O’Rourke slashes payment times as Kier booted from Prompt Payment Code

By Jordan Marshall2019-11-05T06:00:00

Country’s biggest private contractor cuts average time to settle up by 18 days

The country’s biggest private contractor has made good on its promise to improve the time it takes to settle its bills, cutting the average amount of days suppliers have to wait by a third.

Laing O’Rourke was previously one of the industry’s slowest payers and chairman Ray O’Rourke had vowed to tackle its record head on.

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