The Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) is celebrating the start of the new financial year with another supplier member - Makita - who will join the Federation on 1 April.
Chandlers Building Supplies has been named as a finalist in the Sussex Super Growth 2015 awards, which celebrates companies in the county that are achieving sustainable growth, creating jobs and helping to build up the economy.
As the UK celebrates National Apprenticeship Week (9 to 13 March), Lafarge Tarmac has launched its annual recruitment programme to find 75 new apprentices.
JW Grant & Son Ltd has become accredited as a Living Wage employer.
Deborah Services, specialist in the provision of non-mechanical construction equipment, has launched two BoSS sales centres in Peterborough and Rotherham, with the help of Youngman.
The British Woodworking Federation (BWF) has again urged the government to put support for small businesses and skills growth in the UK at the centre of its financial plans for the year, while demanding more sustainable action to boost housebuilding after the next Election.
The Bedford branch of Gibbs & Dandy will open a specially created Sustainable Buildings Showroom, packed with environmentally-friendly products and technologies.
His name is Ashley Myatt and by mid-April he could be one of the UK’s most unusual world champions.
The Conservative Party’s plan to deliver 200,000 new homes for first-time buyers is a welcome ambition but needs to be delivered by a range of builders to ensure good quality design and diversity, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).
MKM Building Supplies has reported a 31% increase in sales for the 12 months to 30 September 2014, compared with the same period in the previous year.
Keyline is extending its product range in a network of branches across the UK to provide specialist strategic support to its utilities customers.
In anticipation of National Apprenticeship Week 2015, which runs from today (9 March) until Friday 13 March, Gordon Birtwistle MP recently paid a visit to Travis Perkins and City Plumbing Supplies branches to find out more about the company’s apprenticeship schemes.
QS Supplies, an independent wholesaler and retailer of bath and sanitaryware, has opened a new showroom in Leicester.
Champion Timber has announced that six of its staff has completed the Level 3 Leadership & Management certificate from the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM), as part of its ongoing training and development programme for its 195-strong workforce.
Ridgeons recently held a ‘Meet the Merchant’ event at its Pampisford site on 25 February.
Sydenhams has opened a new branch in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, having bought builders’ merchant F Knight & Sons for an undisclosed sum.
Wienerberger has reopened its Ewhurst brick factory in Surrey, following its pledge to invest £25 million in the UK's economy and help to alleviate the housing shortage.
Excellence in paving installation was rewarded by Brett Landscaping and Building Products at the company’s annual Approved Installer Awards, which celebrates the achievements of paving contractors who are members of its Brett Approved Installer (BAI) scheme.
Grafton Group plc, the builders' merchanting and DIY Group with operations in the UK, Ireland and Belgium, has completed the acquisition of TG Lynes, a distributor of mechanical engineering products for use in commercial and public sector buildings, apartments and industrial processes.
More than half of small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) in the UK construction sector say that trading conditions are improving, with 52% saying that they will invest in their business during 2015.
Last Friday (27 February) marked the official opening of MoCoCo House, a Cheshire-based homelessness charity that CRASH and its Patron companies have been working with.
National Apprenticeship Week is nearly upon us, and Wolseley UK is showing its support by extending its flagship apprenticeship scheme.
BMF supplier members turned out in force for a new-style dedicated Supplier Forum.
The Howarth Timber Group continues to celebrate its 175th anniversary in style with a dinner for the great and good of the British building industry.
F & P has launched its new look brand and strapline, highlighting the wholesaler’s service focused strategy and promise to ‘simply deliver more’ for its customers.
The Institute of Architectural Ironmongers (IAI) has announced the winners of its awards, which were presented at its AGM.
Jewson has held its annual conference combined with its largest supplier exhibition to date.
Angela Rushforth, group managing director of Ridgeons Group has joined the growing list of impassioned speakers for the Builders Merchants Federation’s (BMF’s) Members Day in September.
Michelmersh Brick Holdings has completed an expansion project to increase manufacturing capacity by 6m bricks at its Sussex-based Freshfield Lane brickworks.
JB Kind has been acquired by its management team for an undisclosed sum in a deal led by Springboard Corporate Finance.
Q4 sales in the merchant sector during 2014 show a -5.2% fall, when adjusted for seasonal trading days, according to the latest sales figures released by rthe GfK Builders' Merchant Panel.
Builders’ merchant, Jewson, is asking tradespeople up and down the country to put forward local community projects that are in need of a transformation.
Prakash Patel, managing director of builders’ merchant ABC Depot, has been nominated for the title of Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the upcoming Asian Voice Political & Public Life Awards.
UK software solution specialist Vecta Sales Solutions is celebrating after achieving finalist status, this time in four separate categories, for the 2015 European IT Awards for Software Excellence.
The Hire-It service from BSS Industrial will achieve national coverage by May 2015 with its exclusive Hire Centres available in all of the distributor’s branches.
Fencing and decorative garden structures expert, Grange, has reported considerable business gains across the merchant and garden centre sectors, thanks to its positive handling of the storm damage crisis in 2014.
Polypipe Ventilation has acquired the good will and assets of Ferrob - now trading as a new company called Ferrob Ventilation.
Combilift is to invest €40m over the next two years in a new manufacturing facility, which will also create 200 additional jobs over the next five years.
The Southampton branch of Sydenhams has completed a new sensory garden for Countess Mountbatten Hospice in Southampton.
Output in the construction industry is estimated to have risen by 7.4% from 2013 to 2014, according to the most recent findings by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
New efforts to crack down on illegally sourced plywood imported from China into the UK have been backed by the Wood Panel Industries Federation (WPIF).
Lords Builders Merchants has completed the first phase of its works to the former Burdens 2.5-acre site in Hayes, following 12 months of planning delays.
Growing trade supplies firm Flame Heating Spares is now supplying Speedfit underfloor heating products, as well as stocking Press Fit piping and fittings for commercial installers and engineers.
The government has announced proposals which could see Display Energy Certificates (DECs) for 54,000 public buildings in England and Wales abolished.
Jon Cruddas MP recently visited Nicholls & Clarke as part of the Builders Merchants Federation’s industry and parliamentary programme, to see the merchant’s approach to adapting housing so that elderly and disabled people can remain at home, rather than be in hospital.
Grant & Stone has opened a new kitchen and bathroom showroom in Kempson Road, Aylesbury.
IKO plc has achieved the environmental standards ISO 14001 and BES 6001 for its new mastic asphalt and hot melt factory in Derbyshire.
In partnership with Cricket Scotland, Jewson has launched Jewson CricketForce Scotland.
Independent merchant Rudridge has been sold to the Travis Perkins Group.
LBS Builders' Merchants has been awarded 'Retailer of the Year' at the 'West Wales 2015 Business Awards'.
