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BROWNS THE NUMBERS
BUILDER DEPOT
Builder Depot Ltd was founded in 2001. It now has four warehouse based London branches, strategically located along the North Circular between North to West London.
The flagship branch, New Southgate, located in N11, London, holds over 1 million meters of timber.
BUILDER DEPOT 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 14.8 30.0 2.5 2.5
289
7,165 21.8
2018 13.0 28.8 1.7 2.1
265
4,512 16.1
2019 11.1 28.4 1.8 2.1
260
4,593 14.3 25
2017 104.8 31.4
2,601 2,605 363
2018 106.7 30.7
1,814 2,215 402
2019 108.0 30.7
1,906 2,246 415
BUILDER DEPOT
Citroen Wells Devonshire House Devonshire Street London W1W 5DR
www.buildersdepot.co.uk Tel: 020 8920 0800
Branches: 4 Employees: 363
Directors: Michael Arnold Aaronson, Hilda Aaronson, Chee Choong Cheah
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
% CHANGE
2018 2
(2)
(30) (15) 11
2018 (12) (4)
(31) (16) (8)
(37) (26)
2019 1
(0) 5 1 3
% CHANGE
2019 (15) (1) 4 0
(2) 2
(11)
BROWNS BUILDERS MERCHANTS
123a Old Nottingham Road Derby Alloa
Derbyshire DE1 3QQ
www.brownsbm.co.uk Tel: 07980 126036
Branches: 2 Employees: 75 Showrooms: 1
2019 Recorded Turnover: £35m
Directors: Jeremy Wheeler / Jim Parlato
% Heavyside / Lightside / Timber Sales: 85 / 10 / 5
Members of: BMF, NMBS, NBG BEATSONS BUILDING SUPPLIES
Robert Beatson & Son (Builders) Limited was incorporated in 1966. In 1984 the company was purchased by the Marshall family and the name changed to Beatson’s Building Supplies Limited.
BEATSONS BUILDING SUPPLIES LTD
Beatsons Direct The Whins Alloa Clackmannanshire FK10 3TA
www.beatsons.co.uk Tel: 01259 210920
Branches: 6 Employees: 122
Managing Director: John Marshall Sales Director: Ross Marshall Finance Director: Diane Crow
Members of: BMF, H&B
2017-2018 financial year is 74 weeks, hence some figures in the table are n/a
In 1990 the company moved a few miles to a larger facility in Alloa, which is now a large general builders merchant branch and the Head Office.
In 1998 Beatsons opened its second branch based in Cumbernauld, to serve North & South Lanarkshire, East Dumbartsonshire and Glasgow. These were followed by Penicuik, Mid in 2006 and Dunfermline in 2007. In 2011, the company opened a specialist roofing division Skyline Roofing, and two years later, its fifth branch in Stirling. This moved to larger premises during 2019.
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Browns has been in Derby in some shape or form for over a 100 years. Its Nottingham road depot is on the original site of the old Browns Foundry. In its current form, Browns
Builders Merchants has been a family run, independent company supplying building materials to the Trade and public since 1990.
BEATSONS BUILDING SUPPLIES LTD 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
16/17 8.1
33.0 7.8 7.6
215
16,754 54.1
17/18 n/a
32.9 5.0 4.8 n/a n/a n/a
2019 10.7 33.1 0.6 0.2
209
1,286 1.4 n/a
16/17 26.2 8.7
2,044 1,992 122
17/18 35.6 11.7
1,776 1,718 129
2019 27.9 9.2
171 54
133
2017 21.7 15.6 3.7 3.4
352
13,039 35.0
2018 19.5 13.6 2.8 2.5
428
11,974 27.8
2019 22.7 15.1 2.2 1.8
438
9,543 18.6 308
2017 26.8 4.2
991 906 76
2018 33.4 4.6
934 823 78
2019 35.5 5.4
773 643 81
% CHANGE
2018 25 9
(6) (9) 3
2018 (10) (12) (24) (27) 22 (8)
(21)
2019 6
18 17
(22) 4
% CHANGE
2019 16 11
(22) (26) 2
(20) (33)
TRAILBLAZERS
% CHANGE
17/18 36 35
(13) (14) 6
17/18 n/a (0)
(36) (37) n/a n/a n/a
2019 (22) (22) (90) (94) 3
% CHANGE
2019 n/a (0)
(88) (96) n/a n/a n/a
A supplement to Builders Merchants Journal April 2021
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