Margins up as Balfour Beatty turnaround continues

摘要

Balfour Beatty shrugged off the problems besetting its peers and turned in an improved set of numbers last year, which saw the country's biggest contractor hit its margins targets. The firm said it is now reaching the targets it set itself under chief executive Leo Quinn's revamp of the business called Build to Last, which he began after joining in 2015. Quinn (pictured) arrived at a business that was haemorrhaging money and had close to 100 problem contracts on its books, of which the firm says only five remain.