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CARVERS (WOLVERHAMPTON) LTD • CHANDLERS BUILDING SUPPLIES • COVERS TRAILBLAZERS Carvers (Wolverhampton) Ltd.
CARVERS BUILDERS VILLAGE features a fully-stocked builders merchant branch, a kitchen and bathroom showroom, a cooker centre, Carvers DIY showroom, a landscaping centre and a drive- through warehouse for building materials. There is also a number of franchise operations alongside the Carvers main business, including Dixons Decorating, Rayton Electrical and Tile Choice; showcasing a wide variety of ceramic and porcelain floor and wall tiles, including natural stone, mosaics, limestones and granites. market. The Builders Village was built following the huge fire in February 2012 that destroyed much of the original branch.
Covers
CARVERS (WOLVERHAMPTON) LTD. THE NUMBERS
Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k Staff
THE RATIOS Stockturn
CARVERS (WOLVERHAMPTON) LTD.
West Midlands WV1 1JY
www.carvers.co.uk Tel: 01902577000
Number of Branches: 1 Number of Employees: 200
Managing Director: Henry Carver
% Heavyside, Lightside, Timber sales: 41/7/52 Members of: BMF, NMBS, Fortis
COVERS
Sussex House, Quarry Lane Chichester West Sussex PO19 8PE
www.covers.biz Tel: 01243785141
Branches: 15 Employees: 424
Chairman: Rupert Green, Managing Director: Henry Green , Operations Director: Roger Lewis, Commercial Director: Phil Walford, Timber Director: Neil Woods, Western Regional Director: Steve Weston,
Regional Director: Sean Clarke
COVERS HAVE SUPPLIED a diverse range of timber and building materials to a wide spectrum of customers for over 170 years. It has fifteen branches across the South of England, supplying timber and building materials across over 25,000 product lines. In December, the Southampton depot moved to
COVERS 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
18
2016 5.8
35.4 7.1 6.4
171
12,133 15.2
2017 5.8
33.6 5.4 5.4
178
9,641 12.5
2018 5.8
34.1 5.5 5.4
188
10,326 12.3 154
2016 73.7 26.0
5,217 4,694 430
2017 77.3 26.0
4,184 4,162 434
2018 81.0 27.6
4,461 4,393 432
% CHANGE
2017 5
(0)
(20) (11) 1
2017 0
(5)
(24) (15) 4
(21) (18)
2018 5 6 7 6
(0) % CHANGE
2018 0 1 2 1 5 7
(2)
% Heavyside, Lightside, Timber sales: 44.4 / 12.6 / 43.0 Members of: BMF, NMBS, Fortis
a new 2.6-acre site, on Empress Road which consists of 30,000 square feet of warehouse space, an increased timber and heavyside offering, and an improved lightside section.
Crossling
CROSSLING HAS BEEN trading for over 150 years and stocks over 35,000 products from the industry’s leading suppliers. Trading divisions include Stokplas at Doncaster and Northern Tools & Accessories at Newcastle upon Tyne. The 15 branches, Ashington, Brighouse, Carlisle, Darlington, Derby, Doncaster, Dumfries, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, Stockton, Sunderland, Team Valley and Wakefield, Customers include builders, plumbers, heating engineers and contractors, housebuilders, housing associations,local authorities, hospitals, care homes, plus shipbuilding and the offshore industy.
CROSSLING 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 6.5
25.8 5.7 5.9
183
10,359 12.6
2017 5.7
25.2 5.9 6.0
202
11,945 12.6
2018 5.3
25.0 5.3 5.5
201
10,714 10.4 -36
2016 47.4 12.2
2,683 2,815 259
2017 51.4 13.0
3,046 3,101 255
2018 50.7 12.7
2,700 2,769 252
Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin %
Sales/employee £k Profit/employee £ Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
2016 4.6
24.2 3.5 3.6
209
7,340 6.6
2017 4.0
23.5 2.8 2.9
212
6,019 5.3
2018 4.4
22.4 2.0 2.6
238
4,798 5.2
129
2016 32.6 7.9
1,145 1,163 156
2017 33.9 8.0
963 972 160
2018 38.8 8.7
782 999 163
% CHANGE
2017 4 1
(16) (16) 3
2017 (13) (3)
(19) (19) 1
(18) (20)
2018 15 9
(19) 3 2
% CHANGE
2018 8
(5)
(29) (10) 13
(20) (2)
CROSSLING
Coast Road Newcastle upon Tyne NE6 5TP
www.crossling.co.uk Tel: 0191 265 4166
Directors: Richard Errington, Charles Errington Branches: 14 Employees: 330
% Heavyside, Lightside, Timber sales: 100% lightside
Members of: NMBS, CBA, BMF % CHANGE
2017 8 6
14 10 (2)
2017 (11) (2) 5 2
10 15 (0)
2018 (1) (2)
(11) (11) (1)
% CHANGE
2018 (8) (1)
(10) (10) (0)
(10) (18)
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