The Taylor Woodrow story started in 1921 when a young Frank Taylor, just sweet sixteen at the time, wanted to build two average family houses in Blackpool. He had to borrow £100 from his uncle Jack Woodrow but it turned out to be a wise move for both borrower and lender: their first property venture made a 100% profit. Nevertheless, the budding property entrepreneur was too young to form his own company, so he teamed up with his uncle Jack and founded “Taylor & Woodrow” as it was called at the time.
Their company’s housebuilding division, Taylor Woodrow Homes, soon became a household name. Behind the distinctive “four strong men pulling a rope” logo that represented teamwork (replaced by a new logo in 2001) is a brand that symbolises quality and security in the consumer’s mind, a powerful combination in the building industry, especially when combined with a focus on customer service and steady, strategic expansion. (And there’s a story behind the world famous logo: Frank Taylor asked his employees to come up with a logo and it was a foreman, who designed the original four man version, who won.)
From strength to strength
In 2001, Taylor Woodrow acquired Bryant Group, a long-standing UK home developer, and renamed its house building division Bryant Homes. One of the company’s biggest milestones is its merger in March 2007 with another British building giant, George Wimpey, to become Taylor Wimpey plc, a leader at the forefront of the UK’s construction industry.
Taylor Woodrow’s evolution is marked by numerous other milestones, some of which, arguably, changed the face of Britain. St. Katherine’s Dock, developed in the ‘70s, was an extremely ambitious private urban construction project and Taylor Woodrow was a founder member of the Channel Tunnel consortium at a time when “The Chunnel” was a groundbreaking project that only the most visionary undersea engineer could dream of. From pragmatic to artistic, Taylor Woodrow’s projects have included Main Street in Disneyland in Paris, John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, and the spectacular new Frank Gehry Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London which opened last summer. The strikingly beautiful pavilion, of large, “floating” glass panels and timbers hosts a series of talks and live events during the summer months.
Frank Taylor’s empire quickly diversified into hospitals, industrial and commercial buildings in various sectors, yet to the man in the street the Taylor Woodrow brand stands for quality family homes, whether that’s an affordable house in Manchester or a luxury villa in Mallorca.
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