Meyer International
of Villiers House, Strand, London
1982 Company formed by merger of Montague L. Meyer and International Timber, Britain's largest importers of timber, distributors of wood and manufacturers of wooden products[1]
1983 A number of the group companies were acquired by the company; Montague L. Meyer then became a holding company and a range of subsidiaries were moved to other group companies; these subsidiaries included:[2]
- Blacknell Buildings Ltd
- L Bloom (Plywood) Ltd
- William Brown (East Anglia) Ltd
- Alexander Bruce (Grays) Ltd
- Calders and Grandidge Ltd
- Canusa Ltd
- Chapman Hall Gray Ltd
- Crosby Doors Ltd
- Crundall Payne Holdings Ltd
- English Brothers Ltd
- Gabriel Wade (Northern) Ltd
- Gabriel Wade (Southern) Ltd
- Gabriel Wade (Wales) Ltd
- George E. Gray (Plastics) Ltd
- Gwynedd Building Supplies Co Ltd
- Illingworth Ingham and Co Ltd
- Keizer Venesta (Manufacturing) Ltd
- MLM (Packaging) Ltd
- Messers (London) Ltd
- John Sinclair (Timber) Ltd
- Timber Wharves Ltd
Investments in Hill Leigh Group Ltd and Economic Forestry Group Ltd were transferred to a related company J. T. Sydenham and Co
1984 Acquired the Jewson chain of distributors.
1985 Acquired Powell Duffryn Timber[3]
1986 Acquired Brownlee builders merchants[4]
1988 Acquired 5 more businesses[5]
1988 Sold Hurn Brothers of Melksham, maker of garden trellis and fencing, to Williams Holdings[6] and other small subsidiaries.
1989 Norcros arranged to sell UBM to Meyer International who in turn sold Crosby Manufacturing to Norcros[7]
1997 Acquired the Harcros building merchants chain from Harrisons and Crosfield, effectively doubling the size of Meyer's Jewson chain[8]
1999 Acquired Graham Group[9]
2000 Meyer was acquired by Saint-Gobain of France[10], becoming part of that company's growing building materials distribution activities[11]