Many of the construction industry's key figures were among the VIP guests to be given an exclusive tour of Hanson's new £50m brick factory at Measham in Leicestershire last week.

Brick-sourcing website www.brickhunter.com has extended its service and merchants can now get instant online prices for any quantity of any brick.

Dunlop Adhesives has launched a new online training initiative, the E-Learning Portal.

HBXL, the building software company, has combined forces with Keyline Builders' Merchants.

Builders merchant group Travis Perkins has seen turnover slide by 11% for the nine months to September 26, its interim management statement said this morning.

Travis Perkins has appointed Robert Walker as a non-executive director, with the intention of seeing him succeed Tim Stevenson as non-executive Chairman after the Annual General Meeting in May 2010.

Speculation that builders merchant group Travis Perkins could be lining up to takeover competitor Galiform pushed the former's share price up to 835p this morning and the latter's up to 79p.

Everbuild Building Products have launched their new catalogue including the Purimachos and Kwikgrip product ranges, as well as all of the products launched within the last year, including the Geo-Fix Paving Jointing Compound.

Everbuild's new Exact Gap Minimal Expanding Foam fills gaps exactly.

North East plumbers merchant chain TAPS has taken delivery of a new fleet of vehicles.