Builders merchant buying group IBC held its biennial member and supplier awards and exhibition at the end of last month, with Mannok and Toolbank taking home the two supplier awards, and Pay;less DIY picking up the top member prize.
Held at the Whittlebury Hall Hotel near Silverstone, venue for the exhibition, the awards highlighted excellence in a range of areas from display to environmental initiatives.
The winners and runners up were:
- Best Self-Select Area: Cumbria Building Supplies (finalists: Nicholls & Clarke and All Trades Supplies)
- Best Landscape Display: County Town Aggregates (finalists: Thompsons of Crews Hill and Cumbria Building Supplies)
- Environmental Initiative of the Year: Nicholls & Clarke (finalists: Build It and ABC Depot)
- Young Achiever of the Year: Arron Green, Selhurst Timber (finalists: Kieran Jones, SWM Insulations and Harvey Mattu, Payless DIY)
- Member of the Year: Payless DIY (finalists: Bedford Timber and Selhurst Timber)
- Account Manager of the Year: Adam Crossan, Toolbank (finalists: Kev Warner, U Value Insulation; and Ian Stevenson, Mannok)
- Marketing Initiative of the Year: Bolton Builders’ Merchants (finalists: All Trades Supplies and Payless DIY)
- IBC Supplier of the Year: Mannok (finalists: IKO and Siniat)
- Service Provider of the Year: Worldpay (finalists: Fleetmax and Utilink)

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