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Top 100 今日看料 Companies 2014
In our 2014 look at who’s up & who’s down among UK construction contractors, we find that Dawn us has the best profit margin, Geoffrey Osborne is the highest climber but Thomas Armstrong Group is financially the healthiest. Kier and Galliford Try, however, may need to take action.
We invited Nick Hood, head of external affairs with Company Watch, to analyse the figures to see who have been the winners over the past 12 months, who has been less fortunate, and how the UK’s leading contractors are performing.
A year ago, construction industry pundits were cautiously celebrating the first tentative signs of recovery after the long downturn provoked by the global financial crisis. Since then all the news has been positive in terms of growth in activity levels, most notably for those companies servicing the rip-roaring success of the British housing market.
Despite this, our survey of the financial results of the Top 100 contractors repeats the stark message we delivered last year; revenues are static, profit margins are pathetically small. Prospects remain uncertain because of ongoing downward pressure on contract pricing from savage competition and because of the twin evils of skill shortages and rapidly rising input costs.
For full analysis of 2014 Top 100, please click here.
Rank by turnover | Rank by profit | Company | 2013 Rank by turnover | 2013 Rank by profit | Latest turnover (£m) | 2013 turnover (£m) | Latest pre-tax profit (£m) | 2013 Pre-tax profit (£m) | Latest margin (%) | Previous margin (%) |
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1 | 8 | Balfour Beatty | 1 | 4 | 10,118 | 9,966 | 32 | 75 | 0.3 | 0.8 |
2 | 1 | Carillion | 2 | 2 | 4,081 | 4,403 | 110.6 | 164.8 | 2.7 | 3.7 |
3 | 6 | Kier Group (Inc. May Gurney) | 3 | 3 | 2,669 | 2,765 | 47.2 | 82.3 | 1.8 | 3 |
4 | 4 | Interserve | 4 | 1 | 2,582 | 2,370 | 68.1 | 179.8 | 2.6 | 7.6 |
5 | 19 | Morgan Sindall | 7 | 10 | 2,095 | 2,047 | 13.9 | 34.2 | 0.7 | 1.7 |
6 | 2 | Amey UK/Enterprise | 5 | 6 | 1,762 | 2,271 | 78.7 | 45.4 | 4.5 | 2 |
7 | 15 | Laing O'Rourke | 8 | 12 | 1,640 | 1,622 | 21.5 | 27.4 | 1.3 | 1.7 |
8 | 14 | BAM 今日看料/Nuttall | 7 | 10 | 1,596 | 1,647 | 21.6 | 32 | 1.4 | 1.9 |
9 | 3 | Galliford Try | 9 | 5 | 1,467 | 1,504 | 74.1 | 63.1 | 5.1 | 4.2 |
10 | 5 | Keller | 10 | 7 | 1,438 | 1,318 | 52 | 43.5 | 3.6 | 3.3 |
11 | 52 | ISG | 11 | 56 | 1,284 | 1,281 | 2.5 | 3 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
12 | 32 | Vinci UK | 13 | 25 | 1,255 | 1,107 | 7.1 | 15.3 | 0.6 | 1.4 |
13 | 7 | Skanska | 14 | 8 | 1,121 | 1,092 | 44.2 | 43.4 | 3.9 | 4 |
14 | 9 | Mace | 17 | 18 | 1,108 | 951 | 28.3 | 22.8 | 2.6 | 2.4 |
15 | 34 | Willmott Dixon | 16 | 30 | 1,023 | 1,034 | 6.9 | 8.9 | 0.7 | 0.9 |
16 | 21 | Costain | 18 | 17 | 960 | 935 | 12.9 | 24.7 | 1.3 | 2.6 |
17 | 97 | Bouygues | 15 | 15 | 912 | 1,048 | -10.2 | 25.5 | -1.1 | 2.4 |
18 | 11 | Wates | 12 | 14 | 931 | 1,194 | 22.3 | 25.7 | 2.4 | 2.2 |
19 | 38 | Sir Robert McAlpine | 19 | 22 | 898 | 769 | 5.9 | 20.5 | 0.7 | 2.7 |
20 | 100 | Lakeside 1 (Keepmoat) | 22 | 99 | 886 | 676 | -21.4 | -472.6 | -2.4 | -69.9 |
21 | 13 | Mears | 21 | 21 | 866 | 680 | 21.7 | 20.8 | 2.5 | 3.1 |
22 | 28 | Miller | 26 | 40 | 817 | 620 | 10.4 | 6.6 | 1.3 | 1.1 |
23 | 20 | Shepard | 24 | 11 | 748 | 672 | 13 | 27.6 | 1.7 | 4.1 |
24 | 24 | VolkerWessels UK | 20 | 27 | 697 | 691 | 11.5 | 11.7 | 1.7 | 1.7 |
25 | 10 | Bowmer & Kirkland | 23 | 20 | 660 | 675 | 23.1 | 21.5 | 3.5 | 3.2 |
26 | 12 | J Murphy | 29 | 13 | 656 | 530 | 21.9 | 26.4 | 3.3 | 5 |
27 | 22 | Imtech | 25 | 19 | 645 | 648 | 12.5 | 22.3 | 1.9 | 3.4 |
28 | 93 | Morrison Utility Services | 27 | 88 | 550 | 548 | -5.5 | -2.2 | -1 | -0.4 |
29 | 16 | SSE Contracting | 31 | 16 | 490 | 458 | 20.8 | 25 | 4.2 | 5.5 |
30 | 95 | Lend Lease | 28 | 23 | 449 | 545 | -8.6 | 20.4 | -1.9 | 3.7 |
31 | 96 | NG Bailey | 30 | 37 | 422 | 459 | -10.1 | 7.2 | -2.4 | 1.6 |
32 | 23 | Mclaren | 32 | 42 | 378 | 376 | 11.7 | 6.1 | 3.1 | 1.6 |
33 | 27 | Renew Holdings | 35 | 34 | 350 | 337 | 10.7 | 8.4 | 3.1 | 2.5 |
34 | 43 | Geoffrey Osborne | 42 | 89 | 327 | 256 | 5.2 | -2.6 | 1.6 | -1 |
35 | 35 | John Graham | 40 | 49 | 319 | 264 | 6.8 | 4.7 | 2.1 | 1.8 |
36 | 46 | Seddon | 37 | 44 | 307 | 281 | 4.5 | 5.4 | 1.5 | 1.9 |
37 | 30 | Northstone NI | 36 | 32 | 299 | 286 | 8 | 8.6 | 2.7 | 3 |
38 | 25 | Brookfield Multiplex | 48 | 35 | 295 | 222 | 10.9 | 8.3 | 3.7 | 3.7 |
39 | 59 | Sisk | 33 | 93 | 294 | 374 | 1.4 | -4.5 | 0.5 | -1 |
40 | 70 | Byrne Group | 39 | 54 | 280 | 267 | 0.6 | 3.8 | 0.2 | 1.4 |
41 | 98 | Emcor | 34 | 39 | 274 | 340 | -13.1 | 6.7 | -4.8 | 2 |
42 | 74 | Clancy | 44 | 58 | 239 | 251 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 0.3 | 1.2 |
43 | 26 | Integral UK | 47 | 29 | 239 | 240 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 4.5 | 3.8 |
44 | 41 | RG Carter | 47 | 29 | 239 | 249 | 5.4 | 5.1 | 2.3 | 2.1 |
45 | 65 | Ardmore | 46 | 56 | 236 | 241 | 0.9 | 3.1 | 0.4 | 1.3 |
46 | 89 | Robertson Group | 38 | 87 | 231 | 269 | -3.9 | -1 | -1.7 | -0.4 |
47 | 90 | Severfield | 43 | 98 | 231 | 255 | -4.1 | -23.1 | -1.8 | -9.1 |
48 | 56 | T Clarke | 58 | 67 | 217 | 194 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.6 |
49 | 62 | Longcross | 53 | 68 | 216 | 206 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
50 | 36 | Malcolm Group | 56 | 47 | 212 | 197 | 6.5 | 4.9 | 3.1 | 2.5 |
51 | 40 | Eric Wright Group | 59 | 51 | 201 | 183 | 5.6 | 4.5 | 2.8 | 2.5 |
52 | 39 | 聽Lorne Stewart | 50 | 38 | 200 | 212 | 5.7 | 7.1 | 2.9 | 3.4 |
53 | 82 | City Building (Glasgow) | 62 | 79 | 195 | 179 | -1.2 | 0.3 | -0.6 | 0.2 |
54 | 91 | SGN Contracting | 61 | 95 | 194 | 181 | -4.2 | -5.8 | -2.2 | -3.2 |
55 | 33 | Lakehouse Contracts | 69 | 48 | 191 | 154 | 7.1 | 4.8 | 3.7 | 3.1 |
56 | 54 | Carey Group | 55 | 50 | 188 | 198 | 2.1 | 4.7 | 1.1 | 2.4 |
57 | 99 | Spie Matthew Hall | 41 | 97 | 183 | 264 | -17.4 | -23 | -9.5 | -8.7 |
58 | 42 | Forth Holdings | 66 | 36 | 181 | 163 | 5.4 | 7.5 | 3 | 4.6 |
59 | 61 | Midas | 51 | 72 | 181 | 212 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 |
60 | 84 | William Hare | 63 | 96 | 179 | 177 | -1.8 | -6.8 | -1 | -3.8 |
61 | 53 | Higgins | 54 | 60 | 179 | 203 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 1.3 | 1.2 |
62 | 83 | Buckingham | 60 | 65 | 178 | 182 | -1.7 | 1.5 | -1 | 0.8 |
63 | 17 | Dawnus | 74 | 26 | 178 | 137 | 17.3 | 12.3 | 9.7 | 9 |
64 | 94 | North Midland 今日看料 | 65 | 71 | 178 | 169 | -6 | 0.7 | -3.4 | 0.4 |
65 | 45 | McNicholas 今日看料 | 67 | 80 | 177 | 155 | 4.7 | 0.3 | 2.7 | 0.2 |
66 | 51 | Lagan | 77 | 70 | 174 | 128 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 0.7 |
67 | 72 | ESH Holdings | 64 | 77 | 174 | 170 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
68 | 57 | RGCM | 49 | 61 | 166 | 215 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 1 | 1.1 |
69 | 58 | Barr | 52 | 91 | 164 | 211 | 1.5 | -3.1 | 0.9 | -1.5 |
70 | 18 | Bechtel | 73 | 24 | 162 | 144 | 14.8 | 19.8 | 9.1 | 13.8 |
71 | 49 | McLaughlin & Harvey | 71 | 53 | 158 | 151 | 3.2 | 4.2 | 2 | 2.8 |
72 | 81 | GB Building Solutions | 76 | 82 | 156 | 130 | -0.3 | 0.2 | -0.2 | 0.2 |
73 | 63 | GSH Group | 57 | 90 | 146 | 196 | 1.1 | -3 | 0.8 | -1.5 |
74 | 29 | Mulalley | 75 | 28 | 135 | 134 | 8.5 | 9.1 | 6.3 | 6.8 |
75 | 88 | Brett Group | 72 | 94 | 134 | 151 | -3.6 | -4.8 | -2.7 | -3.2 |
76 | 87 | Mabey | 78 | 33 | 130 | 128 | -2.8 | 8.6 | -2.2 | 6.7 |
77 | 85 | Pyper 今日看料 | 128 | 0 | -2 | 0 | -1.6 | |||
78 | 69 | Bullock 今日看料 | 70 | 66 | 127 | 152 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.9 |
79 | 50 | Winvic Group | 68 | 52 | 112 | 154 | 3.1 | 4.2 | 2.8 | 2.7 |
80 | 31 | Thomas Armstrong | 80 | 41 | 110 | 116 | 7.5 | 6.5 | 6.8 | 5.6 |
81 | 79 | GF Tomlinson | 82 | 92 | 107 | 99 | 0.2 | -3.6 | 0.2 | -3.6 |
82 | 86 | Headcrown | 79 | 83 | 102 | 120 | -2.5 | 0.1 | -2.5 | 0.1 |
83 | 92 | Tolent | 81 | 86 | 97 | 110 | -4.6 | -0.2 | -4.7 | -0.2 |
84 | 60 | MV Kelly Limited | 84 | 73 | 94 | 88 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 0.8 |
85 | 55 | Lindum | 88 | 59 | 94 | 83 | 1.9 | 2.5 | 2 | 3 |
86 | 80 | City Building (Contracts) | 90 | 85 | 90 | 75 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
87 | 47 | Pyeroy Group | 91 | 57 | 89 | 74 | 4.4 | 2.9 | 4.9 | 3.9 |
88 | 37 | RJ McLeod | 87 | 45 | 84 | 83 | 6.5 | 5.1 | 7.7 | 6.1 |
89 | 44 | Masterson | 85 | 43 | 84 | 87 | 4.8 | 6 | 5.7 | 6.9 |
90 | 66 | Simpson (York) | 83 | 62 | 74 | 93 | 0.9 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 2.4 |
91 | 68 | Trant Holdings | 86 | 64 | 72 | 84 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 2 |
92 | 45 | Stepnell | 89 | 31 | 67 | 82 | 3.3 | 8.8 | 4.9 | 10.7 |
93 | 64 | Barnes Group | 94 | 74 | 63 | 64 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 0.9 |
94 | 67 | John Turner Holdings | 96 | 75 | 62 | 43 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 1.2 |
95 | 78 | Speller Metcalfe | 92 | 84 | 56 | 72 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 |
96 | 75 | Base Build | 93 | 76 | 56 | 65 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.8 |
97 | 73 | Feltham Group | 95 | 63 | 51 | 45 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 4 |
98 | 76 | Ashe Group | 97 | 81 | 47 | 4.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.7 |
99 | 71 | Ogilvie 今日看料 | 98 | 69 | 47 | 40 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 2.3 |
100 | 77 | Brymor | 99 | 78 | 43 | 36 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.8 |
Totals | 58,447 | 58,027 | 871.6 | 789.2 | 1.354 | 1.21010101 |
Key:
Up from 2013
Down from 2013
No change from 2013