Currie & Brown has posted a pre-tax profit of 拢2.3m for the year ended 30 September 2007, after an 11% jump in turnover to 拢63.3m.

In 2006 it made an annualised pre-tax profit of 拢300,000.

Euan McEwan, chief executive, said the company had re-found its direction by concentrating on its core cost and technical consultancy markets, including PFI. He said: 鈥淲e鈥檙e not casting our net too wide.鈥�

Its four main areas are public, private, industrial and asset management.

He plans to break through the 拢100m turnover barrier within five years thanks to overseas work, which he hopes will grow from a third to half of its business.

鈥淲e are advising the Mexican and Greek governments on PFI. Although it has had its detractors in the UK, it has generally been a huge success.鈥�