Bucknall Austin - General - UK, Bucknall Austin Ups Turnover and Profits

Date: 20 Nov 2006

Construction and property consultancy Bucknall Austin has boosted profits according to its latest unaudited results. Improved margins saw profit before interest and tax rise by a third from £450,000 in 2005 to £600,000 on turnover increased by 18% to £26.5m, in its third year since the reformation as Bucknall Austin.

Sheffield office managing partner Graham Hastie said: "Financially, we are performing well but more importantly we are consistently winning quality commissions. We have also beefed up our board with both internal appointments and talent from outside."

The results cap an upbeat year for the owner managed business, which saw it sign former CBI director general Sir Digby Jones as an advisor in May as well as luring Andy Ritchie, who set up Bucknall Austin's operations in Manchester and Hong Kong over ten years ago, back from EC Harris.

Bucknall's will also be named this month as No 23 in 'Britain's Top Employers 2007', the result of the 6th annual research by the Guardian and the Corporate Research Foundation, after making its debut last year as one of only two inclusions from the world of construction.

That follows hot on the heels of achieving Investors in People status and being asked to be a best practice case study.

Graham concluded: "It's a great platform from which to achieve our goals of becoming the consultants' benchmark as the pioneering employer, best service provider and creator of market-leading customer relationships."

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