Contracts worth more than £6m have helped an East Yorkshire joinery firm get off to a flying start in 2019.
Kingston Joinery, based in North Ferriby, was first launched in 2007 by Hull joiner Craig O’Leary, and has grown rapidly since then.
Turnover in 2018 passed the £8m mark, and the company now has as many as 150 joiners working on projects across the UK.
Kingston has won a string of impressive contracts so far in 2019, as it looks to build on its progress to date.
Mr O’Leary said more large scale projects are on the horizon for the firm, with its recent successes putting it firmly in the mix for more seven-figure contracts over the coming six months.
He said: “It has been another excellent six months for the business and such has been our growth we have recently added two new site managers, a new contracts manager and another business development manager to the team…
“We’re extremely proud of the types of contracts we are winning. They are prestigious multi-million pound developments across the country with leading developers.
“The key for us has been investing in the continued development of our senior team to ensure we have the right expertise tendering and pricing for work through to the design, supply, management and installation of joinery services on all sizes of developments, meeting specifications and budgets.”
Kingston today works on between 20 and 25 large contracts at any one time.
The firm remains on track to hit its ambitious £10m turnover target for 2019, and recently completed a £1.8m project with Interserve Construction at a new £200m medical rehabilitation centre near Loughborough.
The centre provides rehabilitation care for servicemen and women injured during strenuous training or in conflict, with a team from Kingston Joinery completing a full joinery installation including roofing, doors and all fixtures and fittings across the entire site.
Other significant work recently brought to a conclusion has included a £313,000 contract to supply and install timber windows on a new housing development for Barnfield Construction in Backbarrow, Cumbria.
“Certainly we are currently in the mix on tenders for some very large contracts that we would not have got near to winning a couple of years ago, such is their size, so it is very rewarding to see how our reputation has grown and the progress we have clearly made,” Mr O’Leary said.
Elsewhere, Kingston teams are in the final stages of the biggest single contract in the firm’s 12-year history with Interserve, worth in excess of £2.5m on a new multi-million pound residential development in Leeds.
The Sweet Street project has seen Kingston Joinery employed to complete a full internal fit out of general joinery and doors, and install 8,500 square metres of external cladding.
