"Strong" performance by one of Gloucestershire's biggest firms
One of Gloucestershire's modern business success stories has published its financial results for the first six months of 2025, declaring a "strong" performance.
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One of Gloucestershire's biggest businesses, home-grown Brockworth-headquartered Mears plc, has reported “a period of strong operational, financial and strategic performance” for its first six months of the year.
Lucas Critchley, the firm’s chief executive officer, was upbeat despite a fall in revenue of four per cent (from £580 million to £559.4m) - probably helped by the increase in pre-tax profits by five per cent to £32 million.
The scale of its financials make it a focus for The Raikes Journal’s Top 100 Businesses in Gloucestershire series, which follows the fortunes of the county’s biggest firms by turnover and which we cover on in our Reports and Deals channel.
