NEWPORT, UK — Premier Forest Products has bought the trade and assets of Bitus UK Ltd from Bergs Timber. Formerly known in the trade as Continental Wood Products, Bitus UK is an importer and bulk distributor of timber, panels and garden products. It serves industrial manufacturing, furniture-making, construction and merchanting sectors. Premier Forest will take on the operation of Bitus UK’s warehousing and distribution activities at the Baltic Distribution port-side facility based in Creeksea, Essex. Premier Forest has also taken on the Bitus UK sales office in Cirencester. Nigel McKillop, chief executive of Bitus UK, will join Premier Forest Products as commercial director, specialising in softwood and the furniture sector. …Newport-headquartered Premier Forest Products is a vertically integrated timber operation engaged in the importation, processing, machining, engineering and wholesale distribution of timber and timber products.