{"id":7230,"date":"2025-08-14T15:46:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=7230"},"modified":"2025-08-14T15:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:46:52","slug":"profits-double-at-octavius-as-road-and-rail-work-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/profits-double-at-octavius-as-road-and-rail-work-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Profits double at Octavius as road and rail work grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructure contractor Octavius has seen profits nearly double as rail and highways work continued to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Results for the year to March 31 2025 show pre-tax profits jumped to \u00a38.6m from \u00a34.7m last time on turnover up to \u00a3323m from \u00a3277m.<\/p>\n<p>In the last three years Octavius has grown by nearly 70% and the company is now working to new five-year business plan drawn-up earlier this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"492636\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwinchmorebrickwork.co.uk%2Fabout-us%2F%3Futm_source%3Dconstruction-enquirer%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%26utm_campaign%3Dconstructionenq-ads\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WINChMORE_JOBS_MPU.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Staff numbers also increased during the year to 703 from 630.<\/p>\n<p>The Reigate based business received a boost in turnover from recently acquired companies which added \u00a338.8m in revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Octavius Chief Executive Officer John Dowset said:\u00a0\u201cBehind these numbers there are so many success stories, amazing projects, brilliant individual and team contributions, and impressive collaborations with our customers and our suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe golden thread throughout is The Octavius Way, the essence of who we are and how we conduct ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"127094\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fawkesandreecepartner.co.uk%2F%3Futm_source%3Dconstruction-enquirer%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%26utm_campaign%3Dconstructionenq-ads\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mclaren gif.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"479429\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vpgroundforce.com%2Fgb%2Fyoursolution%2F%3Futm_source%3Dconstructionenquirersite%26utm_medium%3Dwebskins%26utm_campaign%3Dys%252Blaunch%26utm_id%3Dyoursolution%252Blaunch%26utm_content%3DMPU%3Futm_source%3Dconstruction-enquirer%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%26utm_campaign%3Dconstructionenq-ads\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/groundforceCE MPU 300 x 250.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/RMp9zI2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructure contractor Octavius has seen profits nearly double as rail and highways work continued to grow. Results for the year to March 31 2025 show pre-tax profits jumped to \u00a38.6m from \u00a34.7m last time on turnover up to \u00a3323m from \u00a3277m. In the last three years Octavius has grown by nearly 70% and the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149,"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-7230","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\/7230","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=7230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7231,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230\/revisions\/7231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}