Portakabin group sees 利益（をあげる）s halve

By SARAH BRIDGE FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
Updated: 12:12 BST, 12 January 2009

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利益（をあげる）s at Shepherd, the Portakabin-to-construction 商売／仕事, have been halved.

削除するd: The 利益（をあげる）s from construction company Shepherd have dropped 劇的な

Results とじ込み／提出するd at Companies House show that pre-税金 利益（をあげる）s fell from £42.2m to £22.9m for the year to June 30, 2008, even though turnover rose from £684.8m to £717.5m.

A final （株主への）配当 was recommended by the board of 484p, bringing the year's total （株主への）配当 up to 737p compared with 727p last year.

The York-based 商売／仕事, still 大部分は controlled by the Shepherd family, is one of Britain's biggest 個人として owned companies, 雇うing more than 3,500 people 世界的な.

The fortunes of Shepherd Building Group, 設立するd by Frederick Shepherd in 1890, were 上げるd by the 国祭的な successful Portakabin, developed in the 早期に Sixties by his grandson Donald.

示す and Patrick Shepherd, the fourth 世代 of Shepherds, still sit on the board.

The family is famously publicity-shy, though it 攻撃する，衝突する the headlines a few years ago when a 反目，不和 爆発するd after former chairman Paul Shepherd was 追い出すd and 告訴するd for 不公平な 解雇／（訴訟の）却下.

The company's 分割s 苦しむd 変化させるing fortunes last year, with losses from the construction and 所有物／資産／財産 分割s 存在 相殺する by good 業績／成果s from its 製造業の and 工学 武器.