{"id":26338,"date":"2026-03-03T14:47:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=26338"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:47:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:47:47","slug":"john-watson-succeeds-sir-bill-robertson-as-chair-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=26338","title":{"rendered":"John Watson succeeds Sir Bill Robertson as chair \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Elliot-Robertson-Sir-Bill-Robertson-and-John-Watson.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190387 lazyload\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Elliot-Robertson-Sir-Bill-Robertson-and-John-Watson.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190387 lazyload\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Elliot-Robertson-Sir-Bill-Robertson-and-John-Watson.png 794w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Elliot-Robertson-Sir-Bill-Robertson-and-John-Watson-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Elliot-Robertson-Sir-Bill-Robertson-and-John-Watson-768x527.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Elliot-Robertson-Sir-Bill-Robertson-and-John-Watson-600x412.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Elliot Robertson, Sir Bill Robertson and John Watson<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Sir Bill Robertson is stepping down as chairman of the construction group he founded 60 years ago and has named John Watson as his successor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He said Mr Watson brings \u201cconsiderable experience of business growth and investment across multiple sectors.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Robertson Group delivered revenue of \u00a3793 million and pre-tax profit of \u00a320.2m in its last financial year. The return to profit reflected the strategy of supporting separate businesses within the portfolio and focusing on quality projects over quantity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Elliot Robertson, chief executive, said: \u201cThe Robertson Group board has always benefited from strong leadership and John\u2019s wealth of experience across multiple sectors, supports our strategic sustainable growth plans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mr Watson, said: \u201cIt is a privilege to take over as\u00a0executive chairman\u00a0from the founder Sir Bill, and I look forward to working with Elliot to support the evolution of the separate businesses and ensure the legacy of community investment remains committed and impactful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Sir Bill Robertson will continue his role as chairman of the Robertson Family Office.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.3) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#John #Watson #succeeds #Sir #Bill #Robertson #chair #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elliot Robertson, Sir Bill Rob&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[1882,266,1339,265,618,14950,12450,12449,4747,14951,14953,14952],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}