Breedon is now the fourth largest GB ready mixed concrete company

Following its recent acquisition of Hope, Breedon is now the fourth largest ready mixed

concrete company in Great Britain. It also operates the most concrete plants of any
company in the industry.

These are some of the conclusions of BDS Marketing Research’s annual report on the
ready mixed concrete industry which has just been published, entitled ‘Estimated
market shares of ready mixed concrete companies in Great Britain’.

Hanson remains as the largest concrete supplier, followed by Cemex and Tarmac.
Together with Breedon, Aggregate Industries makes up the top five. BDS estimates that
these businesses represent two thirds of the market. ‘The rest of the industry is
represented by around 400 batch and volumetric companies’, stated the report author,
Andy Sales. ‘It is the smaller companies which are most active in developing new
plants. Over the last year, we have picked up nearly 30 planning consents for new
plants. All but four of these were made by independent companies’, said Andy.

The BDS report will be of interest to all ready mixed concrete companies and those that
supply products and services to the industry. Further details of the report are available
by contacting Andy Sales at BDS.