Balfour Beatty, the builder behind London's Olympics aquatics centre, paints a difficult picture of UK business as a slow private recovery fails to keep pace with public-sector cuts... more
Energy procurement and carbon strategy consultancy Power Efficiency has been bought by Balfour Beatty for £18 million - most of which goes to the company's founders Bobby Collinson and Gary Harper... more
Southern Cross, the struggling care homes group, appoints a slew of executives - including a head of restructuring who worked as a turnaround director for the NHS - as it tries to negotiate rent reductions with landlords... more
Mouchel, the support services firm that is suing Westminster council over its botched £50 million parking contract, is rubbing its hands with glee about the Government’s cost-cutting plans... more
Could Archie Norman have a pleasant surprise for ITV investors next month? Goldman Sachs thinks a big pick-up in advertising demand is on the cards... more
Ofgem said it had strong competition among bidders looking to run the £1 billion-plus transmission contracts that will bring the electricity generated by offshore wind farms into Britain's grid... more
Several of Britain’s top building firms were handed fines running into millions of pounds today, after being found guilty of brazen scams to rip off the taxpayer and private developers ... more
Most acquisitions fail — roughly three quarters of them, according to research, do not add value to the acquiring firm nor benefit to its shareholders. Yet there are a few companies that make a mockery of these odds and become successful serial acquirers ... more
Most acquisitions fail - roughly three quarters of them, according to research, do not add value to the acquiring firm nor benefit to its shareholders... more
Balfour Beatty is on the verge of a major acquisition believed to be in the US which will see it go to shareholders to raise around £350 million via a rights issue... more
Balfour Beatty today shrugged off fears it would suffer from the next government’s slashing spending as it continued to defy the gloom in the construction industry ... more
Balfour Beatty, the construction giant which has just started work on some major disruption of the M25, admitted trading in the past six months had been a case of swings and roundabouts ... more
Up to 15,000 jobs were being lined up as two of Britain's major industrial companies were brought in to help the French build Britain's new fleet of nuclear power stations... more
Balfour Beatty, Capita Group and Laing O'Rourke have made it on to the shortlist for Europe's biggest construction job, the £15.9billion Crossrail project... more
Controversial construction giant Balfour Beatty could be limbering up for a piece of the action should Gatwick and Stansted airports come on to the market... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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