BUILDERS MERCHANTS: A-Z WALTER TIPPER• WILLIAMS W Walter Tipper
WALTER TIPPER 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
4.9
30.1 6.6 6.3
213
14,054 17.8
2019 4.6
32.1 6.4 6.1
203
12,954 15.7
2020 4.6
34.1 9.5 9.3
192
18,195 19.5 216
51.6 15.5
3,401 3,278 242
2019
52.9 17.0
3,381 3,240 261
2020
50.3 17.1
4,767 4,662 262
% CHANGE 2019 2 9
(1) (1) 8
% CHANGE 2019 (6) 7
(3) (4) (5) (8)
(12)
2020 (5) 1
41 44 0
2020 1 6
48 51 (5) 40 24
TRAILBLAZERS
TIPPERS IS A family-run builders merchant which has been supplying the Midlands with building supplies, materials and hardware for over 100 years. Since it opened its first branch in Lichfield, the company has expanded to 13 locations: Lichfield, Uttoxeter, Tamworth, Nuneaton, Kidderminster, Birmingham, Rugeley, Huthwaite, Wolverhampton, Birmingham Tool Hire, Ashbourne and Stoke- on-Trent. There’s also a specialist volumetric concrete offer, Tippers Presion Concrete.
Williams
WILLIAMS IS AN an award winning, independent, TRADE ONLY plumbing and heating merchant with over 40 trade counters and Regional Fulfilment Centres across the South East, Manchester, Milton Keynes, and Bristol. The company does not, and, according to managing direcor Ray Stafford,
WILLIAMS yr end November 30 2020 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
4.6
23.7 3.3 3.1
282
9,333 13.3
18/19 5.2
22.0 1.0 0.8
278
2,814 3.7
19/20 4.4
23.1 3.0 2.8
287
8,477 12.0 54
80.3 19.1
2,660 2,498 285
18/19
89.7 19.7 906 726 322
19/20
93.4 21.5
2,755 2,598 325
never will, sell to the general public or retail trade. Founded by Mick Williams in 1972, it has become a major regional independent and one of the fastest growing merchants in the UK. Williams has a single price list policy, setting the best trade price and offering that to every trade
% CHANGE
18/19 12 4
(66) (71) 13
% CHANGE
18/19 14 (7)
(69) (74) (1)
(70) (72)
19/20 (16) 5
192 244 3
201 222
19/20 4 9
204 258 1
customer. In December 2020 it opened a new Poole branch and five further branches followed in 2021.
The Milton Keynes site is a full Distribution Centre to support the comany’s mid-term growth plans for new branches in the Northern home counties and East and West Midlands.
Williams has been recognised by the London Stock Exchange as one of the 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain five times.
WALTER TIPPER
Europa Way Lichfield Staffs
WS14 9TZ
www.tippers.com Tel: 01543440000
Branches: 11 Employees: 270
Managing Director: Andrew Tipper Directors: Peter Sampson, Amy Tipper, Bill Tipper, Joseph Tipper
% Heavyside / Lightside / Timber Sales: 65/25/10
Members of: BMF NMBS PHG CBA
WILLIAMS
13 Standard Way Hampshire PO16 8XB 01329226501
www.tradeonlyplumbing.co.uk
Branches: 44 Employees: 350 2020 Recorded Turnover: £93.7m 2021 est Turnover: £118.9m
Managing Director: Ray Stafford Other Directors: Rachel Moore, Mike Mann, Martin Brown
% Heavyside / Lightside / Timber Sales: %100 Lightside
Members of: BMF, NMBS
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