Landscaping group Talasey Group has become a patron of the Saints Foundation – the charity of Southampton Football Club. The Foundation helps people to fulfil their potential to be more-involved, healthier and more-empowered members of the community. Talasey Group will use its bronze patronage as a springboard to get involved …

Less than a year after it went through a management buy-out, timber importer and distributor Snows Timber went into administration on November 18. Matt Haw and Matt Wild from RSM Restructuring Advisory LLP have been appointed joint administrators of the 200 year old company. The administrators want to sell the …

Irish building products supplier Quinn Building Products walked away with three awards and a second place trophy at the end of the National Buying Group’s 2019 Conference and Supplier of the Year Awards. The buying group, now in its 16th year, made the presentations to suppliers across its portfolio of …

It has always seemed to me that, so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little As usual, the devil will be in the detail. However, I don’t think this election is being fought on the detail, nor will it be won on the details. Perhaps …

Specialist private investment firm Cairngorm Capital has added independent builders merchant Grant & Stone to its portfolio. Established in 1987, Grant & Stone has three specialist building, plumbing and electrical divisions,  giving it 29 branches across the Thames Valley, consisting of builders’ merchants, electrical wholesalers, plumbers’ merchants, timber merchants, as …

Grant UK has appointed two renewable business development managers – David Garcia and John Morris – to boost sales support in the renewable market sector. David Garcia is the renewable business development manager for Scotland and started his career working in an independent merchant,  moving to a boiler manufacturer for …

Builders merchants trade association, the Builders Merchants Federation has received a Bronze Award for demonstrating its support for the Armed Forces community through the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.  The scheme encourages employers to support the defence community and highlights companies that share the same values as the armed forces. To …

Independent timber and builders merchant Covers has donated more than £100,000 to local hospices over the past five years as part of its Help for Hospices initiative. This year Covers generously contributed £27,000 to twelve local hospices, which was presented to actor and charity patron, Christopher Timothy, by Covers’ chairman, …

John Savage, the fhe founder of independent spares merchant Flame Heating Group has marked the retirement of Danny Byrne, the man who gave him his first big break in the industry. Savage gave the lifelong Celtic FC fan a special autographed print featuring some of the club’s greatest players during …

For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place, The flood may bear me far There are times when I hate living in a hilly town. Usually when I’m trekking back from the station, in the cold and the dark and there just doesn’t seem to be enough puff …