Wolseley UK Site Visit analyst presentation

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Wolseley UK Site Visit analyst presentation
Adrian Barden
Managing Director
Understanding Wolseley UK
ƒ Wolseley at the hub of the UK
construction industry
ƒ Organic growth record
ƒ Depth & quality of management
ƒ Critical business differences providing
competitive advantage
ƒ Re-invention to address changing market needs
Consolidation of Offices
ƒ 2 offices
ƒStrategy – Warwick
ƒBack-office – Ripon
ƒ ‘One team, One company’
ƒ Structure & Branding
Ripon
Warwick
Strategic & Executive Leadership Structure
Adrian Barden
Managing Director
Keith Jones
Brand Development Director
Alan Stevenson
Brand Director
Plumb
David Hunter
Brand Director
Build
Matt Neville
Finance Director
David Moody
Sales & Marketing Director
Mike Lynn-Jones
HR Director
Alan Ball
Brand Director
Parts & Climate
Paul Gordon
Brand Director
Drain
TBA
Brand Director
Pipe
David Himsworth
Brand Director
Hire
Ian Tillotson
Commercial Development Director
Bathstore
Derek Hufton
IT Director
Chris Kitchen
Brand Director
Broughton Crangrove
Ken Evans
Project Director
Garry Flanagan
Logistics Director
Darran Rickards
Product Director
Andy Holmes
Product Director
The Strategic Leadership
Team has responsibility for
the long-term direction of the
business
The Executive Leadership
Team is in charge of
delivering our tactical
business plans to ensure we
maintain and strengthen our
market position
Mike Lynn-Jones
ƒ HR Director
ƒ Tibbet & Britten
ƒ HR restructuring
ƒ Employment & retention of staff
Derek Hufton
ƒ IT Director
ƒ Legacy systems
ƒ Customer liaison
ƒ International responsibilities
Keith Jones
ƒ Brand Development Director
ƒ Growth & profits
ƒ Formerly HR & ‘Lightside’
ƒ Vast experience
Ian Tillotson
ƒ Commercial Development Director
ƒ Founder partner of HRPC
ƒ Organisation & processes
ƒ Benefits from IT
Garry Flanagan
ƒ Logistics Director
ƒ Pepsico
ƒ Integrated distribution network
ƒ Vision of the future
Matt Neville
ƒ Finance Director
ƒ PwC
ƒ Robust approach
ƒ Re-shaped team
David Moody
ƒ Sales & Marketing Director
ƒ PwC
ƒ Market segment focus
ƒ Loyalty programme
Adrian Barden
ƒ Managing Director
ƒ 30 years experience
ƒ Medium & larger groups
ƒ Heavyside
Matt Neville
Finance Director
The Wolseley Way
Strong
Organic
sales growth
• Aggressive branch
opening programme
• Low capital outlay
Strategic
Acquisitions
Improved
profitability
and ROCE
• Purchasing benefits
• Increased sales
• Central cost savings
• Stable cost base
• Accelerate organic
• Quick to profitability growth
• Improved working
capital management
• Improved ROCE
Source of sales growth
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
98/99
99/00
00/01
Organic
Total CG
A cquisition CG
01/02
02/03
A cquisition
Organic CG
Sales by division
2002/2003
51.2%
26.2%
5.8%
Light
16.8%
Heavy
Commercial
Spares
1998/1999
56.5%
25.5%
6.5%
Light
Heavy
11.4%
Commercial
Spares
Trading Profit by Division
2002/2003
51.8%
27.4%
8.3%
12.5%
Light
Heavy
Commercial
Spares
1998/1999
15%
64.2%
11.9%
Light
Heavy
12.4%
11.5%
Commercial
Spares
Branch development history – By division
1400
1200
1000
Spares
800
Commind
600
Heavyside
400
Lightside
200
0
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
Branch development history – Core &
Complementary
1400
1200
1000
Bathstore
Timber
800
Hire
600
Heatmerchants
Core
400
200
0
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
Acquisitions as a base for organic growth
– Hall & Co.
20
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
250
200
150
100
50
0
1999
2000
Sales £m
2001
2002
Profit £m
2003
Key product growth
Radiators
Boilers
160
160
140
140
120
120
100
100
80
80
60
60
1998/99
Qty
2002/03
Mkt share
1998/99
Qty
2002/03
Mkt share
Working Capital - 5 Years to July 2003
17.0%
16.0%
15.0%
14.0%
13.0%
12.0%
11.0%
July-99
July-00
July-01
Working capital
July-02
Stock
July-03
ROCE – 5 Years to July 2003
23.0%
22.0%
21.0%
20.0%
19.0%
18.0%
17.0%
Jul-99
July-00
July-01
ROCE
July-02
July-03
Half Year to 31 Jan 2004
Actual
Jan-04
£'000
Last Yr
Jan-03
£'000
£'000
1,018.3
918.7
99.6
10.8%
68.7
6.7%
59.6
6.5%
9.1
0.3%
15.3%
Sales growth
- Organic
- Acquisition
10.8%
5.6%
5.2%
10.6%
3.3%
7.3%
Working Capital
13.8%
14.1%
-0.3%
-2.1%
No. of branches
1,460
1,313
147
11.2%
11,564
10,003
1,561
15.6%
Sales
Trading profit
Trading profit %
No. of employees
Variance
%
Performance initiatives - Sales
ƒ Organic growth programme, >50 new
branches year-to-date
ƒDifferent branch formats
ƒImplants
ƒExpress
ƒMulti-site
ƒRestructure to brand focus
ƒMore focused acquisition strategy
Acquisition strategy – Target Identification
ƒStrategic direction
ƒMarket sectors
ƒComplementary opportunities
ƒCompetitive considerations
ƒ Prioritisation
ƒFive year plan
Performance initiatives – Gross Profit
ƒ Category management
ƒ Central purchasing team
ƒ International purchasing strategy
ƒ New markets – Retail, Landscape,
Express branches
Performance initiatives - Costs
ƒ Supply chain management project
ƒ Investment in Human Resources
ƒ Development of property portfolio
ƒ Head office rationalisation
ƒ Centralised Commercial team
Financial Management and Controls
ƒ Performance management
ƒ Benchmarking
ƒ KPI’s
ƒ Corporate Governance
ƒ Sarbanes Oxley
ƒ Internal Audit
The Future
ƒ Continuing sales growth
ƒ Reduced cost base
ƒ Increased controls
ƒ Improved Operating margin
David Moody
Sales & Marketing Director
The Wolseley Way
Market
Background
• Statistics
• Dynamics
Redefining
our role
• Hub of the industry
Innovation
• New products
• New customers
• New services
UK construction market remains one of
the most consistent in Europe
12.0
European Construction Output 1999 - 2003
10.0
Average Annual Growth (%)
8.0
6.0
-4.0
Source - Euroconstruct
Portgl
.
Belg
N’Lands
Norway
France
UK
Italy
Czech
Ireland
-2.0
Spain
Germany
0.0
Austria
D’mark
2.0
Poland
4.0
Wolseley
Market dynamics provide new opportunities
CONSTRUCTION OUTPUT
2002
2003
2004
2005
£million 2000 constant prices % change YoY
Actual
Forecast
Forecast
Forecast
Public
8.0
12.0
10.0
5.0
Private
17.0
3.0
-2.0
0.0
Total
15.4
4.5
0.1
1.0
Public Non-Housing
17.0
12.0
1.0
0.0
Infrastructure
-11.7
1.0
3.4
2.0
Industrial
-5.0
0.0
3.0
5.0
Commercial
-6.2
-4.7
0.1
1.4
Total other new work
-2.7
1.1
1.4
1.4
Total New Work
1.5
2.0
1.1
1.3
Private Housing RM&I
5.0
3.0
-3.0
-1.0
Public Housing RM&I
10.0
10.0
5.0
5.0
Public other R&M
10.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Private other R&M
4.0
-5.0
-8.0
3.0
Total RM&I
6.4
1.1
-2.5
1.5
TOTAL ALL WORK
3.8
1.5
-0.7
1.4
HOUSING
OTHER NEW WORK
REPAIR, MAINTENANCE & IMPROVEMENT
Source - CPA
Market dynamics more revealing than
statistics
ƒ Housing
ƒ Severe housing shortage
by geography/economics
ƒ Growth of ‘affordable’
homes
ƒ Increasing cost of moving
and attractiveness of
improving
ƒ Lifestyle issues
ƒ Non-housing
ƒ Years of under investment
in health/education
ƒ Growth of long term FM
contracting
ƒ Growth in service
industries e.g.
Leisure/Retail, Distribution
Our brand portfolio is balanced to exploit each sector movement
Forecast Public/Private Sector
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
Expenditure
Actual
Actual
Forecast
Public Sector inc PFI
0.4%
8.8%
10.2%
7.5%
3.1%
2.5%
Private Sector
3.7%
2.9%
0.8%
-1.5%
-2.8%
0.8%
Forecast Forecast Forecast
Source - CPA
Branch Development
The last 20 years…
1985…… 150 Branches
1990……… 300 Branches
1995…………. 400 Branches
2000…………… 1000 Branches
NOW………………… 1500 Branches
2010 …………………… 2000 + Branches
Branch Development Programme
Year
03
20
01
20
99
19
97
19
95
19
93
19
91
19
89
19
87
19
85
1800
1600
1400
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
19
Total No Branches
Wolseley Branches 1985-2004
JB/Bathstore
Timber
Hire
Heatmerchants
HRPC
Crangrove
Control
Pipe
Drain
Build
Plumb
Branch Openings to July 2004
Heatmerchants/Tubs & Tiles
Year
Ending
HEATMERCHANTS
TUBS & TILES
Total
Branches No
Branches No
Branches No
31/7/99
9
11
20
31/7/00
12
12
24
31/7/01
15
14
29
31/7/02
23
15
38
31/7/03
28
16
44
Forecast
03/04
34
18
52
Future Development Plans
ƒPlan to expand branch network to 2000 by 2010
ƒOver 50 Build Center branches identified for
Plumb implants
ƒMore Plumb Center Express sites
ƒDevelop ‘Multi-Brand’ sites
Dynamics of Industry
I.T.
- More relevant
- More accessible
MERCHANTS
Suppliers
- Polarised
- European
- Non-inflationary pricing
- Logistics
- Information
- Market Makers
Alternatives
- More retail orientated
- More process driven
Customers
- Polarised
- Smarter
- More demanding
- Fragmented
Mass Fragmentation
• Professional management
• National & central models emerging
Large
• Bespoke solutions
multi product
• Wolseley Maintenance
users (000s)
• As above
Large specialist
contractors (1000?)
• Owner managed
• Local market
• Specialist product needs
Small specialist
contractors
(30,000+)
• As above
•
•
•
•
Can’t find them
Local
Cash oriented
Mixed product needs
• Homeowners
• Improving skill levels
Multi skill contractors(100,000+)
Black Economy (1,000,000?)
Trade Related
Retail (Millions)
• Focus by brand (PC/BC/etc)
• Specialist service in branch
(Timber/Bulk/etc)
• Focus by brand (PC/BC/etc)
• Brand extension
• Build Center Local
• Build Center
• Unifix
• Bathstore
Wolseley UK Maintenance
ƒ Large multi product users
ƒ Building on the strengths of each trading brand
ƒ Highly targeted – a ‘virtual’ team
ƒ Additional products are offered e.g. electrical
Client/Partner
Manchester City Council
Date won
2000 - Ongoing
Emcor Drake & Scull
London Borough of Lewisham
Our role
Supply Chain Partner, Voids and
Response Maintenance ,disabled
aids and adaptions
Total Supply Chain Partner
Response Maintenance Supplies
to IST”s at larger Stores
International partner
Total Supply Chain Partner
South Staffordshire Housing Assoc.
Total Supply Chain Partner
2001 – Ongoing Contract
Liverpool City Council -Enterprise
Tesco
2001– 7yr contract
2000 Ongoing
Ongoing
2002- 7year contract
Bespoke Business Solutions
Solution 1 – Standard Items
Solution 2
Non - Standard Items
Imprest kit used
to complete job
Pre-printed picking
list completed
Wolseley collects
picking list from site
Wolseley contacts
operative on agreed
delivery day
Wolseley delivers kit
and collects next
picking note
Operator uses
purchasing card at
Wolseley
ƒ
ƒ
ƒ
ƒ
ƒ
No time lost at counter
Reduced paperwork
Reduced travelling time
Reduced stock throughput
Reduced processing
Delivery notes
loaded by admin
Delivery notes
delivered to
Procurement
Procurement checks
statement inc line
item detail provided
by Wolseley terminals
Statistics from Manchester City
ƒ Wolseley share of business up from 10% to 71%
Value of stock issued per week
Total Stock Holding
Counter visits per week
Number of Vehicles
Procurement Staff
Deliveries per week
Store issue notes processed
2002-2003
1999-2000
£18,914
£102,000
420
2
5
10
721
£3,090
£40,375
145
0
1
206
163
Bespoke Business Solutions
Tesco
Tesco
Store
Store
Identifies problem
Tesco
Maintenance
Call Centre
Issues order
Wolseley
Call Centre/Internet
Branch
Branch
Directs to
relevant branch
Branch
Collect
/ deliver
Tesco engineers / contractors
Branch
Branch - in - Branch
ƒ A multi-specialist response – not a one-stop-shop
ƒ Overlap of customer needs e.g. builders need plumbing
ƒ Excellent use of property assets
Where
Host Branch
Implants
Date
Gravesend
Build Center
Plumb, Build (Timber),
Hire Centers
Sept 2003
Daventry
Build Center (Timber)
Build Center
March 2003
Swindon
Build Center
Plumb Center
Feb 2003
Dinnington
Build Center (Timber)
Build and Hire Centers Dec 2002
Blyth
Plumb Center
Parts Center
Sept 2001
Falkirk
Plumb Center
Parts Center
March 2001
Branch - in - Branch
ƒ Middlesbrough / Highgate / Gravesend
ƒ A true Wolseley trade park ……
Brand Extensions
ƒ Plumb Center Express
ƒ Small specialist trades
ƒ Retail
ƒ Under 2,000 sq ft
ƒ 2 people
ƒ High street location
ƒ No delivery
ƒ Supported by central distribution/local branches
ƒ High margin aspirations
ƒ Core targeted product range
Plumb Center Express
Where
Bristol
Cardiff
Chester-le-Street
Edgware
Hatch End
Penge
Surbiton
Wylde Green
Size
1252
1027
1725
1021
960
1010
1100
1437
Date
17.03.03
24.03.03
03.11.03
01.09.03
01.11.03
02.01.03
22.09.03
03.06.03
New Customer Services
Web & Electronic
• 24 x 7
• Visual
Call Center
• Convenient
• Immediate
Customer
Field Visits
• Hands-on
• Consultative
Branches
• Local
• 1400+
Wireless Project
ƒ Wolseley UK benefits:
ƒ Unique in the
construction sector
ƒ Low cost business
channel
ƒ Leverages existing
assets
ƒ Innovative
ƒ Promotes loyalty
ƒ Simple to implement
ƒ Customer Benefits
ƒ Identified need for remote
field management
ƒ Cuts administration costs
ƒ Improves employee
utilisation
ƒ Improves cash flow
ƒ Great marketing tool
Innovative Training
ƒ HE Boiler Training Initiative
ƒ Research – course content/venues/manufacturers/customers
ƒ Course planning and preparation – marketing of course
ƒ Implementation – manufacturer events
ƒ 25 venues refurbished and ready so far
ƒ 32 training sessions completed, 800+ in the diary
ƒ 278 installers trained, targeted to reach 8000
ƒ 91% registered within 7 days of course, 87% attendance
ƒ Increased take up of A1 Boiler Schemes
Added Value Services
ƒ Offsite Fabrication
ƒ Pipe Center
ƒ Build Center
ƒ Climate Center
ƒ Housepacks
Leveraging the Brand
ƒ Customers have high, and positive, awareness of
our key brands
ƒ Investment in branding continues in
ƒ Print
ƒ Websites
ƒ P.R.
ƒ Sponsorship e.g Masters Football
ƒ New Branches
ƒ Positive brand associations support a strong
programme of own brand introductions
More own brand opportunities exist…
time
uniqueness
ƒ
ƒ
ƒ
ƒ
ƒ
ƒ
commoditisation
Radiators
Radiator valves
Sanitaryware
Plumbing Fittings
Bricks
Heating Spares
ƒ Own brand consolidation, Europeanisation is our next goal
Cross-Functional Processes
ƒ A critical source of competitive advantage
Managing
suppliers
Strategic
marketing
planning
Customer
franchise
development
Managing
customers
Competitive
advantage
Innovative
products/brands
Customer
relationships
Managing the
supply chain
Customer
retention
Long term
profitability
Implications for organisation, culture and ways of working
Supply chain processes aligned with customer’s and supplier’s processes
Source – Professor Martin Christopher
Tim Pollard
Marketing Director
Wolseley Centers
ƒ Current brands 1986
ƒ Originally designed for few companies
ƒ New demands on brands
ƒ Internal
ƒ External
The Brief
ƒ To take a critical look at brands with a
view to rationalisation
ƒ To judge all brands for equity
ƒ Where necessary to update strong brands
ƒ Create brands to suit sectors/companies
ƒ Develop solutions for sub brands and
acquisitions
ƒ Solution must be ‘scaleable’ and
‘exportable’
Scope
ƒ All brands from Wolseley Centers down
ƒ Links with other group brands
Practical Factors
ƒ Improve colour rendition
ƒ Make more unique
ƒ Make more flexible
ƒ Make more disciplined
ƒ Make less complex and more
instantly recognisable
ƒ Future-proof
Features
Unique ‘Wolseley’
typeface based on
Peignot Bold
Lozenge acts as control
device preventing
tampering
Colour altered to be more
practical and showing
clearer differences
Plus: Family feel / Working together / Scale & Size / 2 colours
Direct Proportional
relationship between text
and pictogram
2D logo is less
complex and nondateable
Common colour
throughout
New and Remodelled Brands
Sub-lozenges for specialist branches
Two New Brands
Brand Hierarchy
r
t
t
Timber
Express
Stainless
Refrigeration
Catering
Glass
BCGM
Valves
Air Conditioning
Domestic
Local
Bathstore
Ironmongery
Wolseley Ireland
Insulation
Commercial
Heatmerchants
Tubs & Tiles
Allwood Flooring
Gas & Oil
Tile Bathroom
Unifix
Signage Mixed
Signage Mixed
Vehicles and Branches
Totem and Directional
Wolseley Centers Ltd
Stationery
Remittance
Advice
Feeder Wagon Designs
Own Brand
Own Brand
OLIVER HÄFFNER
OLIVER HÄFFNER
Garry Flanagan
Supply Chain
Building competitive advantage
Delivering competitive advantage
ƒ The Wolseley UK supply chain today
ƒ Delivering value through our supply chain
ƒ Plans for the future
Wolseley UK has an unrivalled product and
service offer, made possible through best in
sector supply chain
ƒ 400,000 product lines
ƒ Network of 1500 branches
ƒ 6 Regional Distribution Centres (RDCs)
ƒ Large in-house transport operation
ƒ Cut-offs 4.30 in branch for next day delivery
ƒ Direct to customer on next day service
ƒ 99 % + delivery compliance
Melmerby DC is a blueprint for our
DCs of the future
ƒ 400,000 sq ft
ƒ 40,000 locations : multi product storage
ƒ Warehouse Management System and Radio
Frequency
ƒ VDL automation and Warehouse Control System
ƒ X-trained , multi-skilled staffing
ƒ A focus on performance and continual
improvement
ƒ Efficient
Supply chain expertise is a core
competency
ƒ Management Expertise
ƒ Supply Chain Development Team
ƒ Best practice sharing
ƒ Continual improvement
ƒ Performance focus
We leverage our distribution network to take
cost out of the extended supply chain and
improve our competitive position
ƒ Distribution Centers ƒ Integrated transport
ƒ Supplier benefits are shared
ƒ Reduced/consolidated deliveries
ƒ Reduced delivery costs
ƒ Wolseley benefits are realised
ƒ Improved fill/accuracy
ƒ Specials
ƒ Reverse logistics
ƒ Barrier to entry
ƒ Reduced cost
ƒ Improved availability
ƒ Improved efficiency
Our national transport operation delivers improved
asset utilisation lower operating costs and drives
executional excellence
Wolseley
Branch
Replen
cycle
Supplier
Factory/ DC
Wolseley UK
N/RDC
To deliver reduced cost and improved availability
It’s a win-win situation
Wolseley UK
ƒ Lower operating costs
ƒ Higher availability
ƒ Lower product landed
cost
Our Suppliers
ƒ Sales upside
ƒ Efficiency
improvements
ƒ Lowest cost to market
Our national network enables great service
innovation across a diverse customer base
ƒ Product range
ƒ Branch network
ƒ Delivery capability
ƒ Service promise
ƒ Innovation
ƒ Direct customer delivery
ƒ Small format branch
ƒ JIT ‘packaged’ deliveries direct to point of use
Wolseley UK – Supply Chain Vision
“Meeting the customer needs by providing the right products and services,
when and where they are needed at competitive prices”
Wolseley UK 5 “C”s
Consumers
Customers
Competitors
More demanding !
End-to-end
solutions required
…Providing new
challenges for
supply chain –
end to end
…Creating
…Supply chain is
further need for becoming a key
supply chain
competitive
flexibility &
weapon - the
performance
Wolseley aim is to
utilise its supply
chain as a means
to secure
cost/service
advantage over
competition
Getting smarter
Capabilities
It works but…..
…The
opportunity is
there to build a
world-class
supply chain from supplier
to customer
Collaborative
Culture
Teamwork !
…Requirement
for both internal
(Supply Chain
and rest of the
organisation)
and external
(customers and
suppliers)
collaboration
Supply chain excellence is the key to
Wolseley UK’s continuing success
ƒ Service
– right product, right place, right time
– one size does not fit all
ƒ Price competitiveness
– we have to be the best value service/product provider
ƒ Agility and speed of change
ƒ Changing marketplace e.g. consolidation
ƒ New technologies
ƒ More demanding customer
We will transform these challenges into opportunities !!
What Could World Class Supply Chain
Execution Look Like?
Deliver
Order
Collect
Forecast
Pay
Customer Contact
Supplier Collaboration
Real Time Execution Information
The options will be developed through
inputs from a number of areas
IBM ideas
Customer
and supplier
input
Option
Option
Development
Development
Transformational thinking
within UK and Group
Benchmarking
The strategic review process
Concept
Discovery
Strategic
Options
Detailed Analysis
Detailed
analysis &
modelling
Implementation Planning
Alternative
model review
Benefits case
Implementation
Plan
Detailed
Business
case
High Level
Business
case
Execute
Implementation
Recommende
d solution
Operate
Post
implementation
review
Continuous
Improvement
Wolseley UK strategy will leverage its
size and build on its strengths
ƒ Rationalisation
ƒ Centralisation
ƒ Integration
ƒ Technology-enabled
ƒ Collaboration-enabled
Category management will focus on
leveraging our purchasing scale
ƒ Organisational focus
ƒ Product category focus
ƒ European and worldwide sourcing
ƒ COGS benefit
An integrated supply chain enables increased
collaboration with our supplier base
ƒ Collaborative Planning Forecasting and
Replenishment
ƒ Shared forecast at base and event
ƒ Planning of promotions/events
ƒ New Product Development management
ƒ Optimum sourcing to replenish
ƒ Vendor Managed Inventory
ƒ Transparent terms reflecting cost to serve
An integrated supply chain offers further
opportunities for profitable growth
ƒ Availability driving sales
ƒ Efficiency driving price/margin opportunity
ƒ Innovative customer strategies
ƒ Quick and easy absorption of acquisitions
Wolseley UK is the hub of the
construction industry
ƒ The best supply chain in the industry
ƒ DC network
ƒ Branch network
ƒ Transport fleet
ƒ Product portfolio
ƒ Improving on the best to build our business further
ƒ Supplier development
ƒ Customer solutions
ƒ Integration to reduce cost and improve service
Adrian Barden
Managing Director
Wolseley UK
ƒ Led the field
ƒ Right product, right time, right place, right price
ƒ Hub of the construction industry
ƒ Supply chain efficiency
ƒ National distribution
ƒ Vehicle fleet
ƒ Tailored solutions
ƒ Early involvement
ƒ From the biggest ……….
………..To the smallest
Change Environment
ƒ Customer diversification
ƒ Technological Innovation
ƒ Online Purchasing
ƒ E-Billing
ƒ Wireless
ƒ Skills & Training
ƒ Supply chain
ƒ European organisation
Leveraging Strengths
ƒ Unbundling costs
ƒ Improved purchasing via category management
ƒ New store concepts
ƒ Divisional to Brand structure
ƒ 13 to 7 businesses
ƒ Retains specialisms whilst providing integration
ƒ Single point of contact
Re-branding
ƒ Wolseley led the way in 1986
ƒ Acquisitions introduced new brands
ƒ Consolidate under Wolseley banner
ƒ Sympathetic family feel
ƒ Multiple applications
ƒ Wolseley UK
ƒ BC/GM, Bathstore & Ireland
Warwick
ƒ Leadership
ƒ Brand management
ƒ Marketing
ƒ Product management
ƒ Human Resources
ƒ Commercial Finance
Summing Up
ƒ Financially strong
ƒ Sales and share up
ƒ Growth – organic & acquisitive
ƒ Increase in volumes AND margins
ƒ Adapting to customer needs and meeting them
Logistics and Supply Chain
ƒ Customers & Suppliers – hub of industry
ƒ Unbundle costs and factory gate prices
ƒ Unique structure
ƒ Global marketplace
People
ƒ New structure
ƒ Training & development
ƒ Listening & understanding
Wolseley UK
ƒ Different business model
ƒ Quality management
ƒ Continuous improvement
ƒ Hub of the industry
ƒ Organic growth
Questions?