BUILDERS MERCHANTS: A-Z HOWARTH TIMBER SUPPLIES • JAMES HARGREAVES H 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
5.7
30.3 2.2 2.5
196
4,392 14.1
18/19 6.0
30.1 1.2 0.5
205
2,484 3.2
19/20 6.1
30.7 0.6 0.4
200
1,296 2.7 (8)
NOT LONG AFTER Queen Victoria took the throne, a small one-man company set up in Leeds. Hudson & Co, a small but successful tim- ber business, was run by William Hudson.
In the latter half of the nine- teenth century, John Howarth came from Lancashire with his family to work for his uncle’s timber business in Leeds and, eventually, the Howarth family took the reins. Since then, Howarth Timber &
Howarth Timber Supplies
HOWARTH TIMBER SUPPLIES THE NUMBERS
17/18
93.1 28.2
2,082 2,330 474
18/19
102.5 30.9
1,242 545 500
19/20
100.4 30.9 652 432 503
% CHANGE
18/19 10 10
(40) (77) 5
% CHANGE
18/19 7
(1)
(46) (79) 4
(43) (77)
19/20 2 2
(46) (19) (3)
(48) (17)
19/20 (2) (0)
(48) (21) 1
TRAILBLAZERS
supplying class-leading windows and doors and highly specialist timber engineering products and services.
It is part of the Howarth Tim- ber Group which also includes: Howarth Timber (Windows and Doors) Ltd, Howarth Timber En- gineered Solutions Ltd and Arbor Forest Products Ltd.
HOWARTH TIMBER SUPPLIES
Prince Edward Works, Pontefract Lane, Cross Green, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS90RA
www.howarth-timber.co.uk Tel: 03301192509
Branches: 34 Showrooms: 16 Employees: 448 Estimated turnover 2021: £138m
Managing Director: Nicholas Howarth
Members of: BMF, NMBS, Fortis
Building Supplies (HTBS) has ex- panded to an employer of more than 1,000 specialists who know the industry inside out. Today the 180-year-old family busi- ness is the UK’s biggest privately owned timber company, with 33 branches.
Howarth Timber Group encom- passes a network of 30 timber and builders’ merchant branches geographically spread across the country, complemented by dedi- cated manufacturing divisions
James Hargreaves J
Founded in 1923 in Blackburn, James Hargreaves (Plumbers Merchants) Ltd operates three trading names. James Hargreaves Plumbing Supplies, a network of over 67 plumbing branches, James Hargreaves Bathrooms a Luxury Bathroom Brand and James Hargreaves Clearance.
The head office team manage both brands from their Burnley office situated nearby to the Burnley James Hargreaves Plumbing Supplies and Bathroom Showroom Since moving headquarters to Burnley in 1968, James Hargreaves has become one of the fastest-growing bathroom and plumbing supplies merchants in England.
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JAMES HARGREAVES THE NUMBERS
2018 JAMES HARGREAVES
Parliament Street Burnley BB11 3JT
www.jameshargreaves.com/ Tel: 01282 722000
Branches: 62 Employees: 344
Managing Director / Directors: Gordon Rothwell (MD), Chander Sharma (Finance), Bill Davies (Sales), Carl Bridge (Purchasing), David Eddison (Operations)
Members of: BMF, NMBS, Fortis, PHG
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
5.2
26.8 6.7 6.7
281
18,917 19.8
2019 4.8
27.5 6.3 6.3
270
17,117 16.7
2020 5.0
25.5 6.5 6.5
261
16,927 15.1 (23)
88.6 23.7
5,959 5,921 315
2019
90.1 24.7
5,717 5,702 334
2020
89.4 22.8
5,789 5,770 342
% CHANGE 2019 2 4
(4) (4) 6
2020 (1) (8) 1 1 2
% CHANGE 2019 (8) 3
(6) (5) (4)
(10) (16)
2020 5
(7) 2 2
(3) (1)
(10)
A supplement to builders merchants journal April 2022
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