TRAILBLAZERS AW Lumb AW LUMB
Mill Street East Dewsbury West Yorkshire WF12 9BD
www.awlumb.co.uk Tel: 01924484500
Branches: 2 Employees: 75 2018 Recorded Turnover: £38.5m 2019 Turnover: £43.5m
AW LUMB WAS originally estabished as a family-run and family-owned business in 1964. By 2016, 10 years after the last member of the Lumb family had stopped working in the business, the family decided to sell up its interests. So six members of the current management team bought the business from the
Managing Director: John Cureton, Directors: Andy Roberts, Darren Ward, Mike Smith, Trevor Jones, Martin Keay, Gavin McEntee
Members of: NMBS, CBA Lumb family.
This means that the Companies House records for the holding AW Lumb company do not accurately reflect the financial history. So the
Beesley & Fildes
BEESLEY & FILDES STARTED in 1820 when Robert
Beesley set himself up as a master painter, plumber, and glazier with a shop in Prescot. In 1841 Robert Beesley’s son James joined him. After operating from
the same premises for almost fifty years, James decided to move the business. The extra space allowed James to expand his range, and also began to sell to other tradesmen in the area. On his death in 1887, James passed the running of the business over to his sons, Joseph and William. After WWI William’s son William-Joseph who was injured whilst in service, asked his brother-in-law, expert craftsman and grainer James Fildes to join him. The pair pooled their gratuity money to expand the business, and as a result the Beesley & Fildes name came into being.
In 1947 William’s sons, Jack and Bill joined Beesley & Fildes. Then in the 1980’s Bill retired and Jack Beesley was in turn joined by his three sons, John, Paul & Gerard. In 1987, the family expanded
the business by opening a new yard in Huyton, where a purpose built timber yard and mill were opened. New yards were acquired in Liverpool in 1995, Birkenhead in 1997 then Chester and Prestatyn in 1999.
The year 2000 saw the opening of a new dedicated plumbers & tile merchants and a bathroom showroom in the Liverpool depot, which imports tiles directly from manufacturers in Spain and Italy. In 2001 HSS Agency Hire Shops were opened in the Huyton & Prestatyn branches. In 2003, a new roofing centre was built in Huyton, a new branch in Warrington was acquired. In 2004 the Prestatyn branch was sold also in 2004 Colin Myers Timber Ltd was purchased. In 2006 the extensive refurbishment of the Colin Myers
April 2020 A supplement to Builders Merchants Journal
Timber site was completed, a new roofing centre was added to the Warrington Depot and James Whitakers Garden Centre in Prescot was acquired.
In January 2019, Beesley & Fildes
BEESLEY & FILDES 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
16/17 4.9
21.2 4.3 3.6
121
5,126 12.5
17/18 5.2
20.8 4.3 3.8
131
5,698 14.1
18/19 5.0
21.5 13.0 12.5 157
20,445 30.4 427
16/17 26.9 5.7
1,143 957 223
17/18 30.9 6.4
1,339 1,162 235
18/19 32.9 7.1
4,273 4,113 209
AW LUMB 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
16/17 17.4 11.5 6.2 6.1
512
31,600 12.5
17/18 19.1 11.2 5.8 5.7
521
30,081 10.8
18/19 20.4 11.3 6.2 6.2
573
35,487 12.2
1639
AW Lumb table uses the figures for the two separate companies - AW Lumb (Midlands) and AW Lumb (Northern) added together, to give a far clearer picture.
The company operates from two branches, one in Dewsbury and one in Tamworth. Distribution is to around a 40 mile radius of each branch
BEESLEY & FILDES
Wilson Road Huyton Liverpool L36 6AF
www.beesleyandfildes.co.uk Tel: 01514808304
Branches: 9 Employees: 250
Subsidiaries: 2
Chairman: John Beesely Managing Director: Lee Davies Director: Paul Beesley
Members of: NMBS, BMF, CBA
bought CSS (North West) Ltd, increasing their branch number to ten. CSS trades from a single site in Walkden Worsley near Manchester and is Beesley & Fildes’ second branch in the Manchester area.
% CHANGE
17/18 15 13 17 21 5
17/18 6
(2) 2 6 9
11 13
18/19 7
10
219 254 (11)
% CHANGE
18/19 (2) 4
200 232 20
259 115
16/17 38.4 4.4
2,370 2,353 75
17/18 38.5 4.3
2,226 2,194 74
18/19 43.5 4.9
2,697 2,693 76
% CHANGE
17/18 0
(2) (6) (7) (1)
17/18 10 (2) (6) (7) 2
(5) (14)
18/19 13 14 21 23 3
% CHANGE
18/19 7 1 7 9
10 18 13
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