Forefront

Investment date July 2006
Website www.forefrontutilities.com
Location Southend, UK
Sector Energy services
Deal type Expansion capital
Approximate turnover £20 million

Investment overview

Forefront is a specialist civil engineering business that focuses on the gas-supply industry. The business has contracts for the replacement and repair of gas main pipelines, and the laying of new mains. It is one of only three UK companies with the necessary equipment and trained operatives to undertake the inhibition of gas flow whilst ‘in situ’ gas mains are replaced or repaired. Forefront is dominant in its geographical zone east of London.