BUILDERS MERCHANTS: A-Z
ALSFORD TIMBER • AW CHAMPION • BEATSONS BUILDING SUPPLIES A Alsford Timber
ALSFORD TIMBER THE NUMBERS
Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k Staff
THE RATIOS Stockturn Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin %
Sales/employee £k Profit/employee £ Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
2016 4.5
36.3 4.8 4.8
194
9,263 21.0
2017 4.1
34.9 3.3 3.3
198
6,523 14.1
2018 4.1
34.1 2.6 2.6
212
5,558 10.7 55
2016 42.2 15.3
2,010 2,020 217
2017 47.0 16.4
1,546 1,547 237
2018 49.4 16.8
1,295 1,298 233
% CHANGE
2017 11 7
(23) (23) 9
2017 (9) (4)
(31) (31) 2
(30) (33)
2018 5 3
(16) (16) (2)
% CHANGE
2018 1
(2)
(20) (20) 7
(15) (24)
AROUND SINCE 1882, Alsford Timber began selling timber and fencing in South West London. It is now the largest timber merchant in the South East England. The company has 19 branches across four counties and through the IT system can offer a central platform that allows it to share information across the company,
AW Champion AW CHAMPION
Champion House Burlington Road New Malden Surrey KT3 4NB
www.champion.com Tel: 0208 9491621
WITH 10 BRANCHES across the South East, independent timber specialist AW Champion has over 80 years experience of supplying the building trade. As well as sourcing and machining its own timber, the company supplies decking, fencing, sheet materials, insulation, flooring, doors and timber buildings as well as timber related products such
AW CHAMPION THE NUMBERS
Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k Staff
THE RATIOS Stockturn Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin %
Sales/employee £k Profit/employee £ Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
12
2016 4.1
43.6 1.7 1.8
137
2,333 5.7
2017 3.9
43.4 1.9 1.9
135
2,601 6.0
2018 3.7
42.6 2.8 2.8
147
4,087 8.4 29
2016 29.1 12.7 497 514 213
2017 29.4 12.8 567 573 218
2018 30.3 12.9 842 855 206
Managing director: Phillip Champion, Marketing director: Mike Bird Company secretary: Stephen Bowden Directors Martin Saunders, Steven Lister
Branches: 10 Employees: 206
Members of: BMF
as power tools, ironmongery, adhesives, paint via a branch network that stretches from Bromley to Wimbledon and New Malden to Guildford and Edenbridge.
% CHANGE
2017 1 1
14 11 2
2017 (6) (0) 13 10 (1) 11 6
2018 3 1
49 49 (6)
% CHANGE
2018 (4) (2) 44 45 9
57 39
TRAILBLAZERS ALSFORD TIMBER
Alsford Timber Ness Road Erith Kent
DA8 2LD
www.alsfordtimber.com Tel: 01322333088
Branches: 19 Employees: 238
2019 Turnover: £49m Managing Director: Neil Fuller Operations Director: Justin Hood Finance Director: Athol Manning Commercial Director: Louise Polston
Members of/ Industry Partners with: BMF, NMBS, Fortis. TRADA
and offers customers and suppliers access to current account information and real-time stock control and availability.
B Beatsons Building Supplies Ltd
BEATSONS BUILDING SUPPLIES was incorporated in 1966 and originally traded as Robert Beatson & Son (Builders) Limited. In the 1984 the company was purchased by the Marshall family and the name changed to Beatson’s Building Supplies Limited.
In 1990 the company moved a few miles to a larger facility in Alloa, which is now a large general builders merchant branch and the Head Office. In 1998 Beatsons opened its second branch based in Cumbernauld, to serve North & South Lanarkshire, East Dumbartsonshire and Glasgow. These were followed by Penicuik, Mid in 2006 and Dunfermline in 2007. In 2013 the company opened its fifth branch in Stirling, having
Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k Staff
THE RATIOS Stockturn Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin %
Sales/employee £k Profit/employee £ Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
16/17 7.8
32.4 7.0 6.8
193
13,500 51.0
17/18 8.1
33.0 7.8 7.6
215
16,754 54.1
18/19 n/a
32.9 5.0 4.8 n/a n/a
40.5 n/a
16/17 23.5 7.6
1,647 1,598 122
BEATSONS BUILDING SUPPLIES LTD
The Whins, Alloa Clackmannanshire FK10 3TA
www.beatsons.co.uk Tel: 01259 210920
Branches: 6 Employees: 122
Managing Director: John Marshall Sales Director: Ross Marshall Finance Director: Diane Crow
Members of: BMF, H&B
opened a specialist roofing division Skyline Roofing, in 2011. This currently operates two merchants based within the general builders merchant depots at the Penicuik & Dunfermline branches.
BEATSONS BUILDING SUPPLIES LTD THE NUMBERS
17/18 26.2 8.7
2,044 1,992 122
18/19 35.6 11.7
1,776 1,718 129
% CHANGE
17/18 12 14 24 25 0
17/18 3 2
11 12 12 24 6
18/19 n/a n/a n/a n/a 6
% CHANGE
18/19 n/a (0)
(36) (37) n/a n/a (25)
A supplement to Builders Merchants Journal April 2020
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