Tag Archives: Women in Merchanting

The Construction Inclusion Coalition’s (CIC) second annual Impact Report, ‘Building a Better Legacy’, highlights how the Elevate women’s network has doubled in size to 140 members within one year, representing 29 different construction businesses. The growing network is based on a regular programme of in-person workshops or hosted webinars to …

Family business Digby Stone, industry-leading supplier of natural stone and porcelain paving hard landscaping products bring another successful year to a close with the acceptance of two distinguished awards within the construction industry. Despite precarious circumstances for all businesses in the current political climate, the company were presented with the …

Independent builders’ merchant buying group NMBS brought together a selection of women from the merchanting industry at its first Women in Industry Conference last Friday (September 13). The brainchild of NMBS finance director Julie Langford, the invitation-only event, held at the London Stock Exchange, was designed to encourage women in the …

Lauren Haines, a Director at the South’s largest independent supplier of building materials to the trade and public, Elliotts Builders Merchant, is celebrating 45 years at the family-run company. Having joined Elliotts towards the end of 1973, Haines first worked as a typist in Elliotts’ brick department before working her way …