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NBG rewards engagement and partnership


Buying group National Buying Group rewarded its best suppliers and most engaged Partners for 2023 at a Gala event at St George’s Hall in Liverpool on November 20.


Category winners: Brick & block:


Civils & landscaping: Highly Commended:


Highly Commended:


Plumbing, heating & showrooms: Highly Commended: Roofing & insulation: Timber:


Tools & workwear:


NBG Supplier of the Year 2023 (More than £5m turnover): Highly Commended:


(£1m to £5m turnover) Highly Commended: Highly Commended:


(less than £1m turnover) Highly Commended:


Highly Commended:


Mannok Build (GB) Ltd Joint It (UK) Ltd


Decorating, hardware & kitchens: TIMCO Highly Commended: General Build:


Pavestone (UK) Ltd Symphony Group Plc


Mannok Cement (UK) Ltd Soudal UK Ltd Altecnic Ltd


QX Bathroom Products Mannok Insulation GB) Ltd ATA Timber UK Ltd Toolbank LTD


Mannok Build(GB) Ltd TIMCO


Toolbank Ltd Pavestone (UK) Brett Martin


Joint It (UK) Ltd


Easy-Trim Roofing & Construction Products Cheshire Mouldings


NBG PIM Supplier of the Year 2023: Pavestone(UK) Ltd Highly Commended:


Dart Tool Group


SUPPLIER VOTED: Most Engaged Partner 10 + branches:


1-9 branches: 1 branch:


County Building Supplies Collier & Catchpole McNairs


Rednapp opens new TP branch


Football managing legend Harry Redknapp opened the new Travis Perkins branch in Bournemouth earlier this month. The former Bournemouth, Portsmouth, West Ham and Tottenham manager made a special visit to the newly relocated branch at Ashley Road. The new branch is 2.63 acres in size and features Travis Perkins Hire facilities, a Benchmarx kitchen display showroom, and hard landscaping display show- cases Travis Perkins’ offering to customers. The site includes elec- tric forklift trucks, charging points and solar panels.


Redknapp said: “They have a cracking set-up and I’ve no doubt that the new branch will become an integral part of the local com- munity, providing all the advice, materials and equipment builders and contractors could need.”


Knauf UK launches scheme for plasterboard recycling


Knauf UK and Ireland has partnered with Encore Environment to deliver an enhanced waste management service to reduce plasterboard waste. The


scheme looks to move towards


a circular economy by taking waste plasterboard and reintroducing it to the local supply chain.


According to the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), plasterboard, which is banned from landfill, can make up to a third of all waste from a fit out.


Contractors that use Knauf products and opt into the Take Back Scheme will be connected


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to local and vetted recycling companies via Encore nationwide network. These dedicated skips will be sent to their site and, once filled, are collected and brought to specialised local centres. “This is critical, we don’t


want plasterboard being taken all over the country. It’s broken down locally and then distributed back to plasterboard manufacturers,” says Jon Watts, national client development manager UK & Ireland. “We already have something similar at Sittingbourne for local contractors. The Encore partnership opens it up nationally.”


www.buildersmerchantsjournal.net December 2023


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