INDUSTRY NEWS
Multi-subsidiary Yorkshire fi rm Myers Group celebrates 90 years
WHEN Hervey Myers started his housebuilding business in 1929, he had no idea 90 years later it would be reporting a turnover of £50m and would employ more than 350 people from across the region.
Today, Myers Group - which incorporates subsidiaries Myers Building Supplies, Myers Skip Hire, Johnsons Wellfi eld and Readymix Huddersfi eld - has become a recognisable name within the building and construction sector.
Growing up with the company and working whenever and wherever they could, siblings James and Katie Berry, who are the directors of Myers Group, learnt all they could about the business and were very aware of the challenges they would need to tackle if they were to become the fourth generation to take the business forward.
Katie said: “The focus now is on growing the business with a great team around us that we can rely on and who will help us to become Yorkshire’s leading independent business; not necessarily in terms of sales but certainly in relation to quality, service and values.
“That’s what we stand for and that is what has resonated throughout the history of the Myers Group.”
As a full-service supplier of quality products to housebuilders and renovators, Myers Group off ers everything from skip hire, aggregates and readymix concrete through to kitchens, bathrooms and timber.
Responsible for some of the most iconic constructions in the country including Emley Mast, sections of the M62 motorway and the national maritime museum, the organisation has secured its position as a leading provider within the construction market.
Having graduated with a degree in engineering and business respectively, the brother and sister became directors of the company in 2012 becoming equal shareholders.
James said: “We have a very close family and are so proud to be celebrating 90 years of a business that has evolved over the generations.
“We don’t believe our great-grandad really set out with plans to create a business that would transition from one generation to the next, but it has now become a legacy that we can build upon and pass on to our children.
“Construction has been a relatively stable sector as there has always been a need for building materials, but we do see the need to be agile and to adapt with the times.
“We may be a 90-year-old business, but we have a strong future ahead and we intend to retain that for the 350 people that rely on us.”
Myers Group, which is head quartered in Huddersfi eld, has 14 builders’ merchant branches and four Readymix concrete sites across Yorkshire, a skip service and Johnsons wellfi eld quarries which manufactures high quality Yorkstone.
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