Costain

For those of us who regularly look for signals around the health of the construction market, the last few weeks have felt like an almost unrelenting barrage of negative signs. We’ve seen three reasonably sized firms collapse, including the CN100-listed Shaylor Group. Elsewhere, we heard today that the UK’s oldest…

By the standards of any plc, 14 years is a long time to live with the same CEO, as Costain has done with Andrew Wyllie.

“So, farewell then […] it would be surprising if the company was still around in a year’s time,” The Independent wrote of Costain in its business pages back in 1995.