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Specialist timber merchant, Arnold Laver, has appointed Lee Pollitt as manager of its Northallerton branch and Claire Leckenby has joined its branch sales team. The Northallerton branch is one of 15 Arnold Laver sites across England, and was the former head office site of NYTimber. All NYTimber branches have now …

A plant hire specialist, Gaetan Rene, is celebrating an incredible 45 years of service at TG Lynes. Margaret Thatcher was just 11 days into her premiership on May 15 1979 when 18-year-old Rene started working at what was then known as Lynes Plant Hire in King’s Cross, London. Gaetan said: …

Builders merchant Bradfords Building Supplies has promoted Lee Harwood to the post of chief operating officer, following four years as group finance director. As COO, Harwood will be responsible for overseeing administrative operations and developing operating procedures to optimise productivity and efficiency across the organisation. This new role will also …

Lords, a leading distributor of building materials in the UK, has confirmed that Stuart Kilpatrick will join the Board as Chief Financial Officer and a director of the Company on Tuesday, 4 June 2024. He will replace Chris Day, the Group’s current CFO and COO, who will step down as …

CRASH announced it has appointed Trisha Pickersgill as its chief executive, who will start the role May 1 2024. Pickersgill has 18 years’ experience in hospice management and care, having held several senior roles at Rennie Grove Peace Hospice (RGP) most recently, as director of business development, operations and performance. …

James Hardie, the high-performance fibre cement and fibre gypsum building solutions supplier, has appointed Edward Dunn as channel manager to further support trade partners in the North. Dunn has nearly 10 years account management experience working for large national accounts and independent wholesalers.  In his most recent role he worked …

Plumbers merchant Plumb Centre, part of Wolseley UK, has announced the appointment of Kieran Griffin as divisional managing director. Griffin has a wealth of management experience within the building materials industry, having joined Keyline as a graduate trainee, moving through the Travis Perkins Group via managing directorships of CCF, Keyline, …

Selco Builders Warehouse has appointed David Lennon as its new commercial director. The former category director at retail giant Morrisons has joined the builders’ merchant and will be a member of the company’s Senior Leadership Team, headed up by chief executive Howard Luft. He said: “It’s a real honour to …

Alpesh Paleja, lead economist in the CBI’s economics team, has been confirmed to speak at the BMF Members’ Annual Conference on September 19. Paleja’s role at the CBI focuses on the UK economy and leading its work on the economic forecast.  She oversees analytical work across the team – including …

Ian Stokes, managing director of Knauf UK and Ireland, has been elected to the Board of the Builders Merchants Federation to serve as the Elected Director-Suppliers with effect from 1 April 2024, replacing Mike Ward of Wavin, who stepped down earlier this year. Stokes, who has been MD at Knauf …