Buildes merchant group Travis Perkins has signed a five-year contract with Cloud Technology Solutions to help improve its use of Google Workspace and drive further tech adoption. The partnership will see CTS, Europe’s largest dedicated Google Cloud partner, work alongside a small internal team to drive value from Travis Perkins’ Google …

Online merchat CMOStores.com has bought online tile retailer Total Tiles. The transaction is the second acquisition by the CMOStores group, following that of DoorWeb in 2018. CMO intends to continue its acquisition strategy to expand the group in the coming years, supported by private equity house Key Capital Partners (KCP) …

Both sales and profits were better than expected in the two months to 31 December 2020 at builders merchant chain Grafton Group.  The group announced this morning (January 12) that average daily like-for-like revenue was up by 7.2 per cent, with total revenue for the period ahead by 10.8 per cent …

Indepdent builders merchant group Bradford Building Supplies has opened a new branch in Glastonbury, which includes one of the first Sustainable Home Centre showrooms in the UK. The in-branch Sustainable Home Centre has been created in collaboration with Renewable Equipment Solutions (RES), a local Somerset provider of sustainable energy efficient …

I fear your voice has lost its charm, Sauruman Well. This has been an interesting week.  I make no apologies for re-using the headline I used on the morning of November 9 2016 when it became clear that the United States had become so disenfranchised with politics that it elected …

Builders merchant chain Buildbase has launched its Community Club Award for non-league football clubs that have gone above and beyond to support their local community through the pandemic. Two top prizes of £25,000 worth of building materials will go to the clubs that can best demonstrate support for their community …

Building materials solutions supplier CEMEX is to invest over £5m into two new plastic packing lines for packed cement at its Rugby Cement Plant. The development will significantly increase its packed cement capacity  and allow the business to provide long term surety of supply to its customers. Additionally, the investment …

Roof tile manufacturer, Russell Roof Tiles, is celebrating the long service of 11 members of the team, who have a combined long service of 135 years.  The firm presented Long Service Awards to staff across the sites in Burton and Lochmaben including senior members of its management team Bruce Laidlaw …

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. ‘Scuse my French, but what a bloody mess. How is it that we went through so much pain and anguish, lost so much money, so many jobs, went …

 Toolstation, part of the Travis Perkins Group, has brought in a new Trade Credit account at a time when a survey of its customers showed that almost half of tradespeople admit to being worried about the impact of the pandemic and one in five concerned about cash flow difficulties. The …