TURNOVER: £30-50m C & W BERRY l MARKOVITZ l MYERS BUILDING SUPPLIES C & W Berry
Founded in 1954 by Brothers Walter & Colin Berry as join- ery manufacturers in King Street, Leyland, the com- pany is still family owned, with three generations of the family still working for the company.
Today, the main sales sites covers over 24 acres, stocking over 23,000 prod- ucts from building materials, electrical & lighting, plumb- ing & heating, joinery prod- ucts, power & hand tools. NB: Exceptional income from sale of freehold land and buildings to parent
M Markovitz C & W BERRY
Wellfield Sawmills, King Street, Leyland, Lancashire, PR25 2LE Tel: 01772 431216
www.cwberry.com
Managing director: David Berry
Branches: 1 Employees: 210 Members of: Fortis, BMF, NMBS,
company for £2.35m during 2014/15 means the follow- growth, Net margin and net mar- gin growth Return on capital.
MARKOVITZ
Town End Yard, Richard Lane, Tideswell SK17 8PZ Tel: 01298 871 223
www.markovitz.co.uk
Managing directors:
The company was set up by Maurice Markovitz, a Polish refugee from the First World War, who started out selling war surplus from the back of a horse and cart.
On March 1st 1935 he bought the present Com- mercial Road premises, from Tideswell and Millers Dale Coal and General Merchants Company Ltd for £1200, ena- bling him to branch out into supplying building materials. His nephew Brian joined him in 1953 further develop- ing the business, and since then, Brian’s two sons David and Robert have taken over
MARKOVITZ THE NUMBERS
Turnover £m Gross profit £m
2013 6.9 1.8
Operating profit £k 177 Net profit £k
166 THE RATIOS 2013
Stockturn 1.8 Gross margin %
26.7
Operating margin % 2.6 Net margin % Sales/head £k Profit/head £
2.4 50
Return on capital % 4.8 BMJ INDEX
2014 5.9
26.7 nil nil
174
1,283 (39,922) nil
2015 6.4
24.8 3.6 3.5
192
6,962 21.4
509 A supplement to BMJ April 2017
2014 24.6 6.6
(5,629) (5,660)
Staff 138 141
David Hopkins, Robert Hopkins Commercial director: Robert Turner
Branches: 8 Employees: 150
Members of: BMF NMBS, H&B Group
NB: M Markovitz changed accounting year in 2013, the figures for 2013 show only 17 weeks’ trading
the business, and developed it further to now include a and six more depots based Buxton, Leek, Clay Cross and
Carrington.as well as two separate civils depots, complete with their own branding.
% change
2015 2014 2015 30.0 7.4
1,086 1,050 156
n/a n/a n/a n/a 2
2014 n/a (0)
n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
22 13
n/a n/a 11
% change
2015 8
(7)
n/a n/a 10
n/a n/a
The Myers Group is a fourth generation family owned group of companies based - shire, providing products, services and materials to the construction industry and employing approxi- mately 350 people.
Originally founded in 1929 in the name of Isaac Tim- mins Ltd, the Myers Group can trace its modern day heritage back to 1959, the
MYERS BUILDING SUPPLIES THE NUMBERS
Turnover £m Gross profit £m
12/13 28.9 7.3
Operating profit £k 228 Net profit £k
170 THE RATIOS 12/13
Stockturn 8.8 Gross margin %
25.2
Operating margin % 0.8 Net margin % Sales/head £k Profit/head £
0.6 154 1,219
Return on capital % 2.4 BMJ INDEX
13/14 8.3
24.0 0.2 0.1
198 336 0.2
14/15 9.5
24.9 2.0 1.6
186
3,691 5.5
41 31
13/14 25.3 6.1 43 17
Staff 187 128
HPS I COMPANY NAME
TRAILBLAZERSBMJ
C & W BERRY THE NUMBERS
Turnover £m Gross profit £m
12/13 31.2 9.9
Operating profit £k 2,471 Net profit £k
2,559 THE RATIOS 12/13
Stockturn 10.3 Gross margin %
31.8
Operating margin % 7.9 Net margin % Sales/head £k Profit/head £
8.2 153 12,113
Return on capital % 16.7 BMJ INDEX
Myers
13/14 11.9 29.1 9.0 9.2
181
16,218 19.1
14/15 13.1 30.7 9.1
15.2 184
16,759 30.1
1,004 HPS MYERS
Myers Group Myers House Barr Street, Leeds Road Huddersfield HD1 6PB
Tel: 01484 535311 Subsidiaries:
Myers Building Supplies( Readymix Huddersfield Myers Skip Hire Johnsons Wellfield
Managing director: James Berry, director: Katie Berry, Group Development Manager Matt Peters
Operations Manager Chris Smith
Branches: 14 Employees: 350 (group) Members of: BMF, Fortis, NMBS
year in which Jack Myers estalished Readymix Hud- the family business. Caveat: year was 65 weeks, following years 52 weeks - hence the n/a in much of the table.
% change
14/15 13/14 14/15 25.8 6.4
n/a n/a
513 407 139
9
2 6
n/a 1093 n/a 2294 (32)
% change
13/14 (6) (5)
14/15 14 4
(78) 1068 (89) 2243 n/a n/a
(6) 999 n/a 2203
13/14 37.3 10.8
3,341 3,441
Staff 204 206
14/15 40.4 12.4
3,687 6,149 220
% change
13/14 20 9
35 34 1
13/14 16 (9) 13 12 19 34 14
14/15 8
14 10 79 7
% change
14/15 10 6 2
65 2 3
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