Sheffield-based hand tools brand Footprint has restarted production at its Sedgley Road site in Owlerton, Sheffield under the name Footprint Sheffield, the former holding company of Footprint Tools.

Eurocell Building Plastics Ltd has bought the Deeplas brand and foam roofline product range from Deceuninck Ltd.

ICI Paints AkzoNobel has been shortlisted for the Green Business Awards' Green Product accolade, and for the coveted Sustainable Manufacturer award at the UK Green Building Council's (UK GBC) Making Sustainable Development Happen Awards.

Biasi Boilers are developing their sales team with the recruitment of two new sales engineers.

Support for the plumbers and builders merchant campaign Reheat Britain has reached the House of Commons, with an Early Day Motion being tabled by Liberal Democrat MP, Richard Younger-Ross.

Blue Rock Systems Ltd, the supplier of software solutions to builders merchants, has bought the Nottingham based IT software company Sense Computers Systems from the Sense Group for £670,000.

A long-standing customer worked out the combination of a safe at East Anglian independent builders merchant Kent Blaxill's Tool Fayre to win £500.

A team of fundraisers from Wickes, part of Travis Perkins Group, were due to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro this morning, to raise money for Wickes's chosen charity Leukaemia Research.

Dimplex is lifting bathroom luxury to a new level with the launch of the new Lattimo towel rail, a head-turning combination of chrome and glass.

Dunlop Adhesives has launched a new promotion,known as Professor Dunlop's BRAINBOX.