Insight Data reveals Window Industry Billionaire Club

Insight Data's Billionaire ClubInsight Data, the market research and data specialists, has revealed the UK’s Top 30 PVCU fabricators with a combined turnover of almost £1billion.

Insight Data Managing Director Andrew Scott said; “This really shows the scale and dynamics of our industry, when just 30 of the industry’s 15,000 companies have a combined turnover of £971 million.”

The Top 30 Fabricators increased turnover by a whopping £55million in 2014 compared to the previous year, even after a £47m reduction in turnover by Everest following an internal restructure and realignment.

Entry level to the Billionaires Club was £10.9m turnover in 2013. In 2014 it rose to £12.3m, an increase of 12%.

“Some companies have made the Insight Billionaire Club for the first time, such as Conservatory Outlet, while others have seen spectacular growth in the last year. It is worth noting that a number of high growth fabricators are sitting just outside the Top 30 ready to challenge in 2015” added Andrew.

According to Insight Data, the Top 30 list reflects a significant financial improvement in the fenestration industry and points to continued growth in the sector.

The Top 30 Fabricators who made the Insight Data 2014 Billionaires Club are;

 

Company Turnover (£)
Anglian Windows Ltd 229,154,000
Safestyle UK 124,796,392
Everest Ltd 120,372,000
A and B Glass Company Ltd 36,885,882
Camden Group Ltd 29,557,800
Crystal Windows and Doors Limited 27,489,909
Sidey Limited 24,969,808
Nationwide Windows Ltd 23,825,399
Sovereign Group Ltd 20,753,662
Total Glass Ltd 20,345,123
Polyframe (Trade) Ltd 20,336,986
CWG Choices Ltd 19,670,987
C R Smith Glaziers (Dunfermline) Limited 19,574,291
CMS Enviro Systems Ltd 19,556,875
Glazerite Windows Ltd 17,865,412
Graham Holmes Astraseal Limited 17,276,031
Affordable Window Systems Ltd 17,192,909
Garrard Windows Ltd 17,112,402
Direct Trade (Yorkshire) Ltd 15,801,377
Dunraven Manufacturing Ltd/Sun Trade 14,881,816
Emplas Window Systems Ltd 14,671,342
Ford Windows Ltd 14,524,519
Customade (UK) Ltd 14,521,793
Consort Limited 14,458,651
Tradelink Direct Ltd 13,959,800
John Fredericks Plastics Ltd 12,882,402
Conservatory Outlet Ltd 12,467,568
Sash UK Ltd 12,358,710
Starglaze Ltd/Sternfenster 12,312,829
Modplan Ltd 12,303,390

 

Notes to the Report
The Insight Top 30 is focused on PVC-U fabricators in the UK. The report assesses information collated from the Insight fabricator and installer database, cross-referenced with financial data provided by a credit reference agency.

Where the company has not disclosed sufficient financial information on their annual returns, they are excluded from the report. The financial data is the publicly available company accounts that represent the latest filed records, available to Insight Data as of January 2015.

Turnover is not necessarily an indication of performance; a domestic/retail fabricator will have a significantly higher turnover compared to a trade fabricator producing the same volume of frames. In addition, some companies offer a wider range of products and services but a financial breakdown of these is not available.

There are some notable exclusions from the report. This includes Epwin Group Companies, Masco UK Window Group and Zenith/Staybrite where due to group structures insufficient information was available to assess individual PVC-U fabricators turnover. It also excludes some companies who manufacture uPVC frames but their primary material may be timber or aluminium, such as Munster Joinery.

Some companies may not appear on the list where expected. For example, Polyframe consists of several trade fabrication companies with a turnover of £28.8m and would therefore appear at No. 6, however, as the report cites a single trading business we only list Polyframe (Trade) Ltd which is £20.3m.