Liverpool-based employee-owned global scaffold supplier George Roberts (NW) hails its ‘resilience’ as ‘stagnant’ economic conditions lead to fall in revenues and profits. Tony McDonough reports
Global scaffold supplier George Roberts (NW) is reporting falls in annual revenues and profits amid a “challenging year.”.
However, the Liverpool business, which operates out of a 16-acre site in Netherton and employs more than 8- people, delivered an upbeat tone in its accounts for the 12 months to October 31, 2025, posted on Companies House.
Writing in the report, founder George Roberts said: “We are pleased with the 2025 results in what has been a challenging year. Economic conditions have been stagnant and uncertainty seems to have hindered investment in many of the sectors we operate in.”
During the period revenues fell 10% to £45m and pre-tax profits fell 22% to £4.5m. Net assets, which include around £30m of scaffolding which it keeps in stock to ensure it can deliver to customers quickly.
As well as delivering across the UK, George Roberts (NW) sells and hires scaffolding to more than 40 countries around the world. It supplies multiple sectors including housing, commercial, defence, nuclear, construction, petrochemical, leisure, sports, eventing, rail and maritime.
In 2024 George transferred ownership of the business into an employee trust which means its employees now own 90% of the share capital.
In the annual report he added: “The George Roberts brand remained strong and our performance illustrates our resilience and customer loyalty.
“Turnover is down slightly year-on-year. Some of this is explained by inflationary pressures reducing compared to the previous year and commodity prices continuing to fall.
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“We pride ourselves on our consistent stock availability, having extensive supply chains, we are always well positioned to even out any volatility that occurs in the market.”
He also said: “Despite the excellent year of trading, bad debts were less than 1% of turnover. This is remarkable and without a doubt one of the best in the industry.”