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Lords - Buys online pure play from administrators

July 2025

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Shanker Patel never meant to become a merchant king. It was the early 1990s. He was fresh out of the London School of Economics with a law degree and staring down a bleak recession. Patel, 21, had planned for the courtroom, not the warehouse. But fate - like markets - rarely moves in straight lines. A family friend asked him to help out with a tiny West London homewares shop called Lords at Home. Patel became a shareholder in 1993 and joined as chief executive in 1999. One acquisition followed the next, and now, three decades and 20 acquisitions later, Patel presides over Lords, one of the UK's biggest building materials distributors with 47 yards. Patel has since sold the original homewares shop but with reported revenues in FY2 ...

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Market Comment - July '25

Ultimate Products - Excellent company in a tough market

Lords Trading Group - CMO now back to 90% availability (October 2025)

Lords Trading Group - Q1 recovery: +11% Merchanting and +22% P&H (June 2025)

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Lords Group (June 2024)

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Lords Trading Group (May 2023)

Lords Group (February 2023)

Lords Group Trading (October 2022)

Lords Group Trading - Will hit £500m sales target a year early (May 2022)

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