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Top 75 contractors by contracting operating profit
  Contracting
£000
Housing
£000
Property
£000
Other
£000
Total pre-tax profit**
£000
1 Balfour Beatty 96 000 0 0 0 96 000
2 Amec 31 100 0 10 100 40 300 80 000
3 HBG/Edmund Nuttall 25 758 0 0 0 25 758
4 Bovis Construction Group 21 000 0 0 0 33 300
5 Carillion 20 900 0 0 26 700 35 100
6 Keller Group 19 386 0 0 0 19 041
7 Mitie Group 14 630 0 0 14 630 14 508
8 John Mowlem 14 100 0 100 36 300 41 100
9 Jarvis 13 688 0 812 25 654 31 606
10 First Engineering 13 409 0 0 13 409 13 634
11 Alfred McAlpine 11 851 43 232 0 1 980 46 525
12 Henry Boot* 11 461 0 0 0 11 232
13 Kvaerner Construction 10 945 0 0 0 18 504
14 Morrison Construction 10 717 0 11 823 5 495 26 831
15 Bowmer & Kirkland* 9 715 0 0 0 12 108
16 Tilbury Douglas 9 100 4 000 0 26 000 29 200
17 Shepherd Building Group* 8 100 0 0 0 8 100
18 Kennedy Construction Group 7 670 0 0 0 7 604
19 Staveley Industries 7 600 0 0 7 600 (6 200)
20 Severfield-Rowen Group 7 192 0 0 0 5 925
21 R O‘Rourke* 6 715 0 0 0 5 768
22 R Mansell* 6 296 0 0 0 7 063
23 Norwest Holst* 5 900 0 0 4 630 10 530
24 Rydon Holdings 5 656 0 0 0 4 408
25 RG Carter Holdings* 5 566 0 0 0 9 759
26 Wates Construction* 5 516 0 0 0 7 212
27 NG Bailey 5 513 0 0 5 513 12 475
28 Ringway Group 5 231 0 0 0 5 761
29 Taylor Woodrow 5 100 78 100 30 400 11 400 125 000
30 Seddon Group* 4 345 0 0 0 4 647
31 ARM Group 4 246 0 0 4 246 4 248
32 Willmott Dixon* 3 483 0 0 715 3 018
33 Pipeline Constructors 3 343 0 0 3 343 3 280
34 McNicholas Construction 3 339 0 0 0 5 880
35 May Gurney Group 3 101 0 0 310 3 411
36 Morgan Sindall 3 097 1 057 2 235 7 564 10 075
37 Interior Services Group 2 966 0 0 2 966 4 063
38 Miller Group 2 860 5 572 15 732 0 17 126
39 Christiani & Nielsen 2 751 0 0 0 2 586
40 YJL* 2 750 0 0 0 8 518
41 Osborne 2 743 0 0 0 2 711
42 Peterhouse 2 714 0 0 7 058 7 404
43 Planned Maintenance 2 519 0 0 2 519 2 326
44 Kier Group 2 500 12 000 0 1 500 13 800
45 McNicholas 2 465 0 0 0 2 108
46 Biwater 2 400 0 0 9 400 6 100
47 Styles & Wood 2 279 0 0 2 279 2 409
48 Allen 2 246 4 215 0 17 941 27 466
49 Lorne Stewart 2 232 0 0 2 232 1 925
50 Wrekin Group 2 183 0 0 0 2 247
51 Fitzpatrick 2 167 0 0 0 4 574
52 Ballast Wiltshier 2 096 0 0 0 3 878
53 Birse Group 1 877 0 1 479 472 2 189
54 Galliford 1 848 4 756 0 0 4 542
55 Dew Pitchmastic 1 742 0 0 98 1 840
56 Simons Group* 1 710 0 0 0 2 213
57 Crest Nicholson 1 700 36 600 10 700 0 40 000
58 Bryant Group 1 500 72 400 0 0 67 100
59 MJ Gleeson Group 1 431 6 932 6 767 0 13 368
60 Drake & Scull Group 1 140 0 0 1 140 1 586
61 Try Group 989 5 387 0 -965 5 025
62 J Murphy & Sons 908 0 0 0 2 567
63 SDC Holdings 853 0 0 0 935
64 Clugston Group 566 0 (1 024) 1 104 1 505
65 EBC Group 564 0 757 590 1 545
66 Dean & Dyball 529 0 0 0 511
67 Haymills 129 0 510 374 1 075
68 Sisk 128 0 0 0 766
69 Amey 127 0 0 34 827 6 578
70 Costain Group 100 0 0 0 2 100
71 Llewellyn Management Services* 23 0 0 0 261
72 Barr (1 630) 0 0 0 (2 836)
73 Sunley Turriff Holdings (1 698) 0 0 0 (1 490)
74 Newarthill (1 991) 0 5 749 2 626 7 165
75 John Laing (5 300) 46 600 6 000 9 300 52 700
Total 487 884 320 851 102 140 331 250 1 080 597
Key
*Full split of activities not provided in reports and accounts, therefore turnover and/or profits assigned to contracting
**Total profit refers to pre-tax profit. Splits refer in most cases to operating profit before exceptional items. Total of splits plus non-interest = pre-tax profit
***Net interest payments/receipts, exceptional, and other non-trading income or losses
†Contracting is primarily in M&E, FM, repair and maintenance and/or planned maintenance
††Turnover figures estimated/company estimate
†††Profit figures estimated
§Housing profit is pre-tax