From driveways to patios, bike stands to benches, litter bins to anti-terrorist street bollards. The industrial logic linking these products may not be immediately obvious but Marshalls makes them all. Britain’s largest provider of paving and landscaping products, it is also regularly cited as the company that supplies the paving stones to Trafalgar Square.
Marshalls was established by Solomon Marshall in 1890 and is based in Yorkshire. It owns and operates quarries and manufacturing sites across the UK and employs about 2,000 people; it also has a small international operation mainly focused on the Netherlands and Belgium. The company’s stock market listing values it at just under £1.4 billion, giving the business a place in the FTSE 250 midcap index.
The wide variety of products