Private company

Jewson

Logo: JewsonBM, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons⁴

British building materials company

Jewson is one of the largest chains of British general builders' merchants, selling to small and medium building contractors. The chain comprises around 500 branches located all across Great Britain. Jewson is owned by Stark Group.² It was founded by George Jewson.¹ It is headquartered in Coventry, United Kingdom.¹ Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1836Founded¹

Industryconstruction industry¹
HeadquartersCoventry, United Kingdom¹
Websitewww.jewson.co.uk
Legal formPrivate Limited Company³
LEI52990071KYHQGQO15U82³
StatusActive³
LEI statusLapsed (not renewed)³
Registered addressSaint-Gobain House Binley Business Park, CV3 2TT Coventry, United Kingdom³
Registered withCompanies House, 00348407³

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Corporate structure

Jewson is part of a group headed by Stark Group. 7 entities, 5 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Stark Group Frederiksberg, Denmark
- Jewson Coventry, United Kingdom
- Beijer Byggmaterial Subsidiary · Sollentuna, Sweden
- Stark Deutschland Subsidiary · Offenbach am Main, Germany
- Stark Danmark Subsidiary · Aarhus Municipality, Denmark
- STARK SOURCING A/S Subsidiary · Frederiksberg, Denmark
  - STARK KALAALLIT NUNAAT A/S Subsidiary · Nuuk, Greenland

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

Founded by George Jewson in 1836.¹

George Jewson bought a business in Earith in 1836 to trade goods in the Huntingdonshire Fens of East Anglia. His son John Wilson Jewson (b. 1817) had 13 children: the eldest, George, at the time working with a timber merchant in Norwich, suggested expansion there.

John Jewson bought a house in Colegate in Norwich in 1868, and he moved there where he developed a successful timber, coal and builders' merchant business. The family played a role in civic service in Norwich and Norfolk.

Jewson, as part of the Meyer group, was acquired by the French conglomerate Saint-Gobain in April 2000.

In 2011, it acquired Build Center from Wolseley UK.

In March 2023, Saint-Gobain sold Jewson to Stark Group for £740 million. The sale included Gibbs & Dandy, the Northern Ireland based brand JP Corry, specialist brands Jewson Civil Frazer and Minster, and International Timber. STARK appointed former Travis Perkins executive John Carter as CEO of the newly-formed Stark Building Materials UK Ltd.

From Wikipedia’s article on Jewson, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.⁵

Leadership

Who has led Jewson, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

FounderGeorge Jewson¹

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Stark Group

From Wikidata.¹

Controversies and legal

Litigation

On 15 May 2009, Jewson Ltd applied under s.69 (1) Companies Act 2006 for a change of name of Jewson's Drives Ltd which had been registered since 18 March 2009. Jewson Ltd argued that they enjoyed goodwill under the name "Jewson" since 1836 and that they were the United Kingdom's leading timber and builders' merchant. Jewson Ltd alleged that Jewson's Drives Ltd had been offering flagging, paving, fencing and related services and that their own customers had been misled by the respondent. However, as long as Jewson's Drives Ltd had actually been operating as a business and there was no evidence to show they only registered their name for the purpose of obtaining (valuable) consideration from Jewson Ltd or for the sake of obstructing their own registration of a name, then they could have a defence to the application. Jewson Ltd's application was struck out by the adjudicator.