Wingham Timber is an independent timber merchant supplying construction grade timber, sheet materials, internal mouldings, wooden flooring, garden fencing and decking materials, along with timber for garden structures. It has a range of fencing manufacturing machinery, as well as moulders and a treatment plant.
Wingham Timber鈥檚 principal owners and directors, Beau Hart and Nigel Hylands, will continue their involvement with the business, with Hart assisting during a transitional period, and Hylands continuing to operate the business.
Nigel Hylands said: 鈥淲e see Covers as an ideal new home for Wingham with its family ownership and similar values. I look forward to continuing to run the business and overseeing the transition to a new general manager in due course. We and Covers have already seen exciting possibilities for cross selling our mill products.鈥�
Covers鈥� chairman Rupert Green said: 鈥淭he Wingham team bring a business that complements our different activities and gives the group a greater geographical coverage and a source of new products for Covers customers.鈥�
Managing director Henry Green added: 鈥淲ingham has a strong reputation in an area where Covers is not known, so the business will continue to be known as Wingham Timber; aside from some new products, its customers and staff should see very little change.鈥�
Covers, founded by William Cover in 1846, operates from 14 locations in Hampshire, Sussex, Surrey and Kent, with its Mill and timber operation based in Chichester.