Lisburn Builders’ Merchant Is Best In Northern Ireland

J P Corry, Lisburn has been announced as the overall winner in the  second Octabuild Northern Ireland Builders Merchant Awards.

The prestigious award was  presented at a ceremony on  Thursday 8 March 2012 in the  Stormont Hotel before an  audience of almost 200 people,  representing the merchant and  building industry.  The judges were lavish in their  praise – not just for JP Corry in  Lisburn – but also for the high  standard among the thirty-six  builders merchants visited.  According to the judging panel,  the results were a close call, as  there was just four percentage  points separating the top six  merchants.  Rounding off the event, nine  other awards were presented on  the night to a mixture of  independent and group stores,  in recognition of their skills and  services (see below).

List Of Other Winners:

• B. McNamee, Strabane won the Best Family Business Award
• Belfast merchant Peter Woods Building Supplies won the

Best Customer Service Award

• Newry Building Supplies took the Best Merchandising Award
• N.G. Bell & Son was awarded for its Innovation
• Omagh-based P McDermott & Sons took the Marketing Award
• Antrim Building Supplies won the Award for the Best Trade Counter
• Newry’s Haldane Fisher branch was honoured with the

Best for Heavy Goods award

and two other JP Corry branches – Carrickfergus and Newry – received the Best Housekeeping and Best Management Systems Awards respectively