Fulton Hogan

Infobox Company
name = Fulton Hogan

type = Private
foundation = Dunedin, New Zealand (1933)cite web|title=Corporate Profile|url=http://www.fultonhogan.com/idc/groups/web_au/documents/webcontent/id_010004.pdf|year=2007|work=Fulton Hogan|accessdate=2008-05-14]
founder = Julius Fulton
Robert Hogan
location = Christchurch, New Zealand
Parkville, Victoria, Australia
locations =
area_served = New Zealand
Australia
Pacific Islands
key_people = David J Faulkner, Managing Director
Edwin G Johnson, Chairman
industry = Civil engineering, construction
products = Asphalt
Precast Concrete
services = Road and pavement construction
Building construction
Water infrastructure
Transport infrastructure
Project Management
market c

revenue = $1.61 billion (2007)
operating_income = $92.93 million (2007)
net_income =
assets =
equity =
owner = Shell New Zealand (36.6%)
Family trusts
num_employees = 4,500+ in New Zealand
1,000+ in Australia
parent =
divisions =
subsid =
homepage = [http://www.fultonhogan.com/ www.fultonhogan.com]
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intl = yes

Fulton Hogan is a large infrastructure construction, roadworks and aggregate supplier company in New Zealand, which is also active in wider Australasia.

The company was founded by Julius Fulton and Robert Hogan in Dunedin in 1933. [" [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb214/is_200212/ai_hibm1G195915778 Fulton Hogan a trans-tasman tour de force] " (partial article from findarticles.com, December 2002)Dead link|date=May 2008] In 2007 the company reported an annual operating profit of NZ$92.93 million, from revenue of $1.61 billion,cite web|title=Annual Report|url=http://www.companies.govt.nz/scanned-images/72/BC10055098772.pdf|year=2007|work=Fulton Hogan|accessdate=2008-05-14] and employed over 4,800 people. This is up from 3,400 staff and a net profit of over $55 million on revenue of $891 million in 2005." [http://subs.nzherald.co.nz/location/story.cfm?l_id=146&ObjectID=10385251 Fulton Hogan buys Taranaki roading firm] " - New Zealand Herald, Tuesday 6 June 2006]

The company is privately held, with Shell New Zealand holding a 36.6% stake in 2007.cite web|title=New Zealand Companies Register|url=http://www.companies.govt.nz/|accessdate=2008-05-14]

History

After the motor vehicle gained increasing prominence in the 1920s, political and popular pressure grew to create a system of New Zealand State Highways. The newly formed Fulton Hogan would be one of the companies growing from and building this system in the following decades, at first mainly in the South Island.

It was created by Julius Fulton, an assistant surveyor, and Robert Hogan, a mechanic, who had both been employees of the Neuchatel Asphalte Company in near East Taieri in the late 1920s. After losing their jobs, they formed their own company during the Depression, with Hogan organising machinery, often bought or loaned from the Public Works Department, and Fulton overseeing the works.

While World War II slowed their expansion, the years after the war found large growth in roadworks and also in the building of the Comalco Aluminium Smelter and Roxburgh Hydro plant. These days, the company's operations stretch through all of New Zealand and much of Australasia, covering such tasks as residential driveways to dams and airport runways. [ [http://www.businessnz.org.nz/file/687/Fulton%20Hogan%20Ltd%20(Dec%202000).pdf Development of New Zealand] (PDF) (from Business NZ, an industry advocacy group, with excerpts from "The Fulton Hogan Story" - Tyrell, A.R. 1992)]

References

External links

* [http://www.fultonhogan.com/ Fulton Hogan] (official website)