What is John Laing plc?
{{Cleanup|date=March 2025}}{{Infobox Company | company_name = John Laing plc | company_logo = | company_type = [[Public company|Public]] | foundation = 1848 | location = [[London]], [[United Kingdom|UK]] | key_people = Adrian Ewer, [[CEO]] | industry = [[Public-Private Partnership]]s | products = | revenue = | operating_income = | net_income = | num_employees = | parent = | subsid = | homepage = [http://www.laing.com/ www.laing.com] | slogan = | footnotes = }} '''John Laing plc''' is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[developer]] and operator of privately financed, public sector infrastructure projects such as roads, railways, hospitals and schools. Before being bought by Henderson Private Equity in December 2006, John Laing plc was listed on the [[London Stock Exchange]] and was part of the [[FTSE 250 Index]]. ==History== The business started in 1848. James Laing (born in 1816), along with his wife Ann Graham, and some [[employee]]s whom they had hired, built a house on a plot of land that they had bought for £30 in [[Cumberland]]. The £150 [[proceed]]s from the first house financed the building of the next two houses on the same plot of land. One of these houses was kept by the [[Laing Family]] to live in. The family and the business later moved near [[City of Carlisle|Carlisle]]. When James Laing died in 1882, his son, John Laing (born in 1842) took over the running of the company. John began to take larger contracts but kept the business in the Carlisle area. John's son, [[John Laing|John William Laing]], (born in 1879) was working for the business before he was 20 years old, and so it became John Laing and Son. By 1910, [[John Laing|John William Laing]] was running the business. More employees were recruited and larger projects were undertaken, including factory construction. In 1920 the firm became a limited company, and two years later moved its headquarters from Carlisle to a thirteen a