BUILDERS MERCHANTS: A-Z
ALSFORD TIMBER • AW CHAMPION • AW LUMB A ALSFORD TIMBER
ALSFORD TIMBER 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
2017 4.1
34.9 3.3 3.3
194
9,263 14.1
2018 4.1
34.1 2.6 2.6
198
6,523 10.7
2019 3.9
35.3 2.0 2.0
199
3,902 7.3
(12)
2017 47.0 16.4
1,546 1,547 237
2018 49.4 16.8
1,295 1,298 233
2019 48.6 17.2 952 955 244
% CHANGE
2018 5 3
(16) (16) (2)
2018 1
(2)
(20) (20) 7
(15) (24)
2019 (2) 2
(26) (26) 5
% CHANGE
2019 (5) 4
(25) (25) (6)
(30) (31)
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
AW CHAMPION AW CHAMPION
Champion House Burlington Road New Malden Surrey KT3 4NB
www.champion.com Tel: 020 8949 1621
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
AW CHAMPION 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
14
2017 3.9
43.4 1.9 1.9
135
2,601 6.0
2018 3.7
42.6 2.8 2.8
147
4,087 8.4
2019 3.8
42.3 2.6 2.7
149
3,859 7.6 14
2017 29.4 12.8 567 573 218
2018 30.3 12.9 842 855 206
2019 30.7 13.0 795 817 206
Managing director: Phillip Champion, Marketing director: Mike Bird Company secretary: Stephen Bowden Directors Martin Saunders, Steven Lister
Branches: 10 Employees: 206
Members of: BMF
as power tools, ironmongery, adhesives, paint via a branch network that stretches from Bromley to Wimbledon and New Malden to Guildford and Edenbridge.
% CHANGE
2018 3 1
49 49 (6)
2018 (4) (2) 44 45 9
57 39
2019 1 1
(6) (4) 0
% CHANGE
2019 2
(1) (7) (6) 1
(6) (10)
AW LUMB WAS originally established as a family-run and family-owned business in 1964. By 2016, 10 years after the last member of the Lumb family had stopped working in the business, it was acquired by six members of the management team.
The company operates from two branches, one in Dewsbury and one in Tamworth. Its astonishing levels of sales and profit per employee, it puts down to the fact that it has just two depots
AW LUMB 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
17/18 17.4 11.5 6.2 6.1
512
31,600 12.5
18/19 20.2 11.4 6.9 6.8
568
39,421 63.6
19/20 19.2 11.2 6.7 6.5
501
33,317 41.9
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18/19 16 (0) 12 11 11 25
409
19/20 (5) (2) (4) (4)
(12) (15) (34)
17/18 38.4 4.4
2,370 2,353 75
18/19 43.2 4.9
2,996 2,937 76
19/20 41.0 4.6
2,732 2,685 82
AW LUMB AW LUMB
Mill Street Dewsbury West Yorkshire WF12 9BD
www.awlumb.co.uk Tel: 01924 484500
Number of Subsidiaries: 2 Branches: 2 Showrooms: 2 Employees: 80
2019 Turnover: £43.15m 2020 Turnover: £41.04m
CEO / Chairman: John Cureton, Finance Director Andy Roberts Directors: Mike Smith, Trevor Jones, Martin Keay, Gavin McEntee
Members of: BMF, CBA
and that multi-tasking comes as second nature to everyone: there’s no need for a big infrastructure or multiple departments.
% CHANGE
18/19 12 12 26 25 1
19/20 (5) (7) (9) (9) 8
TRAILBLAZERS ALSFORD TIMBER LTD
Alsford Timber Ltd Ness Road Erith, Kent DA8 2LD
www.alsfordtimber.com Tel: 01322 333088
Branches: 19 Employees: 340
2019 Turnover: £45m 2020 Turnover (estimated): £45m
Chairman: Mark Kingsbury Managing Director: Neil Fuller Other Directors: Athol Manning, Louise Polston, Justin Hood
Product Split: 35% Timber / 25% Heavyside / 13% Fencing / 12% Sheets / 10% Joinery / 5% Other
Member of: BMF, Fortis
suppliers access to current account information and real-time stock control and availability.
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