You can never plan the future by the past Depending on your point of view, you can get media validation for whatever you believe if you look hard enough and choose the right paper/website/radio show. A quick type of the sentence “Rayner planning reform December 2024” into the search string …

Home security, hardware and fenestration component providers, Access 360, ERA and Zoo Hardware have raised more than £6,000 for men’s health through Movember activity. Teams supported the annual fundraising drive by either growing a moustache or walking or running more than 60km across November. More than £3,500 in individual donations …

Members of the Navigator team recently have handed over more than £5,000 to the Sands, Bedfordshire charity, the results of a year’s worth of fundraising. SANDS is the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, existing to reduce the number of babies dying and to support anyone affected by the death of …

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack It’s that time of year when a not-so-young merchant and supplier’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of friendship, loyalty, camaraderie, networking. What I sometimes refer in my head to as the Going …

Wood panel manufacturer Kronospan has been fined £400,000 after a worker suffered life-changing injuries at its factory in Chirk, near Wrexham. In March 2021 a pack of waste MDF sheets weighing around 350kg fell from a trailer and landed on the left leg of Mark Hughes. The injuries were so …

Independent builders merchant Lawsons has successfully negotiated the extension of its Barclays facilities, to November 2029 continuing the existing thirty-year relationship with the bank. The new facilities comprise £16m of committed facilities with an additional £9m accordion which the Group will use to continue its journey of both organic growth …

No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? Maybe we’re missing something. Maybe Chancellor Rachel Reeves …

Family-owned farming businesses are not the only ones to be negatively impacted by the Government’s proposals to change inheritance tax, the merchant industry should be right alongside them. Tha’s according to Chris Hayward, CEO of independent merchant buying group NMBS, who says: “Many people are realising that the new proposals …

Independent merchant buying group NBG4 celebrated its Suppliers and Engaged Partners last night (November 19) at a glittering gala dinner to round off its 2024 Supplier Summit Conference and Exhibition. Held at the ICC, next to the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, the Supplier Awards are voted or by the …

Wrekin Products, has appointed a new operations director, Steve O’Brien. With over 25 years of industry experience, O’Brien’s role is to bring clarity to the wider business ambitions and support its efforts in becoming leading experts in decarbonising iron work solutions. Simon Turner, commercial director said: “This appointment demonstrates a …