TRAILBLAZERS Walter Tipper
WALTER TIPPER THE NUMBERS
2020 Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k
THE RATIOS 2020
Stockturn 4.6 Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin % Sales/head £k Profit/head £
Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
Turnbull
TURNBULL THE NUMBERS
2020 Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k
THE RATIOS 2020
Stockturn 7.1 Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin % Sales/head £k Profit/head £
Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
27.4 5.5 5.3
228
12,520 38.9
2021 6.2
28.0 7.4 7.2
290
21,420 58.8
2022 6.1
27.8 7.4 7.3
303
22,481 60.7 413
45.1 12.4
2,479 2,413
2021
59.5 16.7
4,391 4,297
Staff 198 205 2022
64.9 18.0
4,811 4,741 214
TURNBULL
% CHANGE 2021 32 34 77 78 4
% CHANGE 2021 (13) 2
34 35 27 71 51
2022 9 8
10 10 4
2022 (1) (1) 0 1
5 5 3
95 Southgate, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, NG34 7RQ Tel: 01529 303025
www.turnbull.co.uk
Branches: 10 Showrooms: 6 Employees: 214
CEO: Chris Hopkins Chairman: Gary Hopkins Other Directors : Paul Roberts, Tony Needham, Stephen Vickers, Martin Hopkins
Member of: BMF, NMBS, Buying Group: Fortis
Turnbull is the largest independent builders’ merchant in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, supplying everything from kitchens and bathrooms to building materials, landscaping and paving as well as an extensive range of timber, plumbing and heating products. Turnbull is a family-owned and family-run business, first open for business in 1895, when it was set up selling building materials out of a small yard on Station Road in Sleaford. The company was acquired by the Hopkins family in the 1950s; two generations of the family are now involved.
Williams
WILLIAMS THE NUMBERS
19/20 Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k
THE RATIOS 19/20
Stockturn 4.4 Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin % Sales/head £k Profit/head £
Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
38 287
8,477 10.6
23.1 3.0 2.8
20/21 5.3
24.6 5.2 5.1
340 17,577 25.5722 21/22 5.0
23.8 2.7 2.6 311
8,509
34.9934 23
93.4 21.5
2,755 2,598
20/21
118.9 29.2
6,152 6,044
Staff 325 350 21/22
120.9 28.8 3,310 3,189 389
WILLIAMS % CHANGE
20/21 27 36
123 133 8
% CHANGE
20/21 19 7
75 83 18
107 141
21/22 (5) (3)
(47) (48) (8)
(52) 37
21/22 2
(1)
(46) (47) 11
13 Standard Way, Fareham, Hampshire, PO16 9XB Tel: 01329226500
https://www.tradeonlyplumbing.co.uk/
Branches: 53
Branches Added/Closed in 2023: 4 Employees: 390
Chairman: Ray Stafford Managing Director: Martin Brown Other Directors: Patrick Skilton, Mike Mann,
Turnover for 2023: £121m
Member of: BMF Buying Group: NMBS
Williams Trade Supplies Ltd are an, independent, trade only plumbing and heating merchant with over 53 trade counters and Regional Fulfilment Centres across the South East, Manchester, Milton Keynes, and Bristol.
The company was acquired from the Williams family by a consortium of management and staff in 2015, and most staff are now shareholders.
It operates on a strictly trade- only policy.
34.1 9.5 9.3 192
18,195 19.5
2021 4.3
34.0 10.7 10.6 216
23,015 21.2
2022 3.6
34.4 7.1 7.1
208
14,738 12.6 70
50.3 17.1
4,767 4,662
2021
57.1 19.4
6,099 6,028
Staff 262 265 2022
55.6 19.1
3,935 3,934 267
WALTER TIPPER
% CHANGE 2021 14 13
28 29 1
% CHANGE 2021 (7) (0) 13 14 12
26 8
2022 (3) (2)
(35) (35) 1
2022 (15) 1
(34) (33) (3)
(36) (40))
Europa Way Lichfield Staffs
WS14 9TZ Tel: 01543440000
www.tippers.com
Branches: 11 Showrooms: 6 Employees: 267
Managing Director: Andrew Tipper Directors: Peter Sampson, Amy Tipper, Bill Tipper, Joe Tipper
Members of: NMBS BMF Buying Group: CBA, PHG
A family-owned business now in its fifth generation, Tippers is a mixed merchant based in Lichfield, with branches across the West Midlands.
As well as a general mixed merchant portfolio, the company has a luxury kitchen and bathroom offer, based out of premium showrooms in Lichfield, Uttoxeter and Wolverhampton.
There is also Tippers Precision Concrete, a volumetric concrete operation, which offers customers ready-mixed concrete on-site to their specifications, delivering the exact quantities required.
WALTER TIPPER • TURNBULL • WILLIAMS BUILDERS MERCHANTS: A-Z
A supplement to builders merchants journal April 2024
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