ROY WAKEMAN, OBE IN NEW YEAR HONOURS LIST 2012

Timothy Roy Wakeman, OBE, known as Roy Wakeman, chair and chief executive of The Performance Timber Products Group (PTP), has been acknowledged for services to the joinery manufacturing industry in the Queen’s New Year Honours List 2012.

Wakeman has been widely recognised as the leading figure in the joinery and woodworking manufacturing industry for the past 25 years.  He is the name behind many successful business initiatives and under his leadership has transformed ailing businesses into innovative and profitable companies, championing product innovation and providing security to hundreds of employees.

During exceptionally challenging markets, Wakeman has continued the growth of PTP since its inception in 2006 with the acquisition of the premier timber window brand Mumford & Wood, specialists in period windows and doors.  Since then, Clearwood UK, TimberWindows.com, the fastest growing consumer fenestration brand, Dale Windows and The English Glasshouse have all joined the PTP inventory of timber brands.  In 2010 Roy engineered the acquisition of John Porter Doors from administration, the quality timber commercial doors brand, which remains at its Sunderland base. 

The Group employs over 230 people throughout the UK and has state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities with technically advanced plant and equipment that push manufacturing boundaries to the limit.  Roy’s professional ethos is to provide customers with innovative market-leading, high performance timber products, service-excellence, cost efficiencies and impressive lead times.  The Group has grown from £6 - £20m per annum and has more than doubled its employees.