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Morrisons
Last updated 21st December 2022 Morrisons Founded in 1899 in Bradford – where it is still based – Morrisons currently ranks as the fifth largest UK supermarket chain by market share with some 497 stores spread across England, Wales and Scotland. The chain also has eight regional distribution centres and a national distribution centre The […]
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Cala Group
Cala Group Founded as the City of Aberdeen Land Association in 1875, Cala is one of the UK’s larger housebuilders working across Scotland, the Midlands, and the South East and completing around 2900, mainly up-market, units in 2021 with an average selling price of £462,000. Since 2018, the company has been owned by financial group […]
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Glenigan System Updates
We are continually developing our system in order to provide a quicker, easier and enriched experience for our customers, with a continual focus on helping our users to find the data and insight they need, exactly when they need it. Latest releases April 2023, System updates Addition of land type search criteria (eg. brownfield, greenfield, […]
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Stewart Milne Group
Last updated 2nd December 2022 Stewart Milne Group Founded by businessman Stewart Milne in 1975, the Aberdeen-based group ranks as one of the largest privately-owned UK housebuilders, operating across core markets in Scotland and the North West. The group has offices in Aberdeen (hq), Edinburgh, Glasgow and Manchester and completed around 830 units in its […]
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Esh Group
Last updated 9 January 2023 Esh Holdings Esh Holdings is a privately-owned construction group based in north east England with activities ranging from housebuilding to civil engineering and building maintenance. The group was founded in 1999 after civil engineering and building contractor Lumsden & Carroll merged with Deerness Fencing, which also owned housebuilder Dunelm, and […]
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BW Interiors (BW Workplace Experts)
Last updated November 14th 2022 BW Interiors BW Interiors is a leading fit-out and refurbishment contractor which works mainly across London and the South East with a turnover on course to reach £220 million. Founded in 2000, the company trades as BW Workplace Experts and key sectors where it operates include Cat A refurb, Cat […]
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John Lewis Partnership
Last updated 28th December 2022 John Lewis Partnership John Lewis Partnership is one of the UK’s best-known retail groups with a significant property estate that includes 34 John Lewis department-style stores along with 332 Waitrose supermarkets across the country. Founded over 100 years ago by John Spedan Lewis, the group operates through a business partnership […]
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Aldi
Last updated December 17th 2022 Aldi German-owned Aldi ranks as Britain’s fourth largest supermarket chain with a market share of 9.3% and with a total of over 970 stores which was set to reach around 986 by the end of 2022. Aldi Stores is a UK subsidiary of Hofer KG, an Austrian partnership. Aldi has […]
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Scotland
Overview Project starts and main contract awards weakened against the previous year. On a more positive note, detailed planning approvals performed relatively strongly against 2022 levels, providing a boost to the development pipeline. Totalling £856m, work starting on-site in Scotland decreased 65 per cent during the three months to March to remain 52 per […]
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Farrans
Last updated 7 February 2023 Farrans The origins of Farrans Construction date back to the completion of Maghaberry Airfield in Northern Ireland by Sam Taggart of Bernard Sunley & Co in 1940. A year later, Taggart bought out Sunley & Co and formed Farrans and expanded into Edinburgh in 1947 and London in 1949. […]
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