ATKINS MOVES A STEP CLOSER TO BLUE-CHIP HEAVEN

摘要

Ws atkins is a stock-market-listed multinational infrastructure engineering and design group that rarely makes big headlines. This is partly because many of its activities are not that 'sexy' in engineering terms. It is also because the business has not yet grown to the point where it would gain entry to the ranks of the FTSE-100, thereby winning the 'blue chip' status so favoured by the financial media. But that could all change for the 76-year-old British company. Its latest annual results showed yet another yearly rise in revenues and profits. For the year-to-end March 2014, underlying profits - stripping out cash from disposals -increased 7 per cent to £106m on the back of a 2.6 per cent rise in revenues to £1.75bn compared with the previous year.