{"id":624790,"date":"2023-04-02T14:49:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T19:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/02\/foundations-specialist-saved-from-administration\/"},"modified":"2023-04-02T14:49:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T19:49:23","slug":"foundations-specialist-saved-from-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/02\/foundations-specialist-saved-from-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundations specialist saved from administration"},"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\/2019\/05\/CN-Awards-19_Best-innovation_Sheet-Piling-UK-2-1024x683.jpg\"   alt=\"CN-Awards-19_Best-innovation_Sheet-Piling-UK-2-1024x683.jpg\">        <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Foundations specialist Abbey Pynford has been saved from administration after being bought by Wiltshire-based contractor Conlon Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Abbey Pynford, which is located in Luton, filed a notice to appoint administrators last month. But the firm\u2019s new managing director Robert Mitchell confirmed to <em>Construction News<\/em> that Conlon has since bought the company&#8217;s shareholding for an undisclosed sum, avoiding the need for administration.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell told <em>CN<\/em> that Abbey Pynford, which employed an average of 12 people a month in 2021, \u201cremains a standalone business\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Conlon was a former client of Abbey Pynford and had \u201cgot to know the business very well\u201d through working with the company for more than 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Conlon\u2019s turnover was \u00a335.3m, down from \u00a345.9m the previous year, with pre-tax profit of \u00a31.6m. It employed an average of 241 people.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell previously worked in various senior roles for Abbey Pynford before leaving in December 2021. The firm\u2019s former managing director Steve Wilson has now left.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The entry deadline for the<a href=\"https:\/\/specialistsawards.constructionnews.co.uk\/cnsp2023\/en\/page\/home\">\u00a02023 CN Specialists Awards<\/a>\u00a0is less than one month away!<\/p>\n<p>Subcontractors and other specialists across the UK have until\u00a0<strong>28 April<\/strong>\u00a0to submit their entries.<\/p>\n<p>Entrants will be judged on their achievements between January 2022 and April 2023. There are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/specialistsawards.constructionnews.co.uk\/cnsp2023\/en\/page\/categories\">21 categories to enter<\/a>, chosen to showcase the incredible breadth and depth of talent across the UK\u2019s construction supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>Written entries will be carefully examined by an extensive panel of expert judges during May, with shortlisted entrants invited to present their work to the judges face-to-face in June.<\/p>\n<p>Winning entrants will collect their accolades at a black-tie celebration dinner, to be held at the Hilton London Metropole on 7 September.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit the\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/specialistsawards.constructionnews.co.uk\/\"><strong>CN Specialists Awards website<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0for further details and to\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/specialistsawards.constructionnews.co.uk\/cnsp2023\/en\/page\/enter-now\"><strong>enter now<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<h3>Related articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/financial\/ma\/foundations-specialist-saved-from-administration-31-03-2023\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Jonathan Knott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foundations specialist Abbey Pynford has been saved from administration after being bought by Wiltshire-based contractor Conlon Ltd. Abbey Pynford, which is located in Luton, filed a notice to appoint administrators last month. But the firm\u2019s new managing director Robert Mitchell confirmed to Construction News that Conlon has since bought the company&#8217;s shareholding for an undisclosed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":624791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47027,34921],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-624790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-foundations","8":"category-specialist"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624790","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=624790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}