Top 100 Construction Companies 2009

The Top 100 construction companies league table ranks the UK's 100 biggest construction companies by turnover and profit. The table is compiled every September.

Rank by		Company Name	Turnover	Pre-tax Profit
Turnover	Profit	Company Name	Turnover	Pre-tax Profit
1	1	Balfour Beatty	9,486	270
2	3	Carillion	5,206	115.9
3	6	Laing O'Rourke	3,603	81.2
4	13	Morgan Sindall	2,548	62.3
5	12	Kier	2,374	63.4
6	15	Galliford Try	1,832	60.3
7	22	Newarthill (Sir Robert McAlpine)	1,817	33
8	7	Interserve	1,800	79.9
9	9	BAM (Construct & Nuttall)	1,709	73.7
10	5	Babcock	1,556	84.6
11	8	Amey UK	1,493	78.3
12	98	Skanska	1,481	-31.5
13	31	Vinci/Ringway	1,422	17
14	11	Mitie	1,407	67.9
15	82	Bovis Lend Lease	1,343	2.2
16	4	Keller	1,197	113.2
17	99	Enterprise	1,090	-61.5
18	40	ISG	1,090	12.6
19	100	Miller	1,047	-170
20	16	Wates	1,019	47.1
21	62	Rok	1,011	5.9
22	24	Costain	996	23.1
23	17	Bowmer & Kirkland	895	43.2
24	28	Willmott Dixon	839	20
25	25	Shepherd	718	22.9
26	34	Volker Wessels UK	701	15.3
27	36	Mace	654	14.9
28	23	Eaga plc	639	28.4
29	14	Keepmoat	559	61.7
30	10	Homeserve	555	71.8
31	26	Connaught	553	21.7
32	53	NG Bailey	525	8
33	27	Morrison Utility Services	493	20.1
34	20	J Murphy	445	34.7
35	32	May Gurney	437	17
36	33	Mears	420	16.6
37	21	Southern Electric Contracting	404	33.8
38	19	Lagan	400	37
39	60	Bouygues	398	6.3
40	18	Severfield Rowan	394	42.5
41	57	Renew Holdings	391	6.7
42	42	Emcor	357	10.8
43	38	Morrison Facilities Services	323	13.1
44	46	J B Leadbitter	323	9.9
45	70	Jarvis	322	4.5
46	48	Byrne Group	317	9.5
47	41	RG Carter	313	11.1
48	97	Spie Matthew Hall	312	-3
49	30	Spice plc	312	17.1
50	96	Geoffrey Osborne	304	-1.8
51	2	Bechtel	301	118.5
52	67	Ardmore	300	5.3
53	90	Barr Holdings	294	0
54	71	Canary Wharf Contractors	276	4.3
55	64	Ogilvie Group	258	5.7
56	85	Seddon	249	1.3
57	94	Styles & Wood	243	-0.9
58	68	Clancy	236	4.9
59	80	Sisk	226	2.6
60	52	Malcolm Group	225	8.2
61	61	Lorne Stewart	224	6.1
62	37	T Clarke	224	13.4
63	77	John Graham (Dromore)	218	2.9
64	87	Higgins	218	0.6
65	29	Apollo	214	18.6
66	49	Carey Group	213	9.1
67	45	Rotary	212	10.1
69	63	Midas	210	5.9
68	73	RG Group	210	3.6
70	51	Imtech	209	9
71	89	GB Building Solutions	207	0.1
72	78	North Midland Construction	202	2.9
73	39	PC Harrington	202	12.7
74	43	GSH Group	200	10.3
75	54	McLaughlin & Harvey	197	7.5
76	92	Brookfield	197	-0.4
77	83	Thomas Vale	195	2.2
78	95	Brett Group	195	-1.5
79	50	Simons Group	188	9.1
80	88	Patton Group	184	0.6
81	47	William Hare	182	9.9
82	74	Daniel Contractors	181	3.4
83	58	Bullock Construction	181	6.5
84	66	Integral UK	180	5.5
85	93	Durkan	179	-0.8
86	91	Mabey	177	-0.2
87	35	Rydon Group	176	15.2
89	72	McNicholas Construction	168	4.2
88	84	Doyle plc	168	1.6
90	81	Staveley Engineering Services	166	2.3
91	65	Robertson Group	165	5.7
92	76	Eric Wright Group	164	3.2
93	69	Headcrown	162	4.9
94	56	United House	161	6.8
95	75	Barhale	158	3.4
96	79	Clugston	155	2.8
97	86	Tolent	154	1.3
98	44	ESH Holdings	152	10.2
99	55	Forth Holdings	146	7.5
100	59	Thomas Armstrong	144	6.4

Notes: Ardmore: The figures are for Ardmore Construction, the largest element of the Ardmore Group, which includes Ardmore Construction, Paddington Construction, BCL Rail Services, BCL Plant and BCP (British Contractors Plant Limited). Barr/McLaughlin & Harvey: The companies are listed separately but have common ownership in Trench Holdings. Bechtel: UK arm of the American construction giant. Bouygues: The figures are for the three largest construction arms of the French giant Bouygues that operate in the UK: Bouygues UK, Colas and Warings. The figures are for the combined performance of the companies and most are straight additions, so no account is taken of any intertrading. Bouygues does not file consolidated accounts for its combined UK operations. Bouygues has other construction related interests in the UK such as Ecovert FM, Thermal Transfer and David Webster. These have not been included. Bovis Lend Lease: The figures are for Bovis Lend Lease Holdings Limited, registered in England, which is a subsidiary of Australian-owned Lend Lease Corporation Limited. Brett Group: The figures include some contribution from building materials. Carillion: Acquired Alfred McAlpine in late 2007. Enterprise: Figures for turnover and for 2007 are pro forma. No representative figure is provided for profit before tax and for staff costs for 2007. BAM: The figures are for the aggregate performance of BAN Construct (formerly HBG Construction) and BAM Nuttall (formerly Edmund Nuttall), both subsidiaries of the Dutch-based Royal BAM Group. The figures are not taken from consolidated group accounts and most are straight additions, so no account is taken of any intertrading. The figure for the highest paid director is for Nuttall. Headcrown: The parent company for a range of construction firms including Cruden Group, JF Finnegan, Gee Group and Browns of Wilmslow. No highest paid director was given in the consolidated accounts, so the figure taken is from JJ Finnegan. Lagan: The Lagan group of companies consist of five separate divisions trading as: Lagan Holdings; Lagan Cement; Lagan; Homes; Lagan Developments; Kingscourt Bricks. The financial information is provided by the company and comprises the aggregated figures for the trading divisions. Inter-trading has been netted out for the purposes of these figures. Laing O’Rourke: The 2008 figures are taken from the firm’s Annual Review 2008 presented on the company website. The figures are for Laing O’Rourke Corporation and thought to represent the consolidated operations of the business. These figures have been included despite the company not being UK registered, which would normally exclude it from inclusion in the listing. Laing O’Rourke Corporation is understood to be registered in the British Virgin Islands along with its parent Suffolk Partners Limited. The 2007 figures are for Laing O’Rourke plc and are verifiable through the UK Companies House data. The largest UK registered operation known to The Construction Index is Laing O’Rourke Construction Limited, which achieved a turnover of £623 million in the year to March 2008. Figures for the year to 2009 were not made available to The Construction Index before publication, but it is understood that Laing O’Rourke turned over £4.1 billion. Southern Electric Contracting: The firm is a subsidiary of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. Vinci/Ringway: The figures are for the combined performance of both companies, which are both subsidiaries of the French-owned Vinci. The figures are taken from the individual filed company accounts and most are straight additions. No account is taken of any intertrading. Ringway figures for 2008 were not available, so the figures used for 2007. The figure for highest paid director is for Vinci. Vinci acquired Taylor Woodrow construction in the autumn of 2008. Taylor Woodrow construction had a turnover of about £690 million in 2007. Willmott Dixon: The firm bought back in-house its former housing maintenance and building specialist Inspace, which it floated on the stock market about three years ago. Figures for the full group have not been prepared. Those presented are mainly for the Willmott Dixon operation alone, although the firm provided aggregated figures for the turnover and profit of the aggregated business, which have been included.