Jewson is one of the largest chains of British general builders' merchants, selling to small and medium building contractors.

George Jewson bought a business in Earith in 1836 to trade goods in the Huntingdonshire Fens of East Anglia.

1817) had 13 children: the eldest, George, at the time working with a timber merchant in Norwich, suggested expansion there.

John Jewson bought a house in Colegate in Norwich in 1868, and he moved there where he developed a successful timber, coal and builders' merchant business.

[4] The sale was completed in early 2023, when STARK appointed former Travis Perkins executive John Carter as CEO of the newly-formed Stark Building Materials UK Ltd.[5] On 15 May 2009, Jewson Ltd applied under s.69 (1) Companies Act 2006 for a change of name of Jewson's Drives Ltd which had been registered since 18 March 2009.