Professional Builders Merchant

Professional Builders Merchant magazine (PBM) provides practical, informative and engaging articles on industry news and views, topical sales and management issues, marketing and merchandising information alongside the latest on suppliers and new product development.

Covering the full range of the building materials distribution sector — PBM’s readers encompass owners, directors and managers of builders’, timber and plumbing & heating merchant businesses from the national chains to the smallest independents alike.

PBM has an ABC audited circulation of 10,000 and is published 11 times a year. PBM represents the voice of the merchants – regularly featuring profiles of merchant companies along with stories detailing new branch openings, trading initiatives, comments on the changing face of the merchant sector in addition to covering the activities of buying groups and other merchant industry organisations such as the BMF and NMBS.

Uniquely, PBM also allows merchants to gain an insight into their trade customers’ buying habits by featuring a round-up of the latest news, market data, product information and details of current supplier advertising campaigns as featured in Hamerville Media Group’s leading trade titles, Professional Builder and Professional Heating & Plumbing Installer. The magazine is ideally placed to reach key decision makers in the merchant sector.