Turnover up at East Anglian builder

A specialist building firm in East Anglia is on course to defy the gloom over construction industry by recording a modest increase in turnover and profits this year.

King's Lynn-based Chalcroft expects to see turnover rise from £32m in the financial year to June 2009 to £34m this summer thanks to clients in the food industry deciding to refurbish or extend their premises.

Chalcroft numbers Coca-Cola, Kellogg's, Dairy Crest, and Nestle among its clients and its recent contracts have included the development of a high-care temperature-controlled production facility for in Lincolnshire, and a chill store extension for a food wholesaler in Hertfordshire.

But the firm has also been working on "digital switchover" projects around the country - upgrading roads, buildings and electrical supply systems linked to TV transmitter masts.

The firm employs about 140 people nationwide and about 40 in Lynn.

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