Grafton acquires British outlets

Builders’ merchants group Grafton has expanded its asset base in Britain, through the acquisition for an undisclosed fee of English timber merchant Beaumont Forest Products.

Beaumont’s business — which has been operating for 27 years — covers three merchant outlets in the south of England at Ascot, High Wycombe and Hoddesdon. These will now be subsumed into Grafton’s ‘Buildbase’ division, which has become one of Britain’s fastest- growing builders’ merchants businesses.

It has 175 outlets in Britain, and it will be enhanced by specialist timber skills being brought to it by Beaumont’s inclusion.