Industry round-up: results and opportunities

Multi-disciplinary property group Chesterton has turned itself around, converting a £1.5M loss for last year into £4M of pre-tax profit this year. One important contributor is the FM division Workplace Management, responsible for about £100M of services for British Gas, BA, Cable & Wireless and others.

Chesterton has also launched two new divisions, one focusing on structured finance and the other participating in (and taking an equity stake in, where appropriate) consortia bidding for facilities and property partnering contracts.

Johnson Controls will share the speakers' platform with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young and BT at a CBI-sponsored conference on the workplace.

'Improving business productivity through best practice workplace management' is scheduled for 29 November. The half-day event is designed to show senior executives how to improve company performance by turning the workplace into an asset, rather than treating it as an overhead.

More information is available from organisers Quadrilect on 0171 242-4141.

Elliott Chase