TRAILBLAZERS Beggs & Partners
BEGGS & PARTNERS 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
Boys & Boden
BOYS & BODEN 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/head £k Profit/head £
Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
2.3
30.6 5.1
3.9 187
9,555 8.5
23/24 2.4
30.2 4.4 2.4 184
8,030 4.9
24/25 2.4
30.1 4.6 2.8 174
7,918 5.1
(67)
50.9 15.6
2,599 2,007 272
23/24
49.4 14.9
2,160 1,203 269
24/25
46.4 14.0
2,114 1,289 267
BOYS & BODEN % CHANGE
23/24 (3) (4)
(17)
(40) (1)
23/24 6
(1)
(14) (38) (2)
(16) (42)
24/25 (6) (6) (2) 7
(1) % CHANGE
24/25 (1)
(0) 4
14
(5) (1) 3
Mill Lane Welshpool SY21 7BL Tel: 01938556677
www.boysandboden.co.uk
Branches: 7 Showrooms: 5
Chairman:Dean Hammond Managing Director: Dean Hammond Directors: Christopher Michael Boden Jones
Buying Group: Fortis BMF Member: Yes Financial year end: March 31 2025
Boys & Boden began as a sawmill in Staffordshire, moving to the British sawmils site in Welshpool in 1917, closer to Montgomeryshire’s oaks and with railway and canal access. It became a fully fledged builders merchant by 1980, and now provides for both large scale jobs and DIY products. The company has a variety of specialist sites including its Chester showroom and DIY superstore. Its subsidiary, Pear Stairs, is a manufacturer and supplier of bespoke staircases.
5.2
27.6 7.0 8.0 275
19,355 13.2
23/24 5.7
26.9 4.3 6.4
283
12,258 10.7
24/25 6.8
26.5 3.9 5.0
288
11,250 8.5 133
42.7 11.8
3,000 3,400 155
23/24
43.8 11.8
1,900 2,800 155
24/25
46.0 12.2
1,800 2,282 160
BEGGS & PARTNERS % CHANGE
23/24 8 0
(37) (18) 0
% CHANGE
23/24 9
(3)
(38) (20) 3
(37) (19)
24/25 18
(2)
(10) (22) 2
(8) (21)
24/25 5 3
(5)
(19) 3
68-72, Great Patrick Street Tel: 028 9023 5791
www.beggsandpartners.com
Branches: 13 Showrooms: 13 Employees:160
Chairman: Geoff Meldrum Managing Director: Neil Bleakly Directors: Ian Beggs, Richard Robinson, Stuart Duncan, Tony Livingston, Neil Beggs, Alastair Scott
Approximate turnover for 2025: £46m Buying Group: PHG BMF Member: Yes
Financial year end: September 30 2025
Founded in Belfast in 1960 by William Beggs, the family run company has a 13 Branch network reacing throughout Northern Ireland and Southeast England.
Branch locations across the province are Ballymena, Belfast, Derry/Londonderry, Maghera, Newtownards, Portadown and Lisburn.
GB mainland locations are Basildon, Cambridge, Hockley Grays and Ely.
The comapny encompases four divisions; trade, retail, commercial heating and contract sanitary ware.
BEGGS & PARTNERS • BOYS & BODEN • BREWERS BUILDERS MERCHANTS: A-Z
Brewers
BREWERS 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/head £k Profit/head £
Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
6.9 8.3 4.6 4.3 166
7,701 13.7
2023
6.8 5.1 1.8 1.1
168
3,059 4.3
2024
6.8 4.5 1.2
0.5 182
2,239 2.0 85
211.2 17.5
9,788 9,148 1,271
2023
243.0 12.3
4,430 2,692 1,448
2024
267.8 11.9
3,303 1,240 1,475
BREWER S % CHANGE
2023 15
(30) (55) (71) 14
% CHANGE
2023 (1)
(39) (61) (74) 1
(60) (69)
2024 (0)
(12) (32) (58) 8
(27) (54)
2024 10
(3)
(25) (54) 2
Albany House 127 Ashford Road Eastbourne East Sussex BN21 3TR Tel: 07980993317
www.brewers.co.uk
Branches: 265 Showrooms: 21
Chairman: Mark Brewer Managing Director: Simon Brewer Directors: Charles Brewer, Neal Brewer, Nick Brewer
Approximate turnover for 2025: £320m BMF Member: Yes
Financial year end: December 31 2024
Brewers is a long-established family business founded in Sussex in 1904, supplying paints, wallpaper and decorating materials, as well as providing training and development for painters and decorators. In February 2025, the company bought Paintwell, the deorators’ merchant that acquired Kent Blaxill in November 2022, out of administration.
Paintwell had been owned by private equity firm Cairngorm Capital. Brewers took on most of the 44 stores, as well as the industrial paint distributor, Promain.
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