The boom`s a balloon

Cooper, P.

The boom`s a balloon - 1989 - Building 254(7597) 12 May 1989, 20-23(4) .

Focus on the UK`s top 12 contractors and their prospects for 1989 after a significant downturn in the housebuilding market . Bar charts illustrate turnover and pre-tax profits from 1984 to 1988 and growth in earnings per share for 1987 to 1988. The companies listed are Tarmac, P & O, Trafalgar House, BICC, Wimpey, Beazer, Taylor Woodrow, Costain, Laing, AMEC, Mowlem and Alfred McAlpine.