Man with a plan: How is Kier faring under Andrew Davies?

By Dave Rogers2020-03-10T06:00:00

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The fallout from putting its housing arm up for sale and cutting 1,200 jobs

Andrew Davies must like a challenge. If things had gone differently, the 56-year-old would now be two years into trying to turn Carillion around. It collapsed a week before he was due to start as chief executive.

But the implosion of the country’s then second-biggest contractor was good news for its third, also listing badly and labouring under a heavy debt pile built up after a Carillion-style spending spree.

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