With hundreds of product lines stocked in builders merchants, wood-based panels manufacturer Norbord realise that it's difficult to ensure staff have detailed knowledge of every item they sell.

Travis Perkins have bought a small stake in builder recommendation site mybuilder.com as they continue their assault on the £5bn online supply market.

Thanks to recent government reforms, apprenticeship training is no longer only available to the young. So now, says the BMF, merchant employees of any age can obtain appropriate qualifications from the federation.

Wolseley's interim financial statement for the group's third quarter and the nine months to April 30 shows UK performance slowed 'significantly'.

Travis Perkins have been named Supplier of the Year in the Housing Excellence Awards, organised by Northern, Midlands & Southern Housing magazines.

Following the news earlier this week that Saint-Gobain has added Gibbs & Dandy as one of its brands after acquiring the merchant chain, they have announced the dissolution of another of their brands: Platform.

It was announced yesterday that a merger of the membership of Western Builders Merchants into the h&b Group had been recommended.

One Burdens employee has literally gone to the ends of the earth to raise money for charity - well the end of the country anyway - in a marathon bike ride from Land's End to John O'Groats, a distance of 924 miles.

Dulux Trade have formulated and launched a brand new range of more environmentally sustainable paint.

Saint-Gobain-owned heating components chain Curzon have opened two new branches in Gloucester and Reading alongside branches of their sister company Graham.