New Contract Wins

RNS Number : 4597Z

Mears Group PLC

21 July 2008

 

21 July 2008

 

We are pleased today to be able to announce further significant social housing contract awards amounting to £170m. This brings the total aggregate contract awards in the 4 months since we announced our preliminary results to over £340m.

Metropolitan Housing Trust 

We have been awarded a 10-year sole partner contract with Metropolitan Housing Trust (“MHT”) based in London and the Midlands to provide responsive repairs, planned maintenance, cyclical decorating and voids services.  MHT own over 30,000 properties, making them one of the largest Housing Associations in the country. The total contract is valued at £157 million. The contract is due to commence on 1 October 2008. 

Bracknell Forest Homes

We have been awarded a 4-year partnership with Bracknell Forest Homes (“BFH”) to carry out Decent Homes works. BFH was established in February this year, following a transfer from the Council. BFH has over 5,600 properties. The contract is valued at £13 million.

Commenting, Bob Holt, Chief Executive of Mears Group, said:

“The first 6 months of 2008 has been record breaking for Mears in terms of new contract wins. The award of the Metropolitan Housing contract, in particular, is another tremendous success for the Group. We continue to place great emphasis on winning good quality contracts that provide clear and sustainable margins and where our partnership ethos will be valued. The pipeline remains strong and I look forward to bringing news of further contract awards in the near future. Our order book now stands at £1.6 billion and the visibility of future revenues has been enhanced. We are confident of further tender success in the near future”.

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Mears (LSE ticker: MER.L) is a leading provider of outsourced services to the public sector. The Group operates across two core divisions, that of Social Housing and Domiciliary Care. The Social Housing division provides rapid response and planned maintenance to Local Authorities and Registered Social Landlords in the UK, and is also a provider of building services for capital improvement works such as the Decent Homes programme, which aims to ensure all social housing meets set standards of decency. The Domiciliary Care division provides support to people, mainly those over 65 years of age, who remain in their own homes through the provision of personal care services, which are delivered principally as part of outsourcing arrangements with Local Authorities.

 

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