Jewson

Last updated
Jewson Ltd
Company typeLimited company
IndustryBuilding materials
Founded1836;189 years ago (1836)
FounderGeorge Jewson
HeadquartersMerchant House, Binley Business Park, Binley, Coventry
Area served
United Kingdom, Ireland
Key people
John Carter (CEO)
ProductsBuilding materials, joiners merchants
Parent Stark Group
Website www.jewson.co.uk

Jewson is one of the largest chains of British general builders' merchants, selling to small and medium building contractors. The chain comprises around 500 branches located all across Great Britain. Jewson is owned by Stark Group.

Contents

History

George Jewson bought a business in Earith in 1836 to trade goods in the Huntingdonshire Fens of East Anglia. [1] His son John Wilson Jewson (b. 1817) had 13 children: the eldest, George, at the time working with a timber merchant in Norwich, suggested expansion there.

John Jewson bought a house in Colegate in Norwich in 1868, and he moved there where he developed a successful timber, coal and builders' merchant business. The family played a role in civic service in Norwich and Norfolk.

Jewson, as part of the Meyer group, was acquired by the French conglomerate Saint-Gobain in April 2000. [2]

In 2011, it acquired Build Center from Wolseley UK. [3]

In March 2023, Saint-Gobain sold Jewson to Stark Group for £740 million. The sale included Gibbs & Dandy, the Northern Ireland based brand JP Corry, specialist brands Jewson Civil Frazer and Minster, and International Timber. [4] [5] STARK appointed former Travis Perkins executive John Carter as CEO of the newly-formed Stark Building Materials UK Ltd. [6]

Litigation

On 15 May 2009, Jewson Ltd applied under s.69 (1) Companies Act 2006 for a change of name of Jewson's Drives Ltd which had been registered since 18 March 2009. Jewson Ltd argued that they enjoyed goodwill under the name "Jewson" since 1836 and that they were the United Kingdom's leading timber and builders' merchant. Jewson Ltd alleged that Jewson's Drives Ltd had been offering flagging, paving, fencing and related services and that their own customers had been misled by the respondent. However, as long as Jewson's Drives Ltd had actually been operating as a business and there was no evidence to show they only registered their name for the purpose of obtaining (valuable) consideration from Jewson Ltd or for the sake of obstructing their own registration of a name, then they could have a defence to the application. Jewson Ltd's application was struck out by the adjudicator. [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Owlpen Manor". Archived from the original on 5 April 2008. Retrieved 2 April 2008. Norman Jewson
  2. ↑ Jewson case study
  3. ↑ "Wolseley announces sale of Build Center to Jewson". Builders Merchant News. 25 July 2011.
  4. ↑ "STARK Group completes major acquisition in the UK in great time" (Press release). Stark Group. 1 March 2023.
  5. ↑ Prior, Grant (12 December 2022). "Jewson sold to new Danish owners for £740m". Construction Enquirer. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  6. ↑ "Danes put Carter in charge as Jewson takeover completes". The Construction Index. 1 March 2023. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  7. ↑ Jewson Ltd -v- Jewson's Drives Ltd Archived 3 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 21 September 2014

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.