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Travis Perkins plc is a British builders' merchant and home improvement retailer with head offices based in Northampton. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange , and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index .
In October 2001, Worldwide Business Information and Market Reports stated that "Having undergone a period of major consolidation, the builders' merchants market is now dominated by Jewson Ltd (owned by Saint-Gobain Building Distribution Ltd), Wolseley and Travis Perkins... These top three companies each have total sales of over £1bn."
Jasmine Mary Whitbread (born 1 September 1963) is a British businesswoman, and the chair of Travis Perkins since 2021. [1]From 2016 to 2021, [2] she was the chief executive of London First, an independent non-profit organisation whose mission is to make London the best city in the world to do business. [3]
Up to March 2024, Toolstation had continued to grow its UK market share, opening 163 new Toolstation branches between 2020 and 2022, and adding seven more in 2023. However, its mainland Europe stores were doing less well, and Travis Perkins announced Toolstation was quitting France and reviewing its operations in Netherlands and Belgium. [11]
John Peter Carter (born May 1961) is a British businessman, appointed in March 2023 as CEO of Stark Building Materials UK. He was chief executive (CEO) of Travis Perkins, the FTSE 250 builders' merchant and home improvement retailer with 1,900 outlets from January 2015 until he stepped down in August 2019.
The business was previously part of the BSS Group until the group's acquisition by the Travis Perkins Group in 2010. [1] The company was founded in the East Midlands in 1899 as British Steam Specialties. [2] Acquisitions have included specialist valve distributors Pegler & Louden in December 2003. [3]
In December 2004, Focus Group sold Wickes to Travis Perkins. [9] The sale was completed in February 2005. [10] Wickes acquired seven stores from a struggling Focus DIY in October 2007, after Cerberus Capital took it over in June 2007 for £1; these stores were in Glossop, Mansfield, Penrith, Bulwell, Plumstead, Dumfries and Hereford. [11]
Constance Travis. Constance Mary Travis (24 April 1911 – 24 December 2015) was a stage actress who married into the family that owned the firm that eventually became Travis Perkins. In later life, she became a philanthropist who controlled the Constance Travis Charitable Trust, one of the leading family grant-making trusts in Britain.