later 20 years of positive results The construction company from Alicante – which even in the harshest crisis continued – CHM did not escape last year red numbersGiven the impossibility of influencing increased material and energy costs in their contracts. Despite this, the losses 8% improvement in the turnover of the company that managed to close the year with some profit 115.3 million euros in revenue
Here are the last accounts the family business has collected martinez bernaccumulated in the Trade Registry and Problems faced by the construction industry Over the past year, after the consequences of the Ukrainian war on the price of most raw materials and energy.
The management report accompanying the balance sheets reminds that materials such as iron rose to 68%, aluminum to 59%, cement to 22% and bituminous mixtures to 81%. Therefore, in general, the construction company More than 30% increase in construction costs.
despite State several confirmed decrees making it possible to increase the amounts awarded for public works make up for thisSpecify from CHM: was insufficient to absorb the rise in prices and additionally excluded some items such as energy, which also increased by around 88%.
While they can’t avoid the red numbers from the company, they highlight what they’ve accomplished”make them smaller“, so the year ended with some 948,535 euros lost, equivalent to 0.8% of billing. Additionally, their estimates show: they will be able to return to profitability in the same year, thanks to 33% increase in business portfolio Contracted for this year – these already include prices at real cost – and bills.
Specifically, already accumulated CHM by the end of 2022 Project worth 310.9 million Euros for the coming years, of which 138.8 million should be executed this year, according to the management balance sheet. The document also highlights the “quality” of both its public (Ministry of Transport, Adif, autonomous communities and municipalities in Spain) and private customers, and also reflects the firm’s good prospects for new business lines. stands out among those initiated. engineering, procurement and construction of photovoltaic plants.
Valalba Group
Along the same lines, Vallaba Group, the holding that brings together all the businesses of the Martínez Berna family, managed to close the last year with positive figures by compensating for CHM’s losses with the good performance of other companies. So, wrote some net consolidated profit of over one million eurosWith a global turnover of 121.6 million.
Among the main projects carried out by the group companies during the year, 20 megawatt agrovoltaic park in MenorcaWith a total investment of 17.75 million Euros, which is planned to be completed in March 2023; as well as the construction of promotions Sakura Tower (Benidorm), The presentation and construction of the project, which is expected to be delivered in 2023, is also similar. Residence Tridente in Alicante.
CHM employment 570 people It has a network of eight national and one international delegations.