Huws Gray has announced three more acqusitions, making it “the largest independent builders merchants in Wales and north-west England”.
The Anglesey-based company’s latest purchases, which include a specialist timber merchant, take its branch network to a total of 39 sites.
Buying Llandidloes Building Suppliers gives Huws Gray its first branch in Powys. The business will continue to trade under its current name “for the time being” and one of the founding family, Craig Richards, will be branch manager.
Huws Gray has also bought the seven-year-old J&B Willbrook family business in Dyffryn Ardudwy in Gwynedd.
The third acquisition is the site previously owned by Finney Forest at Blythe Bridge, near Stoke-on-Trent.
Huws Gray director Dewi Morris said the yard would be refurbished and developed into a mixed product builders merchants, with a planned opening date in June. The workforce is currently being recruited.
Earlier this year, Huws Gray acquired Laycocks Timber Merchants in Wigan and also opened a new branch in Rhuddlan. In addition the company has invested in its own training academy at its Mochdre branch.
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