LEAGUE TABLES
www.buildersmerchantsjournal.net January 2024
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Sydenhams Elliotts LBS
MGM Timber Robert Price C & W Berry
John Nicholls ***** MP Moran Turnbulls
Nicholls & Clarke
PGR Timber & Builders Merchants Alsford Timber Carvers
Walter Tipper Browns
Beesley & Fildes Kellaway
Boys & Boden Robert Pochin
Myers Bulding Supplies Crossling
Beggs & Partners AW Champion Beatsons Frank Key
Kent Blaxill ****** John A Stephens
NBG
FORTIS FORTIS
CBA PHG NBG CBA NBG
FORTIS PHG
FORTIS CBA CBA
H&B NBG
CBA Source: Companies House and BMJ Estimates
The continuing pace of development - takeovers, mergers, refinancing, and the influx of private equity funds continues to complicate the compiling of these league tables. As does the pace at which different companies report their financial results, and the fact that different companies have different financial year ends. For example, the majority of the top UK builders merchants have financial years which run from January to December, others don’t. This means we cannot compare like- with-like in all cases, meaning, for example, that EH Smith’s 12 months to June 30 2023 are up against the Haldane Group’s 12 months to December 31 2022.
*: On February 28 2023, the Saint Gobain Building Distribution business was sold to STARK Group A/S and became Stark Building Materials Ltd.
**: Huws Gray’s figures for 2022 include the turnover of the former Grafton Merchanting GB businesses which Huws Gray acquired in 2021, the comparison figures for 2021 do not.
***: Lawson’s branch numbers include those of AVS Fencing.
****: M Markovitz branch numbers include those for the Insulation & Drylining division *****: In October 2023, John Nicholls sold to MKM, and then completed an MBO of the business minus the five building materials branches and the distribution centre. *****: Frank Key went through a restructuring as part of its succession strategy, meaning the 2022 figures quoted here refer to a shorter year and a new company, Frank Key Holdings, while 2021 is for Frank Key Group.******: Kent Blaxill sold to Paintwell in October 2022; its builders merchants branches moved to IBMG in June 2023
FORTIS FORTIS
CBA
FORTIS FORTIS FORTIS FORTIS
83,316,959 £88.42 £88.12 £79.83 £72.42 £70.06 £70.02 £66.92 £64.94 £64.64 £61.92 £57.17 £55.97 £55.56 £55.43 £52.88 £52.73 £50.93 £50.89 £50.13 £49.25 £42.00 £37.81 £37.24 £25.65 £29.94 £27.80
31/03/2021 31/12/2022 31/12/2022 30/09/2022 30/09/2022 31/10/2022 31/03/2023 31/12/2022 31/12/2022 31/12/2022 31/03/2023 31/12/2022 31/12/2022 31/12/2022 31/12/2022 31/03/2023 31/08/2022 31/03/2023 30/12/2022 30/09/2022 31/12/2022 30/09/2022 31/12/2022 31/12/2022 31/12/2022 31/12/2022 31/12/2022
83.30 £79 £88 £74 £56 £61 £67 £65 £59 £57 £58 £59 £56 £57 £45 £52 £51 £50 £45 £44 £47 £42 £40 £39 £32 £29 £29
13 35 14 28 1
25# 5 9
18 10 18 2
13 3
10 14 5
25 16 16 12 10 5 9
22 2
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