Birse Group
UK business
Birse Group was a construction and civil engineering company based in North Yorkshire, England. It was acquired by Balfour Beatty in 2006 who retired the brand in 2014.
History
The company was founded by Peter Birse as the Birse Group in Doncaster in 1970. It was floated on the stock market during 1989; one of the results of which being that the German civil engineering company Bilfinger Berger acquired a 15% shareholding in the firm. Peter Birse also held a considerable personal stake (at one point amounting to 14.1%) in the business, which he largely retained through to the 21st century.
Birse Group routinely worked with various state-owned bodies. In 1990, it was awarded a contract to extend HM Prison Leeds, as was a separate arrangement with the Property Services Agency valued at £3 million; the company also commenced construction of the Leighton Linsdale Bypass on behalf of Bedfordshire County Council under a £22 million project. By the end of that year, an almost 50 per cent rise in pre-tax profits was anticipated for 1990–91.
The company would often enter into consortiums for some of its undertakings, such as with Purac to fulfil a £14.7 million design and build contract for a new water treatment plant for Yorkshire Water. Road construction was a key area for the company during the early 1990s; however, despite being awarded multiple such contracts valued in the tens of millions that year, 1993 was a fiscally unsatisfactory year for Birse Group.
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