Bathroom and plumbing product manufacturer Geberit has announced that its UK and Ireland managing director Mark Larden,  will retire on 30th September 2025. Andy Lever, currently National Sales Director for Projects, will succeed Larden on 1st July 2025, with a structured three-month handover period ensuring a smooth transition. Lever has worked at …

After 20 years with the SIG Group, Gemma Prince has been promoted to the position of divisional commercial director and joins the North senior management team at SIG Roofing. Prince started working with SIG as a graduate trainee in 2005 working across various departments before settling in a category role. …

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad! The Trumpian horror show that’s going on across the Pond, and its equally horrific economic consequences for the rest of the world are just the very nasty-tasting cherry on top of …

The sharpest pace of job losses since October 2020, drops in new orders and lower volumes of construction output for three consecutive months took the headline S&P Global UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index™ (PMI®) to 46.4 in March. Although this was up from a 57-month low of 44.6 in February, …

Intact, the global provider of software solutions for merchant and wholesale distribution, has launched GenetiQ, its  new cloud-native, browser-based ERP solution. The new system offers a level of personalisation and flexibility previously unavailable in the cloud.  It has been designed to adapt to the unique needs of every business, with …

The NMBS Exhibition next week will feature footballing legend John Barnes on the ArtificialGrass.com stand. The ex-England international winger, who has almost 600 appearances at club level for Liverpool, Watford and Newcastle and 79 England caps to his name, was voted “England’s greatest ever left-footed player”. He will be stepping …

James Hardie, the high-performance fibre cement and fibre gypsum building solutions manufacturer, has promoted Waheeza Tegally as head of marketing for the UK, a new role which includes an additional remit as head of European dealer events, working closely with the Central European marketing team. Tegally brings with her over …

The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it …the louder the noise they make as they stumble. As headline figures go, it’s pretty grim. Travis Perkins, the behemoth that for years has bestrode the UK merchanting sector like a, well, a …

Builders merchant group Travis Perkins saw operating profits wiped out, as it slipped to a pre-tax loss profit loss of -£77m, for the year ended December 31 2024, on group sales revenue that was, at £4.607bn, 4.7% down on the year before. The fall was, it said, driven by price …

Builder’s merchant MKM Building Supplies , saw revenue rise by 6.4% for the full year to September 30 2024, on the back of an expanding branch network. During the year the merchant added 11 branches, eight of them new greenfield operations.  Two were added as part of the acquisition of …