Kitchen Renovations: Howden Kitchens

One of the UK's fastest growing retail chains has invested £2.8m in a fleet of 43 new 18-tonne lorries to be based at its head offices in Howden, East Yorkshire. The move by Wren Kitchens and Bedrooms, which currently employs 1,100 people nationwide, will today announced that it has been selected as the outsourced fleet provider for Howdens Joinery, one of the U.K.’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of kitchens and joinery products. Howdens is replacing its existing fleet with 100 heavy duty Dec 2 Sales at modular kitchen maker Howden Joinery Group Plc's British unit hit 1 billion pounds ($1.57 billion) in the year to date as better consumer sentiment and several government initiatives continued to boost the country's housing market. The stock’s 50-day moving average is GBX 469.5 and its 200-day moving average is GBX 428.1. Howden Joinery Group Plc is a United Kingdom-based manufacturing company. The Company along with its subsidiaries is engaged in the sale of kitchens and joinery Others are looking at stocks further down the housing-market food chain: Jupiter’s Watt said kitchen manufacturer Howden was one that might benefit from continued strength in the housing market. (Reporting by Alistair Smout; Editing by Lionel Laurent In the 18 years since it opened its first depots, Howdens Joinery has grown to become the leading supplier of kitchens in the UK, with over 550 depots and turnover approaching £1bn, its success being based on the consistent execution of a unique business .

Howden Joinery supplies integrated kitchen and joinery products to small builders, having sales of nearly £900m in 2012. It operates over 520 Howdens Joinery depots throughout the UK, supplying 400,000 kitchens each year, and continues to grow. Howden Joinery Group, the kitchen supplier, which is already based in three locations in Northampton, has put in the application for the new national distribution centre and office near Junction 15 of the M1, on the edge of Collingtree. Howdens says it .