BUILDERS MERCHANTS: A-Z C W BERRY • CARVER • CROSSLING C W Berry
C W BERRY THE NUMBERS
17/18 Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k Staff
THE RATIOS 17/18 Stockturn Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin % Sales/head £k Profit/head £
Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
Carver
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, 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.
CARVER THE NUMBERS
2018 Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k Staff
THE RATIOS 2018 Stockturn Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin % Sales/head £k Profit/head £
Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
4.4
22.4 2.0 2.6
238
4,798 5.2
2019 5.1
24.0 3.1 4.9
191
5,953 9.5
2020 6.1
27.2 6.3 6.3
203
12,784 15.8 277
38.8 8.7
782 999 163
2019
40.4 9.7
1,262 1,996 212
2020
43.3 11.8
2,723 2,714 213
CARVER
Littles Lane Wolverhampton WV1 1JY
www.carvers.co.uk 01902577000
Subsidiaries: ETS, TKS Branches: 1 Showrooms: 1 Employees: 220
2020 turnover: £43m 2021 est turnover: £56m
Managing director: Henry Carver Other directors: Bryan Purslow, Neil Kendrick, Andrell Dinham, Richard Boult, Steve Moore
35% Heavyside/ 5% Lightside/ 60% Timber sales
Members of: BMF, NMBS, Fortis
14.3 15.3 8.1 8.3
227
18,439 19.1
18/19
13.2 17.6 8.5 8.6
214
18,119 18.5
19/20
11.9 15.1 7.2 7.3
174
12,480 11.9
(1742)
55.9 8.6
4,536 4,618 246
18/19
55.6 9.8
4,711 4,807 260
19/20
44.3 6.7
3,170 3,236 254
% CHANGE
18/19 (1) 14 4 4 6
18/19 (8) 15 4 5
(6) (2) (3)
19/20 (20) (32) (33) (33) (2)
% CHANGE
19/20 (10) (14) (15) (15) (19) (31) (35)
FOUNDED IN 1954 by Brothers Walter & Colin Berry as a joinery manufacturers in King Street, Leyland, the company is still family owned, with 3 generations of the family still actively working for the company. After moving to Golden Hill Lane in 1961, the company began to specialise in importing & machining bulk timber, selling mainly to the building trade. The 60’s & 70’s saw the site expand greatly, and today, the main sales sites covers over 24 acres, stocking over 30,000 products from Building Materials, Electrical Supplies, Plumbing & Heating, Joinery Products, Power & Hand Tools,
Crossling CROSSLING
THE NUMBERS 2018 Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k Staff
THE RATIOS 2018 Stockturn Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin % Sales/head £k Profit/head £
Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
5.3
25.0 5.3 5.5
201
10,714 10.4
2019 5.1
24.6 4.0 4.1
196
7,811 7.6
2020 3.7
25.9 5.7 5.9
178
10,174 8.3
(400)
% CHANGE 2019 4
11 61
100 30
% CHANGE 2019 16 7
55 92
(20) 24 83
2020 7
22
116 36 0
2020 21 13
101 27 7
115 67
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 uponTyne. 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,
20 CROSSLING
Industry Road Newcastle upon Tyne NE6 5TP
www.crossling.co.uk Tel: 01912654166
Branches: 14 Employees: 330
Managing Director / Directors: Charles Errington, Richard Errington
% Heavyside / Lightside / Timber Sales: 100% Lightside
Members of: BMF, NMBS, CBA
50.7 12.7
2,700 2,769 252
2019
47.8 11.8
1,906 1,985 244
2020
38.9 10.1
2,218 2,289 218
% CHANGE 2019 (6) (7)
(29) (28) (3)
2020 (19) (14) 16 15
(11)
% CHANGE 2019 (3) (2)
(25) (24) (3)
(27) (27)
2020 (27) 5
43 42 (9) 30 9)
C W BERRY
262 Golden Hill Lane Leyland PR25 2YH
www.cwberry.com Tel: 01772 431216
Branches: 1 Showrooms: 1 Employees: 250
CEO / Chairman: David Berry Managing Director: David Berry
Members of: BMF, NMBS. Fortis
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A supplement to builders merchants journal April 2022
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