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Wolseley news releases 2006

20 December 2006
Wolseley plc, the world’s largest specialist trade distributor of plumbing and heating products to professional contractors and a leading supplier of building materials, announced today six further bolt on acquisitions for an aggregate consideration of £27 million. In a full year, these bolt on acquisitions are expected to add approximately £57 million in additional revenue.
19 December 2006
Wolseley has won the Building Material & Merchants award in Britain’s Most Admired Companies Awards 2006, run by the UK's top business magazine Management Today.
29 November 2006
Wolseley plc, the world’s largest specialist trade distributor of plumbing and heating products to professional contractors and a leading supplier of building materials, is issuing its usual update on current trading conditions in relation to holding its Annual General Meeting at noon today, at Haberdasher's Hall, 18 West Smithfield, London, EC1A 9HQ.
02 November 2006
Wolseley plc, the world’s largest specialist trade distributor of plumbing and heating products to professional contractors and a leading supplier of building materials, announced today six further bolt on acquisitions for an aggregate consideration of £61 million. In a full year, these bolt on acquisitions are expected to add approximately £102 million in additional revenue.
09 October 2006
Wolseley plc, the world’s largest specialist trade distributor of plumbing and heating products to professional contractors and a leading supplier of building materials, announced today four further bolt on acquisitions for an aggregate consideration of £111 million. In a full year, these bolt on acquisitions are expected to add approximately £148 million in additional revenue.
28 September 2006
Wolseley UK, the country’s leading distributor of construction materials, has unveiled plans to develop a national showcase for sustainable building products and construction methods.
25 September 2006
Chief Executive Chip Hornsby described to analysts how the company is planning to operate in seeking to continue its double-digit sales growth for the future.
25 September 2006
Wolseley plc has made two statements to the London Stock Exchange.
25 September 2006
With Group revenue up 25.8%, including organic growth of 10.9%, the year to end July 2006 has seen a significant increase in profits. Record results have been achieved for ten consecutive years, a performance Wolseley Chief Executive Chip Hornsby described as "A fantastic achievement".
25 September 2006
Wolsey has officially completed the acquisition of DT Group, first announced on 25 July. At more than £1.3 billion, the purchase of DT Group is Wolseley’s largest acquisition to date. The deal gives the company a major presence in the Nordic region and significantly broadens its European reach.
20 September 2006
Wolseley plc, the world's largest specialist trade distributor of plumbing and heating products to professional contractors and a leading supplier of building materials, announced today three further acquisitions for an aggregate consideration of £22 million. In a full year, these acquisitions are expected to add approximately £30 million in additional revenue.
15 September 2006
Wolseley's US operating company Ferguson has been voted one of the top 50 US companies for new college graduates to begin their careers in a survey of more than 37,000 undergraduate students.
07 September 2006
Adrian Barden, managing director of Wolseley UK, has been promoted to senior vice president at Wolseley plc, effective from 1 October 2006. It is one of the first of a number of senior appointments to establish a core leadership team from across Wolseley Group, being made by new CEO Chip Hornsby, to drive his global growth strategy.
15 August 2006
This takes the total for the year ended 31 July 2006 to a record £910 million. Since the start of the new financial year, 1 August 2006, the total acquisition spend is £26 million.
04 August 2006
Wolseley has signed an agreement to acquire DT Group (formerly known as Danske Traelast), the Nordic region's leading distributor of building materials, from CVC Capital Partners in a £1billion+ deal.
01 August 2006
Claude 'Chip' Hornsby has today become Group Chief Executive at Wolseley following the retirement of Charlie Banks. Chip, 50, has spent 27 years with Wolseley's Ferguson business in the USA.
11 July 2006
As part of Wolseley’s planned communication activity to raise awareness of the name and the company profile in North America, a Wolseley advert was run six times an hour in Times Square for the whole of July.
20 June 2006
With Group revenue up by 26 per cent and pre-tax, pre amortisation profits up by 22 per cent, the interim results for the six months to 31 January 2006 have laid the foundations for what could be another record-breaking year.