Top 20 Plant Hirers 2012

Good times coming back? Revenue and profit are up across the board in the plant hirer sector. Has growth returned to the plant hire sector? The aggregate turnover for the UK's 20 biggest plant hirers passed the £4bn mark this year, for the first time since before the economic crash in 2008. Their collective profit increased by almost half, and only one in five were in the red. Against that, it should be pointed out that more than half of the sector's revenue is accounted for by just two players: Aggreko and Ashtead (more familiarly known as A-Plant in the UK). This pair also account for a whopping 85% of profit.

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Rank by turnover	Rank by profit	Company	Latest turnover (£m)	Previous turnover (£m)	Latest pre-tax profit (£m)	Previous pre-tax profit (£m)	Latest margin (%)	Previous margin (%)
1	1	Aggreko	1,396.1	1,229.9	323.7	304.4	21.8	24.7
2	2	Ashtead	1,005.9	846.5	134.8	1.7	0.2	0.2
3	15	Speedy	329.3	354.2	1.7	-19.3	-5.9	-5.4
4	6	Lavendon	225.4	217.5	14.2	10.9	4.8	5.0
5	3	HSS	168.6	160.0	15.4	14.9	8.8	9.3
6	4	Vp	163.6	141.0	15.3	12.2	7.5	8.7
7	12	Select	154.0	188.5	2.3	14.9	9.7	7.9
8	19	Hewden Stuart	119.5	121.5	-3.9	-13.8	-11.5	-11.4
9	20	Harsco Infrastructure	107.5	122.4	-26.7	-10.6	-9.9	-8.7
10	9	Ainscough	97.5	109.8	11.0	19.4	19.9	17.7
11	11	Deborah Services	81.2	70.0	3.1	0.6	0.7	0.9
12	8	Brandon	75.3	103.2	11.2	7.0	9.3	6.8
13	13	Gap	74.3	67.7	2.3	-0.8	-1.1	-1.2
14	7	Amey Fleet Services	61.1	69.4	13.8	4.6	7.5	6.6
15	5	Andrews Sykes	53.8	56.0	14.9	14.4	26.8	25.7
16	10	Selwood	45.6	38.9	6.2	4.5	9.9	11.6
17	14	Generation	36.7	29.5	2.2	0.8	2.2	2.7
18	16	Quattro	34.3	32.6	0.9	-2.8	-2.8	-8.6
19	18	Clive Barford	31.9	26.2	-3.4	-0.1	-0.3	-0.4
20	17	Go Plant	31.2	30.3	-1.4	2.7	8.7	8.9
		Totals	4,292.8	4,015.1	537.6	365.6	5.1	4.8

All companies ranked according to their most recently filed accounts.