TRAILBLAZERS
TRAILBLAZERS
• WALTER TIPPER • WILLIAMS TRADE SUPPLIES W WALTER TIPPER WALTER TIPPER LTD
Walter Tipper Ltd Europa Way Lichfield Staffs
WS14 9TZ
www.tippers.com Tel: 01543 440000
Branches: 12 Employees: 270
2018 Recorded Turnover: £51.5m 2019 Turnover: £52.9m
Managing Director Andrew Tipper Directors: Peter Sampson, Amy Tipper, Bill Tipper, Joseph Tipper
% Heavyside / Lightside / Timber Sales: 65% / 25% / 10%
Members of: BMF, NMBS, PHG, CBA
TIPPERS IS A family-run business which has been supplying the Midlands with building supplies, materials and hardware for over 100 years.
Since it opened its first builder’s
merchant branch in 1916, the company has expanded to 12 stores: Lichfield, Uttoxeter, Tam- worth, Nuneaton, Kidderminster, Birmingham, Rugeley, Huthwaite, Wolverhampton, Birmingham Tool Hire, Ashbourne and Stoke-on- Trent.
The branches stock a range of
products from luxury kitchens and bathrooms to timber and in- sulation. There is also a specialist volumetric concrete offer, Tippers Precision Concrete.
A STRICTLY TRADE-ONLY plumbing and heating merchant, Williams opened its new Poole branch in December and has a further five new branches planned for 2021.
The company upgraded its site at Crayford to operate 7 days a week as a regional fulfilment centre, enabling it to expand the coverage of our its 7-day, same- day delivery offer, which is now available across the majority of postcodes in England and South Wales. The Milton Keynes site is being scaled up to a full distribution centre to support Williams’ mid-term growth plans for new branches in the Northern home counties and East and West Midlands.
It was recognised by London Stock Exchange as one of the 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain for the 5th time. The Tool Angel service, originally launched in 2020 to help customers who experience Tool theft, has been
WALTER TIPPER LTD 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 5.5
28.9 6.8 6.5
209
14,202 20.0
2018 4.9
30.1 6.6 6.3
213
14,054 17.8
2019 4.6
32.1 6.4 6.1
203
12,954 15.7 71
2017 49.7 14.4
3,380 3,249 238
2018 51.6 15.5
3,401 3,278 242
2019 52.9 17.0
3,381 3,240 261
% CHANGE
2018 4 8 1 1 2
2018 (12) 4
(3) (3) 2
(1) (11)
2019 2 9
(1) (1) 8
% change
2019 (6) 7
(3) (4) (5) (8)
(12)
WILLIAMS YR END 310/11 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 4.7
23.3 4.2 4.1
293
12,408 17.8
17/18 4.6
23.7 3.3 3.1
282
9,333 13.3
18/19 5.2
22.0 1.0 0.8
280
2,831 3.7 62
16/17 73.3 17.1
3,102 2,995 250
17/18 80.3 19.1
2,660 2,498 285
18/19 89.7 19.7 906 726 320
BUILDERS MERCHANTS: A-Z
WILLIAMS
WILLIAMS TRADE SUPPLIES
Unit 13 Standard Way Fareham Industrial Park Fareham Hampshire PO16 8XB
www.tradeonlyplumbing.co.uk Tel: 01329226080
Branches: 39 Employees: 350
2019 Turnover: £89.7m 2020 Turnover: £93.7m
Managing Director: Ray Stafford Directors: Rachel Moore, Mike Mann, Martin Brown, Steve Elliott
Members of: BMF
extended to Plumbers and Heating Engineers throughout the industry, regardless of whether they are Williams customers.
% CHANGE
17/18 9
12
(14) (17) 14
17/18 (1) 2
(22) (24) (4)
(25) (26)
18/19 12 4
(66) (71) 12
% change
18/19 14 (7)
(69) (74) (1)
(70) (72)
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