The U.K.’s largest building materials supplier, Travis Perkins plc, operates 21 businesses across the country. These include Wickes, a DIY home improvement chain, and Benchmarx, a kitchen and joinery supply store. In total, Travis Perkins plc is composed of over 2000+ branches and 200 tool-hire outlets, supplying more than 500,000 product lines to professional tradespeople and self-builders. The company has seen rapid growth, with a history of doubling in size every 10 years. While Travis Perkins is flourishing, the data across the company was not. Incomplete and inconsistent product information online David Todd, the Group Data Director at Travis Perkins, set out to find a solution to improve the data, which was distinctly siloed and not maintained or validated in any con

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