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TRAILBLAZERS


LORDS TRADING GROUP


Lords Group Trading Limited is a family business established over 25 years ago with its first retail unit in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. Since then the company has grown to a business operating from 29 units with a combined turnover in excess of £275m. The businesses have ex- perienced strong organic growth but the main driver for the Group’s growth has been stra- tegic acquisitions. Lords Group Trading Limited has acquired over 12 businesses in the last 10 years. The latest acquisition is MAP Building & Civil Engineering Supplies Ltd, made by the Hevey Building Supplies subsidiary. Established in 2003, the Ilkeston, Derbyshire, based MAP spe- cialises in heavyside and civils, covering the East Midlands and


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Radford Ind Est Goodhall Street London


NW10 6UA https://lordsgrouptrading.co.uk/ Tel: 01514 808304


Number of Subsidiaries: 4 Branches: 29 Employees: 540


2020 Estimated Turnover: (Group) £287m


% Heavyside/lightside/timber sales: 35% heavyside / 65% lightside


CEO: Shanker Patel Managing Directors: Jamie Herd (Lords BM), Mark Mulvey (Hevey), Michael Brockman (APP / MrCH) Other directors: Chris Day (CFO), Tim Holton (Acquisitions Director), Steve Bath (Group Procurement Director) Andrew Harrison (Non-Executive Director)


Members of: NMBS, BMF, H+B


Derbyshire. Owners Martin Mc- Caul and Philip West will be stay- ing on for the immediate future. The Lords’ group civils coverage now spreads from Derby down to the South-East.


M MARKOVITZ


FOUNDED IN 1935 when Maurice Markovitz bought the present Commercial Road premises from Tideswell and Miller’s Dale Coal and General Merchants Company, the Markovitz family of companies now encompasses 18 builders’ and plumbers’ merchants depots, two luxury kitchen and bathroom showrooms, a specialist stove & cooker showroom at the Leek branch and a stove showroom at the Buxton depot and specialist insulation and drylining division.


MARKOVITZ YR END 31/12 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 6.2


23.2 2.8 2.7


200


5,550 15.0


2018 6.4


23.5 2.8 2.6


209


5,828 14.7


2019 6.0


24.5 3.0 2.9


218


6,553 15.7 218


2017 36.1 8.4


999 961 180


2018 40.1 9.4


1,119 1,062 192


2019 45.0 11.0


1,350 1,291 206


MARKOVITZ


Town End Yard Richard Lane Tideswell SK17 8PZ www.markovitz.co.uk Tel: 01298 871223


Branches: 18 Employees: 230


2019 Turnover: £45m


Directors: David Hopkins, Robert Hopkins, Robert Turner (Commercial) Members of: BMF, NMBS, H + B


LBS


FOUNDED IN 1931, LBS has grown to become a strong independent builders’ merchants with 16 outlets in South West Wales, supplying a comprehensive range of building materials to the DIY, Self Build, Developer, Building, Roofing and Civil Engineering industries.


With a head office in Llandeilo, LBS has grown to include 12 Merchant Branches, a Home Centre and specialist Civils and Roofing businesses with branches from Maesteg in the East to Cardigan in the West.


% CHANGE


2018 11 13 12 11 7


2018 4 1 1


(1) 4 5


(2)


2019 12 17 21 22 7


% change


2019 (6) 4 8 8 4


12 7


LBS YR END 31/12 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 5.9


34.5 5.2 5.1


166


8,572 26.4


2018 6.3


34.2 5.7 5.8


175


9,991 26.1


2019 5.7


35.5 4.8 4.9


164


7,857 18.6 (8)


(1) 11 12 5


17 (1)


2017 53.2 18.4


2,743 2,732 320


2018 59.7 20.4


3,417 3,448 342


2019 59.5 21.2


2,860 2,891 364


LBS


LBS Business Centre Parc Amanwy Ammanford Carms


SA18 3FE www.lbsbm.co.uk Tel: 01558 824044


Number of Subsidiaries: 5 Branches: 32 Showrooms: 11 Employees: 414


2019 Recorded Turnover: £60m 2020 Estimated Turnover: £67m


Managing Director: Mark Davies Directors: Rachel Davies, Ben Davies, Dai Thomas, Phillip Evans, Andrew Prosser


Member of: BMF, Fortis, NMBS


LORDS TRADING GROUP • LBS • M MARKOVITZ LORDS GROUP TRADING


BUILDERS MERCHANTS: A-Z


LORDS GROUP TRADING YR END 31/12 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 8.9


30.8 4.2 3.6


254


10,780 13.3


2018 9.9


27.4 0.8 0.4


240


1,890 4.2


2019 1.8


25.8 nil nil


280


(2,542) nil


(40)


2017 57.7 17.8


2,447 2,089 227


2018 78.3 21.5 616 322 326


2019 97.8 25.2


(887)


(1,582) 349


% CHANGE


2018 36 21


(75) (85) 44


2018 10


(11) (81) (89) (6)


(82) (69)


2019 25 17


(244) (591) 7


% change


2019 (82) (6)


(215) (493) 17


(235) (340)


% CHANGE


2018 12 11 25 26 7


2018 8


2019 (0) 4


(16) (16) 6


% change


2019 (9) 4


(16) (16) (6)


(21) (29)


April 2021 A supplement to Builders Merchants Journal


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