Travis Perkins incorporates 7 brands, Tile Giant, Wickes, Benchmarx, CCF,City Plumbing Supplies, Keyline, Travis Perkins

You might like to know some research facts and figures about Travis Perkins:

• Voted National Builders' Merchant of the Year 6 times in 9 years.
• First national Builders' Merchant to be elected a Business Superbrand, recognising the group as one of the strongest Business to Business brands in the UK.
• Awarded FSC and PEFC Chain of Custody Certification, recognising our strong commitment to sourcing timber from responsibly managed forests.
• First national builders' merchant to be awarded ISO 14001 environmental accreditation.
• Achieved Chain of Custody accreditation for all timber-supplying branches in the Group - more than any other national merchant.
• Donated more than £1 Million over the last 5 years to charities including NSPCC, Macmillan Cancer Support, NCH the children's charity, Mencap and ENABLE (Scotland), plus many more local charities and organisations through our Give As You Earn initiative.
• Assisted hundreds of local organisations through our '1,000 Projects in 1,000 Places in 1,000 Days' initiative which encourages our colleagues to give their time and talent to benefit the community in which they serve.
• Our Management Trainee Scheme is one of the most successful of any business in the UK. It started in 1978 and over 51% of trainees are still with the company... that's 325% higher than any UK company of similar size.
• We provide comprehensive Training and Development programmes covering customer service, product knowledge and commercial skills.

Did You Know?

• Travis Perkins' drivers make more than thirteen million deliveries per year and clock up an estimated 60 million kilometres in doing so - that's almost 1,500 times around the world.
• Keyline makes 20 million sales transactions every year... that's 120 every working minute.
• Travis Perkins branches are all different shapes and sizes. The largest is Ferndown in Dorset at 165,000sq ft on 8.83 acres, the smallest is Oxford at just 3,466sq ft.
• CCF supplies 30% of the UK's suspended ceilings. So if you're working in a new office right now, there is a one in three chance that the ceiling above you came from CCF.
• Travis Perkins has more dedicated garden landscaping centres than any other company in the UK.
• City Plumbing buys more than 22 million metres of copper tube every year - that's the distance from London to New York...

Each area of Travis Perkins has some broad principles:-

• We know what kind of people we want and we work hard to recruit the best.
  • We train them properly.
  • We allow them freedom to be themselves.
  • We trust them to make the right decisions, and the odd mistake is tolerated.
  • We're loyal to them and they're loyal to us.

There are certain attributes that we look for in our future employees. They are the things that we are passionate about and that's what makes us so successful. It's how everyone here delivers on the promise we make to our customers every single day.

• We know our customers, understand their needs, beat their expectations and treat them with respect.
• Talk and listen to our colleagues (and customers) through open and honest communication.
• Have colleagues with the skills to meet our business needs, who really know how to do their job and will focus on delivering results.
• We actively work with each other; when something goes wrong, the first thing we do is fix the problem, not look for someone to blame.
• We always try to get better and constructively challenge how we work.
• We look for fresh ideas that are different; we only have rules where they are necessary because we use our common sense.
• Everyone working with us is welcome; we make work enjoyable for everyone.

Above all, we are really proud to work here