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Talasey has appointed Lisa Young to the newly created role of managing director. Young brings more than ten years’ experience in the merchant industry, having previously had a five-year spell as commercial director at Jewson, and, most recently, serving as European group category director at Stark Group. Young said: “I …

City Plumbing, part of Highbourne Group, has appointed Liz Taylor as its new Chief Commercial Officer, as part of the senior leadership team. Taylor joins Highbourne Group with more than 20 years of commercial experience, bringing a retail perspective to the merchanting industry from her different roles including, most recently, commercial …

Insulation specialist Actis has expanded its technical team with the appointment of a new specification manager for the North. Tara Pronaszko joins the UK-wide specification team to work with builders, architects, building control officers and energy assessors across North West and North East England, the East Midlands and the whole …

Door supplier JB Kind has appointed new regional sales manager, Rich Jennings, to manage the South West and Wales region. With over 20 years of experience in the building and construction industry, Jennings has an extensive background working with builders’ merchants and developer, and has previously owned and managed an …

After 20 years with the SIG Group, Gemma Prince has been promoted to the position of divisional commercial director and joins the North senior management team at SIG Roofing. Prince started working with SIG as a graduate trainee in 2005 working across various departments before settling in a category role. …

James Hardie, the high-performance fibre cement and fibre gypsum building solutions manufacturer, has promoted Waheeza Tegally as head of marketing for the UK, a new role which includes an additional remit as head of European dealer events, working closely with the Central European marketing team. Tegally brings with her over …

Concrete building products producer Breedon has added two new people to its sales team. Darren Johnson, who has worked in the UK brick market for over 25 years, will be initially focussing on increasing Breedon’s customer base for Kingscourt brick across the North of England, but will also over time …

The IBC Buying Group has announced the appointment of Paul Hetherington MBA FIoD as its new Non-Executive Chairman, a move which reflects IBC’s ambition to strengthen its position as the UK’s leading buying group for independent builders’ merchants and suppliers. In his role, Hetherington will focus on expanding member services …

Richard Sharp is joining NMBS as its new finance and operations director in May, taking over from Julie Langford, who leaves at the end of September after 17 years’ service. Sharp’s previous role was finance director at Saint-Gobain Off-Site Solutions (OSS), where he was responsible for four businesses, supplying timber …

Lotty Pritchard has been appointed marketing director for the SIG UK Roofing business, having joined as Head of Marketing two years ago. She brings seven years of experience in the construction industry, having previously worked at Jewson. Before that, she held various marketing positions across different industries after completing her …