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href="/wiki/Home_construction" title="Home construction">Housebuilding</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1961</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Defunct</th><td class="infobox-data">2007</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fate</th><td class="infobox-data">Acquired</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Barratt_Developments" class="mw-redirect" title="Barratt Developments">Barratt Developments</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Coalville" title="Coalville">Coalville</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Key people</div></th><td class="infobox-data agent">David Wilson (<a href="/wiki/Chairman" class="mw-redirect" title="Chairman">Chairman</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Wilson Bowden plc</b> was a British <a href="/wiki/Home_construction" title="Home construction">housebuilding</a> and general <a href="/wiki/Construction" title="Construction">construction</a> company headquartered in <a href="/wiki/Coalville" title="Coalville">Coalville</a> in central England. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wilson_Bowden&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wilson Bowden was the holding company for David Wilson Homes and its commercial property subsidiary, Wilson Bowden Properties, the name being adopted at the time of the group's flotation in 1987.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> David Wilson joined his father’s joinery workshop in 1960 and during that decade gradually moved the business into housebuilding. By the early 1970s, AH Wilson (as it was then named) was building around 150 houses per year in the Leicestershire area. A joint property investment with <a href="/wiki/First_National_Financial_Corporation" title="First National Financial Corporation">First National Financial Corporation</a>, <i>Bowden Park Holdings</i>, was wholly acquired in 1973 shortly after First National got into financial difficulty.<sup id="cite_ref-dictionary_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dictionary-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>David Wilson expanded substantially in the 1980s with sales rising from 300 to 1,600 within the decade. The firm's financial reports for 1989 included a record pre-tax profit of £40.3 million, being one of a few house builders that were able to increase profits that year.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the back of strong fiscal performance came <a href="/wiki/Rights_issue" title="Rights issue">rights issues</a> to raise funds from investors for further growth.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wilson Bowden was not heavily impacted by the <a href="/wiki/Early_1990s_recession" title="Early 1990s recession">early 1990s recession</a>, unlike several of its competitors, an outcome that was attributed to the firm's relatively conservative land buying practices.<sup id="cite_ref-dictionary_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dictionary-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During 1993, the firm announced that house sales had risen by roughly 50 percent year-on-year.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the mid 1990s, Wilson Bowden started to expand beyond its East Midlands heartland. New offices were opened in the West Midlands, Hereford, Hertfordshire and Kent in 1992; Leeds in 1993; Cheshire in 1997 and Glasgow in 1999. Wilson also completed several strategic acquisitions, such as the <a href="/wiki/Berkshire" title="Berkshire">Berkshire</a>-based firm <i>Trencherwood</i> in 1996, which had a dominant position in the West Berkshire land market,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the long-established housing business of <a href="/wiki/Henry_Boot_plc" title="Henry Boot plc">Henry Boot plc</a> in 2003,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the North West-centric developor Roland Bardsley Homes in 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By the end of 1990s, Wilson was building over 4,000 units per year and was regarded as one of the most consistently successful of the quoted housebuilders.<sup id="cite_ref-dictionary_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dictionary-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under a plan to double its prefabrication capacity, Wilson Bowden constructed its own factory in the early 2000s.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>David Wilson ran the business for forty years. During the early 2000s, extensive efforts were put into implementing a controlled succession strategy. It was ultimately decided to put the company's ownership up for <a href="/wiki/Auction" title="Auction">auction</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the multistage process of which attracted the interest of numerous parties, including rival construction company <a href="/wiki/George_Wimpey" title="George Wimpey">George Wimpey</a> and a consortium headed by the Scottish billionaire <a href="/wiki/Tom_Hunter" title="Tom Hunter">Tom Hunter</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During April 2007, just months prior to the opening events of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Recession" title="Great Recession">Great Recession</a>, the company was purchased by <a href="/wiki/Barratt_Developments" class="mw-redirect" title="Barratt Developments">Barratt Developments</a> in exchange for £2.2 billion; the move made Barrett the biggest homebuilder in Britain, employing roughly 7,500 people at the time of the acquisition.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Within one month of the sale being finalised, David Wilson had retired while the closure of several of the company's offices, the sale of its in-house plumbing and plant hire divisions as well as the discontinuation of its KingsOak Homes brand, had been announced; however, Barrett decided to retain the Wilson Bowden name for some activities.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Operations">Operations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wilson_Bowden&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Operations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The company had three divisions: </p> <ul><li>David Wilson Homes: a general housebuilder that operated in most parts of England, Scotland and Wales</li> <li>Wilson City Homes: constructed urban residential buildings</li> <li>Wilson Bowden Developments Limited: undertook retail, leisure, industrial and office development projects</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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Beatty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_BAM_Group" title="Royal BAM Group">BAM Construct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BAM_Nuttall" title="BAM Nuttall">BAM Nuttall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cementation_Company" title="Cementation Company">Cementation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Costain_Group" title="Costain Group">Costain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galliford_Try" title="Galliford Try">Galliford Try</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interserve" title="Interserve">Interserve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ISG_Ltd" title="ISG Ltd">ISG</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keller_Group" title="Keller Group">Keller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kier_Group" title="Kier Group">Kier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laing_O%27Rourke" title="Laing O'Rourke">Laing O'Rourke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lendlease" title="Lendlease">Lendlease</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mace_(construction_company)" title="Mace (construction company)">Mace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McLaughlin_%26_Harvey" title="McLaughlin & Harvey">McLaughlin & Harvey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morgan_Sindall" title="Morgan Sindall">Morgan Sindall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Murphy_(contractor)" title="John Murphy (contractor)">J. Murphy & Sons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Robert_McAlpine" title="Sir Robert McAlpine">Sir Robert McAlpine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Speller_Metcalfe" title="Speller Metcalfe">Speller Metcalfe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robertson_Group" title="Robertson Group">Robertson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taylor_Woodrow_Construction" title="Taylor Woodrow Construction">Taylor Woodrow Construction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tilbury_Douglas" title="Tilbury Douglas">Tilbury Douglas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VolkerFitzpatrick" class="mw-redirect" title="VolkerFitzpatrick">VolkerFitzpatrick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wates_Group" title="Wates Group">Wates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willmott_Dixon" title="Willmott Dixon">Willmott Dixon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;background-color:#eee">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_McAlpine" title="Alfred McAlpine">Alfred McAlpine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Birse_Group" title="Birse Group">Birse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bovis_Construction" title="Bovis Construction">Bovis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buckingham_Group" title="Buckingham Group">Buckingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carillion" title="Carillion">Carillion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Bridge_%26_Engineering_Company" title="Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company">Cleveland Bridge & Engineering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clugston_Group" title="Clugston Group">Clugston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Connaught_plc" title="Connaught plc">Connaught plc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dawnus" title="Dawnus">Dawnus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorman_Long" title="Dorman Long">Dorman Long</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hollandsche_Beton_Groep" title="Hollandsche Beton Groep">HBG</a> (and <a href="/wiki/Higgs_and_Hill" title="Higgs and Hill">Higgs and Hill</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holland,_Hannen_%26_Cubitts" title="Holland, Hannen & Cubitts">Holland, Hannen & Cubitts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jarvis_plc" title="Jarvis plc">Jarvis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Aird_%26_Co." title="John Aird & Co.">John Aird & Co.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Brogden_and_Sons" title="John Brogden and Sons">John Brogden and Sons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Fairclough_%26_Son" title="Leonard Fairclough & Son">Leonard Fairclough & Son</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linford_Group" title="Linford Group">Linford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melville_Dundas" title="Melville Dundas">Melville Dundas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mowlem" title="Mowlem">Mowlem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pauling_%26_Co." title="Pauling & Co.">Pauling & Co.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rok_plc" title="Rok plc">Rok</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lehane,_Mackenzie_and_Shand" title="Lehane, Mackenzie and Shand">Shand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Lindsay_Parkinson_%26_Company" title="Sir Lindsay Parkinson & Company">Sir Lindsay Parkinson & Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_William_Arrol_%26_Co." title="Sir William Arrol & Co.">Sir William Arrol & Co.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trollope_%26_Colls" title="Trollope & Colls">Trollope & Colls</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;background-color:#eee">Suppliers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;background-color:#eee">Current</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aggregate_Industries" title="Aggregate Industries">Aggregate Industries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artex_Ltd." title="Artex Ltd.">Artex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashtead_Group" title="Ashtead Group">Ashtead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Breedon_Group" title="Breedon Group">Breedon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brogan_Group" title="Brogan Group">Brogan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buildbase" title="Buildbase">Buildbase</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cemex" title="Cemex">Cemex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferguson_Enterprises" title="Ferguson Enterprises">Ferguson Enterprises</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forterra_plc" title="Forterra plc">Forterra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heidelberg_Materials_UK" title="Heidelberg Materials UK">Heidelberg Materials UK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hope_Cement" class="mw-redirect" title="Hope Cement">Hope Cement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HSS_Hire" title="HSS Hire">HSS Hire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jewson" title="Jewson">Jewson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingspan_Group" title="Kingspan Group">Kingspan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kingspan_Off-Site" title="Kingspan Off-Site">Kingspan Off-Site</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Brick_Company" title="London Brick Company">London Brick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mero-Schmidlin" title="Mero-Schmidlin">Mero-Schmidlin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Painter_Brothers" title="Painter Brothers">Painter Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pilkington" title="Pilkington">Pilkington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RMD_Kwikform" title="RMD Kwikform">RMD Kwikform</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint-Gobain" title="Saint-Gobain">Saint-Gobain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shepherd_Building_Group" title="Shepherd Building Group">Shepherd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SIG_plc" title="SIG plc">SIG</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Speedy_Hire" class="mw-redirect" title="Speedy Hire">Speedy Hire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarmac_(company)" title="Tarmac (company)">Tarmac</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tarmac_Building_Products" title="Tarmac Building Products">Tarmac Building Products</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tata_Steel_Europe" title="Tata Steel Europe">Tata Steel Europe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Travis_Perkins" title="Travis Perkins">Travis Perkins</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;background-color:#eee">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blue_Circle_Industries" title="Blue Circle Industries">Blue Circle Industries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redland_plc" title="Redland plc">Redland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RMC_Group" title="RMC Group">RMC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarmac_Group" title="Tarmac Group">Tarmac</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left">Government and<br />regulatory bodies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" 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