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The wrong kind of demand
Nick Lane is right to sound a warning (3 September, page 52) about using winding-up petitions to make debtors cough up. However, his explanation of what the recipient of a statutory demand needs to do is not quite correct as far as a company is concerned. Before issuing a statutory ...
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FeaturesCost model: Off-site manufacture
The market for off-site manufacture is expanding rapidly, boosted as it is by public sector investment programmes. Davis Langdon looks at the cost benefits, barriers to innovation and procurement issues involved in OSM
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FeaturesLocal lowdown: Kent and Surrey
As town-centre regeneration creates job opportunities in Kent and Surrey, Robert Smith of Hays Montrose looks at some of the major projects in the region
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Keller ditches A J Wood
Keller sells stone masonary business sold on to Mowlem for nominal sum.
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Housing market slowdown hits recruitment at estate agents
Gloom in the market reaches the high-street as agents and removals companies shed staff
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NewsPPP plan for Polish stadium
Public private venture planned for new £48m Warsaw football stadium
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NewsSkanska and AK secure 150 million contract
Joint-venture team sign a five year deal with Anglian Water.
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FeaturesWhitbybird's 21st birthday fly-by
Whitbybird's birthday at the Science Museum attracted plenty of high-flyers including Terry Farrell.
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Jarvis sale to Vinci threatens Norfolk schools PFI
Norfolk County Council says that Vinci’s purchase of Jarvis’s bidding operations could “significantly affect” decision on schools PFI.
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NewsTaylor Woodrow issues sales warning
Housebuilder and contractor tells analysts that house sales will be 6% lower than estimated but predicts that 2004 profit expecations would be met.
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FeaturesHow to find the X-factor
John Cowell is a construction marketing consultant and brother of pop mogul Simon Cowell, which makes him well qualified to write a series of articles on self-promotion in the building industry.
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FeaturesMove over Fangio
Davis Langdon's clients and staff scrape their way around a muddy Castle Combe to raise money for charity.
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NewsPlumbers and builders top list of rogue traders
Survey reveals that builders, plumbers, roofers and plasterers rip off more customers than any other trade.
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Green light for £230m cancer centre in Leeds
A PFI consortium including Bovis Lend Lease will fund 300-bed scheme with new method of finance involving government gilts.
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NewsBellway Homes hits record 200m profit
Bellway Homes increases pre-tax profit by 21% and says it aims to build 10,000 homes per annum by 2010.
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FeaturesSouth African township builds on Irish goodwill
Irish builders volunteer to build 50 houses in Cape Town.
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NewsAlfred McAlpine clinches £130m water contracts
DealDeals with Severn Trent Water and Northumbrian among £200m of new contracts.