SURVIVING 2009 - AND COMPETING IN 2010

摘要

Balfour Beatty chief operating officer Andrew McNaughton credits his firm's success over the past two years to a combination of its diversification strategy and its cost-cutting drive.rn"Our response has been twofold. Two or three years ago, before the financial crisis, we started to diversify our business model. Back then, 80% of our business was in the UK, now it'sjust 55%. If we hadn't diversified in the way we have, the recession would have been difficult for us.rn"We've also had to respond directly to the recession by taking costs down through restructuring. We've brought our M&E businesses together and combined our rail businesses to reduce costs.