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Company Overview

Business Description

Sector
Consumer Discretionary
Industry
Consumer products
Headquarters
United Kingdom UK
Employees
7 928
IPO date
Jan 3, 1986

Barratt Redrow PLC is one of the largest homebuilders in the UK. It buys land, secures planning permission, designs neighborhoods, and builds new houses and apartments for sale to homebuyers. The company also sells homes to local authorities and housing associations when those buyers want new properties for affordable housing or shared ownership schemes.

The business makes money mainly by selling completed homes. Customers are usually first-time buyers, movers, and families looking for new-build houses, along with public-sector and affordable-housing buyers. Barratt Redrow also earns income from land-led development work and from related services tied to the homebuilding process, such as customer support, after-sales service, and helping buyers through the purchase.

What makes the company’s role important is that it sits in the middle of the housing supply chain: it turns land into finished homes. That means it depends on planning rules, land availability, and mortgage conditions, but it also benefits from a basic need that stays in demand over time. Its merged scale and national footprint give it a wide mix of sites, buyers, and housing types rather than relying on one small local market.

Barratt Redrow PLC Investor Relations

Address
Barratt House, Cartwright Way, Forest Business Park
Coalville, Leicestershire
United Kingdom

Business Segments

Housebuilding

This is the core business of designing and building new homes across the UK under brands such as Barratt and Redrow, including apartments, family houses, and larger housing developments.

Customers and revenue model

Partnerships

This part works with housing associations, local authorities, and other partners to build homes on land that will be sold or managed through shared schemes and long-term housing projects.

Customers and revenue model

Management

Mr. David Fraser Thomas A.C.A.

Group CEO & Executive Director

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Mr. Michael Ian Scott

CFO & Executive Director

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Mr. Steven J. Boyes

COO, Deputy CEO & Executive Director

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Mr. Michael Finn

Group Design & Technical Director

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Ms. Jenny Matthews

Interim Head of Investor Relations

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Ms. Brenda Louise Ruppel LL.B

General Counsel

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Ms. Sally Austin B.Sc (Hons), B.Sc., MCIPD

Group HR Director

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Mr. Nicholas H. Richardson B.Sc., MRICS

Managing Director of Wilson Bowden Developments

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Mr. Mike Roberts M.D.

Regional Managing Director of Northern

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Derek Harris

Head of Public Relations

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