TURNOVER: £30-50m A W LUMB l ALSFORD TIMBER l A W CHAMPION
AW Lumb HPS
AW LUMB
Mill Street East, Dewsbury WF12 9DB Tel: 01924 484500 www.
awlumb.co.uk
Managing director: John Cureton Directors: John Michael Smith, Trevor Jones, Gavin McEntee, Martin Donald Keay, Benjamin Cooper
Company secretary: Andy Roberts Product areas: aggregates, bricks, blocks, drainage, insulation, landscaping, lintels,plasters, plasterboard, timber, tools, plumbing, roof tiles, roof windows
HPS I COMPANY NAME
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AW LUMB THE NUMBERS
AW Lumb operates from two branches, Dewsbury and Tamworth.
Distribution is to around a 40 mile radius of each branch. Set up in 1964, the com- pany is still family-owned. Main areas are aggregates, bricks and stone walling, blocks, brickwork,sundries, drainage and civil engineer- ing, timber and landscaping. Trade customers include national house builders, civil engineers, local authorities, plasterers and smaller devel- opers.
Alsford Timber HPS ALSFORD TIMBER
Ness Road Erith Kent DA8 2LD Tel: 01322 333088 www.
Alsfordtimber.co.uk
Employees; 178 Branches: 18
Managing director: Neil Fuller Commercial director: Louise Polston
Operations director: Justin Hood Members of: BMF, Fortis
Alsford Timber, founded in 1882 selling timber and fenc- ing in south-west London, has grown to become the largest timber merchant in south-east England, with 18 branches across four coun- ties.
As part of its member- ship of a nationwide buying association, it says it can purchase at national levels.
ALSFORD TIMBER THE NUMBERS
Turnover £m Gross profit £m
2013 30.6 10.4
Operating profit £k 622 Net profit £k
620 THE RATIOS 2013
Stockturn 3.8 Gross margin %
34.1
Operating margin % 2.0 Net margin %
2.0
Sales/employee £k Profit/employee £
169 3,436
Return on capital % 12.7 BMJ INDEX
A supplement to BMJ April 2017
2014 4.1
35.6 4.6 4.6
188
8,608 26.5
2015 4.4
36.3 4.9 4.9
188
9,167 23.6
101
2014 36.5 13.0
1,670 1,672
Staff 181 194
“As a result, we’re cush- ioned by seasonal supply - tions, so customers can rely on us to supply our whole range all year round,” says the company.
Alsford maintain its own transits to artics, capable of shifting anything, from doors to I-Joists across the south- east and East Anglia.
% change
2015 2014 2015 38.3 13.9
19 24
1,861 1,867 203
168 170 7
2014 8 4
125 126 11
150 108
11 12 5
% change
2015 8 2 6 7 0 6
(11)
5 7
Turnover £m Gross profit £m
13/14 26.7 3.1
Operating profit £k 1,375 Net profit £k
1,444 THE RATIOS 13/14
Stockturn 15.1 Gross margin %
11.5
Operating margin % 5.2 Net margin %
5.4 Sales/employee £k 386
Profit/employee £ 19,928 Return on capital % 9.9
BMJ INDEX
A W Champion Champion Timber has 10
branches in Kent and Sur- rey, having opened a branch in Weybridge in 2016. Primarily a timber sup- plier, Champion also sells associated products such as paint accessories, adhe- sives, hand and power tools, Among its latest ini- induction programme de- signed to give new employ- ees a great entry into the in- dustry. Not only will it give recruits the product knowl- edge needed, but will teach them about the milling, sourcing and sustainability of the Scandinavian timber supplied by Champion. As part of the programme, new employees visit Cham- pion Timber’s Edenbridge branch where all timber is milled in-house, stored
A W CHAMPION THE NUMBERS
Turnover £m Gross profit £m
2013 22.7 10.2
Operating profit £k 739 Net profit £k
735 THE RATIOS 2013
Stockturn 3.7 Gross margin %
45.1
Operating margin % 3.3 Net margin %
3.2
Sales/employee £k Profit/employee £
125 4,060
Return on capital % 9.9 BMJ INDEX
2014 4.2
45.1 4.1 4.1
134
5,508 13.1
2015 4.2
44.8 4.3 4.4
131
5,655 13.5
96 27
2014 25.7 11.6
1,052 1,062
Staff 182 191
14/15 15.3 10.8 4.2 4.4
432
18,288 9.0
15/16 17.6 11.6 5.5 5.6
450
24,539 11.5
805
14/15 31.5 3.4
1,335 1,390
Staff 69 73 % change
15/16 14/15 15/16 34.2 4.0
1,865 1,922 76
18 11 (3) (4) 6
14/15 1
(6)
(18) (19) 12 (8) (9)
8
16 40 38 4
% change
15/16 15 7
29 28 4
34 27
HPS
A W CHAMPION AW Champion
Champion House, Burlington Road, New Malden, Surrey KT3 4NB Tel: 0208 9491621
www.champion.com
Directors:
Managaing director: Phillip Champion, Marketing director: Mike Bird Company secretary: Stephen Bowden
Martin Saunders, Steven Lister,
Branches: 10 Employees: 206
Members of: BMF
and distributed to all 10 branches. During the visit the new team members will learn why Champion only supplies superior timber from Scandinavian forests, and how the wood is cut to ensure the best product is available to customers.
% change
2015 2014 2015 27.0 12.1
1,165 1,186 206
13 13 42 44 5
2014 15 (0) 26 28 8
36 32
11 12 8
% change
2015 (1) (1) 5 6
(2) 3 3
5 5
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