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  • FES

    Last updated 31 January 2023 FES Holdings Ltd FES Holdings Ltd is the parent company of FES, a privately owned specialist mechanical and electrical contracting operation formed in 1963 in Scotland. The group works across England and Scotland, employs around 700 staff and turns over £125 million a year. Financials Turnover at FES Holdings Ltd in […]

  • Eric Wright Group

    Last updated 9 January 2023 Eric Wright Group (EWG) The origins of 1923 date back to the founding in Fleetwood of a construction company called Brown & Jackson, which would eventually become Eric Wright Group. EWG is a family controlled building and civil engineering group operating out of Bamber Bridge in Lancashire, which was founded […]

  • Tilbury Douglas (formerly Interserve Group)

    Last updated 27th April 2023 Tilbury Douglas (formerly Interserve Group)  Tilbury Douglas is one of the UK’s larger construction groups delivering around £450m of projects each year through its building, infrastructure, engineering and fit-out businesses. The group has strong positions in regional and public sector contracting with wide experience in the health, education, defence, justice, […]

  • Imtech UK

    Last updated February 22nd 2023 Imtech UK Imtech UK is one of the top three mechanical and engineering sub-contractors and technical service providers in this country and Ireland. Based in Staines-upon-Thames, the company works across the infrastructure, utilities, building and industrial sectors and its has a turnover of around £581 million and over 2,000 employees. […]

  • Hill Holdings

    Last updated June 23rd 2022 Hill Holdings Based in Waltham Abbey in Essex, Hill Holdings provides new homes for private buyers and for statutory and voluntary housing providers. The group ranks among the largest UK housebuilders and in 2021 completed some 2 300 homes and revenues of around £750 million. Founded by Andy Hill in […]

  • Henry Boot Plc

    Last updated 27th April 2022 Henry Boot Plc Henry Boot is a major quoted property and construction group with strong roots around its base in Sheffield. The group dates back over 125 years and comprises four main operations: property development and investment (Henry Boot Developments), land promotion (Hallam Land Management), construction (Henry Boot Construction) and […]

  • Headcrown Group

    Last Updated 9th December 2020 Headcrown Group Headown is a privately-owned contractor and development group based in west London. The group’s latest results showed a turnover of around £130 million through three businesses although one of them, Cruden Group, is now in administration. They are: – JF Finnegan, a contractor/developer based in Sheffield which operates across the […]

  • Asda Group

    Last updated 22 April 2023 Asda Group Asda is one of the largest grocery retailers in the UK, with over 500 stores, around 165,000 staff and annual sales of more than £20 billion.  Financials In 2022, like-for-like sales growth fell by 0.2% but growth was recorded in the final two quarters of the year after […]

  • Atkins

    Last updated 22 February 2023 Atkins Atkins is one of the largest multi-disciplinary consultants in the world. Established in 1938 by Sir William Atkins, the company originally specialised in civil and structural engineering design. After World War Two, Atkins expanded into a range of other specialist services and in 1996 became one of the first […]

  • Miller Homes

    Last updated 14 April 2023 Miller Homes Miller Homes was founded by the Miller family, who sold out in 2017 and since then the group has been owned by a succession of private equity groups. In 2022, Miller sold nearly 4,000 homes annually and turned over £1.1 billion.  Financials The downturn in the housing market and […]

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