Interserve profit up on support services demand
The company, which built Beverley Community Hospital and Scarborough General Hospital, said it was maintaining its outlook for 2011.
January-June pre-tax profit was £30.1m, compared with £27.3m last year. Revenue fell marginally to £928m.
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Hide AdIts support services unit, which provides a broad range of outsourced services to the public and private sectors mainly in the UK, grew profits by 76 per cent year-on-year as it continued to build on the turnaround began in the second half.
In April, British business services group Mouchel had rebuffed a 135 pence per share offer from Interserve, saying it undervalued the business, and later terminated all talks related to a sale of the business.