A Salisbury based family owned hardware wholesale business has incorporated after 27 years trading as a partnership.
 
Sarum Wholesale Limited sells over 15,000 different hardware, gardening and DIY products to the retail trade including garden centres, builders merchants, cook shops and farm shops within a 90 mile radius of its Downton Business Park headquarters.
 
The business grew from the hardware store in Wilton the Mouland family founded over 50 years ago, the partnership being established in 1983 trading on the back of a deep knowledge of the hardware and DIY sector.
 
Today the business employs some 42 people – 18 at its 30,000 sq ft warehouse base on Downton, 19 in its own four shops across the region and five representatives on the road talking to upwards of 550 accounts.
 
Managing director, Jon Mouland said: “We have been looking to consolidate our market share and grow our customer base but we needed a new business structure to provide the credibility for sustainable growth this requires.
 
“We were recommended the Salisbury office of chartered accountants Francis Clark and their advice to incorporate has been priceless i enabling us to continue to grow and trade from a position of strength.”
 
Growth for Sarum Wholesale has been synonymous with the boom in garden centres and the popularity of do-it-yourself, grow-it-your-self and cook-it-yourself with the business well placed to service the growing demand for the vast range of products and accessories that go along with them. 
 
Paul Giessler, partner and head of business services with Francis Clark added: “Sarum Wholesale is a sound business under very good management.  It had got to a stage where it needed a business structure that would help achieve its goals in more effective ways.  We were able to provide a route to follow and to help deliver a business plan that will carry the business forward.”
 
Sarum Wholesale Limited will continue to hold its own annual Trade Fair at Salisbury Racecourse which last January attracted 80 suppliers and 150 customers.  It has also
launched its own Ambassador brand of gardening tools and has now published a comprehensive product catalogue for the retail trade.
 
For more information please contact Paul Giessler, Head of Business Services at Francis Clark.