One international Group, many local builders' merchants
STARK Group is a leading business-to-business distributor of heavy building materials for the construction industry in Europe, with a strategic focus on serving professional builders.
Our company’s philosophy is based on “Local ownership. Global leadership” with a decentralised operating model where the decision-making powers are locally anchored close to the customers. Each business unit is decentralised, with its own autonomous, national management team.
All STARK Group business units are chain concepts, with products and services visibly marketed under a single name in the market in which they operate.
How we are organised
STARK Group operates more than 1,150 branches and distribution centres across Europe through its subsidiaries: STARK Building Materials UK Ltd. in the United Kingdom, STARK Deutschland GmbH in Germany and Austria, STARK Danmark A/S in Denmark and Greenland, Beijer Byggmaterial AB in Sweden, STARK Suomi Oy in Finland and Neumann Bygg AS in Norway.
Each business unit is decentralised, with its own autonomous, national management team. All STARK Group business units are chain concepts, with products and services visibly marketed under a single name in the market in which they operate.
STARK Group has approximately 20,000 employees and annual net sales of approximately EUR 9 billion.
Organisation overview
Ownership
STARK Group is owned by CVC Capital Partners Fund VII. CVC is a world leader in private equity and credit and manages funds from over 500 investors from across the world. Many of these are pension plans which include plans for teachers, police officers, nurses and firefighters.
