Woodlands Secondary School in Luton was presented with a minibus from builders merchant Travis Perkins plc as the company celebrated its 15th year of sponsoring the TP Masters golf event. The Variety Club Sunshine Coach keys were handed over by John Carter, chief executive of Travis Perkins plc, to Debbie Foolkes, headteacher …

Builders’ merchant Jewson has crowned Morecambe floor layer David Lloyd as a winner in its national search for heroes of the building trade. As part of the Trade Hero category of its Building Better Communities competition, Jewson awarded Lloyd £10,000 worth of building materials. He will be using his winnings …

Gateshead independent builders’ merchant James Burrell has opened its new branch in Morpeth. The company, which turned 140 last year, invested £1m in a new site on Coopies Lane Industrial Estate. The branch was officially opened by town mayor Jack Gebhard  and is the company’s ninth branch, in addition to …

Liverpool builders’ merchant Sovini Trade Supplies has opened two new depots as part of its latest expansion. The Aintree-based company, part of the Sovini Group, identified Eccles and Ellesmere Port as it’s the best locations for its next outlets.   The new Eccles store is located on the Lyntown Trading …

Independent Lancashire builders merchant C&W Berry’s yard was featured in the final journey of one of its regular customers. The hearse carrying the coffin of regular customer Simon Briggs passed around the builders merchant’s yard on its way to Charnock Richard crematorium. Management and staff even stood in tribute as …

Independent merchant buying group H&B has made executive board changes, resulting in a new chairman and managing director   Nick Lander has been appointed chairman, replacing Peter Buttle who had been chairman since the group’s formation 21 years ago. He will chair the H&B board as well as help to …

Shropshire builders merchants Tudor Griffiths have appointed a new manager at the Welshpool branch. Matt Peate has worked in the builders’ merchants sector for 14 years with roles at several local companies in branches in Welshpool, Newtown and across north Wales .He won the Branch of the Year award at …

bricks from London Reclaimed Brick Merchants’ appeared this week in a promotional video ahead of the prestigious Ryder Cup international golfing tournament. LRBM supplied the official Ryder Cup video producers with 160 Plain Gault bricks which were used to support four canvases that revealed portraits of each of Team Europe’s …

The Worshipful Company of Builders Merchants is stepping up its Build A Career in Merchanting campaign to encourage young people to take up a career in the builders merchant sector. <iframe src=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/262190236″ width=”640″ height=”360″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> The campaign arose from WCoBM attending exhibitions; talking to school children, parents and teachers; …

Acknowledgement and celebration are essential to fuelling passion, making people feel valid and valuable, and giving the team a real sense of progress that makes it all worthwhile. You know that feeling when you’ve been to a really good party that what you want more than anything is to do …