Jewson
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| Limited company | |
| Industry | Building materials |
| Founded | 1836 |
| Founder | George Jewson |
| Headquarters | Merchant House, Binley Business Park, Binley, Coventry |
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Area served
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United Kingdom, Ireland |
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Key people
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| Products | Building materials Plumbers Electricians Joiners merchants |
| Parent | Saint-Gobain Building Distribution Group |
| Website | Jewson |
Jewson is one of the largest chains of British general builders' merchants, selling to small and medium building contractors, as well as to the general public. The chain comprises over 600 branches located all across the United Kingdom.
Jewson, as part of the Meyer group, was acquired by the French conglomerate Saint-Gobain in April 2000.
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.
Of John's eight sons:
Frank became a partner in a solicitors, Cozens-Hardy & Jewson.
Richard Jewson (1867–1949) was Lord Mayor of Norwich and the firm became the largest timber merchants between the Thames and the Humber.
Percy Jewson was Lord Mayor in 1934 and Liberal MP for Great Yarmouth during the Second World War. His son, Charles Jewson, son of Percy, was a writer on the history of Norwich and its buildings and Lord Mayor in 1965.
Norman Jewson was a distinguished Cotswold Arts and Crafts movement architect.
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