TRAILBLAZERS S Sydenhams SYDENHAMS
45-47 Ashley Road Bournemouth BH1 4LG Tel: 01202303585
www.sydenhams.co.uk
Branches: 34 Showrooms: 6
Branches Added in 2022: 2 Employees: 495
Chairman: James and Charles Sherborne Managing Director: Lee Wright Operations Director: Kevin Clarke Finance Director: Jeremy Clark Marketing/Purchasing Director: Chris Carter
HR/Systems Director: Oliver Sherborne
Turnover for 2022 (est): £98.5m Members of: Fortis, NMBS, BMF
Founded in 1874 by James Thomas Sydenham in Poole, Dorset, where the Timber is still imported today, Sydenhams has a long tradition of supplying timber & building materials throughout the Central South West region of England.
In the 1920’s J. T. Sydenham & Co was acquired by John
U UK Plumbing Supplies UK PLUMBING SUPPLIES
Quayside 2a, Wilderspool Park, Greenalls Avenue, Stockton Heath, Cheshire, England, WA4 6HL
Brands: Willbond, HPS, PlumbStop, Sparesbase, Plumbase, UKPS, Plumbstore, PlumbCity, MDS, Gas Centre, Michael Pavis, Graham, Plumbco, CorgiDirect
Branches: 300 Employees: 200
Directors: Douglas Christie, Angus Falconer, Tony Hogg, Gordon Love, Douglas McNair, Steve Wimbledon, William Woof
Product mix: 100% Lightside
UK Plumbing Supplies, a subsidiary of Marlowe Holdings Limited, has built up a range of subsidiary plumbers merchant brands, all acquired over the past few years.
The group covers: GB Willbond, Heating Plumbing Supplies, Plumbcity, Plumbstop, Plumbstore (Plumbing & Heating Supplies), Bathroom Centre, Gas Centre Holdings, Millbrook Distribution & Spares and Plumbase.
There is also a plumbers merchant business in Oxfordshire called UK Plumbing Supplies, with seven locations; Carterton, Chipping Norton (HQ) Bicester, Didcot, Henley on Thames, Thame and Oxford.
HPS has 37 branches across the south branches across the south, stretching from Dover to Maidenhead and Poole. Plumbase was acquired from the Grafton Group in October
April 2023 A supplement to builders merchants journal
UK PLUMBING SUPPLIES THE NUMBERS
2019 Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k Staff
THE RATIOS 2019 Stockturn Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin %
Sales/employee £k Profit/employee £ Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
6.3
28.9 nil nil
274
(6,953) nil
2020 5.0
29.1 0.4 nil
281
1,163 nil
2021 4.1
25.4 3.0 2.4
332
10,122 54.2 2557
2019 and has 136 branches, nationwide. In 2021, the company acquired a number of
173.9 50.2
(4,415) (6,253) 635
2020
203.8 59.4 844
(1,960) 726
2021
616.2 156.7
18,767 14,509 1,854
% CHANGE
2020 17 18
n/a n/a 14
% CHANGE
2020 (20) 1
n/a n/a 2
n/a n/a
2021 (17) (13) 635 n/a 18
771 n/a
2021 202 164
2124 n/a 155
SYDENHAMS • UK PLUMBING SUPPLIES
BUILDERS MERCHANTS: A-Z
SYDENHAMS THE NUMBERS
19/20 Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k Staff
THE RATIOS 19/20 Stockturn Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin % Sales/head £k Profit/head £
Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
3.7
40.1 6.1
6.0 165
10,066 16.2
20/21 3.2
43.1 13.5 13.5 177
23,962 28.5
21/22 2.8
43.3 15.4 15.4 217
33,447 34.7 1210
Sherborne and the business has remained in the family for over 100 years. In 1999, with the acquisition of associated companies, J. T. Sydenham & Co was renamed to Sydenhams Ltd. The business has continued
82.7 33.2
5,053 4,991 502
20/21
83.3 35.9
11,286 11,229 471
21/22
106.5 46.1
16,389 16,380 490
% CHANGE
20/21 1
8
123 125 (6)
20/21 (14) 8
122 123 7
138 76
21/22 28 28 45 46 4
% CHANGE
21/22 (11) 0
14 14 23 40 22
to grow and has 32 branches. across the South including Timber & Builders Merchants, Specialist Timber Centres, Kitchen & Bathroom Showrooms, Tool & Plant Hire and Timber Engineering.
Graham branches from Saint Gobain; there are now 59 across the country.
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