{"id":157213,"date":"2025-09-24T09:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/157213\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T09:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:07:11","slug":"turnover-tops-650m-at-fosters-as-middle-east-work-doubles-to-more-than-350m-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/157213\/","title":{"rendered":"Turnover tops \u00a3650m at Fosters as Middle East work doubles to more than \u00a3350m | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"picture\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"red sea\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2013828_redsea_813077_crop.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazyloaded\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Turnover at Foster &amp; Partners grew to a record \u00a3653m, the firm has said in group accounts filed at Companies House.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue at the UK\u2019s biggest architect by turnover jumped 55% in the year to April as pre-tax profit rebounded from last year\u2019s \u00a32m to \u00a374m.<\/p>\n<p>The firm, which has been appointed to design a new stadium for Manchester United, said it now employs more than 2,200 people, from 1,900 last time, while cash at the year end was \u00a3207m from \u00a356m.<\/p>\n<p>More than half the firm\u2019s income came from the Middle East with revenue here doubling from \u00a3177m to \u00a3356m.<\/p>\n<p>In his executive chairman\u2019s notes, practice founder Norman Foster said: \u201cThe Kingdom of Saudi Arabia remains an area of growth for the practice.\u201d The firm has work at several schemes on Saudi\u2019s Red Sea coast including a marine life centre which will feature a 40m-long man-made coral reef.<\/p>\n<p>Turnover from North America was up 73% to \u00a3110m while business in Asia was up 29% to \u00a375m. UK workloads edged up 8% to \u00a341m.<\/p>\n<p>The firm said it had projects ongoing in 48 cities across five continents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turnover at Foster &amp; Partners grew to a record \u00a3653m, the firm has said in group accounts filed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-157213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}