NMBS reports it is “strengthening its ability to deliver value-adding benefits” for members and suppliers through an evolving European alliance.
Following the successful completion of a period of due diligence and onboarding, the business has progressed from an affiliate to full equity-owning member of Euro Craft – billed as Europe’s leading consortium of buying groups for the construction and industrial sectors.
NMBS CEO Kevin Williams explained: “NMBS’ position as a shareholding member of Euro Craft ensures major benefits for the merchants and industry suppliers we work with. It gives NMBS even greater purchasing power and the ability to co-operate and share knowledge with other buying groups across Europe. It also enables us to more easily access new supply partners and key European decision makers as well as to negotiate on a pan-European basis.”
Euro Craft was founded in 1995 by the SOCODA Group – a major network of independent distributors for the building and industrial sectors in France. Over the last thirty years, it has continued to grow and evolve, now bringing together seven shareholding buying cooperatives.
As well as NMBS and the SOCODA Group, this includes:
Zevij-Necomij (Benelux)
3e (Austria)
Nordwest (Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Poland and Austria)
NEOPRO (Spain)
Meno Group (Belgium and Luxembourg)
Collectively, the members of Euro Craft are active in over 30 countries and unite 4,500 independent businesses who between them operate 10,000 separate outlets. Euro Craft’s combined purchasing power is also an impressive €15 billion per annum, with these figures all said to highlight its core vision, centred on ‘the power of synergy’.
Speaking of NMBS’ transition to a full shareholding partner, Euro Craft Managing Director Peer de Lange said: “When NMBS joined Euro Craft in July 2025 as an affiliate member, it was clear that we had found a valuable partner.
“Since then, our relationship has gone from strength to strength, and we are delighted that the business is now a shareholder. This development creates exciting opportunities for NMBS, its members and suppliers, and for the other Euro Craft shareholders.”
Kevin Williams added: “We’ve had a great year at Euro Craft and we’re delighted that the onboarding process as a shareholder has now been successfully completed. Collaborating with the other members has been extremely useful and beneficial. There is an exciting journey ahead and new scope for NMBS to build both on our offer and our impressive achievements to date.”
For more information on NMBS, visit: www.nmbs.co.uk
Describing itself as “the UK’s largest trading platform and connector for the builders’ merchant sector,” NMBS was originally established over 60 years ago as a buying society. Evolving dramatically in that time, today it still drives its members’ commercial growth but also exists to “help merchants trade smarter, via financial, digital and data platforms built on trust, security and financial resilience.”
