ferguson plc

 

  • The company continued to trade as Wolseley in the United Kingdom and Canada,[7] until 2021 when Wolseley UK was sold to a private equity firm.

  • [8] Type: Public limited company; Traded as: NYSE: FERG, LSE: FERG; ISIN: JE00BJVNSS43; Industry: Building materials; Headquarters: St Helier, Jersey, (Registered Office),
    Wokingham, England, (Corporate Headquarters); Key people: Geoff Drabble (Chairman)[1], Kevin Murphy (CEO)[2]; Revenue: US$22.8 billion (2021)[3]; Operating income: US$2.0 billion (2021)[3]; Net income: US$1.5 billion (2021)[3]; Number of employees:
    31,000 (2022)[4]; Subsidiaries: Ferguson Enterprises, Wolseley Limited History Wolseley[edit] The Wolseley business began in 1887 making sheep shearing machinery.

  • [10] In 1984, some of the manufacturing businesses were sold off, and since that time Wolseley has been mainly a distribution business.

  • [15] Following a 2016 restructuring of the UK business (based in Warwick in Warwickshire), most of the trading brands were renamed, and brought under the single brand of Wolseley.

  • In 1982, it entered the market in the United States by acquiring Ferguson Enterprises, a distributor of plumbing supplies, with around fifty branches on the East Coast of
    the United States.

  • [18] The stock listing switched to new holding company Ferguson plc on 1 August 2017.

  • [8] Ferguson plc[edit] Wolseley announced it would rebrand as Ferguson effective 31 July 2017, because almost all of its business was now in the United States, in the name
    of Ferguson Enterprises.

  • Wolseley moved into Europe, by buying French plumbing supplies business Brossette in February 1992.

  • Though the board did allow Austin to purchase some machinery to build cars, they decided around 1900, it was unlikely to be a profitable industry.

  • [5] Wolseley plc changed its name to Ferguson plc in March 2017, to reflect the primacy of its operations in the United States.

 

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