{"id":35235,"date":"2026-04-30T06:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/kier-turnaround-cfo-to-join-sig\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T06:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:09:15","slug":"kier-turnaround-cfo-to-join-sig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/kier-turnaround-cfo-to-join-sig\/","title":{"rendered":"Kier turnaround CFO to join SIG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-507849\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Simon Kesterton takes up his new role this week following the resignation of incumbent Ian Ashton.<\/p>\n<p>Kesterton spent six years at Kier helping steer the group through its biggest financial reset in a generation before stepping down in December.<\/p>\n<p>He joined when Kier was on the ropes with a battered balance sheet and mounting debt and left with the group firmly back on its feet, cash discipline tightened and major IT and procurement shake-ups pushed through.<\/p>\n<p>A trading update by SIG this morning revealed UK sales were down 5% in the first quarter of 2026 on last year as \u201cdemand in most markets remains well below historical levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Results for the half year will be published in August and are expected to be below 2025 levels.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-info\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n<div class=\"author-avatar\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/userphoto\/3.jpg\" alt=\"Grant Prior\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"photo\">\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-info -->\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/2026\/04\/30\/kier-turnaround-cfo-to-join-sig\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Simon Kesterton takes up his new role this week following the resignation of incumbent Ian Ashton. Kesterton spent six &#8230; <a title=\"Kier turnaround CFO to join SIG\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/kier-turnaround-cfo-to-join-sig\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kier turnaround CFO to join SIG\">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-35235","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\/35235","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=35235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}