BUILDERS MERCHANTS: A-Z JAMES BURRELL • KELLAWAY GROUP • LBS James Burrell
JAMES BURRELL THE NUMBERS
19/20 Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k
THE RATIOS 19/20
Stockturn 12.6 Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin % Sales/head £k Profit/head £
Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
Kellaway Group
KELLAWAY GROUP THE NUMBERS
19/20 Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k
THE RATIOS 19/20
Stockturn 9.7 Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin % Sales/head £k Profit/head £
Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
15 20.6 4.4 3.0
266
11,735 23.2
20/21 7.4
22.9 6.3 5.1
254
15,995 30.5
21/22 7.6
22.7 6.2 5.5
245
15,321 27.8 87
49.2 10.1
2,171 1,472
20/21
51.8 11.9
3,263 2,631
Staff 185 204 21/22
52.7 12.0
3,294 2,891 215
KELLAWAY GROUP % CHANGE
20/21 5
17
50 79 10
20/21 (24) 11
43 70 (5) 36 32
21/22 2 1 1
10 5
% CHANGE
21/22 3
(1) (1) 8
(3) (4)
(9))
Olympus House Britannia Road Bristol BS34 5TA Tel: 01179063060
www.kellaway.co.uk www.mphmerchant.co.uk www.avonside.co.uk www.griggstimber.co.uk
Branches: 28 Showrooms: 4 Employees: 290
Managing Director: Julian Milligan Other Directors: Chris Edwards, Bob Fleetwood, Sean Morgan, Tim Tams
Member of: BMF, NMBS Buying Group: NBG
Family-owned independent Kellaway Group includes the builders merchant business Kellaway Building Supplies, Avonside Insulation Supplies an independent insulation distributor with branches in Bristol, Stoke on Trent and Swansea, MPH Merchant’s, a plumbing & heating merchant with 9 branches stretching from Swansea and Bridgwater to Torquay, Telford and Cannock in the Midlands, plus bathroom showrooms in Swansea, Moordown and Cannock. There is also Griggs Timber, a specialist timber merchant in Gloucester.
LBS
LBS THE NUMBERS
2020 Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k
THE RATIOS 2020
Stockturn 5.9 Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin % Sales/head £k Profit/head £
Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
28
30.6 5.3 5.1
226
11,956 22.3
2021 6.1
30.6 6.8 6.7
268
18,202 28.6
2022 5.9
29.4 6.9 6.8 276
67.1 20.5
3,551 3,410
Staff 297 2021
90.0 27.5 6,116
6,003 336
2022
94.8 27.9
6,556 6,424 344
LBS
% CHANGE 2021 34 34 72 76 13
% CHANGE 2021 3
(0) 28 31 19
29
2022 5 1
7 7 2
2022 (5) (4) 2 2 3
19,058 52 5 25.7 (18)
(10)
LBS Business Resource Centre Parc Amanwy Ammanford Carmarthenshire SA18 3FE Tel: 01558824044
http://www.lbsbm.co.uk
Branches: 36 Showrooms: 10
Branches Added/Closed in 2023: +2 Employees: 473 Chairman: Mark Davies Managing Directors: Rachel Davies & Ben Davies
Operations Director: Dai Thomas Financial Director: Philip Evans
Turnover for 2023: £87.04m
Member of: BMF, NMBS Buying Group: Fortis
Founded in 1931, LBS has grown to become a strong independent builders’ merchants with 36 outlets in South West Wales, supplying a comprehensive range of building materials to the DIY, Self Build, Developer, Building, Roofing and Civil Engineering industries.
With a head office in Llandeilo, LBS has grown to include Merchant Branches, a Home Centre and specialist Civils and Roofing businesses with branches from Maesteg in the East to Cardigan in the West.
277
5,805 20.5
20.1 2.1 1.8
20/21
11.3 19.9 3.5 3.3 351
12,349 37.6
21/22
12.2 19.0 3.3 3.1
394
13,031 34.8 966
68.2 13.7
1,428 1,254
20/21
91.6 18.2
3,223 3,042
Staff 246 261 21/22
113.5 21.6
3,753 3,492 288
% CHANGE
20/21 34 33
126 143 6
20/21 (10) (1) 68 81 27
113 83
21/22 24 18 16 15 10
% CHANGE
21/22 7
(4) (6) (7) 12 6
(7)
JAMES BURRELL Deptford Road
East Gateshead Industrial Estate, Gateshead Tyne & Wear NE8 2BR Tel: (0191) 477 2249
http://www.jamesburrell.com
Branches: 11 Employees: 303 Managing Directors: Mark Richardson and Steve Richardson Other Directors: Robert Richardson
Turnover 2023: £109m
Member of: BMF, NMBS Buying Group: CBA
North-east family-run and family- owned builders merchant James Burrell spent 2023 contiuning with its programme of business investment.
The investment included a major six-figure renovation at its branch located on Clifton Moor Industrial Estate in York, as well as £600k in its transport fleet, which comprised the purchase of four HGV wagons, a flatbed wagon and one additional crane vehicle. This is on top of the earlier purchase of a number of new forklifts at a value of £400K.
TRAILBLAZERS
A supplement to builders merchants journal April 2024
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88
