Founded in 1897, the Wates Group is one of the UK’s largest privately owned construction and development companies. The Group is structured around 4 market streams – Construction, Living Space, Retail and Interiors.

Our staff are focused on creating value for our customers and business partners at every stage of the construction process, from development through build to facilities management, maintenance and recycling.

We combine this customer focus with a rigorous commitment to safety and to the personal and professional development of our employees.

Our operations cover most of the UK with offices in London, Maidstone, Basingstoke, Bristol, Cambridge, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.

With a turnover in 2005 of £670m and profits of £8.5m, the Group has implemented a new customer-facing service structure, developed to provide specialist delivery capability. Its aim is to support better, deeper relationships with long-term customers. Our service structure is underpinned by procedures designed to improve performance and take waste out of everything we do. We are already seeing the benefits of this approach and have a record order book for 2007 and 2008 from a reduced number of customers.