.9 |
| 5 | Higgins Group | 30.0 | 27.8 | 7.8 |
| 6 | Montpellier | 30.0 | 26.1 | 15.0 |
| 7 | Severfield-Rowen | 29.9 | 28.9 | 3.5 |
| 8 | Fairview Holdings | 28.2 | 25.5 | 10.6 |
| 9 | Birse Group | 28.1 | 26.0 | 8.1 |
| 10 | Miller | 27.8 | 25.6 | 8.7 |
| 11 | T Clarke | 27.5 | 28.8 | (4.5) |
| 12 | Wates Construction | 27.4 | 24.7 | 10.7 |
| 13 | Crest Nicholson | 27.2 | 25.2 | 8.1 |
| 14 | Bovis Homes | 26.8 | 24.4 | 9.9 |
| 15 | Norwest Holst | 26.7 | 26.1 | 2.5 |
| 16 | Morgan Sindall | 26.6 | 26.8 | (0.9) |
| 17 | McNicholas plc | 26.4 | 22.3 | 18.3 |
| 18 | Amec | 26.3 | 25.6 | 2.4 |
| 19 | McCarthy & Stone | 26.1 | 25.7 | 1.6 |
| 20 | Rydon Group | 26.1 | 25.7 | 1.6 |
| 21 | Newarthill | 26.0 | 24.0 | 8.0 |
| 22 | SDC Holdings | 25.7 | 25.1 | 2.4 |
| 23 | Wimpey | 25.7 | 22.7 | 13.0 |
| 24 | Warings Construction Group | 25.5 | 24.2 | 5.5 |
| 25 | Keller Group | 25.2 | 25.0 | 0.8 |
| 26 | Stewart Milne | 25.1 | 22.3 | 12.3 |
| 27 | First Engineering | 24.6 | 23.6 | 4.2 |
| 28 | Willmott Dixon | 24.3 | 22.3 | 8.8 |
| 29 | MJ Gleeson | 24.3 | 22.9 | 6.2 |
| 30 | McNicholas Construction | 24.2 | 24.0 | 1.0 |
| 31 | Osborne | 24.2 | 22.1 | 9.3 |
| 32 | Balfour Beatty | 24.1 | 22.0 | 9.5 |
| 33 | Tulloch Group | 24.1 | 24.5 | (1.7) |
| 34 | Bellway | 24.0 | 23.0 | 4.7 |
| 35 | O’Rourke | 24.0 | 20.5 | 17.0 |
| 36 | Westbury | 23.7 | 23.5 | 1.2 |
| 37 | Drake & Scull | 23.6 | 26.8 | (12.2) |
| 38 | Bowmer & Kirkland | 23.6 | 24.1 | (2.3) |
| 39 | Bloor Holdings | 23.5 | 22.6 | 3.6 |
| 40 | Staveley Industries | 23.4 | 22.5 | 4.1 |
| 41 | Tolent Construction | 23.3 | 22.5 | 3.6 |
| 42 | Planned Maintenance | 23.2 | 22.1 | 5.0 |
| 43 | Dean & Dyball | 23.1 | 22.5 | 2.9 |
| 44 | Countryside Properties | 22.9 | 21.5 | 6.4 |
| 45 | Prowting | 22.8 | 20.5 | 11.2 |
| 46 | Tay Homes | 22.8 | 22.0 | 3.6 |
| 47 | Ballast | 22.7 | 21.1 | 7.9 |
| 48 | Galliford Try | 22.7 | 21.8 | 4.4 |
| 49 | Lorne Stewart | 22.6 | 22.5 | 0.7 |
| 50 | Amey | 22.4 | 20.0 | 11.9 |
| 51 | Interserve | 22.4 | 19.1 | 16.8 |
| 52 | Barratt Developments | 22.1 | 21.2 | 4.5 |
| 53 | Laing | 22.0 | 17.0 | 29.1 |
| 54 | Persimmon | 21.9 | 21.8 | 0.3 |
| 55 | NG Bailey | 21.6 | 20.8 | 4.3 |
| 56 | Mansell | 21.6 | 20.9 | 3.2 |
| 57 | Taylor Woodrow | 21.6 | 17.3 | 24.8 |
| 58 | Alfred McAlpine | 21.5 | 21.3 | 1.1 |
| 59 | Redrow Group | 21.5 | 19.7 | 9.1 |
| 60 | Carillion | 21.4 | 19.6 | 9.0 |
| 61 | Simons Group | 21.4 | 19.3 | 10.9 |
| 62 | Wilson Connolly | 21.3 | 20.4 | 4.1 |
| 63 | Pipeline Constructors | 21.2 | 20.4 | 4.2 |
| 64 | Wilson Bowden | 21.1 | 20.1 | 5.0 |
| 65 | Shepherd Building Group | 21.1 | 20.1 | 4.9 |
| 66 | Dew Pitchmastic | 21.0 | 20.7 | 1.2 |
| 67 | Mowlem | 20.9 | 20.6 | 1.4 |
| 68 | May Gurney Group | 20.8 | 19.9 | 4.3 |
| 69 | Peterhouse | 20.5 | 20.2 | 1.3 |
| 70 | Barr | 20.4 | 19.5 | 4.9 |
| 71 | ROK Property Solutions | 20.4 | 18.3 | 11.4 |
| 72 | Ringway Group | 20.4 | 21.7 | (6.3) |
| 73 | Biwater | 19.7 | 19.4 | 1.9 |
| 74 | Connaught | 19.3 | 17.0 | 13.8 |
| 75 | Clugston Group | 18.9 | 17.0 | 11.5 |
| 76 | Kier Group | 18.1 | 16.7 | 8.4 |
| 77 | Henry Boot | 16.5 | 16.0 | 3.3 |
| 78 | Accord | 16.3 | 15.5 | 4.8 |
| 79 | Brett Brothers | 16.1 | 15.4 | 4.7 |
| 80 | Interior Services Group | 15.0 | 37.1 | (59.6) |
| 81 | Costain Group | 14.0 | 11.3 | 23.4 |
| Average wage | 23.6 | 22.5 | 4.9 | |
| % change since 1996††† | 25.0 | |||
| Note: Interior Services Group figures distorted by a sharp rise in numbers employed from 381 to 1948 | ||||
| Contractors and housebuilders by renumeration of highest paid director | ||||||||
| 2000 Total £000 | 2000 Pay £000 | 2000 Bonus £000 | 1999 Total £000 | 1999 Pay £000 | 1999 Bonus £000 | Change % | ||
| 1 | Stewart Milne | 1338 | na | na | 661 | na | na | 102.4 |
| 2 | Fairview Holdings | 1132 | na | na | 688 | na | na | 64.5 |
| 3 | Wilson Bowden | 951 | 450 | 501 | 860 | 370 | 490 | 10.6 |
| 4 | Bloor Holdings | 880 | na | na | 840 | na | na | 4.8 |
| 5 | Persimmon | 778 | 146 | 632 | 674 | 144 | 530 | 15.4 |
| 6 | McNicholas Construction | 722 | na | na | 969 | na | na | (25.5) |
| 7 | Higgins Group | 682 | na | na | 425 | na | na | 60.5 |
| 8 | Interserve | 672 | 365 | 307 | 631 | 335 | 296 | 6.5 |
| 9 | Amec | 669 | 462 | 207 | 584 | 402 | 182 | 14.6 |
| 10 | Countryside Properties | 642 | 140 | 502 | 516 | 141 | 375 | 24.4 |
| 11 | Simons Group | 583 | na | na | 330 | na | na | 76.7 |
| 12 | Bowmer & Kirkland | 582 | na | na | 1603 | na | na | (63.7) |
| 13 | McCarthy & Stone | 569 | 296 | 273 | 506 | 253 | 253 | 12.5 |
| 14 | Barratt Developments | 496 | 308 | 188 | 439 | 296 | 143 | 13.0 |
| 15 | Amey | 495 | 327 | 168 | 453 | 301 | 152 | 9.3 |
| 16 | Staveley Industries | 487 | 240 | 247 | 230 | 206 | 24 | 111.7 |
| 17 | Balfour Beatty | 477 | 335 | 142 | 355 | na | na | 34.4 |
| 18 | Fitzpatrick | 452 | na | na | 405 | na | na | 11.6 |
| 19 | Carillion | 452 | 350 | 102 | 250 | na | na | 80.8 |
| 20 | Alfred McAlpine | 444 | 315 | 129 | 466 | 300 | 166 | (4.7) |
| 21 | Taylor Woodrow | 441 | 297 | 144 | 361 | 265 | 96 | 22.2 |
| 22 | Bovis Homes | 438 | 260 | 178 | 359 | 229 | 130 | 22.0 |
| 23 | Redrow Group | 431 | 300 | 131 | 356 | 250 | 106 | 21.1 |
| 24 | Laing | 415 | 355 | 60 | 505 | 330 | 175 | (17.8) |
| 25 | Crest Nicholson | 388 | 265 | 123 | 365 | 215 | 150 | 6.3 |
| 26 | Miller | 385 | na | na | 418 | na | na | (7.9) |
| 27 | Westbury | 377 | 250 | 127 | 379 | 230 | 149 | (0.5) |
| 28 | Mansell* | 377 | 253 | 124 | 357 | 228 | 129 | 5.6 |
| 29 | McNicholas plc | 358 | na | na | 244 | na | na | 46.7 |
| 30 | Severfield-Rowen | 357 | 154 | 203 | 292 | 145 | 147 | 22.3 |
| 31 | Bellway | 356 | 219 | 137 | 298 | na | na | 19.5 |
| 32 | Costain Group | 352 | 207 | 145 | 312 | 200 | 112 | 12.8 |
| 33 | Biwater | 350 | na | na | 360 | na | na | (2.8) |
| 34 | Mowlem | 346 | 276 | 70 | 355 | 267 | 88 | (2.5) |
| 35 | Mitie Group | 317 | 200 | 117 | 295 | 110 | 185 | 7.5 |
| 36 | Morgan Sindall | 292 | 180 | 112 | 195 | 147 | 48 | 49.7 |
| 37 | Norwest Holst | 287 | na | na | 218 | na | na | 31.7 |
| 38 | Kier Group | 283 | 244 | 39 | 259 | 223 | 36 | 9.3 |
| 39 | NG Bailey | 280 | na | na | 284 | na | na | (1.4) |
| 40 | Willmot Dixon | 272 | na | na | 216 | na | na | 25.9 |
| 41 | Wilson Connolly | 261 | 250 | 11 | 295 | 188 | 107 | (11.5) |
| 42 | Interior Services Group | 259 | 211 | 48 | 209 | 192 | 17 | 23.9 |
| 43 | Wates Construction | 254 | na | na | 227 | na | na | 11.9 |
| 44 | Barr* | 254 | na | na | 271 | na | na | (6.3) |
| 45 | Keller Group | 250 | 204 | 46 | 298 | 192 | 106 | (16.1) |
| 46 | Henry Boot | 246 | 148 | 98 | 227 | 143 | 84 | 8.4 |
| 47 | Linden | 244 | na | na | 228 | 140 | 88 | 7.0 |
| 48 | Prowting | 244 | 197 | 47 | 437 | 183 | 254 | (44.2) |
| 49 | Clugston Group | 237 | na | na | 254 | na | na | (6.7) |
| 50 | Accord | 236 | na | na | na | na | na | na |
| 51 | Brett Brothers | 235 | 145 | 90 | 229 | na | na | 2.6 |
| 52 | Shepherd Building Group | 232 | na | na | 274 | na | na | (15.3) |
| 53 | MJ Gleeson | 209 | 200 | 9 | 172 | 165 | 7 | 21.5 |
| 54 | Styles & Wood | 205 | na | na | 188 | na | na | 9.0 |
| 55 | Galliford Try | 203 | 150 | 53 | 156 | 125 | 31 | 30.1 |
| 56 | Ringway Group | 199 | na | na | 192 | na | na | 3.6 |
| 57 | Tay Homes | 198 | 150 | 48 | 270 | 108 | 162 | (26.7) |
| 58 | Drake & Scull | 197 | na | na | 157 | na | na | 25.5 |
| 59 | Newarthill | 190 | na | na | 410 | na | na | (53.7) |
| 60 | Ballast | 183 | na | na | 150 | na | na | 22.0 |
| 61 | John Sisk | 180 | na | na | 137 | na | na | 31.4 |
| 62 | Connaught | 180 | 120 | 60 | 164 | na | na | 9.8 |
| 63 | Montpellier | 178 | 144 | 34 | 209 | 170 | 39 | (14.8) |
| 64 | O’Rourke | 169 | na | na | 186 | na | na | (9.1) |
| 65 | Planned Maintenance | 168 | na | na | 146 | na | na | 15.1 |
| 66 | SDC Holdings | 162 | na | na | 232 | na | na | (30.2) |
| 67 | Rydon Group | 160 | na | na | 162 | na | na | (1.2) |
| 68 | Peterhouse | 150 | 115 | 35 | 127 | 100 | 27 | 18.1 |
| 69 | T Clarke | 149 | 100 | 49 | 142 | na | na | 4.9 |
| 70 | Dew Pitchmastic | 138 | na | na | 141 | na | na | (2.1) |
| 71 | First Engineering | 132 | na | na | 139 | na | na | (5.0) |
| 72 | Wimpey | 128 | 83 | 45 | 449 | 275 | 174 | (71.5) |
| 73 | Osborne | 121 | na | na | 127 | na | na | (4.7) |
| 74 | Pipeline Constructors | 118 | na | na | 157 | na | na | (24.8) |
| 75 | Tulloch Group | 108 | na | na | 161 | na | na | (32.9) |
| 76 | Warings Construction Group | 99 | na | na | 82 | na | na | 20.7 |
| 77 | May Gurney Group | 99 | na | na | 95 | na | na | 4.2 |
| 78 | Dean & Dyball | 87 | na | na | 85 | na | na | 2.4 |
| 79 | ROK Property Solutions | 73 | 65 | 8 | 110 | 81 | 29 | (33.6) |
| Average | 333.44 | 351.14 | 105.3 | |||||
| % change since 1996††† | 44.0 | |||||||
| Notes: Change of chief executive explains remuneration decline at the following companies: Montpellier, Wimpey, Tay Homes, ROK Property Solutions | ||||||||