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OConnor Utilities

Latest turnover: 53,459,000
Three-year compound growth rate (%): 32.22
Latest EBITDA: 5,347,444

Founded in 1994 by Tim and Tom O’Connor, Manchester-based OConnor Utilities is a service provider in the utility industry, including electricity, gas, water, railway and directional drilling.

They operate nationwide.

The company has a 400 plus fleet of vehicles, which includes circa 100 HGVs of which 30 per cent and increasing are Renaults.

O’Connor Utilities’ HDD division won the UKSTT 2013 New installation Award.

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