All Finance articles – Page 298
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NewsBalfour Beatty buys Covion for £33m
Facilities business will be integrated into Balfour's FM arm Haden Building Management
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NewsWilliam Sapcote goes into administration
Cashflow problems hit company that's been run by the same family for six generations
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NewsAlfred McAlpine brushes off interest from Carillion
Alfred McAlpine says it has received two unwelcome bids from rival in just over two months
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NewsTop 250 consultants put on growth spurt
Building's annual league table reveals headcount is up by 18% and fees by 24% among the biggest construction consultants
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NewsMouchel Parkman rebrands as profit rises 82%
Consulting and business services group will now be known as Mouchel as HBS brand is dropped
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NewsConnaught buys water firm as profit leaps 37%
Property management group acquires Watertech for £9.1m as yearly revenues jump a third to £396m
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NewsTravis Perkins warns of slowing market
Turnover at builders' merchant goes up 11.3% but lead indicators point to a slowdown
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NewsAukett Fitzroy Robinson and SMC scrap merger talks
SMC is in talks with a private equity backed third party over a potential offer
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NewsHow Erinaceous was stopped in its tracks
As many of its constituent QSs and architects prepare to buy their way out of the stricken property services group, David Parsley considers the future of the company that grew from nowhere to the verge of the FTSE 250, only for its addiction to acquisition to bring it to the ...
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NewsWillmott Dixon aims for £750m turnover by 2012
Ambitious contractor aims to increase turnover 50% to £750m over the next three to five years
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Trust Property Management acquires surveyor for £1.5m
Trust Property Management Group, an alternative investment market-quoted property and chartered surveying services group, is to buy chartered surveyor Dexter Brown in a deal valued at £1.5m.
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NewsGovernment allocates £22bn for school upgrades
Funds will be given to local authorities to raise standards of classroom over the next three years
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NewsInsurers threaten to withdraw cover for flood damage
Association of British Insurers says £800m for flood defences promised by chancellor is not enough
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NewsChancellor boosts housing spending and reforms taxes
Pre-Budget Report: 3 million homes by 2020; flat rate Capital Gains Tax; inheritance tax threshold rise; UK growth forecast cut
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NewsChancellor to signal inheritance tax reform
Alistair Darling prepares to unveil his first Pre-Budget Report and Comprehensive Spending Review to the House of Commons today
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NewsContractors’ profits under threat from price slowdown
Report warns of lower construction margins in London as tender price inflation falls in 2008
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Construction product sales rise during the third quarter
Activity Barometer finds overall sales set to rise further during fourth quarter
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NewsAinscough Crane in £255m management buyout
UK’s biggest crane provider sold to operational management
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NewsKeller Group buys US piling contractor for £24.5m
Engineer acquires specialist in United States