Builders merchant group Travis Perkins has launched a commercial payment card in collaboration with its sister business Toolstation and Barclaycard to address some of the cash flow issues among small construction businesses. The new line of commercial cards targets small businesses in the construction sector with an extended interest-free period, …

Builders merchant Travis Perkins is looking to develop more multiple mixed-use schemes in London that incorporate residential properties as well as builders merchants. The company is reviewing options at a number of its 182 London branches and has four developments in the pipeline. Three are existing Travis Perkins sites that …

Snows Timber’s Glastonbury Distribution Centre has installed a bio-mass boiler to cut carbon emissions and improve efficiency. The boiler runs on offcuts from the distribution centre’s sawmills and produces a fraction of the carbon emissions caused by fossil fuels. It runs at 90 per cent efficiency, causing significantly less waste …

Claire Perry MP and Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth has opened Grant UK’s new Showroom and Meeting Suite  at their Devizes headquarters. Perry, the Member of Parliament for the Devizes Constituency, said: “As the local MP and a local resident, I am proud to be on the Hopton …

In Italy under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. It’s sometimes hard to justify to the troops …

MDF profile supplier, The W Howard Group has, this month, signed up to membership of the Builders Merchant Federation (BMF). W Howard’s group commercial director, Simon Fleet said: “The BMF provides great opportunities for networking, training and importantly, legislation lobbying, ensuring that the market’s best interests are upheld and communicated …

A fire at a builders merchant in Risca, Gwent, caused damage worth up to £50,000, police have said. While the cause of the fire at T G Howell and Sons on Clifton Street is still being investigated, Gwent Police have appealed for information to help with enquiries. The fire is …

CEMEX UK is moving its headquarters to Rugby from Thorpe, Surrey, next month. The new HQ was the global head offices of Rugby Group until 2000 and the Rugby offices have been a regional centre for CEMEX UK but from 1 July the senior leadership team and all back-office functions …

Flexseal has extended its entire range of Icon Pushfit. A 6-inch to 4-inch adaptor Icon Pushfit has now been added along with a 6-inch straight internal pushfit connection. The  Icon range is used when a pipe is too difficult to connect using a traditional coupling, when a pipe has been …

Dormole (the privately-owned business that owns Toolbank) has acquired the share capital of Tucks O’Brien Ltd (TOB) and Tucks Fasteners & Fixings Ltd (QFF ) – the leading tools and fixings distributors based in Dublin. Dormole chairman Andrew Strong said: “We are proud to have developed our business in Ireland …