BMJ really needs your help in compiling the annual BMJ Trailblazers supplement. The annual tracker of the top UK builders merchants’ latest statistics and information, it’s the hymn sheet for the industry in terms of who’s who and how everyone is doing. Trailblazers includes the top 52 builders, plumbers and …
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Alsford Timber Ltd are recognising their 140th year in business in 2022, commencing with a donation of building materials to Erith Fire Station, to contribute to the station’s new wellbeing community garden being built at the station. When Erith Fire Station approached local businesses to support their build of a …
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You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go I’ve been trying to write something about the goings-on in Parliament without it becoming an incoherent rant, full of sound and …
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Entry to the BMJ Industry Awards 2022 is now open. Nominations are open for the BMJ Industry Awards 2022 . Click HERE to nominate your favourite merchants, supplier brands, trainees, showrooms and industry people. The awards celebrate the very best brands, merchants and people at the heart of the builders’ merchants sector. Companies …
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Lords Builders Merchants in Park Royal, West London, played host to a visit from Construction Minister Lee Rowley MP, who was taken to the 12-branch builders merchant as part of a fact-finding mission organised by the Builders Merchants Federation. Discussions undertaken during the tour highlighted the challenges facing builders’ merchants, …
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Four more members of the Builders Merchants Federation have been named Zero Carbon Champions. Merchants GPH Builders Merchants and John A Stephens Ltd, distributor SIG Trading Ltd and Northern Irish construction materials group Northstone Group, were amongst the eight companies whose proposals were assessed and approved by the CO2nstruct Zero …
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Building products manufacturer Forterra showed its brickworks in Wilnecote, Staffordshire to MP Christopher Pincher, in advance of the site’s £27 million redevelopment project beginning. Pincher, Minister of State for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities, is Member of Parliament for Tamworth and was shown around the site by George Stewart – …
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Door manufacturer JB Kind is to support for Mind, the mental health charity for the next two years. Managing director James Cadman said the overwhelming feedback from employees was that they wanted to support a charity which helped people with mental health. He said: “It became very clear when we asked …
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Bathroom distributor Ideal Bathrooms has announced the launch of its annual rewards programme, ‘Spin to Win’, for retailers and merchants. The programme gives customers the opportunity to win a host of prizes, every time they spend £1,500. Prizes up for grabs include Amazon, Buy A Gift and Love2shop E-vouchers, Nintendo …
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Buttle’s, the independent builders’ merchant based in St Albans, has been recognised by Investors In People (IIP) as a great place to work. Formed in 1919, Buttle’s has branches in Leighton Buzzard, Enfield, St Albans and Kentish Town. Fran Boast, Head of People and Development, said: “The Investors in People …
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