Who Owns Screwfix?

Screwfix is owned by Kingfisher plc, the London-listed group that also owns B&Q. Companies House records Kingfisher International Holdings Limited as holding 75% or more of Screwfix Direct Limited since 23 July 2021 — an internal reorganisation, not a sale. Kingfisher has owned Screwfix since 1999, when it bought a Yeovil mail-order business that had not yet opened a single shop. Ownership verified 6 September 2026.

Who owns Screwfix today?

The trading company is SCREWFIX DIRECT LIMITED (03006378), incorporated 5 January 1995 and registered at Trade House, Yeovil, Somerset.

Its person with significant control is Kingfisher International Holdings Limited, at 75% or more of shares and voting rights with the right to appoint and remove directors, notified 23 July 2021.

The obvious company name is a dead end. SCREWFIX LIMITED (06030990) was dissolved on 30 January 2024 — searching for it finds a defunct company, not the retailer. The business is 03006378, and it always has been.

Ultimate parent and corporate structure

Kingfisher plc is the ultimate parent, listed on the London Stock Exchange. As a listed company it is exempt from the PSC regime, so the register names Kingfisher International Holdings and then stops.

The 23 July 2021 change is worth reading correctly, because it looks like a takeover and is not one. Screwfix Investments Limited ceased as controller on exactly the same day Kingfisher International Holdings was notified, and Screwfix Investments was itself dissolved in 2022. That is a group tidying up its holding companies — one Kingfisher entity replacing another. Ownership did not change.

This pattern recurs across the site, and the test is simple: if the outgoing and incoming controllers share a corporate family and the dates match to the day, it is a reorganisation. A genuine sale usually leaves a gap, a different name, or a different country.

Major shareholders or controlling persons

No individual controls Screwfix or Kingfisher. Kingfisher plc’s shares are widely held by institutions and private investors, with the largest positions sitting with index managers on behalf of their funds’ investors — the same position as Tesco and BT elsewhere on this site.

No holder approaches the 25% threshold at which UK rules would record significant control, and none appears on Companies House, because listed companies do not file PSC registers.

Official records and evidence

The company number, the January 1995 incorporation, the Kingfisher International Holdings entry, the ceased Screwfix Investments entry and both dates are Companies House records for 03006378 and can be checked directly.

What the register does not establish is Kingfisher plc itself. It names one holding company and goes no further, so the connection to the listed parent comes from Kingfisher’s own reporting rather than from a filing.

The register also contains a genuine curiosity worth knowing before trusting a name search. SCREWFIX BUTTONS LIMITED (00274765), a Brighton company dissolved in 2024, carries a six-figure company number in the 274,000s — the mark of a registration from the 1930s, decades before the retailer existed. It was a button business. SCREWFIX SPARES LIMITED (03593012), by contrast, is at the Yeovil address and is part of the group.

Names on Companies House prove nothing on their own. Numbers and addresses do the work.

Ownership history and changes

Screwfix began as the Woodscrew Supply Company, a Somerset mail-order business selling screws by catalogue. It was renamed Screwfix Direct in the 1990s.

• 1995 — Screwfix Direct Limited incorporated.
• 1999 — Kingfisher buys the business for a reported £40m. It was then a catalogue and telephone operation with no stores at all.
• 2005 — the first trade counters open, beginning the estate that now runs to more than 900 UK branches.
• 23 July 2021 — the holding company changes within Kingfisher; ownership unaffected.

The 1999 purchase is the part usually got wrong. Kingfisher did not buy a shop chain — it bought a mail-order catalogue and built the branch network itself, six years later. Screwfix’s growth into one of Britain’s largest trade retailers happened entirely under its current owner.

Kingfisher has owned Screwfix for more than a quarter of a century, longer than most brands on this site have kept a single owner.

Related companies and brands

Kingfisher owns B&Q, Screwfix, Castorama and Brico Dépôt in France, and TradePoint, the trade arm inside B&Q stores.

B&Q and Screwfix being under one owner is the fact most customers do not know, and it explains a great deal: the two chains deliberately serve different customers — B&Q the retail DIY shopper, Screwfix the tradesperson wanting a fast counter collection — and the group runs them as separate propositions rather than merging them.

Screwfix is not connected to Toolstation, its closest competitor, which belongs to Travis Perkins — a separate listed company. Nor to Wickes, which demerged from Travis Perkins and is independently listed. The trade retail sector looks fragmented and is largely divided between three listed groups.