Architects’ firm sold to Japanese group in £100m deal

LEADING North West architects and urban planning firm BDP is being bought by a Japanese group for more than £100m.

Manchester-headquartered BDP - was founded as Building Design Partnership in 1961 - now has offices around the UK and further afield in Abu Dhabi, Canada, China and India. In 2015 it reported  revenues of £81m and employed more than 950 people.

Its new owner is Tokyo-based Nippon Koei, a respected consulting engineering firm, which is paying £102.2m, in line with a strategy to grow its interna... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...