sources too closely associated with the subject potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral . please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable independent third party sources . june 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message fulton hogan type unlisted public industry civil engineering construction founded dunedin new zealand 1933 1 founder julius fulton robert hogan headquarters christchurch new zealand parkville victoria australia area served new zealand australia pacific islands key people nick miller managing director edwin g johnson chairman products asphalt precast concrete services road and pavement construction building construction water infrastructure transport infrastructure project management revenue 3.22 billion 2013 2 operating income 96.5 million 2013 3 number of employees 4 500 in new zealand 1 000 in australia website www.fultonhogan.com fulton hogan is a large infrastructure construction roadworks and aggregate supplier company in new zealand which is also active in wider australasia . the company was founded by julius fulton and robert hogan in dunedin in 1933 . 5 in 2013 the company reported an annual operating profit of nz 96.5 million from revenue of 3.22 billion 6 and employed over 5 500 people . 1 this is up from 3 400 staff and a net profit of over 55 million on revenue of 891 million in 2005 . 7 the company is an unlisted public company . history edit after the motor vehicle gained increasing prominence in the 1920s political and popular pressure grew to create a system of new zealand state highways . the newly formed fulton hogan would be one of the companies growing from and building this system in the following decades at first mainly in the south island . it was created by julius fulton an assistant surveyor and robert hogan a mechanic who had both been employees of the neuchatel asphalte company in near east taieri in the late 1920s . after losing their jobs they formed their own company during the depression with hogan organising machinery often bought or loaned from the public works department and fulton overseeing the works . while world war ii slowed their expansion the years after the war found large growth in roadworks and also in the building of the comalco aluminium smelter and roxburgh hydro plant . these days the company s operations stretch through all of new zealand and much of australasia covering such tasks as residential driveways to dams and airport runways . 8 on 30 july 2011 fulton hogan chief executive bill perry died of meningococcal disease . the strain of meningococcal strain c is particularly rare and deadly . 9 references edit a b corporate profile pdf . fulton hogan . 2007 . archived from the original pdf on 2008 10 15 . retrieved 2008 05 14 . http www.fultonhogan.com media centre news strong return to form for fulton hogan in 80th year http www.fultonhogan.com media centre news strong return to form for fulton hogan in 80th year http www.fultonhogan.com media centre news strong return to form for fulton hogan in 80th year steeman marta 30 september 2011 . australia smiles on fulton hogan . businessday.co.nz . retrieved 23 december 2015 . http www.fultonhogan.com media centre news strong return to form for fulton hogan in 80th year fulton hogan buys taranaki roading firm new zealand herald tuesday 6 june 2006 development of new zealand pdf from business nz an industry advocacy group with excerpts from the fulton hogan story tyrell a.r. 1992 no link as aggressive bug spreads . the press . 3 august 2011 . retrieved 30 september 2011 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to fulton hogan . fulton hogan retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title fulton hogan & oldid 738427921 categories companies established in 1933construction and civil engineering companies of new zealandhidden categories articles lacking reliable references from june 2015all articles lacking reliable referencespages using infobox company with unsupported parameterscommons category with page title same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages add links this page was last modified on 8 september 2016 at 22 10 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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