Margins remain slim and competition fierce, but the data from the 2010 indicate we're past the bottom.
For the Wm. Winkler Co. and Reed Concrete, both based in Spokane, Wash., keeping a company healthy meant joining forces by merging their companies.
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Is it becoming easier or harder to make a living as a concrete contractor? Of the CC100 respondents, 99 say harder; one says: are you kidding! Here are some other interesting observations from contractors.
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What are the defining issues of today’s concrete industry? Read what contractors think.
After poring over the numbers for months, one expression that could be used to describe the companies that comprise our CC100 list may be: Survival of the fittest.
Is 2008 the low point or only the beginning?
Last year's CC100 report started with a quote from the National Association of Home Builders that a “dramatic downward correction in housing production still is underway.” Little did we know then that the drama was only just beginning.
Our collection of the annual CC100 listing of the top commercial concrete contractors in the country, from 2003 to date.
Despite a challenging home-building environment, the concrete business is in the midst of a historic boom.
SelectBuild is intent on becoming the nation's number one provider of integrated construction services to high-volume production home-builders in key growth markets across the country.
In December, 2004, The Brookings Institution, an independent research organization, issued a report on the forces that will affect U.S. building trends over the next 25 years.
Concrete contractors are like farmers—things are never perfect. In the hot years of the late 1990s, labor shortages abounded and quality suffered. Fighting to find business and get decent margins were the main woes during the cold years from 2001 through 2003, then in 2004, just as business warmed...
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Overall the CC100 contractors had a pretty good year in 2003, and most are having an even better start to 2004. This article includes the top 100 contractors for 2003 by revenue. Also shown are the top 20 “pure” commercial concrete contractors, the 20 fastest growning companies, and the top...
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Of the ten fastest growing companies we highlighted in last year's CC100, two went out of business in the past year. That's one sign of how difficult 2002 was for many concrete contractors.
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"What doesn't destroy me makes me stronger" could be the nation's slogan for 2001, and that's also an appropriate description of the concrete construction industry's year. It was indeed a challenging year—as is the first half of 2002. Still, many contractors found ways to make their businesses...