Who's the king of the beasts?
Series: Building ; 269(8343) 30 July 2004, (Supplement) (17)Publication details: 2004Subject(s): Summary: Building supplement providing the annual league table of the 100 biggest UK contracting and housebuilding firms, includingranking by turnover, pre-tax profit and operating margin. Contrasts the huge turnovers of the leading companies with the situation 10 years ago when the industry was emerging from recession and the largest companies were less efficient than those of today. There are improved margins today,aggregate pre-tax margins were 6.2% in 2003 compared with 2.9% in 1995. Recently the more benign economy has helped many housebuilders and has added stability to what was a difficult environment for many contractors in the 1990s.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| Journal article | London Journal article | ABS68096 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 127251-1001 |
Building supplement providing the annual league table of the 100 biggest UK contracting and housebuilding firms, includingranking by turnover, pre-tax profit and operating margin. Contrasts the huge turnovers of the leading companies with the situation 10 years ago when the industry was emerging from recession and the largest companies were less efficient than those of today. There are improved margins today,aggregate pre-tax margins were 6.2% in 2003 compared with 2.9% in 1995. Recently the more benign economy has helped many housebuilders and has added stability to what was a difficult environment for many contractors in the 1990s.