Congratulations to gymnast Louis Smith who has won Britain’s first Olympics gymnastics medal in 80 years.

19-year-old Smith won bronze in the men’s pommel horse event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He was a Commonwealth Games gold medallist for England in 2006 and World Championship bronze medallist in 2007.

Wolseley partners British Gymnastics in the FTSE- British Olympic Association initiative, launched in February 2007. Part of the British Olympic Association’s contribution to achieve its goal of fourth place in the London 2012 Olympic Games medal table, this initiative partners a FTSE 100 company with an individual National Governing Body (NGB) of an Olympic Sport to provide the NGB with skills and knowledge to enable it to develop into a truly world class organisation.

Wolseley was selected to partner British Gymnastics, which is based at Lilleshall in Shropshire.

While it was expected that this would develop into a long term partnership, there was an initial focus on specific projects, including executive level consultation, strategic marketing guidance, commercial proposition development, customer research and targeted marketing activities. In particular Wolseley has helped British Gymnastics to research in detail what services its 150,000 members most value, and to develop an exciting customer proposition to meet their demands.