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Merchanting posts robust r esults
Business is good for a great many of our top 49 merchants. That’s not to say that it’s easy. Far from it. The merchants are displaying have been hard fought for. Sometimes they are down to strategic acquisitions, sometimes through expansion into other areas – both geographic and business. In a few
cases, improvements have been gained by closing off underperforming areas, leaving the rest of the company to focus on what it does best.
them from Companies House: everything is stored in the same place and in the same format. That does, of course,
timetables - not all companies release their results or post them to Companies House at the same time.
By and large, the big boys are where they are because they are good at being big. In the middle of the table, the
so and staying focussed have been very evident. As they have been for the last few issues of this supplement. Overall, the employment trend is positive: leaving out Frank Key and MGM Timber, both newcomers to the survey this year, the remaining 47 companies employed a total of 57,688 people at their latest accounts dates. 12 months
MP Moran, MKM and Grant & Stone. 2015’s top performers
merchants would be wise to scrutinise them closely. Fiona Russell Horne Editor-in-Chief
year. That’s a pretty positive indicator.
The usual caveat remains when reading these tables. The
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Bradfords EH Smith Huws Gray MKM
Ridgeons Covers HPS
Grant & Stone Elliotts
Haldane Shiells Howarth T imber & Building Supplies Lawsons
MGM Timber
Nicholls & Clarke MP Moran
Parker Building Supplies Sydenhams RGB
AW Lumb AW Lumb
Alsford Timber AW Champion
AW Champion Crosslings
James Burrell
James hargreves John Nicholls Joseph Parr JT Atkinson JT Dove
Kent Blaxill LBS
C&W Berry M Markovitz Myers
Rembrandt Tippers
Robert Price Williams
Beesley & Fildes John A Stephens Beggs & Partners
Carver (W olverhampton) Chandlers Frank Key Kellaway
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