Rok Takes Top Spot In December But Work Is Half 2007 Levels

摘要

A comparison between the total amount of work won in December 2008 and the same month in 2007 makes for predictably gloomy reading.rnAlthough the top 30 companies won 255 contracts compared with 276 in the previous year, the value of the work was less than half: ￡1.7bn as against ￡3.5bn, although last year's total was skewed by Laing O'Rourke's ￡1.8bn deal for Heathrow's East Terminal.rnTop of the tree was Rok, which won 17 jobs totalling ￡375m. This will be welcome news after the contractor issued a profit warning in November and axed 750 jobs. Garvis Snook, Rok's chief executive, said: "The lights across the UK went out in the week after the government's bank bail out."