 Their son, also John Foster Yeoman, became managing director in 1994 and vice chairman in 2004.

Notable landmarks in the company history have included the supplying of aggregate for the Thames Barrier and the M25 motorway.Foster Yeoman also supplied three million tonnes of rock used to make concrete segments for the English side of the Channel Tunnel.Eighty per cent of Glensanda granite is exported to Europe using Foster Yeoman vessels