AD and Torbsa Limited, a building supplies buying group in Canada, are announcing an agreement to merge the two groups. The merger is expected to close July 1, 2022. 

JLG Industries, Inc. announces the growth of its JLG Financial retail lending program, now available to an expanded range of equipment buyers, including end-users and contractors, as well as rental houses and equipment distributors, in the United States and Canada.

AD’s newly elected director is Karla Neupert Hockley, president of Consolidated Supply Co. Tim Horsman, president & CEO of E.B. Horsman & Son was reelected by AD’s member-owners.

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The US LBM Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by specialty building materials distributor US LBM, has committed $100,000 to the Gary Sinise Foundation's R.I.S.E. (Restoring Independence, Supporting Empowerment) Program, which builds mortgage-free, specially adapted smart homes for our nation's most severely wounded heroes.

GMS Inc. announced the successful completion of its previously announced acquisition of Westside Building Material (“Westside”), one of the nation’s largest independent distributors of interior building products.

Sunbelt Business Advisors served as the exclusive financial advisor to Material Distributors, Inc. (MDI), a wholesale distributor of building materials based in Marshall, Minnesota, in connection with a sale of the Company to Amerhart.

AD has finalized a merger agreement with pipe, valves and fittings buying group Delta Distributors effective Jan. 1, 2021.

L&W Supply, one of the country’s largest distributors of drywall, acoustical ceilings and other interior building materials, has announced that Greg Zucchero has accepted the role of Business Development Manager for Southern California.