{"id":602293,"date":"2023-01-28T19:49:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T01:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/28\/colas-back-in-profit-after-pandemic-troubles\/"},"modified":"2023-01-28T19:49:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T01:49:08","slug":"colas-back-in-profit-after-pandemic-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/28\/colas-back-in-profit-after-pandemic-troubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Colas back in profit after pandemic troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper_sleeve\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ca.emap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/02\/Colas-Traffic-Management-Crew-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"Colas traffic management crew\"  >        <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Colas has returned to profit after complications caused by the COVID-19 pandemic sunk the firm into a loss back in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The contractor tabled a pre-tax profit of \u00a37.9m in the year to 31 December 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/financial\/colas-blames-lockdown-as-losses-deepen-30-09-2021\/\">after a \u00a32.8m loss the year prior<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021 profit hike was mainly due to Colas successfully completing a number of big jobs that \u201cexperienced some delays due to the pandemic\u201d in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>One such job was the \u00a38m 2.5km Humber Bank Link Road in East Lincolnshire, which was completed in early in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The firm also scooped spots on major road frameworks including a seven-year work compilation with Leeds City Council and a spot on National Highways\u2019 \u00a33.6bn scheme delivery framework.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of the pandemic did, however, push Colas\u2019s 2021 turnover down to \u00a3212.3m compared with \u00a3229.8m the year before.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, the firm announced a \u201cgrowth plan to increase turnover\u201d in the coming years \u2013 with plans to recruit at least 300 employees to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/civils\/colas-takes-328m-national-highways-contract-from-kier-04-01-2022\/\">work on National Highways\u2019 \u00a3328m Area 9<\/a> contract, which it scooped in January 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpansion in [the] Midlands and the North is expected to grow and the future is bright and positive as we build on the Colas brand and relationships that have been formed,\u201d a statement from the firm said.<\/p>\n<p>It added that \u201ccollaboration with various joint ventures\u201d will also help it grow in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>The firm decreased its total employee number by more than 100 between 2020 and 2021 though, according to its annual report. In 2021 it had an average staff total of 968 compared with 1098 the year before.<\/p>\n<p>The firm also moved its headquarters to Birmingham from West Sussex in 2021, which it said was part of \u201cits long-term strategic growth plans and post-pandemic property review\u201d. The firm also opened a new office in Leeds later that year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Related articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/financial\/colas-back-in-profit-after-pandemic-troubles-27-01-2023\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Joshua Stein<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colas has returned to profit after complications caused by the COVID-19 pandemic sunk the firm into a loss back in 2020. The contractor tabled a pre-tax profit of \u00a37.9m in the year to 31 December 2021 after a \u00a32.8m loss the year prior. The 2021 profit hike was mainly due to Colas successfully completing a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":602294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100247,23002],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-602293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colas","8":"category-profit"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}