Top 20 Plant Hirers 2011

The Top 20 Plant Hirers league table also presents a more stable picture, with a marginal increase in overall revenue. Aggreko continues to blaze a trail at the top, returning a remarkable 25% margin on its £1.2bn turnover. There was still plenty of red ink on the balance sheet though – notably for Speedy, Harsco, Hewden Stuart, and Hydrex.

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Rank by turnover	Rank by profit	Company	Latest turnover (£m)	Previous turnover (£m)	Latest pre-tax profit (£m)	Previous pre-tax profit (£m)	Latest margin (%)	Previous margin (%)	2010 Rank by turnover	2010 Rank by profit
1	1	Aggreko	1,229.9	1,023.9	304.4	244.0	24.7	23.8	1	1
2	13	Ashtead	847.0	838.0	1.7	4.8	0.2	0.6	2	9
3	19	Speedy	354.0	351.0	-27.0	-22.8	-7.6	-6.5	3	18
4	7	Lavendon	225.0	227.0	10.7	-48.0	4.8	-21.1	5	20
5	3	Select	188.5	235.4	14.9	24.1	7.9	10.2	4	2
6	4	HSS	160.0	142.0	14.9	4.2	9.3	3.0	7	10
7	6	Vp	141.0	134.0	12.2	14.3	8.7	10.7	8	4
8	17	Harsco Infrastructure	122.4	160.6	-10.6	-3.4	-8.7	-2.1	6	14
9	18	Hewden Stuart	121.5	118.3	-13.8	-24.6	-11.4	-20.8	10	17
10	2	Ainscough	109.8	128.7	19.4	30.0	17.7	23.3	11	3
11	8	Brandon	103.2	86.6	7.0	-28.0	6.8	-32.3	13	19
12	20	Hydrex	88.6	118.4	-73.0	-10.1	-82.4	-8.5	9	16
13	12	Gap	74.3	67.7	2.3	-0.8	3.1	-1.2	14	11
14	16	Deborah Services	70.0	88.3	0.6	2.9	0.9	3.3	12	12
15	9	Amey Fleet Services	69.4	70.3	4.6	5.0	6.6	7.1	15	8
16	5	Andrews Sykes	56.0	54.4	14.4	13.4	25.7	24.6	16	5
17	10	Selwood	38.9	47.1	4.5	6.5	11.6	13.8	17	6
18	14	Quattro	34.3	32.6	0.9	-2.8	2.6	-8.6
19	15	Generation	29.5	39.8	0.8	1.6	2.7	4.0
20	11	Go Plant	29.3	28.7	2.7	2.1	9.2	7.3
		Totals	4,092.6	3,992.8	291.6	212.4	1.6	1.5

All companies ranked according to their most recently filed accounts.