The National Merchant Buying Society is setting out to find the independent merchant that best gets into the spirit of Halloween, with the launch of a new fundraising competition to raise money for construction industry charity CRASH. The competition is asking merchant branches to transform their trade counters, displays, or …

Staff at  builders merchant Selco have raised more than £11,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support by serving coffee and sweet treats at branches across the UK. All 66 of Selco Builders Warehouse branches joined in Macmillan’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning by hosting events for customers and suppliers. The coffee mornings brought …

Birchwood Price Tools has been sold by Travis Perkins PLC to tools supplier and distributor Toolstream Limited. BPT comprises a number of national brands including Scruffs workwear & safety footwear, Defender lighting & power distribution, Van Vault secure storage solutions, and Rhino heating & cooling products. The company, which employs 85 …

August 2018 saw 21% more bricks being produced in the UK compared with August 2017, according to the latest ONS figures for brick production in the UK. That represents a 39% rise on August 2016, showing consistent growth in output resulting from increased capacity across the sector. For the rolling …

Three alumni from BBC TV’s Strictly Come Dancing TV show will be performing at this year’s NMBS Dinner Dance on Saturday October 27th. Singer Pixie Lott, who got to the quarter final of the BBC One show in 2014, will headline the annual buying group event at the Grosvenor House …

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past. Hands-up who listened to Dr David Day at the BMF Members’ Day event with an increasing sense of trepidation an, by the end, downright terror? Surely I wasn’t …

Builders merchants trade organisation the Builders Merchants Federation is packing a punch with its 2019 conference line-up, having announced that Lord John Prescott, the UK’s longest serving Deputy Prime Minister, has been confirmed as a keynote speaker. Lord Prescott represented Hull East as the Labour Member of Parliament for 40 …

Plumbing brand Hep2O launched its Gear Up 3 national promotion this week, which offers merchants and their customers the chance to win prizes. Building on the back of previous years’ success, Gear Up 3 will run for eight weeks. Each week, the branch which supplies the winning installer ticket will …

Nominations are open for the BMJ Industry Awards 2019 . 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. This year the Showroom category has been split …

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success. It’s Party Conference season again, so the papers and the Twitter timelines are full of keynote speeches and new policies that may or not be implemented, depending on whether they are announced by the incumbents or the wannabes. Plus, …