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FACTBOX-British builders hit with fines for fixing bids

Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:12am EDT

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Sept 22 (Reuters) - Britain's Office of Fair Trading slapped 129.5 million pounds ($210 million) worth of fines on 103 construction companies for fixing bids, with penalties ranging from hundred pounds up to 17.9 million. [ID:nLM168755] Following is a list of the 22 companies fined a million pounds or more:

Kier Group Plc (KIE.L) 17,894,438

Interserve Plc (IRV.L) 11,634,750

Galliford Try Plc (GFRD.L) 8,333,329

Ballast Nedam (BALNc.AS) 8,333,116

Bowmer & Kirkland 7,574,736

Concentra Ltd and Durkan Holdings 6,720,551

John Sisk & Son (Scion Ltd) 6,191,627

Connaught Plc (CNT.L) 5,568,868

Willmott Dixon Holdings Ltd 4,534,760

Carillion (CLLN.L) 5,375,689

Balfour Beatty (BALF.L) 5,197,004

ISG Pearce Ltd and Crest Nicholson 5,188,846

Renew Holdings* (RNWH.L) 3,547,931

R.G. Carter Holdings Ltd 2,981,580

Apollo Property Services Group 2,150,536

Sol Construction (Barkbury Ltd) 1,835,702

GMI Construction 1,752,584

North Midland Construction Plc (NMD.L) 1,543,813

Seddon Group Ltd 1,516,646

G.F. Tomlinson 1,269,270

Henry Boot Plc (BHY.L) 1,074,441

Thomas Vale Holdings 1,020,473

* Fine applies to Renew, its Allenbuild division and its former subsidiary Bullock Construction Ltd

(Reporting by Paul Hoskins; Editing by Dan Lalor) ($1 = 0.6181 pound)



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