Metricon, Australia’s largest home builder, struck a deal on Friday for an emergency doubling of its working capital credit facility, in an effort to stave off bankruptcy amid a mounting crisis in the country’s construction sector. The possible collapse of Metricon threatens the jobs of about 2,500 directly employed workers, […]
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New McCarthy CFO: Jobs crisis industry’s ‘biggest challenge’
Kristine Newman got started at McCarthy — her first job in construction — by discovering a posting on Monster.com. Seventeen years later, on April 8, the St. Louis-based contractor announced Newman’s appointment to CFO. Prior to McCarthy, Newman began her career at Arthur Anderson LLP, working on audit and consulting […]