Shower enclosure specialist Lakes Showering Spaces has added two ‘showroom exclusive’ showering spaces – Antigua and Aruba – to its premium Island Collection. The new products are designed to help stockist customers maximise sales and create real wow in their displays. The Antigua is an elegant 2-metre high slider with …

Middlesbrough-based independent builders’ merchant Atkinson Northern, parent company of JT Atkinson, saw turnover for the year to 31 December 2019 rise to £91m, up from £84.2m in 2018. Pre-tax profit also increased to £7.7m, up from £5.9m. The business closed all 28 of its branches from 24 March 2020 to …

Trade-only plumbers merchant Williams has promoted Patrick Skilton to the role of Head of Commercial and Louise Kelly to the role of HR Manager. Formerly Senior Commercial Manager, Skilton, who joined the company’s Guildford branch in 2007, takes on responsibility for product and pricing, as well as the marketing and …

Ferguson — US-based parent company of UK plumbers merchant chain Wolseley UK — saw revenue fall 0.9% for the year to 31 July to $21.8bn (£17bn). Despite this, the plumbing giant is to resume paying a year-end dividend to shareholders. Profit before tax fell 4.8 per cent to $1.26bn (£980m) …

Distributor SIG posted a first-half pre-tax loss of £125.4m for the first half of 2020, compared with a £2.3m profit for the same period in 2019. Turnover, at £840m during the period, was down from £1,113m. A new management team is now in place with a new growth strategy and …

Heating manufacturer Grant UK is taking on the sponsorship of the Devizes Town Youth Football Club Under 12’s Team for the 2020/21 season. The Devizes Town YFC is an organisation run by volunteers who provide football to boys and girls between the ages of 3 years up to 18 years. …

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. The world of work has changed. That much is abundantly clear, even if much of the information coming out of Number 10 isn’t. Covid-19 has changed the way we …

A new show from building trade radio station Fix Radio,  is being sponsored by British Gypsum and features Chris Frediani, the plasterer from BBC TV’s DIY-SOS as host The Plastering Show will air on Fridays at 1pm each week and be a real focal point for thousands of plasterers up …

Independent builders merchant Builders Merchant Company Ltd (BMC) has expanded  with the appointment of three new members of staff. Garry Buckle has been appointed Regional Business Development Manager, having been working in the builders merchant sector for the past 13 years. His role is to play a key role in …

Work has started on a Doncaster hospital’s new memorial ‘rainbow garden’ thanks to Polypipe Building Products and other local businesses. Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals Rainbow Garden appeal was set up to establish memorial gardens in both Doncaster and Bassetlaw to remember those who lost their lives to Covid-19. Doncaster-based …