Dominic White

  • News

    City steps up pressure on industry to consolidate

    2001-01-05T00:00:00

    Investors call for fewer, larger companies in the wake of the Beazer–Bryant deal.

  • Features

    Top 75 contractors by contracting operating profit

    2000-07-28T00:00:00

    This table is intended to show the profit companies are making from building. Balfour Beatty tops the stakes here with £96m, although its figures are boosted by the fact that all of its activities – including considerable facilities management work for its private finance initiative contracts – are included under ...

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    Top 75 contractors by contracting operating margin

    2000-07-28T00:00:00

    This table tells two main stories. First, that the large specialists still make the fattest margins. Steel constructor Severfield-Rowen reported 6.4% and groundwork specialist Keller got a handsome 6.2%. East Anglian contractor Carter also made an impressive 4.4% return, and concrete firm O'Rourke managed 3.6%. Second, it shows that most ...

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    Top 25 contractors in FM by FM turnover

    2000-07-28T00:00:00

    The top of the table is dominated by companies better known as big builders. Amec comes top, with a turnover of £850m, followed by Carillion with £556m and Balfour Beatty with £493m. None of the three has yet made the move to a support services listing, unlike three of the ...

  • News

    Jarvis may appeal critical judgment

    2000-07-21T00:00:00

    Contractor may seek leave to appeal after judge orders it to pay former auditor’s costs.

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    Small firms will fail, says ex-Longley man

    2000-07-21T00:00:00

    Mike Gurner, the man who sold the Longley name for £1, says smaller regional firms no longer have the financial muscle to take on design-and-build risk.

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    Big four to help City do its PFI sums

    2000-07-14T00:00:00

    Carillion hoping to agree common disclosure with Laing, Balfour Beatty and Amec in bid to raise share prices.

  • News

    Swan Hill shakes up board as MD leaves

    2000-07-14T00:00:00

    Chief executive John Theakston takes charge of housing and plans to give it higher profile after managing director David Truslove resigns.

  • News

    Mason lights fire under Amec

    1999-09-10T00:00:00

    Chief executive expresses dissatisfaction with low margins in construction division, despite 20% rise in group profit.

  • Features

    Back in boom

    1999-09-10T00:00:00

    Last year, the market was about to fall off a cliff. This year, orders are up, house prices are up, and Wimpey is starting a yuppie housing scheme it mothballed last year. Too good to be true?