Smart Build Supplies moves into main h&b Group

Smart Build Supplies has become the latest merchant to graduate from the h&b Development Group into the main Group.

Smart is based in Ottery St Mary near Exeter, serving local community tradesmen, retail customers, and local and national housebuilders with a broad range of timber, heavyside and general building materials.

“Being part of h&b offers us access to the buying power of a national company, but it’s so much more than that,” said Smart’s director Stu Mainwaring. “It gives us the credibility of a national too, with all of the big brands that our customers want to buy, and that means we have better prices, better availability, plus all of the support and networking opportunities that a progressive buying group like h&b can offer.”

The h&b Development Group offers smaller independent merchants an opportunity to power up their growth and eventually join the industry’s most progressive and innovative buying groups with a combined buying power of more than £1 billion and covering the length and breadth of the UK.

With a dedicated team helping Development Group members to graduate to the main Group, membership of h&b offers merchants a real chance to expand and develop their business quickly but with prudent management.