TRAILBLAZERS Turnbull
TURNBULL 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
6.1
27.8 7.4 7.3
303
22,481 60.7
2023 6.4
27.3 4.7 4.4 275
12,806 34.7
2024 6.8
25.4 1.8 1.7
282
5,063 14.6 15
UK Plumbing Supplies
UK PLUMBING SUPPLIES 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
27.5 5.4 4.5
382
20,669 68.9
2023 5.3
27.6 3.8 2.3
372
14,259 28.9
2024 5.3
27.9 3.4 2.1
364
12,491 24.1 70
809.4 222.4
43,838 36,708 2,121
2023
803.0 221.3
30,757 18,815 2,157
2024
833.8 232.7
28,641 17,789 2,293
UK PLUMBING SUPPLIES % CHANGE
2023 (1)
(0)
(30) (49) 2
% CHANGE
2023 25 0
(29) (48) (2)
(31) (58)
2024 (1) 1
(10) (9) (2)
(12) (17)
2024 4 5
(7) (5) 6
Quayside 2a, Wilderspool Park, Greenalls Avenue, Stockton Heath, Cheshire, WA4 6HL
www.ukps.com/
Brands: Willbond, HPS, PlumbCity, PlumbStop, Sparesbase, Plumbase, UKPS, Plumbstore, MDS, Gas Centre, Michael Pavis, Graham, Keystone Bathrooms, AMS, NTA, Stokplas, Farr & Harris, Plumbco, Abode, Crossling
Branches: 317 Employees: 2157
Directors: Angus Falconer, Tony Hogg, Gordon Love, Douglas McNair, Steve Wimbledon, William Woof, John McKerracher
BMF Member: Yes Financial year end: December 31 2024 Williams Trade Supplies
WILLIAMS TRADE SUPPLIES 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
5.0
23.8 2.7 2.6 311
8,509 13.5
22/23 5.0
23.3 0.5 0.1
310
1,685 0.5
23/24 5.3
21.3 nil nil 311 nil nil
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120.9 28.8 3,310 3,189 389
22/23
126.0 29.4 684 104 406
23/24
119.0 25.4
(3,520) (4,222) 383
WILLIAMS TRADE SUPPLIES % CHANGE
22/23 4 2
(79) (97) 4
% CHANGE
22/23 (1) (2)
(80) (97) (0)
(80) (97)
23/24 6
(9)
n/a n/a 0
n/a n/a
23/24 (6)
(14) n/a n/a (6)
13 Standard Way Fareham, Hampshire PO16 8XB 01329 226500
www.tradeonlyplumbing.co.uk Branches: 47
Branches Added/Closed in 2025: -5 Employees: 318
Chairman: Ray Stafford Managing Director: Martin Brown Other Directors: Patrick Skilton, Graham Barnetson, Rachel Moore
Approximate turnover for 2025: £111m
Buying Group: PHG BMF Member: Yes
Financial year end: November 30 2024
Williams Trade Supplies Ltd is an, independent, trade only plumbing and heating merchant with trade counters across the south from Cheltenham to Cambridge, and Poole to Hastings.
It was founded by Mick Williams in 1972, and acquired from the Williams family by a consortium of management and staff in 2015, and most staff are now shareholders.
Its focus is on providing the best products, best price and best service to one customer group, which includes selfemployed tradespeople, up to firms employing around five staff.
33
UK Plumbing Supplies has built up a range of subsidiary plumbers merchant brands via acquisition over the past few years. It is itself a subsidiary of Marlow Holdings, which also owns electrical distribution chain Edmundsen Electrical.
It operates from over 300 individual locations spanning the length and breadth of the UK, serving all aspects of the marketplace from plumbing and heating to bathrooms and renewables.
The acquired businesses continue to trade under their own names.
64.9 18.0
4,811 4,741 214
2023
62.3 17.0
2,907 2,738 227
2024
63.1 16.0
1,134 1,048 224
TURNBULL % CHANGE
2023 (4) (6)
(40) (42) 6
% CHANGE
2023 5
(2)
(37) (40) (10) (43) (43)
2024 7
(7)
(61) (62) 3
(60) (58)
2024 1
(6)
(61) (62) (1)
95 Southgate, Sleaford Tel: 01529303025
www.turnbull.co.uk
Branches: 10 Showrooms: 6 Employees: 225
Chairman: Gary Hopkins CEO: Chris Hopkins Other Directors; Martin Hopkins, Steve Vickers, Paul Roberts, Tony Needham
Approximate turnover for 2025: £69M
Buying Group: Fortis BMF Member: Yes
Financial year end: December 31 2024
Turnbull is the largest independent builders’ merchant in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, supplying everything from kitchens and bathrooms to building materials, landscaping and paving as well as an extensive range of timber, plumbing and heating products. Turnbull is a family-owned and family-run business, first open for business in 1895, when it was set up selling building materials out of a small yard on Station Road in Sleaford.
The company was acquired by the Hopkins family in the 1950s, and two generations of the family are now involved.
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