BUILDERS MERCHANTS: A-Z BUILDERS DEPOT • C&W BERRY • CHAMPION TIMBER Builder Depot
BUILDER DEPOT 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
C&W Berry
C&W BERRY THE NUMBERS
21/22 Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k Staff
THE RATIOS 21/22 Stockturn Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin % Sales/head £k Profit/head £
Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
10.5 17.9 10.2 10.3 292
29,629 22.3
22/23
10.8 17.0 8.4 9.0
280
23,593 17.7
23/24
11.8 13.4 3.8 5.5
248
9,363 9.3
507 Champion Timber
CHAMPION 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
16 3.3
40.5 3.3 3.3 179
5,981.0 8.3
2023 3.6
40.4 1.8 1.9
169
3,014.2 4.2
2024 3.4
39.7 0.2 0.4 183
396.0 1.1 3
37.8 15.3
1,262 1,267 211
2023
35.6 14.4 636 660 211
2024
37.1 14.7 80
166 202
CHAMPION TIMBER
% CHANGE 2023 (6) (6)
(50) (48) 0
% CHANGE 2023 9
(0)
(47) (45) (6)
(50) (49)
2024 4 2
(87) (75) (4)
2024 (5) (2)
(88) (76) 9
(87) (75)
Champion House Burlington Road New Malden, Surrey, KT3 4NB Tel: 020 8949 1621
www.championtimber.com/
Branches: 10 Showrooms: 10 Employees: 250+
Chairman: Phillip Champion Managing Director: Phillip Champion Directors: Rebecca Byrne, Steven Bernard Lewis Lister, Martin Edward Saunders
Approximate turnover for 2025: 45000000
Buying Group: NMBS BMF Member: Yes
Financial year end: December 31 2024
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.
A supplement to builders merchants journal April 2026
70.1 12.5 7,111
7,195 240
22/23
69.4 11.8
5,851 6,223 248
23/24
61.5 8.2
2,322 3,360 248
C&W BERRY % CHANGE
22/23 (1)
(6)
(18) (14) 3
% CHANGE
22/23 3
(5)
(17) (13) (4)
(20) (20)
23/24 9
(21) (55) (39) (11)
(60) (48)
23/24 (11)
(30) (60) (46) 0
262 Golden Hill Lane, Leyland, Lancashire, PR25 2YH Tel: 01772431216
www.cwberry.com
Branches: 1 Showrooms: 3 Employees: 245 Chairman: David Berry Managing Director: David Berry Directors: Martin Lambert, Jason Bond
Approximate turnover for 2025: £66.4m
Buying Group: Fortis, BMF Member: Yes
Financial year end: December 31 2024
Founded in 1954 by brothers Walter and Colin Berry as a joinery manufacturers in King Street, Leyland, C & W Berry is still family owned.
Today, the main sales site covers over 24 acres, stocking 30.000 products from building materials, electrical supplies, plumbing and heating, joinery products, power and hand tools, practically anything needed for a constructuion or DIY project.
10.6 29.9 2.5 3.1
391
9,873 17.1
2023
12.3 29.1 2.4 3.0 415
9,834 15.1
2024
12.4 29.1 1.6 2.3 411
6,491 10.9 49
126.3 37.8
3,189 3,945 323
2023
132.4 38.5 3,137 3,968 319
2024
135.8 39.6 2,142 3,131 330
BUILDER DEPOT
% CHANGE 2023 5 2
(2) 1
(1)
% CHANGE 2023 16
(3) (6) (4) 6
(0) (12)
2024 3 3
(32) (21) 3
2024 1
0
(33) (23) (1)
(34) (28)
Citroen Wells, Devonshire House, 1 Devonshire Street London W1W 5DR Tel: 02089200800
www.buildersdepot.co.uk
Branches: 4 Employees: 330
Managing Director/Directors: Michael Arnold Aaronson, Hilda Aaronson, Chee Choong Cheah (Secretary)
Financial year end: December 31 2024
Founded in 2001, Builder Depot is built upon over 100 years of industry experiance as a specialist in timber and plywood. It has four warehouse based London branches, strategically located along the North Circular between North and West London. There are kitchen and bathroom showrooms at the Staples Corner, West Hampstead and New Southgate branches, the latter being the largest merchant site in London.
TRAILBLAZERS
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88
