Plumbing and Heating Company EAGA Keeps Steady Growth
Eaga, a Newcastle based plumbing and heating company that is one of the largest providers of residential energy efficiency solutions in the UK has revealed pre-tax profits have risen to £14.5m for £9m in the past six months, thanks to acquisition and organic growth.
The company has grown substantially over the recent few years, currently employing 4,000 people around the UK, Ireland, India and Canada. Eaga makes energy efficiency improvement in the domestic sector. This includes areas such as insulation, plumbing and central heating and renewable energy (such as solar water heating). The company’s many service teams of plumbers and engineers serve around 1,000 homes a day.
The company has been acquiring companies in the same sectors to accelerate its growth. The company has acquired White Horse FM for £37.5m and JD Heating (a plumbing and heating company) for £6m, as well as Essex based RG Francis, another plumbing and heating engineering company) for £9.6m.
Eaga Heating is the central heating related division of the company. The division’s plumbers and heating engineers serve predominantly the social housing sector and the capacity of sub contractor to government contracts. The Heating division was launched in 2004 and has grown rapidly, initially organically, but later through acquisition to become one of the largest plumbing and heating installers in the UK.
The division’s plumbers and heating engineers install currently around 30,000 boilers and central heating systems a year utilising a nationwide network of plumbers and heating engineers with a wide range of expertise in different types of boilers and heating systems. The heating and plumbing division employs more than eight hundred plumbers and heating engineers and operates from a number or offices around the country.
The division’s plumbers and heating engineers install not only conventional boilers and high efficiency boilers, but also link the central heating systems to renewable energy technologies such as solar water heating panels. The plumbers take undertake these jobs as a sub contractor to government contracts, normally within the ‘Warm front” scheme and Home Energy Efficiency Scheme Wales.
This page has been written with contributions from Gas Safe engineers from London and qualified plumbers from Kilburn. Several of the company's experienced plumbers from Merseyside have worked on similar issues as well as some of our plumbers from Greenwich and our Sutton experienced heating engineers.
