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Building Distribution

The Building Distribution Sector is the leading building materials distributor in Europe, the world's number one distributor for tiles, and since 2007, the European leader for sanitation, heating and plumbing.

Photos of some store chains: Jewson, Dahl, Point P, Raab Karcher, Lapeyre

It serves the new building, renovation and major home improvements markets. Its customers are sole traders and SMEs in the building trade, architects and advisers as well as private individuals working on their own projects.

Saint-Gobain has built its reputation on the diversity and complementarity of its store chains. Each one of them - whether they are generalists or specialists, aimed at professionals or the general public - contribute to the selling power of the entire network, while at the same time meeting the needs of each local market.

The main store chains in the Saint-Gobain Building Distribution Sector include:

In France In the United Kingdom
POINT.P Matériaux de Construction
La Plateforme du Bâtiment
Lapeyre
Cedeo
K par K
Aquamondo
Jewson
Graham
Minster
Greenworks
In Germany In the Scandinavian region
Raab Karcher
Gallhöfer
Dämmisol
Optimera
Dahl

Key figures

- Over 4,000 sales outlets in 27 countries.
- A workforce of more than 73,000.