{"id":4876,"date":"2019-04-11T07:40:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T07:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=4876"},"modified":"2019-04-11T07:40:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T07:40:15","slug":"beard-group-revenue-tops-150m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/beard-group-revenue-tops-150m\/","title":{"rendered":"Beard Group revenue tops \u00a3150m"},"content":{"rendered":"

South of England construction group Beard is expecting to deliver further growth this year after revenue rose 4% in 2018 to a record \u00a3150m.<\/p>\n

The group, which specialises in projects worth up to \u00a320m in its selected markets, lifted pre-tax profit by a similar rate to \u00a34.5m and also ended the year with a record order book.<\/p>\n

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Beard\u2019s chairman, Mark Beard, said: \u201c2018 has been a good year for the Group with favourable market conditions generating healthy levels of turnover and profit.<\/p>\n

“With a strong order book currently standing at \u00a3105m, and our ongoing investment in growing our own skilled workforce, we expect this positive momentum to continue in 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The business, which operates out of offices in Bristol, Swindon, Oxford and Guildford, is now placed on 25 framework agreements. <\/p>\n

It recently secured a place on Pagabo\u2019s \u00a31bn national framework for medium works across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey, Sussex; Hampshire\/Isle of Wight, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Bristol\/Bath, Dorset and Somerset. <\/p>\n

The three-year framework with a one-year extension option, is for all public sector contracting authorities and covers education, health, sports, leisure, prisons and emergency services building projects in the \u00a3250,000 to \u00a35m value range.<\/p>\n

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