Skanska UK publishes shapshot of half-year results
Skanska UK is planning to recruit 1,000 new staff in 2015 to help it deliver its burgeoning workload, the firm鈥檚 chief executive Mike Putnam has said.
Putnam said the firm was on a recruitment drive in snapshot results published by Skanska UK for the first half of 2015. In these results, the firm said its operating profit dropped 19% to 拢16.1m, down from 拢19.9m for the same period the previous year.
Revenue inched up 4% to 拢675m, up from 拢651.4m the previous year. Putnam said the firm recruited 750 people in 2014 and 鈥渢he outlook for 2015 as a whole is positive鈥�.
Contract wins during the first half of the year .
Skanska UK is also working, in joint venture with Skanska Sweden, on a new research facility near Malm枚 in Sweden, worth 拢25.4m to the UK business.
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