Construction and civil engineering firm Esh Group has returned to profitability after a difficult period in recent years.
The County Durham company has undergone a major re-organisation over the past four years and fell to a loss during the pandemic, having previously noted ‘challenging’ conditions in the years before that. But now it says that turnover has increased by £32m to £255m - one of the largest increased in the company’s history - and that it has posted an operating profit of £4m.
Chief executive Andy Radcliffe noted that the business, and the wider construction sector, was seeing unprecedented cost pressures and was targetting projects that would “increase turnover via routes to market which present reduced risk”.
