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 association is based in Luxemburg and has a market 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. The organisation acts on behalf of its members and generates exclusive European-wide partnership agreements between suppliers and its builders’ merchant members.
Chris Hayward commented: “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’.”