TRAILBLAZERS BMJ INDEX: SMASHING THE RECORD
1. Beatsons 2. Lawsons 3. C&W Berry 4. MKM
5. UK Plumbing Supplies 6. Covers
7. Haldane Shiells
8. Parker Building Supplies 9. Myers Building Supplies 10. Carver
11. Huws Gray 12. JT Atkinson 13. LBS
14. Turnbull 15. J T Dove
16. Robert Pochin 17. CRS
18. Markovitz
19. James Burrell 20. Sydenhams 21. Frank Key
22. Robert Price & Sons 23. Joseph Parr
24. John A Stephens 25. James Hargreaves
26. National Timber Group 27. AW Champion 28. Bradford & Sons 29. Alsford Timber 30. Beesley & Fildes 31. EH Smith 32. Browns 33. Crossling 34. Williams 35. Brewer
36. Elliott Bros 37. Walter Tipper 38. Boys & Boden 39. Lords
40. John Nicholls
41. Howarth Timber Supplies 42. Builder Depot 43. Kent Blaxill
44. Grafton Merchanting GB 45. MP Moran 46. Kellaway
47. Highbourne 48. Wolseley UK
49. Nicholls & Clarke 50. Beggs & Partners 51. Stark/Saint Gobain 52. Travis Perkins 53. Paintwell 54. RGB
55. MGM Timber 56. AW Lumb 57. IBMG
58. Grant & Stone
4,361 3,355 3,012 2,833 2,557 2,460 2,432 2,117 1,792 1,591 1,564 1,495 1,483 1,447 1,427 1,415 1,388 1,371 1,367 1,210 1,208 1,182 1,171 1,155 1,150 1,062 1,036 910 910 909 866 864 818 743 726 717
624 624 604 476 444 443 320 298 289 245 190 74 66 29 -1
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-20 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
April 2023 A supplement to builders merchants journal 11 BMJ Index
The BMJ Index is a fairly arbitrary way of assessing the overall health and competitiveness of a company. It is calculated by multiplying three key ratios: year-on-year sales growth, stockturn, and operating margin. Therefore if any one of the three is negative – ie sales declined year-on- year, or the company recorded an operating loss – the result will be a negative Index score.
Applying our policy of excluding the top five and bottom five in the table, and thus focusing on the middle ground, the average BMJ Index score over the five years running up to this year showed a steady decline. The 2018 Trailblazers survey (reflecting 2016 accounts) showed an average Index score of 275. In 2019 (2017 accounts), it dropped slightly to 249. 2020 (2018 accounts) saw a further small decline to 228, and the 2021 survey (2019 accounts) recorded a sharp drop to an average of 85. Then Trailblazers 2022 reflected the lockdown year of 2020, and the average Index score plunged to just 34 – the lowest on record. But that was then, and this is now: the average BMJ Index score for 2023 smashed all previous records at 1,038. We’ll say it just once more: this is a very, very good time to be a builders merchant!
LEAGUE TABLES
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