Balfour Beatty spend £9m on bolt-on acquisitions

Balfour Beatty has spent £9m on three bolt-on acquisitions, two of them in the UK and one in Sweden.

Balfour Beatty Management has acquired the NAP Partnership, based in Middlesbrough. With a turnover of £6m, it provides cost and contract consultancy services to clients in the north of England.

Also in the UK, the group’s management and maintenance arm, Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Services, has bought Chris Britton Consultancy which operates in the highways and pavement management sector.

In Sweden, Balfour Beatty Rail has acquired Carillion’s Swedish rail contracting company which undertakes a broad range of work including trackwork, electrification and power supply as well as maintenance operations.

It will be merged with Balfour’s existing Swedish rail operations which were recently strengthened by the acquisition of SAAB’s Nordic rail signalling and communications operations.