Order book in excess of £700m
International consultant WSP has posted pre-tax profits of £27.5m for its full year results, a leap of 35%. The figures, for the year to 31 December 2006, compared with £20.3m for the year ended 2005. Turnover rose 20% to £449.4m across the same period. The firm, whose current projects include work on towers 2 and 3 at the Ground Zero site in New York, also reported an order book in excess of £700m.
Chairman David Turner said: “WSP Group has had an excellent year in all respects and I am very pleased to be reporting such strong financial results. These are exciting times for the Group, with opportunities for growth in all our areas of business.”
“I continue to foresee good markets prevailing across the world with particularly strong activity continuing next year in the United States and Middle East and in the Property and Environmental sectors generally.”
