Wickes UK - British Decoration & Building Materials Ordering Site

The history of the Wickes name dates back to 1854, when Henry Dunn Wickes and his brother started a small-scale local timber business in Michigan, USA. The Wickes we know today truly began during the American real estate boom of the 1950s, creating a one-stop shop that sold a wide range of building products to builders at prices often lower than those of local yards and merchants... In 1972, the first UK Wickes opened in Whitefield, Manchester. It was an imaginative new concept—using the traditional DIY store model to sell to tradespeople—which made Wickes the first fixed-price builders' merchant in the UK.