Tim Schuil

BME - Building Materials Europe

BME is one of Europe's leading multi-specialist distributors of building products with leadership positions across the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Spain, France, and Portugal. We employ more than 14,000 employees, working across more than 920 locations with revenues of EUR 5.5bn in 2022. Through our B2B distribution platform we connect our large supplier base to our more than 275,000 customers, focusing particularly on small and medium-sized contractors and installers who are active in the residential and renovation end-markets. Our multi-specialist building and service offering of more than 1 million products provides our customers with reliable, time-critical solutions and value-added services through a dense branch network operating under trusted well-known local brands and supported by an experienced, specialist workforce. We firmly believe that we need to enable the transition to a more sustainable way of building. Sustainability is therefore at the heart of how we operate; from how we manage our business to how we work with our customers and suppliers.