TABLES 2017 own in BMJ’s annual look at the results of the top merchant companies
EMPLOYEES 24670
9127 6065 5015 938
1166 793 561 408 522 328 408 567 410 254 232 399 255 243 286 253 239 167 204 272 176 236 203 253 168 220 326 187 261 203 242 189 168 158 76
152 156 119 206 110 211
BMJ January 2017
PREVIOUS YEAR (£M) £5,580m
£4,298m £1,876m £1,758m £1,046m £251.91m £168m £137m
£116.6m £121.38m £88.2m £73.5m
££££76.7m £70.2m £68.1m £56.m
£60.47m £56.7m £54m
£49.6m £52.6m £52.3m £48.5m £48.1m £43.3m £55m £46m
£39.5m £39.9m £37m
£40.9m £37.3m £38.5m £34.3m £34.6m £36.5m £32.7m £30.9m 32.80m £29.1m £31.54m £28.32m £24.5m £22.2m £25.7m £24.7m £23.9m
BRANCHES 2028
1457 600 737 615 48 49 26 62 8
16 6
16 18 13 13 22 29 7 9
18 15 46 33 30 5 8
19 17 16 12 1
14 9
20 18 13 20 9
11 2 1 7
13 10 2 9
The picture changes very little from year to year. Those merchants at the top are still the biggest in terms of turnover, branch numbers and employees. As usual, it’s further down the league tables where things get more interesting.
All too often, these figures show that it’s not always what you have that counts, rather what you do with it. Builder Depot and EH Smith, for example, have fewer branches than many of the companies whose turnover they have long since leapfrogged. Location too, plays its part - C&W Berry’s one-site mega-branch in Lancashire has a turnover that’s a third bigger than others with 10 times the branches.
Turnover is, of course, only part of the picture. Huws Gray’s pre-tax profit figure looks quite astonishing given where the company sits in the tables and compares more than favourably with those above it.
Merchants aren’t of course, the only channel to market. For comparson purposes, the last financial year results of the following major merchant competitors were: Howdens Screwfix C Brewer
£1.22bn (31/12/15) £1.057bn (31/1/16) £160m (31/12/15)
Source Companies House and company reports: Caveat: The figures reported are for the last complete financial year, as posted to Companies House. The different ways and timescales to which companies in this sector report their annual turnovers means that many of the figures refer to 2015. *: Wolseley’s 2016 headline figures for the UK business have been released as part of Wolseley plc’s results and the 2016 breakdown is not yet at Companies House. This figure refers to 2016 Trading Profit, not pre- tax profit. **:MKM’s pre-tax profit figure here is for 2015, its other figures refer to 2016.
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