Our purpose

To help our trade customers achieve exceptional results for their customers and to profit from doing so. When our customers succeed, we succeed, and our stakeholders succeed. Our purpose drives our business model and shapes our strategic decisions.

Our culture and values

Howdens was founded on the principle that the business should be worthwhile for all concerned — customers, homeowners, tenants, local communities, our suppliers, our investors, our staff and their families. This founding principle has shaped our business model and our strategic decisions since 1995, and it continues to be at the heart of what we do.

UK #1 trade kitchen supplier

With an estimated market share of 29 per cent*, we are the UK’s Number 1 Trade Kitchen Supplier, supplying fitted kitchens to trade customers throughout the UK. There are not many companies like Howdens, as we manufacture in the UK, which means we can offer our trade customers products from local stock at more than 800 depots nationwide. We also have a 25-year guarantee on all cabinetry and our rigid cabinets were awarded a Which? Best Buy in April 2021. That is why we have delivered more than six million kitchens - and counting- within the UK.

*Source: Mintel, Kitchens and Kitchen Furniture, UK September 2022