Case Study: Travis Perkins achieves data-driven efficiency and lower carbon emissions with Looker

Travis Perkins Plc Using a data driven approach to improve sustainability and customer focus

Travis Perkins, the UK’s largest distributor of building materials, needed to modernize its fragmented data environment to create a single source of truth and support data-driven decisions. As part of its modernization strategy, the company chose Looker to help unify reporting, improve operational efficiency, and reduce carbon emissions across its nationwide business.

Looker, alongside Google Cloud’s BigQuery, delivered governed, real-time insights through a semantic layer and browser-based access, making data easier to share and trust across the organization. The results included an 800% faster pipeline speed to market, 600+ colleagues onboarded in under 12 months, a 4% improvement in delivery efficiency, and a 28% ROI in just over six months for one customer-facing use case.

Travis Perkins

Rob Barbour

Group Data and Insights Director