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Berkeley Group Plc
Last updated 22 June 2022 Berkeley Group Holdings Plc Berkeley Group was founded in 1976 and is one of the UK’s top 10 housebuilders by most measures. In 1985, the company’s founder, the late Tony Pidgley, floated Berkeley on the London Stock Exchange and the company is a member of blue chip FTSE 100 index. […]
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Broadway Malyan
Last updated 8th June 2022 Broadway Malyan Formed in 1958, Broadway Malyan is a global architecture, urbanism and design practice which works across a wide range of sectors but has a specialism in tall building design, urban planning and master-planning. With an hq in London, Broadway Malyan employs around 400 staff across its 12 studios […]
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Benoy
Last updated 27th June 2022 Benoy Benoy is a major consultant offering services in architecture, master-planning, interior, graphic, sign and way-finding design and landscaping. Established in 1947, Benoy works in the UK and across the Middle East, India, China and Asia and has one of the largest overseas businesses of any UK-based architects” practice. The […]
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Royal BAM
Last updated 17 February 2023 Royal BAM Royal BAM is the UK operating company of the Dutch contractor of the same name. The group’s UK presence began in 1978 when HBG acquired Edmund Nuttall, a civil engineering contractor founded in 1865 by James Nuttall that had remained a family business. In 2003, BAM merged with […]
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Legal & General Group
Last updated 13 March 2023 Legal & General Group Plc Founded in 1836, Legal & General Group Plc is an asset and investment manager with an annual turnover of more than £50 billion and one of the UK construction industry’s biggest clients . Financials In the 2022 calendar year, profit attributable to equity holders at Legal & […]
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Costain Group Plc
Last updated 14 March 2023 Costain Group Plc Costain is a UK contractor with a history that dates back to 1865. The group was suspended from the London Stock Exchange for a significant period during the 1990s but survived after a rescue partly aided by Swedish group Skanska and has since prospered. The management retrenched, […]
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GMI Construction Group
Last updated 12 April 2023 GMI Construction Group Plc GMI Construction Group Plc was formed in 1986 and is based in Yorkshire. The group employs more than 200 people and turns over £360 million a year. Financials In the 12 months to September 2022, turnover at GMI Construction Group tripled to £360.3 million (2021: £120.7 million) […]
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The Crown Estate
Last updated 28th June 2022 The Crown Estate The Crown Estate is a property business worth some £15.6 billion which is owned by the Crown but which is a commercial organisation, where profit is returned to the Treasury. It has delivered over £3 billion to the Treasury over the past decade and progressed some major […]
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Brexit Market Analysis
The referendum on the UK’s EU membership is fast approaching, with voting cards dropping through letter boxes across the country. But what are the implications of the referendum outcome for the construction industry if we stay or go? Will a vote to remain mean business as usual? And what risks should we be aware are […]
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Multiplex Europe
Last updated 29 March 2023 Multiplex Europe Formerly known as Brookfield Multiplex Europe, the company now trading as Multiplex Construction Europe is the UK operation of Brookfield Asset Management. The UK operation works on a handful of major projects, often in conjunction with Brookfield’s own development arm, or on major healthcare schemes and employs around 650 […]
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