BUILDERS MERCHANTS: A-Z ALSFORD TIMBER • BEATSONS • BEESLEY & FILDES Alsford Timber
ALSFORD TIMBER THE NUMBERS
2022 Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k Staff
THE RATIOS 2022 Stockturn Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin %
Sales/employee £k Profit/employee £ Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
Beatsons
BEATSONS THE NUMBERS
Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k Staff
THE RATIOS Stockturn Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin %
Sales/employee £k Profit/employee £ Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
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
2024 11.3
34.0 6.6 6.7
293
19,373 18.6 276
2022 37.2 12.3
2,706 2,657 146
2023 35.6 11.4
1,054 1,072 133
2024 36.9 12.5
2,441 2,460 126
BEATSONS % CHANGE
2023 (4) (7)
(61) (60) (9)
% CHANGE
2023 12
(3)
(59) (58) 5
(57) (61)
2024 (5) 6
123 121 9
144 81
2024 4
10
132 129 (5)
The Whins Alloa
FK10 3TA
www.beatsons.co.uk Tel: 01259 210920
Branches: 7 (Inc 5 Beatsons and 2 Orchard Timber Products) Skyline Roofing branches: 3 Employees: 126
Chairman: Ross Marshall Managing Director: John Marshall Jnr Sales Director: Scott Gibson, Director: Andrew Sheills
Buying Group: h&b BMF Member: Yes
Financial year end: December 31 2024
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 December 2025, it purchased Orchard Timber from the administrators of National Timber
Group.The acquisition strengthens Beatsons’ presence across Scotland UK, with two branches, in Forfar and Livingston. All the staff were kept on, with anyone made redundant before the purchase offered their jobs back.
Beesley & Fildes
BEESLEY & FILDES THE NUMBERS
22/23 Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k Staff
THE RATIOS 22/23 Stockturn Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin %
Sales/employee £k Profit/employee £ Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
12 5.3
17.6 1.8 1.3
195
3,561 3.8
23/24 5.0
16.8 -1.9 -2.6 174 nil
-5.9 24/25 5.4
16.3 -1.5 -2.2 191 nil
-5.4 (114)
52.9 9.3
965 703 271
23/24
46.5 7.8
(865) (1,218) 267
24/25
48.8 8.0
(744)
(1,051) 255
BEESLEY & FILDES % CHANGE
23/24 (12) (16) n/a n/a (1)
23/24 (5) (4)
n/a n/a (11) n/a n/a
24/25 5 2
n/a n/a (4)
% CHANGE
24/25 6
(3)
n/a n/a 10
n/a n/a
Head Office Wilson Road, Huyton, Merseyside, L36 6AF Tel: 0151 480 8304
www.beesleyandfildes.co.uk www.bandfspecialisttimber.co.uk/
Branches: 10 (Inc Whitakers Garden Centre) Showrooms: 2 Employees: 274
Chairman: John Beesley Managing Director: Lee Davies Commercial Director: James Beesley
Approximate turnover for 2025: £48.3m
Buying Group: h&b BMF Member: Yes Financial year end: March 31 2025
The company has 10 branches across the north west of England, with the largest in Huyton, which is also the head office. The other branches are located across Liverpool, Merseyside, Greater Manchester, and Cheshire, with kitchen and bathroom showrooms in Liverpool and Chester, civils supplies in Chester, Swinton, Walkden and Widnes, brick cutting in Chester and milling in Widnes.
In August 2025, it opened a new landscaping centre in Mickle Trafford, Chester, offering a range of materials, advice and displays.
A supplement to builders merchants journal April 2026 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
2024 4.0
35.4 0.2 0.7
233 502 1.7
(3)
57.2 20.0
2,864 2,887 240
2023
51.5 18.1 331 576 232
2024
49.6 17.6 107
339 213
ALSFORD TIMBER % CHANGE
2023 (10) (10) (88) (80) (3)
% CHANGE
2023 7 0
(87) (78) (7)
(88) (80)
2024 (12) 1
(66) (39) 5
(65) (41)
2024 (4) (3)
(68) (41) (8)
2 Ness Road, Erith, Kent DA8 2LD Tel: 01322333088
www.alsford.co.uk
Branches: 19 Showrooms: 1 Employees: 227
Chairman: Mark Kingsbury Managing Director: Neil Fuller Finance Director: Athol Manning Strategic Growth Director: Justin Hood
Approximate turnover for 2025: £51m Buying Group: Fortis BMF Member: Yes
Financial year end: December 31 2024
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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