Fulton Hogan

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title: "Fulton Hogan" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["construction-and-civil-engineering-companies-established-in-1933", "construction-and-civil-engineering-companies-of-new-zealand", "new-zealand-companies-established-in-1933", "valpy–fulton–jeffreys-family"] description: "New Zealand construction supplying company" topic_path: "engineering" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_Hogan" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Fulton Hogan
logo	Fulton Hogan logo.svg
logo_size	300px
type	Unlisted public
foundation	Dunedin, New Zealand (1933)
founder	Julius Fulton
Robert Hogan
location	Christchurch, New Zealand
Parkville, Victoria, Australia
area_served	New Zealand
Australia
Pacific Islands
key_people	Nick Miller, Managing Director
Edwin G Johnson, Chairman
industry	Civil engineering, construction
products	Asphalt
Precast Concrete
services	Road and pavement construction
Building construction
Water infrastructure
Transport infrastructure
Project Management
revenue	$3.22 billion (2013)
operating_income	$96.5 million (2013)
num_employees	5,000+ in New Zealand
1,000+ in Australia
homepage	www.fultonhogan.com
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| name = Fulton Hogan | logo = Fulton Hogan logo.svg | logo_size = 300px | type = Unlisted public | foundation = Dunedin, New Zealand (1933) | founder = Julius Fulton Robert Hogan | location = Christchurch, New Zealand Parkville, Victoria, Australia | area_served = New Zealand Australia Pacific Islands | key_people = Nick Miller, Managing Director Edwin G Johnson, Chairman | industry = Civil engineering, construction | products = Asphalt Precast Concrete | services = Road and pavement construction Building construction Water infrastructure Transport infrastructure Project Management | revenue = $3.22 billion (2013) | operating_income = $96.5 million (2013) | num_employees = 5,000+ in New Zealand 1,000+ in Australia | homepage = 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. In 2013 the company reported an annual operating profit of NZ$96.5 million, from revenue of $3.22 billion, and employed over 5,500 people.

History

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 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.

In popular culture

Fulton Hogan's logo was seen in all 5 series of the BBC Comedy Keeping Up Appearances. The character "Onslow" is always seen wearing a cap with the "FH" logo on. According to Geoffrey Hughes, the actor who played Onslow, he was given the cap by a Fulton Hogan truck driver while on a promotional trip in New Zealand for a previous project.

References

References

1. (2007). "Corporate Profile". Fulton Hogan.
2. (30 September 2011). "Australia smiles on Fulton Hogan". BusinessDay.Co.NZ.
3. "News & media - Fulton Hogan".
4. This is up from 3,400 staff and a net profit of over $55 million on revenue of $891 million in 2005.''[https://archive.today/20130223042229/http://subs.nzherald.co.nz/location/story.cfm?l_id=146&ObjectID=10385251 Fulton Hogan buys Taranaki roading firm]'' - [[New Zealand Herald]], Tuesday 6 June 2006
5. [http://www.businessnz.org.nz/file/687/Fulton%20Hogan%20Ltd%20(Dec%202000).pdf Development of New Zealand] {{Webarchive. link. (28 September 2007 ([[PDF]]) (from [[Business NZ]], an industry advocacy group, with excerpts from ''The Fulton Hogan Story'' - Tyrell, A.R. 1992))
6. "Keeping Up Appearances".

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