BUILDERS MERCHANTS: A-Z PGR Timber & Builders Merchants
PGR TIMBER & BUILDERS MERCHANTS THE NUMBERS
20/21 Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k
THE RATIOS 20/21
Stockturn 5.0 Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin % Sales/head £k Profit/head £
Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
Robert Pochin
ROBERT POCHIN THE NUMBERS
2020 Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k
THE RATIOS 2020
Stockturn 6.4 Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin % Sales/head £k Profit/head £
Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
16.1 5.5 5.4
259
14,180 37.6
2021 6.1
19.4 7.4 7.3
353
25,984 51.9
2022 5.5
19.7 7.4 7.4
361
26,681 45.8 515
34.4 5.6
1,886 1,875
2021
45.2 8.8
3,326 3,320
Staff 133 128 2022
50.9 10.0
3,762 3,748 141
ROBERT POCHIN
% CHANGE 2021 31
58 76 77
(4)
% CHANGE 2021 (5) 20 34 35 36 83 38
2022 13 14 13 13 10
2022 (10) 1
0 0 2 3
(12)
2 Murrayfield Road Leicester LE3 1UW Tel: 01162327660
www.pochin.com
Branches: 28 Showrooms: 11
Branches added in 2023: 4 Employees:165
Chairman/ Managing Director: David Pochin
Sales Director: Peter Trickett, Finance Director: Glynn Barrington, Commercial Director: Simon Froggatt
Turnover for 2023: £56.9m Member of: BMF, NMBS Buying Group: PHG
Robert Price & Sons
POBERT PRICE & SONS THE NUMBERS
19/20 Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k
THE RATIOS 19/20
Stockturn 3.9 Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin % Sales/head £k Profit/head £
Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
34
31.4 8.5 8.0 160
13,555 9.0
20/21 3.3
32.4 11.0 14.3 206
22,640 18.1
21/22 4.0
29.3 8.9 6.5 237
21,039 9.8
1046
42.1 13.2
3,565 3,355
20/21
56.0 18.1
6,158 8,001
Staff 263 272 21/22
72.4 21.2
6,438 4,681 306
ROBERT PRICE & SONS % CHANGE
20/21 33 37 73
138 3
% CHANGE
20/21 (18) 3
30 79 29 67
102
21/22 24 (9)
(19) (55) 15
(7) (46)
21/22 29 17 5
(41) 13
Park Road Abergavenny Monmouthshire NP7 5PF Tel: 01873 858585
www.robert-price.co.uk
Subsidiaries: 2: Tudor Building Supplies (Hereford) Ltd, Gower Timber Ltd Branches: 28 including 4 Tudors, 1 Gower Timber Employees: 272 Managing Director: Will Godfrey Sales Director: David Pattison Marketing Director: Molly Pike Operations Director: Ben Pike Finance Director: Matthew Binmore Commercial Director: Malcolm Jones
Members of: BMF, NMBS, Buying Group: CBA
Robert Price’s 28 branch network extends across the South East Wales region and includes 18 builders’ merchants, four dedicated roofing merchants, two specialist timber merchants, an insulation branch, a kitchens, bathrooms and landscaping centre, and an agricultural
division.The Newport branch also houses a specialist civils yard and a Sustainable Energy Centre. Headquarters is still in
Abergavenny on the site originally used as Robert Price’s stables. The current directors are fifth and sixth generation, descended from the founder.
A supplement to builders merchants journal April 2024
Although it is now a bathroom specialist and plumbers merchant, Robert Pochin was founded as an ironmongers on Granby Street, Leicester in 1860 and has spent the last 160 years expanding both organically and via acquisition.
In the last few years, it has acquired Mike Lodge Plumbing and Heating Merchant, opened branches in Newark , Arnold, Cannock, Derby and Lincoln and acquired NS Plumbing and Heating Supplies and Martin & Partner of Northampton.
33.9 12.4 12.4 333
41,423 44.1
21/22 4.5
32.7 13.1 13.1 387
50,815 50.2
22/23 4.3
33.2 12.9 13.0 421
54,456 45.3 337
43.3 14.7
5,385 5,392
21/22
58.4 19.1
7,673 7,676
Staff 130 151 22/23
61.9 20.6
8,005 8,078 147
PGR TIMBER % CHANGE
21/22 35 30 42 42 16
21/22 (9) (4) 6 6
16 23 14
22/23 6 8 4 5
(3) % CHANGE
22/23 (4) 2
(2) (1) 9 7
(10)
Denbigh Road, Laindon, Basildon,
Essex, SS15 6PY, Tel: 01268 334455
www.pgrtimber.co.uk
Branches:10 Employees: 147
Managing Director: Steve Atkins Operations Director: Paul Massenhove Directors: Mark Gunner, Graham Toomey, Rene Toomey.
Members of: BMF, Buying Group: NBG
PGR was established in 1984 as a family business, working out of a singular unit in Laindon, Essex, cutting timber to order for customers in the local area. Since then, it has seen
substantial growth and expansion and now operates from multiple sites throughout the Essex and Surrey area.
In January 2024, it opened PGR+, a distribution centre tailored exclusively for building materials, at Stadium Way, Rayleigh. The distribution centre significantly expands stock holding across all branches, with materials available within 72 hours.
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