Youngman - About Us

 

WC Youngman Ltd was founded by Charles Youngman (pictured left) on the first day of the National Strike in 1926.

 

Charles Youngman died in 1967, and WC Youngman was then acquired by SGB Group PLC in 1969. Seventeen years later, SGB Group was, in turn, acquired by Mowlem PLC.

 

By 1992, SGB and Youngman had merged to form SGB Youngman. Five years later, SGB was re-floated by Mowlem, and then acquired by Harsco Corporation in 2000.

 

In October 2005, a management team, led by Paul Bentley, who previously ran Ruberoid Building Products, bought out Youngman, backed by Matrix Private Equity Partners. The company was renamed Youngman Group Ltd and is now a world leader in the manufacture and supply of high quality access systems. The company has state of the art production and repair facilities at its Maldon site in Essex and has a turnover in excess of £50 million a year.