Builders merchant group Travis Perkins has announced a number of senior leadership team appointments.

Paul Beaman has moved from Keyline to become Regional Managing Director – Scotland & Northern England at Travis Perkins. Dean Pinner replaces Beaman as Managing Director of Keyline Civils Specialist and is in turn replaced as Managing Director of CCF by Catherine Gibson, currently Managing Director of Travis Perkins Tool Hire.

Dave Evans, the current CFO of the Group’s Plumbing and Heating arm, has been promoted to Managing Director of that business.

The appointments follow the Group’s continued recovery in the third quarter which saw like for like growth of 3.9%, driven by strong demand from domestic Repair, Maintenance and Improvement construction activity. During the quarter, the Group also made further progress in strengthening the core of its trade businesses, in addition to completing the disposal of Tile Giant.

Travis Perkins CEO, Nick Roberts, said: “The changes we have announced today mean that all of our major businesses are represented on the Group Leadership Team. This will help us drive greater coherence around our collective priorities, encourage innovation and more effective collaboration around intelligence, ideas and resources.

“These appointments also demonstrate the strong leadership pipeline we have, and our ability to fill critical roles with internal talent. They also underline our commitment to creating unique career development opportunities across our business, and I am very much looking forward to working with this new, extended team.”