Interesting Facts

Interesting Facts

  • Voted National Builders' Merchant of the Year 6 times in 9 years.
  • Awarded FSC and PEFC Chain of Custody Certification, recognising our strong commitment to sourcing timber from responsibly managed forests.
  • First national builders' merchant to be awarded ISO 14001 environmental accreditation.
  • Achieved Chain of Custody accreditation for all timber-supplying branches in the Group - more than any other national merchant.
  • Donated more than £1 Million over the last 5 years to charities including NSPCC, Macmillan Cancer Support, NCH the children's charity, Mencap and ENABLE (Scotland), plus many more local charities and organisations through our Give As You Earn initiative.
  • Assisted hundreds of local organisations through our '1,000 Projects in 1,000 Places in 1,000 Days' initiative which encourages our colleagues to give their time and talent to benefit the community in which they serve.
  • Our Management Trainee Scheme is one of the most successful of any business in the UK. Started in 1978 and over 51% of trainees are still with the company... that's 325% higher than any UK company of similar size.
  • We provide comprehensive Training and Development programmes covering customer service, product knowledge and commercial skills.
  • Travis Perkins' drivers make more than thirteen million deliveries per year and clock up an estimated 60 million kilometres in doing so - that's almost 1,500 times around the world.
  • Travis Perkins branches are all different shapes and sizes. The largest is Ferndown in Dorset at 165,000sq ft on 8.83 acres, the smallest is Oxford at just 3,466sq ft.
  • Keyline makes 20 million sales transactions every year... that's 120 every working minute.
  • CCF supplies 30% of the UK's suspended ceilings. So if you're working in a new office right now, there is a one in three chance that the ceiling above you came from CCF.
  • City Plumbing buys more than 22 million metres of copper tube every year - that's the distance from London to New York... twice!
  • Henry Dunn Wickes in Michigan, USA, started Wickes in 1854.
  • Wickes has higher sales per foot than any other DIY retailer.
  • We deliver over 50 million booklets to households every year!
  • Wickes are market leaders in a number of product areas with 98% of our products carrying our own Wickes brand.
  • On average, we deliver to a store in the UK once every 15 minutes
  • Wickes have won the Britains favourite DIY store award
  • Benchmarx have opened an amazing 27 branches since July 2006