Reece Group

Reece Group

First Reece store in Caufield, 1920
Company type	Public
Traded as	ASX: REH
Industry	Retail
Founded	1920
Headquarters	Cremorne, Victoria , Australia
Number of locations	800
Area served	Australia New Zealand United States
Products	Plumbing and bathroom supplies
Revenue	$6.3 billion (2021)
Number of employees	8,000
Website	reecegroup.com.au

Reece Limited is a public Australian company, and the country's largest supplier of plumbing and bathroom supplies.^[1]

Established in 1920, the company has businesses focused on the plumbing, bathroom, building, civil, irrigation, heating, air conditioning and refrigeration industries.

Reece employs approximately 8,000 people and operates 800 branches that supply more than 300,000 products.^[2]

The company is 70% owned by the Wilson Family.^[3]

In 1920, Harold Joseph Reece began selling plumbing products from the back of his truck and later opened the first HJ Reece store in Caulfield.^{[citation needed]} In 1958 Les Wilson was offered a seat on the board and gradually began buying shares in the business.^{[citation needed]}

By 1969, the Wilson family was approaching a controlling stake in HJ Reece. On 20 July, regulators approved the Wilson family becoming majority shareholders of the company. In 1970, Les Wilson's son, Alan Wilson, who started Austral Hardware almost a decade earlier with the support of his father, became CEO of HJ Reece and later consolidated the two companies. Alan Wilson became executive chairman in 2008, and his son, Peter Wilson, succeeded him as CEO.^[4]

In May 2018, Reece announced the acquisition of U.S. based competitor MORSCO for $1.9 billion.^[5]