Travis Perkins

Travis Perkins profit drops 31% thanks to ‘challenging market conditions’

Industry

1 Aug 2023

by Jasdip Sensi

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Toolstation sales growth moderates as customers return to more normal shopping patterns, a year on from Covid-19 lockdowns

Customer

28 Oct 2021

by Chloe Rigby

Toolstation sales growth fell back as customers returned to more normal patterns, a year on from the height of Covid-19. Third-quarter sales from...

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CASE STUDY How Travis Perkins used ecommerce to clear £30m of dead stock

Industry

19 Aug 2020

by Paul Skeldon

Travis Perkins, one of the largest suppliers of building materials to the UK’s building and construction industry started 2020 with a problem: £30 million...

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Toolsation sales grow by more than a third as shoppers use multichannel services to buy during lockdown

Retail Resilience

28 Jul 2020

by Chloe Rigby

Sales at fast-growing Toolstation rose by more than a third during the first six months of 2020 as shoppers used its multichannel services to...

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Wickes set to go it alone after strong first-half performance across sales channels

Strategy and Innovation

1 Aug 2019

by Chloe Rigby

Wickes is set to become a standalone company in the first half of next year, as part of parent company Travis Perkins’ plans to simplify...

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Wickes and Toolstation perk up Travis Perkins Q1 results

Industry

8 May 2019

by Paul Skeldon

Recovering sales and growth at Wickes and Toolstation have lifted the pair’s parent company Travis Perkins like-for-like sales in Q1 2019 by 7.3%.

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Wickes sales fall in ‘extremely challenging’ year for UK DIY, but Toolstation grows fast as convenience improves across channels

Strategy and Innovation

26 Feb 2019

by Chloe Rigby

Wickes has reported falling sales after an “extremely challenging” year in a discount-driven UK DIY market, but its sister company Toolstation UK, which sells...