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Grierson rejoins Wolseley as divisional MD

UK: Peter Grierson has rejoined Wolseley Pipe Centre and Climate Centre as divisional managing director. 

Grierson previously spent three years at Wolseley Pipe Center and Climate Center as national sales director, leaving in 2022 to become managing director at Birmingham-based M&E company J S Wright.

Beginning his career as a trainee sales representative with Graham, the plumbers’ merchant chain, Grierson became business manager of Alumasc in 2000. He then moved to pipeline and heating solutions giant BSS Group as key account director, rising to southern region director and then national business development director. 

Prior to joining Wolseley for the first time in 2019, he spent a year as business development director at Brymec and was regional sales director south for interior fit-out product specialist SIG Interiors.

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