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Tesco Plc
Last updated 13 April 2023 Tesco Group Plc Sir John Edward Cohen, popularly known as Jack Cohen, created the Tesco brand name from the initials of a tea supplier TE Stockwell and the first two letters of his surname. The first two Tesco stores opened in 1931. Today, Tesco is the UK’s biggest supermarket and the third […]
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Morris & Spottiswood
Last updated 29 September 2022 Morris & Spottiswood Ltd Morris & Spottiswood is a family-owned Scottish construction group that was founded in 1925. The group specialises in fit-out, housing, maintenance and mechanical & electrical work across Scotland and northern England and turns over more than £90 million a year and employs around 200 staff. Financials In […]
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Lendlease Construction (Europe)
Last updated 12 January 2023 Lendlease Construction (Europe) Lendlease Construction (Europe) is the main UK vehicle of the Australian-owned property and construction conglomerate, Lend Lease. The business dates back to 1885. After being acquired by P&O in 1974, Bovis was bought by Lend Lease a quarter of a century later. Today, rebranded as Lendlease, the business […]
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Watkin Jones Group
Last updated 6 January 2023 Watkin Jones Plc Founded in 1791 by carpenter Huw Jones, Watkin Jones works across housebuilding and contracting with a particular specialism in student accommodation, which the group provides across the UK. Watkin Jones floated on the Alternative Investment Market in March 2016 and today turns over more than £400 million a […]
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Glenigan Index – October 2016
Project starts slip back Starts in the three months to September were 9% lower than a year ago and 15% down on the previous three month, dragged lower by falls in non-residential and civil engineering work. In contrast residential starts were 9% up on a year ago and 4% higher than during the preceding […]
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ISG
Last updated 28 April 2023 ISG ISG was formed in 1989, when director David King led a buy-out of fit-out business at property company Stanhope. That business became Interior Services Group (ISG), which floated on the stock exchange and expanded in the UK and into continental Europe, the Middle East and Asia. In 2016, ISG […]
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Galliford Try
Last updated 21 September 2022 Galliford Try Plc Galliford Try is one of the UK’s leading main contractors. In December 2019, the group agreed a deal to sell its private and partnership homes businesses to Bovis Homes, leaving Galliford Try as a standalone contracting business with annual turnover of more than £1.1 billion and a workforce […]
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Keltbray
Last updated 17 June 2022 Keltbray Group Keltbray Group is a specialist turnkey contractor working on sectors ranging from demolition and civil engineering, rail and environmental materials management nationwide. Formed over three decades ago, the privately-owned group began working in demolition and civil engineering but has expanded into a more complex business working on […]
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