{"id":1135,"date":"2018-12-05T07:26:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T07:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2018-12-05T07:26:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T07:26:12","slug":"proline-group-hit-by-fall-out-from-forrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/proline-group-hit-by-fall-out-from-forrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Proline Group hit by fall-out from Forrest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Building services specialist Proline Group is fighting for survival after being left with a string of unpaid bills by stricken contractor Forrest Group.<\/p>\n

Proline had been working on two major Forrest sites in Machester – the X1 Gateway where it had a \u00a33.7m M&E package and the X1 Plaza.<\/p>\n

Manchester based Proline is now working with business advisors Cowgills to\u00a0 explore options including administration.<\/p>\n

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The company could also keep the Proline name and brand in a slimmed-down business<\/p>\n

Group Managing Director Michael Fraser said the Forrest situation had caused a “devastating effect on our staff, subcontractors and suppliers and we are sincerely sorry for this.”<\/p>\n

Forrest is selling its social housing and energy divisions to Engie after refinancing talks for the business failed.<\/p>\n

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Forrest’s new build business is still in limbo after work stopped on all of its sites including the Manchester jobs where Proline was working.<\/p>\n

Fraser said: “We are a profitable business and have always operated in the right way but this has been a catastrophic event.<\/p>\n

“We are just getting through things day by day at the moment.<\/p>\n

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“We’ve not heard anything from Forrest for a while.<\/p>\n

“There’s a lot of goodwill towards our business and suppliers and clients have been very supportive.”<\/p>\n

Proline currently employs 22 apprentices including a quartet let go by Forrest earlier this year.<\/p>\n

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Latest accounts for Proline Group show the company made a pre-tax profit of \u00a3468,000 from a turnover of \u00a311.3m during the year to September 2017.<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/2UhaUCJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Building services specialist Proline Group is fighting for survival after being left with a string of unpaid bills by stricken contractor Forrest Group. Proline had been working on two major Forrest sites in Machester – the X1 Gateway where it had a \u00a33.7m M&E package and the X1 Plaza. Manchester based Proline is now working […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}