LEAGUE TABLES PROFIT PER HEAD Profit per head
There’s no ambiguity about this table, though. Excluding the top and bottom five as usual, the indicated average operating profit per head of staff in the current year is £18,413. Three years ago in 2020, before the pandemic turned the world upside down, the comparable figure was £8,923 – less than half as much. It would be hard to find a better illustration of the current buoyancy in the merchant market.
Return on capital
Three years ago, the 2020 edition of Trailblazers indicated average return on capital in the merchant industry of 16.2%. Given the general economic conditions prevailing at the time, that was a pretty impressive figure, although we did note at the time that the average appeared to be declining modestly. But what a difference three years makes: applying the same process of excluding the top and bottom five in the table to eliminate the outliers, 2020’s return on capital of 16.2% has shot up in 2023 to 25.6%. Did we mention that now seems to be a very good time to be a builders merchant?
1. Huws Gray 2. Sydenhams 3. Beatsons 4. CRS 5. MKM
6. James Hargreaves
7. Myers Building Supplies 8. Lawsons
9. Haldane Shiells 10. MGM Timber 11. JT Atkinson
12. Robert POchin
13. Beggs & Partners 14. Carver
15. Joseph Parr 16. C&W Berry
17. Alsford Timber 18. Walter Tipper
19. Robert Price & Sons 20. MP Moran 21. AW Lumb 22. Turnbull
23. AW Champion
24. Parker Building Supplies 25. Covers
26. Crossling 27. EH Smith
28. Boys & Boden 29. LBS
30. J T Dove
31. John Nicholls 32. Williams
33. Elliott Bros 34. Lords
35. Beesley & Fildes 36. Kellaway
37. John A Stephens 38. Grant & Stone 39. Wolseley UK 40. Highbourne 41. RGB
42. Howarth Timber Supplies 43. Grafton Merchanting GB 44. National Timber Group 45. James Burrell 46. Bradford & Sons 47. Frank Key 48. Markovitz
49. UK Plumbing Supplies 50. Paintwell 51. Kent Blaxill 52. Brewer
53. Builder Depot 54. Browns
55. Nicholls & Clarke 56. IBMG
57. Travis Perkins 58. Stark/Saint Gobain 10
£35,081 £33,447 £32,669 £30,428 £29,656 £29,360 £29,017 £28,867 £28,332 £27,877 £27,253 £25,977 £25,850 £25,648 24,038 £23,216 £23,122 £23,015 £22,640 £21,974 £21,728 £21,420 £21,286 £21,155 £20,951 £20,665 £20,430 £20,349 £19,441 £18,202 £17,240 £17,184 £16,993 £16,868 £16,181 £15,995 £15,635 £15,330 £14,391 £13,774 £13,643 £12,637 £12,575 £12,514 £12,349 £10,760 £10,431 £10,158 £10,122 £10,117 £9,000 £8,948 £8,660 £7,506 £2,641 £2,017 £185 -£11
TRAILBLAZERS RETURN ON CAPITAL
1. National Timber Group 2. MKM
3. JT Atkinson
4. Myers Building Supplies 5. Turnbull 6. Beatsons
7. UK Plumbing Supplies 8. MGM Timber 9. Robert Pochin 10. Haldane Shiells 11. James Burrell 12. Wolseley UK 13. CRS
14. MP Moran 15. Sydenhams 16. LBS
17. Alsford Timber 18. Kellaway
19. Howarth Timber Supplies 20. J T Dove
21. AW Champion 22. John Nicholls
23. Parker Building Supplies 24. Huws Gray 25. Markovitz 26. Carver
27. Highbourne
28. Bradford & Sons 29. Lawsons
30. Beesley & Fildes 31. Williams
32. Boys & Boden
33. James Hargreaves 34. RGB
35. Grant & Stone 36. Walter Tipper 37. Joseph Parr 38. EH Smith 39. Frank Key 40. Covers
41. C&W Berry
42. Robert Price & Sons 43. Elliott Bros 44. Lords
45. Builder Depot 46. Brewer
47. Grafton Merchanting GB 48. AW Lumb
49. Beggs & Partners 50. Browns 51. Crossling
52. John A Stephens 53. Paintwell 54. Kent Blaxill
55. Nicholls & Clarke 56. Travis Perkins
57. Stark/Saint Gobain 58. IBMG
636.6% 107.3% 87.0% 59.0% 58.8% 54.6% 54.2% 52.8% 52.7% 41.3% 37.6% 37.5% 36.2% 34.9% 34.7% 33.6% 31.4% 30.5% 30.1% 28.6% 28.6% 27.2% 26.9% 26.0% 26.0% 25.9% 25.0% 24.8% 24.0% 23.8% 23.8% 23.5% 21.8% 21.8% 21.8% 21.2% 20.4% 20.2% 20.1% 19.2% 18.4% 18.1% 17.6% 15.8% 15.0% 14.9% 14.2% 13.6% 13.5% 13.0% 12.9% 11.9% 11.3% 11.1% 2.1% 0.1%
-12.2% -22.0%
A supplement to builders merchants journal April 2023
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