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Keep up to dateBalfour Beatty should have sorted out its businesses years ago
The article Major shake-up at Balfour Beatty (www.building.co.uk, 29 April) sounds like a familiar story of managers and directors either not knowing or not wanting to know that recessions require a bolting down of the hatches. The chief executive must reflect on the hotch-potch of Balfour Beatty UK building businesses which should have been sorted out two years ago.
Bryan Parkes, via www.building.co.uk
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