BUILDERS MERCHANTS: A-Z ALSFORD TIMBER • CHAMPION TIMBER • BEATSONS Alsford Timber
ALSFORD TIMBER THE NUMBERS
2021 Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k Staff
THE RATIOS 2021 Stockturn Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin %
Sales/employee £k Profit/employee £ Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
AW Champion
CHAMPION TIMBER THE NUMBERS
2021 Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k Staff
THE RATIOS 2021 Stockturn Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin %
Sales/employee £k Profit/employee £ Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
3.0
46.5 11.4 11.4 187
21,286 28.6
2022 3.3
40.5 3.3 3.3
179
5,981 8.3
2023 3.6
40.4 1.8 1.9
188
3,347 4.2 (37)
40.5 18.8
4,619 4,618 217
2022
37.8 15.3
1,262 1,267 211
2023
35.6 14.4 636 660 190
CHAMPION TIMBER % CHANGE
21/22 (7)
(19) (73) (73) (3)
21/22 10
(13) (71) (71) (4)
(72) (71)
22/23 (6) (6)
(50) (48) (10)
% CHANGE
22/23 9
(0)
(47) (45) 5
(44) (49)
Champion House, Burlington Road, New Malden, Surrey KT3 4NB Tel: 0208 9491621
www.champion.com
Branches: 10 Showrooms: 10
Employees: 250+
Chairman: Phillip Champion Managing Director: Phillip Champion Other Directors: Rebecca Byrne, Steven Lister, Martin Saunders
Buying Group: NMBS BMF Member
With 10 branches across the South East, independent timber specialist AW Champion has over 80 years experience of supplying the building trade.
As well as sourcing and machining its own timber, the company supplies decking, fencing, sheet materials, insulation, flooring, doors and timber buildings as well as timber related products such as power tools, ironmongery, adhesives, paint via a branch network that stretches from Bromley to Wimbledon and New Malden to Guildford and Edenbridge.
Beatsons
BEATSONS THE NUMBERS
2021 Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k Staff
THE RATIOS 2021 Stockturn Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin %
Sales/employee £k Profit/employee £ Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
12
11.1 34.8 12.3 12.1 278
34,246 54.6
2022
10.6 33.1 7.3 7.1
255
18,534 26.1
2023
11.9 32.1 3.0 3.0
268
7,925 10.3 (151)
39.5 13.8
4,863 4,778 142
2022
37.2 12.3
2,706 2,657 146
2023
35.6 11.4
1,054 1,072 133
BEATSONS DIRECT % CHANGE
21/22 (6)
(11) (44) (44) 3
21/22 (5) (5)
(41) (41) (8)
(46) (52)
22/23 (4) (7)
(61) (60) (9)
% CHANGE
22/23 12 (3)
(59) (58) 5
(57) (61)
Beatsons Direct The Whins Alloa
FK10 3TA
www.beatsons.co.uk Tel: 01259 210920
Branches: 5
Skyline Roofing branches: 3 Employees: 133
Chairman: Ross Marshall Managing Director: John Marshall Jnr Sales Director: Scott Gibson, Director: Andrew Sheills
Buying Group: h&b, NMBS BMF Member
Beatsons Building Supplies was incorporated in 1966 and originally traded as Robert Beatson & Son (Builders) Limited. In 1984, the company was purchased by the Marshall family and the name was changed to Beatson’s Building Supplies Limited. In 2011 the company started a new specialist roofing division which trades under the Skyline Roofing name.
This currently operates three merchants based within the general builders merchant depots at the company’s Penicuik, Stirling and Dunfermline branches.
A supplement to builders merchants journal April 2025 3.4
40.9 9.6 9.6
240
23,122 31.4
2022 4.2
35.0 5.0 5.0
238
11,933 14.4
2023 4.5
35.1 0.6 1.1
222
1,427 2.9 (29)
56.9 23.3
5,480 5,483 237
2022
57.2 20.0
2,864 2,887 240
2023
51.5 18.1 331 576 232
ALSFORD TIMBER % CHANGE
21/22 0
(14) (48) (47) 1
21/22 25
(14) (48) (48) (1)
(48) (54)
22/23 (10) (10) (88) (80) (3)
% CHANGE
22/23 7 0
(87) (78) (7)
(88) (80)
Alsford Timber and Builder’s Merchant Ness Road Erith
Kent, DA8 2LD
www.alsfordtimber.com 01322 333088
Branches: 19 Showrooms: 1
Employees: 250
Managing Director: Neil Fuller Other Directors: Louise Williams, Commercial Director: Athol Manning, Finance Director: Justin Hood, Strategic Growth Director
Approximate turnover for 2024: £50M Buying Group: Fortis BMF Member
Around since 1882, Alsford Timber began selling timber and fencing in South West London. It is now the largest timber merchant in the South East England.
The company has 19 branches across four counties and through the IT system can offer a central platform that allows it to share information across the company, and offers customers and suppliers access to current account information and real-time stock control and availability.
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