Top 20 Plant Hirers 2007

The Top 20 Plant Hirers league table is published with the Contract Journal Construction Top 100, and provides a review of the financial performances of the UK's 20 biggest plant hirers.

The information below contains the headline financial figures, and ranks plant hirers according to turnover and profit. You can also view a PDF of the print version of this table, which provides additional details such as capital employed, number of employees, average wage, highest paid director, and the date of accounts.

Rank by
turnover
Rank by
profit
Company
Latest turn-
over (£m)
Latest pre-tax
profit
(£m)
1
1
Ashtead
638.0
81.7
2
2
Aggreko
540.7
73.9
3
3
Speedy
335.5
36.4
4
4
Hewden Stuart
282.5
25.0
5
5
Select Plant
225.8
17.1
6
10
SGB
173.8
8.4
7
17
HSS
163.3
2.7
8
12
Lavendon
124.7
.7.7
9
6
Vp
121.6
14.5
10
9
Hydrex
84.5
8.5
11
8
Ainscough
77.4
10.2
12
13
Alfred McAlpine Asset Man.
69.5
6.2
13
11
GAP
69.0
8.1
14
14
Deboarh Services
68.9
5.6
15
15
Amey Fleet Services
64.2
4.5
16
20
Brandon
63.8
-9.3
17
7
Andrews Sykes
59.8
13.8
18
18
Carrier Rental Systems (Longville)
50.0
1.3
19
19
GE Capital Equipment
46.3
-5.4
20
16
Generation Holdings
43.4
4.0

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