{"id":30227,"date":"2025-05-01T05:28:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T12:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/tilbury-douglas-boosts-margin-to-2-1-as-profits-double\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T05:28:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T12:28:37","slug":"tilbury-douglas-boosts-margin-to-2-1-as-profits-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/tilbury-douglas-boosts-margin-to-2-1-as-profits-double\/","title":{"rendered":"Tilbury Douglas boosts margin to 2.1% as profits double"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"310\" data-end=\"500\">In 2024, the contractor increased revenue by 7% to \u00a3542m but made a bigger leap in profitability, with operating profit jumping from \u00a33.8m to \u00a311.5m, lifting its margin from 0.7% to 2.1%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"502\" data-end=\"734\">That shift marks a key milestone for the group in only its second full year as an independent business, driven by stronger performances in building, fit-out and engineering. Infrastructure also saw big gains after a turnaround year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"882\" data-end=\"1085\">Tilbury Douglas secured over \u00a3637m of new work during the year and ended with a \u00a31.26bn forward order book, rising to \u00a31.32bn by March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"882\" data-end=\"1085\">This covers the 2025 revenue target and 69% of 2026\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1087\" data-end=\"1285\">Chief executive Chris Tatton said: \u201cTilbury Douglas continues to enjoy improving performance, which brings financial and business stability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1453\" data-end=\"1648\">\u201cWith a robust long-term order book, a strategy well-aligned to national needs, and talented people and suppliers, our group has a strong platform to continue delivering great projects for our valued customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1287\" data-end=\"1451\">Projects in education, health, justice, defence and water now make up over 90% of revenue. Key 2025 wins include new schools, prison jobs, and the Barbican renewal.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/2025\/05\/01\/tilbury-douglas-boosts-margin-to-2-1-as-profits-double\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In 2024, the contractor increased revenue by 7% to \u00a3542m but made a bigger leap in profitability, with operating &#8230; <a title=\"Tilbury Douglas boosts margin to 2.1% as profits double\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/tilbury-douglas-boosts-margin-to-2-1-as-profits-double\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tilbury Douglas boosts margin to 2.1% as profits double\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-enquirer","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}