Building firm AM Griffiths celebrates record month
Carillion may have gone, but the company that built its Wolverhampton headquarters 40 years ago is still going strong and just enjoyed its best-ever month.
AM Griffiths & Son, also known as AMG, built the former Staffordshire House building in Salop Street in 1977 for the now defunct Staffordshire Building Society. It was later taken over by Carillion, the construction group that collapsed into compulsory liquidation in January.
But AMG has gone from strength to strength and has just achieved a company record for orders picked up in a single month – £14 million of new work in March.
It is the best month the company has recorded in the 118 years since its started out from the Thomas Street offices in Wolverhampton where it is still based.
Business development director Brendan Oakley said: "The orders we have received are from a diverse range of clients in fields that AMG regularly undertakes construction work in - healthcare, commercial and industrial, retail, education and housing sectors.
"It is a testament to the hard work and commitment of the 54 employees at the company under the direction of managing director Richard Green, chairman Maurice Walsh and co-directors Gary Wildsmith and Simon Dix."
Mr Oakley added: "AMG has a deserved and an earnt reputation within the industry for stability and reliability and is known for looking after its supply chain of sub-contractors and suppliers – many of which are in the Black Country – with the respect and care they deserve."
The March success includes two education projects, worth a total of £6m, for a local academy trust and a university, a £3m hospital project and three more, worth £5m altogether in the industrial and commercial sector.
Mr Oakley said the company took particularly pride in the fact that 80 per cent of its current turnover came from repeat business from existing clients and design teams.
Among the successful projects completed by the company in recent years were the Harding Law Building at Birmingham University, the landmark Costa Coffee on the Wolverhampton Gateway site at Junction 2 of the M54, work at Newport Girls’ High School in Shropshire and at Netherbrook Primary School, in Dudley.
Among a string of plaudits in recent years the company won the Growth and Innovation category in the 2017 Express & Star Business Awards.
