Watkin Jones to create 20 new jobs after achieving £70m sales
Bucking the economic crisis facing building companies in the UK, Bangor-based Watkin Jones generated a profit before tax of £8.15m and saw sales total more than £69.9m.
Speaking exclusively to Business Post, managing director Mark Watkin-Jones said the 320-strong group was garnering more contracts outside of North Wales in a bid to expand and grow.A contract to build Premier Inn hotels for Whitbread is one of the firm’s major tie-ups, as is ‘Fresh Student Living’.
The Gwynedd group developed FSL to service its student accommodation and now maintains and manages 4,000 beds and a rolling rent of up to £14million per year …