Company of the Month September 2024: Kirby Engineering Group on track to see record revenues

Business & Finance

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Kirby Engineering Group is on track to see record revenues of €700 million this year. The Limerick engineering group is our Company of the Month September 2024, in association with KPMG.

Founded in 1964 in Limerick, Kirby Group Engineering is a mechanical and electrical engineering contractor operating across Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe. The company directly employs over 1,600 highly-skilled professionals.

It provides full mechanical and electrical contracting services as well as specialist high voltage (HV) and medium voltage (MV) design and construction services to clients across a number of different sectors including Data Centres, Life Sciences, Industrial, and Power and Renewables.

As the group sees their revenues rise, they will also see some changes with current CEO Mark Flanagan due to step down in January and take on the role of executive director. This comes after leading the company to strong growth over the previous five years. Henry McCann will take on the role of CEO. McCann is currently the group operations director.

Executive chair Jimmy Kirby will remain in that role and continue to oversee the development of the Irish group’s recently-opened office in South Africa.

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