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Keep up to dateTop 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 |