{"id":8364,"date":"2025-10-09T17:46:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=8364"},"modified":"2025-10-09T17:46:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:46:42","slug":"ocus-buying-spree-drives-revenue-to-nearly-900m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/ocus-buying-spree-drives-revenue-to-nearly-900m\/","title":{"rendered":"OCU\u2019s buying spree drives revenue to nearly \u00a3900m"},"content":{"rendered":"

Energy and utilities infrastructure services contractor OCU Group revved revenue up 45% to \u00a3887m for the year to April 2025 after bedding in three more acquisitions.<\/p>\n

The rapid growth of the private equity-backed group saw it booked a \u00a364m pre-tax loss, double last year\u2019s \u00a331m.<\/p>\n

Red ink was driven by higher interest on \u00a3656m of borrowings, a jump in non-cash goodwill amortisation from acquisitions, and one-off refinancing costs.<\/p>\n

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Under the bonnet, trading was strong as adjusted operating profit jumped 69% to \u00a399m with operating margins up to 11.2% from 9.6%. Statutory operating profit after exceptionals was \u00a328.1m.<\/p>\n

Top-line growth blended 11% organic progress with a revenue flows from recently bought civils contractor RJ McLeod, water industry design specialist Purestream and trenchless technology expert McCormack Drilling.<\/p>\n

These firms added scale across energy, water and trenchless delivery, while a post-year end majority stake in Australia\/NZ player AEC opened an foothold further afield in the asia pacific region.<\/p>\n

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Chief executive Michael Hughes said: \u201cOCU Group has created a robust capability for sourcing, executing, and integrating strategic acquisitions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe maintain rigorous standards, engaging only with companies that meet our high criteria for cultural alignment and commercial rigour, completing around one in every twelve potential transactions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hughes added: \u201cThe long-term structural drivers in the UK\u2019s energy transition, digital connectivity, and regulated utilities markets remain clear and compelling.<\/p>\n

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“Ofgem\u2019s RIIO-ED2, Ofwat\u2019s AMP8, Project Gigabit, and Scotland\u2019s ScotWind program each represent multi-billion-pound investment frameworks aligned to OCU\u2019s capabilities.<\/p>\n

“The scale and duration of these programs provide a resilient platform for growth, even in the face of broader macroeconomic volatility.”<\/p>\n

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

Energy and utilities infrastructure services contractor OCU Group revved revenue up 45% to \u00a3887m for the year to April 2025 after bedding in three more acquisitions. The rapid growth of the private equity-backed group saw it booked a \u00a364m pre-tax loss, double last year\u2019s \u00a331m. Red ink was driven by higher interest on \u00a3656m of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155,"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-8364","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\/8364","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=8364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8365,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8364\/revisions\/8365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}