TRAILBLAZERS Carver
CARVER 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
4.3
28.6 8.8 8.8 257
22,606 19.4
2023 4.1
26.1 3.1 3.4 219
6,848 5.9
2024 3.5
29.0 2.5 3.0 201
4,917 4.5
(76)
56.0 16.0
4,928 4,944 218
2023
47.5 12.4
1,486 1,633 217
2024
43.3 12.6
1,062 1,292 216
% CHANGE 2023 (15) (23) (70) (67) (0)
% CHANGE 2023 (4) (9)
(64) (61) (15) (70) (69)
2024 (9) 2
(29) (21) (0)
2024 (15) 11
(22) (13) (8)
(28) (24)
For over 125 years, Carvers has served the Midlands from its ten-acre Wolverhampton headquarters site, supporting trade professionals, housebuilders, and DIY customers. Its second site, Neachells Lane in Wednesfield, is a specialist timber production and storage facility.
A a fifth-generation family business Carvers supplies everything from bricks, blocks and cement, to plumbing, ironmongery and timber. There is a dedicated decorating centre, electrical counter, cooker centre division and hard landscaping display, Carvers also offers a Drive Thru warehouse, hire centre and tool sales division, and a Fibo Collect onsite ready mixed concrete, mortar and screed facility. In March 2025 the company launched its new KBB retail brand – Carvers Interiors – specialising in luxury bathrooms, kitchens, cookers and tiles. The renovated bathroom showrooms at the Littles Lane site feature walk-through displays showing
CARVER
Littles Lane, Wolverhampton Tel: 01902577000
www.carvers.co.uk
Branches: 1 Showrooms: 1 Employees: 215
Managing Director: Henry Carver Directors: Jack Carver, Steve Moore, Richard Boult, Andrell Dinham, Andy Brabazon
Approximate turnover for 2025: £44.2m
Buying Group: Fortis BMF Member: Yes
Financial year end: December 31 2024
modern and contemporary suites, cloakrooms, freestanding furniture and accessories.
Director Jack Carver, said: “Carvers Interiors has been several years in the making. “We wanted to create showrooms that truly reflect the Carvers name and we like to think we have achieved that. Our goal has always been to create perfect living spaces, whatever the size, shape or budget.”
CARVER • COUNTRY BUILDING SUPPLIES BUILDERS MERCHANTS: A-Z
County Building Supplies
In 1987 Martyn Rees and David Lloyd opened the first County branch in Malvern, with one old Transit pickup and a single employee.
Across 13 branches located in Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Monmouthshire and Warwickshire, County employs over 100 staff, with a fleet of vehicles providing daily deliveries.
Products include bricks, blocks, timber & joinery products, hard landscaping products, plastering, decorating and roofing products, as well as heating and plumbing products, from boilers to pipe fittings.
COUNTY BUILDING SUPPLIES
52a St Andrews Rd Malvern Worcestershire Tel: 01684892969
www.countyonline.co.uk
Branches: 17 Showrooms: 3
Branches Added/Closed in 2025: +2 Employees: 172
Chairman: Martyn Rees Managing Director: Martyn Rees Directors: David Lloyd, Keith Felton, Tim Jerrad-Dinn, Laurence Keen, Ian Stacey.
Buying Group: NBG BMF Member: Yes
Financial year end: 30 June 2025
COUNTY BUILDING SUPPLIES THE NUMBERS
2023 Turnover £m Gross profit £m
Operating profit £k Net profit £k Staff
THE RATIOS 2023 Stockturn Gross margin %
Operating margin % Net margin % Sales/head £k Profit/head £
Return on capital % BMJ INDEX
6.3
28.7 1.4 1.1
221
3,146 11.6 314
2024 6.6
29.5 0.6 0.1
209
1,349 0.8 (5)
2025 6.9
29.4 (1.1) (1.0) 222
(2,468) (14.2) 19
36.3 10.4 516 395 164
2024
35.9 10.6 232 24
172 2025
35.0 10.3
(390) (340) 158
% CHANGE
23/24 (1) 2
(55) (94) 5
23/24 5 3
(55) (94) (6)
(57) (94)
24/25 (3) (3)
(268) (1517) (8)
% CHANGE
24/25 3
(0) (272)
(1553) 6
(283) (1989)
April 2026 A supplement to builders merchants journal
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