Chris Hayward Managing Director of NMBS has been elected President of EURO-MAT the leading European cooperation of independent builders’ merchants.

Founded in 1989, the cooperation is based in Luxembourg and has a presence in 21 European countries with a portfolio of 19 shareholders and more than 7,300 outlets and a combined turnover of 32 Billion Euros.
EURO-MAT acts on behalf of its members and generates exclusive European wide partnership agreements between suppliers and its builders merchants members.
Hayward says: “It was a great honour to be asked on behalf of NMBS to accept the Presidency of Euro-mat and I will be 100% committed to supporting their key philosophy of “Together we make things better”.